Letters

If you are a Trump supporter, please do yourself a favor: Watch one of these four old classic films. His MO is spelled out in black and white, figuratively and literally.

1. Andy Griffin in “A Face in the Crowd” — see the last scene.

2. Burt Lancaster in “Elmer Gantry.”

3. Broderick Crawford in “All the King’s Men.”

4. Any documentary on Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn (Trump’s attorney for years).

These movies are about successful men who are all frauds.

I can only imagine the scene with Donald Trump in a board room discussing how to take the mug shot. It begins with a voice from outside the room: “What should I look like?”

One answers, “Yourself.”

“I mean attitude.”

The group throws out ideas: “strong,” “angry,” “sympathetic,” “what about defiant?” “that’s it — defiance.”

“How are you going to do this? I mean the hair, the background.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll make it look like it came out of Vogue.”

He comes out of the room holding a mirror, making contorted faces as they all take pictures. He is delighted.

This picture will be more famous than the Mona Lisa, and it’s just a mug shot. It’s worth millions.

This may sound like just fun, but I listened to Trump’s whole conversation with the attorney general of Georgia. Only he and some of his state officials knew they were recording. That shows the truth of the moment: Trump’s amazing facility of going from charm to anger to intimidation to mocking to threats in a rapid machine gun-like fashion.

That conversation in its entirety is another thing you should listen to — it may be better than the movies.

The scariest thing about Trump is that he’s actually not out of control at all. He’s actually very much in control, strategically, with every move he makes.

Jerry Rosengarten

Southampton Village