1958 TV Western episode features a traveling con-artist named Trump...

[Rollo]

... who tries to bilk an entire town, threatening them with total destruction if they don't buy his equivalent of a protective wall...

I kid you not!!!

[SixString]

1. Wow, really. No kidding?

Never would have guessed this.
Thanks for letting us know.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211654996
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211652278
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211655510
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211650767
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211653387

[Rollo]

3. OK, I did look for other threads on this... but found nuttin'.

Besides, it's so amazing it's worth an extra push, no?

[book_worm]

4. people don't always know and besides if you already have seen this one

just ignore it instead of being snarky.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. If you notice, there is also a character, FRED, who yells to the crowd to rob the bank for money!

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While they could not use Fred Trump, they used Trump as the confidence man, and Fred as the looter.

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[Trumpocalypse]

5. This explains what Chuck Lorre was doing in that DeLoren ;-)