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| DANIELS: Gave political pervs a show |
Yet I
wonder if the most offbeat event of them all was the one up at the Admiral
Theater – the one where Stormy Daniels, an exotic dancer, is trying to take
advantage of her “15 minutes” of fame to bring in as much money as she’ll ever
earn.
DANIELS
IS THE sexually-explicit dancer/performer who has her fame because of rumors
claiming she had an affair with now-president Donald Trump, back when now-first
lady Melania was pregnant with their son, Barron (he’s now 12).
There
also are stories claiming that Trump paid her off (supposedly $130,000) to keep
her mouth shut – stories that Trump backer and adviser Rudy Giuliani has
claimed are not true and that we should ignore because a stripper like Daniels
has no credibility. Even though many of us think Trump has even less.
Anyway,
Daniels (that’s actually her stage name, the birth certificate reads Stephanie Clifford
and has been identified in court documents as Peggy Peterson) is now traveling
from city to city on what she’s calling her “Make America Horny Again” tour –
and that tour was in Chicago this weekend.
Five
shows in three days from Thursday through Saturday – and people with an interest
in seeing just what kind of “T & A” the president gets aroused by turned
out en force. Although many of the news reports (no, I've never had an editor assign me to cover a strip show) that took it upon themselves to
“cover” the show pointed out the large number of women and gay people who turned
out.
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| TRUMP: Wasn't welcome in Chgo this weekend |
THE
IMPLICATION BEING that people inclined to think our nation’s current president
is a sleaze want to see for themselves just how trashy a tramp the Donald goes
for.
Which
probably says more about us as a society than it does anything negative about
Trump, or Daniels herself. We’re willing to watch the sleaze and “tsk tsk”
about it. Perhaps we get some false feeling that we’re above it all.
The
Chicago stops did manage to create some controversy. For a while on Friday,
Daniels quit. Or was fired. It wasn’t clear. Although the sides ultimately
reached an agreement that resulted in her doing the five full shows she was under
contract to do in Chicago.
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| GIULIANI: Does he have credibility any longer |
I’ll
give Daniels one bit of credit. Her show name may be a parody of the campaign
slogan that many Trump backers still wear on their red caps, but she’s not
trying to make a political spectacle out of it.
SHE’S
PUTTING ON a sex show, and nothing more! Which probably upset the spectators
who were expecting an anti-Trump weekend (one story found a man upset because
he wanted his picture taken with Daniels so he could rub it in the face, so to
speak, of his Trump-loving aunt).
In fact,
the reason she nearly walked out of her Chicago gigs was she resented the
attempt to have her perform on stage with a man who was a crude-looking Trump
lookalike. She wanted the stage to herself, figuring the sight of her bared
breasts was enough to attract attention.
No
bad-wigged men were necessary. Besides, those of us who care have all heard the
story about the time she is alleged to have spanked the future president with a
business-oriented magazine. Do we really need to have it acted out for us live?
Although
I’m sure some people were determined to see something sordid. If they weren’t
perhaps they would have spent the weekend at the Puerto Rican parade in the
Humboldt Park neighborhood, or the Uncork Illinois Wine Festival in suburban
Oak Park.
THERE’S
ALWAYS SOMETHING offbeat that one can do on a summertime weekend in Chicago. It’s
part of what makes this city such a joy to live in – even if the Trump backers
can’t quite comprehend that fact.
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| LOZANO: Scored goal upsetting soccer/Trump fans |
Although
I have to admit that the summer temperatures that reached such intense levels
on Saturday and Sunday made me look for every excuse to stay inside an
air-conditioned house.
All the
more reason I was able to enjoy World Cup soccer on Sunday and that 1-0 victory
los Tricolores of Mexico managed to
achieve over Die Mannschaft of
Germany.
Which,
considering all the Mexico-bashing rhetoric Trump has engaged in, is just as
big a blow to the political blowhard’s rants as the Daniels traveling sex tour.
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