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      <h1 class="trb_ar_hl_t" itemprop="headline">When this is over, you
        will have nothing that you want </h1>
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              <p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives
                to speak at Joni's Roast and Ride at the Iowa State
                Fairgrounds, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 27,
                2016.</p>
              (Gerald Herbert / AP)</div>
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              itemprop="author">Garrison Keillor</span></span><span
            class="trb_ar_by_nm_pb">Special To The Washington Post</span></span></div>
      <div class="trb_ar_dateline"><time itemprop="datePublished"
          class="trb_ar_dateline_time" data-dt="August 31, 2016, 3:00
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        <p style="">The cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's
          cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the
          warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the
          car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor
          running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister
          look, as if you'd come to town to announce the closing of the
          pulp factory. Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not
          suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion.
          Your hair is the wrong color: People don't want a president to
          be that shade of blond. You know that now.</p>
        <p style="">Why doesn't someone in your entourage dare to say
          these things? So sad. The fans in the arenas are wild about
          you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as they come, but Rudy and
          Christie and Newt are reassuring in that stilted way of
          hospital visitors. And The New York Times treats you like the
          village idiot. This is painful for a Queens boy trying to win
          respect in Manhattan where the Times is the Supreme Liberal
          Jewish Anglican Arbiter of Who Has The Smarts and What Goes
          Where. When you came to Manhattan 40 years ago, you discovered
          that in entertainment, the press, politics, finance,
          everywhere you went, you ran into Jews, and they are not like
          you: Jews didn't go in for big yachts and a fleet of aircraft
          — they showed off by way of philanthropy or by raising
          brilliant offspring. They sympathized with the civil rights
          movement. In Queens, blacks were a threat to property values —
          they belonged in the Bronx, not down the street. To the Times,
          Queens is Cleveland. Bush league. You are Queens. The casinos
          were totally Queens, the gold faucets in your triplex, the
          bragging, the insults, but you wanted to be liked by Those
          People. You wanted Mike Bloomberg to invite you to dinner at
          his townhouse. You wanted the Times to run a three-part story
          about you, that you meditate and are a passionate kayaker and
          collect 14th-century Islamic mosaics. You wish you were that
          person but you didn't have the time.</p>
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        <p style="">Running for president is your last bid for the
          respect of Manhattan. If you were to win election, they
          couldn't ridicule you anymore. They could be horrified, but
          there is nothing ridiculous about being Leader of the Free
          World. You have B-52 bombers at your command. When you go
          places, a battalion of security guys comb the environs. You
          attract really really good speechwriters who give you
          Churchillian cadences and toss in quotes from Emerson and
          Aeschylus and Ecclesiastes.</p>
        <p style=""><a id="EVFES000025" title="Labor Day"
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/jobs-workplace/labor-day-EVFES000025-topic.html">Labor
            Day</a> and it is not going well. You had a very bad month.
          You tossed out those wisecracks on Twitter and the Earth shook
          and your ratings among white suburban women with French
          cookware declined. The teleprompter is not your friend. You
          are in the old tradition of locker room ranting and big
          honkers in the steam room, sitting naked, talking man talk,
          griping about the goons and ginks and lousy workmanship and
          the uppity broads and the great lays and how you vanquished
          your enemies at the bank. Profanity is your natural language
          and vulgar words so as not to offend the Christers but the
          fans can still hear it and that's something they love about
          you. You are their guy. You are losing and so are they but
          they love you for it.</p>
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        <p style="">So what do you do this winter? Hang around one of
          your mansions? Hit some golf balls? Hire a ghostwriter to do a
          new autobiography?</p>
        <p style="">What the fans don't know is that it's not much fun
          being a billionaire. You own a lot of big houses and you
          wander around in them, followed by a waiter, a bartender, a
          masseuse, three housekeepers, and a concierge, and they
          probably gossip about you behind your back. Just like
          nine-tenths of your campaign staff. You're losing and they
          know it and they're telling mean stories about you to
          everybody and his brother.</p>
        <p style="">Meanwhile, you keep plugging away. It's the hardest
          work you've ever done. You walk out in the white cap and you
          rant for an hour about stuff that means nothing and the fans
          scream and wave their signs and you wish you could level with
          them for once and say one true thing: I love you to death and
          when this is over I will have nothing that I want.</p>
        <p style=""><em>Garrison Keillor is an author and radio
            personality.</em></p>
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                    2016 presidential bid.</p>
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