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Mencken predicted Trump

In regard to Donald Trump, what a shame that America's gifted journalist and writer H. L. Mencken does not have the opportunity to witness the possibility that one of his predictions might come true.

Here's what the "Sage of Baltimore" wrote in the July 26, 1920 edition of The Baltimore Evening Sun: "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts' desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and narcissistic moron."

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Dowling G. Campbell, Camp Verde, Ariz.

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