U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 186

There would be a cartoon, like for kids. Or it might also have been a prime-time cartoon, actually. The situation was fluid, but consider the growth potential. Honestly, the whole notion was exceedingly hazy and changed a lot, but, as it got pitched among the corps of cold-calling salespeople to potential investors in a company named Premiere Publishing Group, the plan was this: There was going to be a cartoon, on television, that would feature Donald Trump jetting around and solving various problems.
 This was the idea of a Broadway ticket broker turned Florida “space tourism consultant” named Mitchell Schultz, who dreamed up an animated series called Trump Takeover: The Ultimate Power Trip after a brief but inspirational interaction with Trump at a party. In 2006, Schultz talked up the show to an acquaintance named Michael Jacobson, who was the publisher of the then-extant Trump Magazine and the man behind Premiere Publishing Group, which he had set up in 2005. It all gets much worse from there, in all the cheesy, chiseling ways that every Trump-related business story invariably gets worse.


THE MAN WHO WAS UPSET