“Mr. Warmth: A Don Rickles Erasure” By Ian Brumbaugh

 

Kevin M. Kruse: “Trump is Don Rickles. A dirty joke about women, a jab at how you can’t trust Mexicans, and then a round of insults for his audience.”

 

Don Rickles: “Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they’re just regular people. Like Larry King. We’ve been friends for forty years. He’s one of the few guys I know who’s really famous. One minute he’s talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he’s saying to me, ‘Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?’”

 

“Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they’re just regular people. Like Larry King. We’ve been friends for forty years. He’s one of the few guys I know who’s really famous. One minute he’s talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he’s saying to me, ‘Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?’”

 

   Famous             people are deceptive

          They’re                          just                               people.

                I know he’s the president

         on                 his              cell phone                                      saying

                 ‘Do you think                        we            ought        to give                             

   the waiter                                    another                                                              dollar?