Trump vs Biden 2020 Election

  • Opinion about documentary

  • Write about parts you found most compelling

  • Agree or disagree with the premise of the documentary as a whole

  • Prompts

    • what parts of the documentary did you find most compelling?
    • What are your thoughts on “The Choice” that the American people had in 2020?
    • Do you feel that it was fair to both candidates? (non partisan)
    • Seems very harsh on Trump’s methods

  • Trump

    • Grew up in queens
    • played monopoly and building blocks a lot as kid
    • Mother seriously ill - basically abandoned
    • struggles to connect with women - according to Mary Trump his niece
    • Father had very little emotional intelligence
    • Compete, win, be a killer - do what you have to to win
    • Wasn’t originally in line for the owner of the business but rather his older brother Freddy (Mary’s father) but he wanted to be a pilot
    • Freddy passed away due to alcoholism and thus Trump does not drink
    • Impulsive - sent to military school by his father
    • right of passage
    • Used a broom to beat his classmates when they didn’t listen
    • Student leader of dorm - led with an iron fist
    • Loved it, really competitive (and thus he was not very popular)
    • “Learned the power of bullying to get ahead”
    • New York loosing population and jobs - Trump took to new York and thrived
    • Started with the Trump Tower/Hotel
    • Learned to never apologize, attack the character of your opponents
    • Everybody has their price - might be money or vulnerability a pressure point
    • Exploit Crisis
    • Battle of the tabloids
    • Divorce of the Century
    • Cheating on his wife
    • Mom said “I don’t know who my son is anymore”
    • Ivana Trump
    • “It was like they were born from the same sperm” ? siblings?
    • Liked to work
    • Worked at the hotel
    • Didn’t like sharing the spotlight with her
    • Didn’t like the spotlight she was sharing
    • Had a temper tantrum cause his was was successful]
    • Article titled “I don’t think adultery is a sin” - Trump
    • Learned never share power again
    • Ego gets fed on TV and Nixon (another disgraced president) said that whenever he decided to run for president he would be a winner
    • Attitude on race was based off of his father
    • Part of a “very racist family” - Mary Trump
    • Donald Trump signed ads against African Americans (falsely) accused of rape and murder
    • Became the center of turmoil in NY with the Central Park Five
    • Would not apologize despite the fact they did not commit the crime
    • Bought the Taj Mahal (casino)
    • Was 1 billion dollars in debt
    • Needed 1 million a day to make a profit
    • Was warned against it
    • Filed for bankruptcy
    • Refused to admit failure
    • Used celebrity stuff to keep being relevant
    • The Apprentice
    • Payed people to show up to his presidential announcement

  • Biden

    • Had a stutter when he was younger when people were very harsh about disabilities/disorders - “buck up, deal with it”
    • Father fell on hard times
    • Catholic school - nuns
    • Nuns were harsh on him with his speech
    • Mother was protective
    • “Bullied harassed and ridiculed”
    • Would practice in a mirror - persevere
    • Star football player, popular, president of senior class - taste for politics
    • Biden’s idol was JFK
    • saw himself as a natural heir to that type of politics
    • Had no money or power in politics
    • Ran for Delaware senate during Vietnam
    • got to know African Americans in the community - not being afraid to be around them
    • Loves meeting people “he loves hugging strangers”
    • Youngest US senator ever elected at 30
    • Fell Madly in Love
    • Biden was in DC setting up when he got a call that his wife and child died in a car crash
      • 2 sons survived the crash
    • Depressed - suicide was a rational option
    • Single dad of 2 sons
    • We can always get another senator but cannot get another father
    • After 14 years in the senate he ran for president Ran 88, 08, and 20 - remarried and had a new daughter
    • Struggled with “What did he stand for?”
    • Stole ideas from a different ad but did not attribute - Neil Kinnock
      • Accused of stealing from all other
    • Lied about his education
    • said he was high in his class
    • Was very rude and insulted someone else’s iq
    • Led to him dropping out of the 88 race
    • Head of committee for Clarence Thomas trial
    • Committee was all white men
    • Didn’t know who’s side to be on
    • Allowed other members to grill Professor Hill that was humiliating
    • Handling of hearing made him the face of an out of touch Senate
    • Convinced the first African American female senate member to join his committee
    • 2008 Election
    • Said that Obama was the first African American to be “clean and articulate” insinuating that other African Americans were not
    • “His own worst enemy… didn’t know when to stop speaking”
    • He wasn’t going to run for vice president
    • Biden brought relationships in congress that were decades old that Obama didn’t have
    • The cleansing of Joe Biden