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  • 2017-01-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a 1950s TV Episode Feature a Character Named Trump Who Offered to Build a Protective Wall? (en)
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  • In November 2016, a clip from an episode of the 1950s western television series Trackdown was published to YouTube, along with the claim that it predicted Donald Trump by featuring a snake oil salesman character named Trump who claimed that only he could prevent the end of the world ... by building a wall around the town: The television series Trackdown really did produce an episode featuring a Trump character who came to town claiming that only he could prevent the end of the world by building a wall (and also sold special force propelling umbrellas to deflect meteorites). The episode (S1, E30) aired on CBS in 1958 and was titled The End of the World, featuring actor Lawrence Dobkin playing the role of Walter Trump. A synopsis of the episode from the Classic TV Archive reads as follows: While Dobkin appeared in at least three other episodes of Trackdown, this was the only occasion in which he portrayed the Walter Trump character A relevant portion of dialog from this episode has been transcribed below: A representative for MeTV, a Chicago network that airs reruns of Trackdown, confirmed that the episode was real. The rep said that the after Hoby tells Walter Trump that he is under arrest, the character gets shot by another character and may have been killed: A full version of the episode was uploaded to YouTube on 14 January 2017: (en)
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