Who you "gonna" believe?

Trump's Renoir painting is not real, Chicago museum says

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Image caption Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Two Sisters (On The Terrace)

A US museum says an Impressionist painting which President Donald Trump reportedly claims to own is a fake.

In a recent interview, Trump biographer Tim O'Brien said he was once told by the future president that his artwork was an original.

But the Chicago Institute of Art says the real painting, Two Sisters (On The Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, has hung in its gallery for 80 years.

A museum spokeswoman said "we have had this authentic painting" since 1933.
"We're proud and grateful to be able to share this exceptional work of art with our 1.5 million visitors each year," Amanda Hicks said in an email to the BBC.

The painting was given to the institute in 1933 from a donor who bought it for $100,000 (£76,000).
The donor acquired it from an art dealer who purchased it directly from the French Impressionist painter in 1881, she added.

But Mr O'Brien said during a recent interview with Vanity Fair's Hive podcast that Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed to him that his version of the painting was authentic.

During a flight on Mr Trump's private jet while he was writing his 2005 book, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Mr O'Brien said he spotted the painting and asked about it.
"You know, that's an original Renoir," the author said Mr Trump had told him, adding that the property tycoon repeated the claim the following day.

"Donald, it's not," he recalled telling Trump. "I grew up in Chicago, that Renoir is called Two Sisters on the Terrace, and it's hanging on a wall at the Art Institute of Chicago.

"That's not an original."

The artwork was later apparently moved to Trump Tower, the author said, noting that it was visible in the background of a CBS 60 Minutes interview that Mr Trump gave shortly after the presidential election.

"I'm sure he's still telling people who come into the apartment, 'It's an original, it's an original,'" Mr O'Brien said on the podcast.

Mr Trump sued Mr O'Brien for $5bn because the author wrote in TrumpNation that rather than being a billionaire, his net worth was actually as low as $150m.

The defamation lawsuit was dismissed. 

Who you "gonna" believe, the Art Institute where the original has been since 1933, and this writer lived in Chicago and saw it in the Art Institute back in the early 1970's  or Trashmouth?

Riches vs A Good Name

Proverbs 22King James Version (KJV)

22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Steven Mnuchin

United States Secretary of the Treasury

Betsy DeVos

United States Secretary of Education

and of course, Trashmouth, should take a moment and consider the above Biblical verse.

How many have been killed by guns since 1968?

Here’s a summary of deaths by major conflict:

War                                      Deaths
Revolutionary War                4,435
War of 1812                          2,260
Mexican War                         13,283
Civil War (Union and Confederate, estimate) 750,00
Spanish-American War           2,446
World War I                           116,516
World War II                           405,399
Korean War                            36,574
Vietnam War                          58,220
Persian Gulf War                     383
Afghanistan War                     2,363
Iraq War                                 4,492
Other wars (includes Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia and Haiti)                                     362
TOTAL    1,396,733

Americans killed by guns from 1968 - 2015       1,516,863

If not NOW, When?I

If not Now for talking about gun control, When?  When the next time hundreds of people are killed and thousands are injured?

Rest in Peace, Sweet Princes and Princesses

Rest in Peace, Sweet Princes and Princesses.

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This French television series chronicles the events that occur during WWII in a small central French village - starting in 1940 with the German occupation, and how at the beginning the Germans and French collaborated together to try to make the village cooperate with the Nazis. When the Nazis begin their forced separations of the Jewish  population, the villagers begin to realize that things will never be the same in France, and are under Nazi rule for 5 years.

As the war is beginning to go against the Nazis, the Resistance group and the Communists basically join forces to defeat the Nazis.  

At the end of the war, France is beginning to come together as a united country, those who assisted and collaborated with the Nazis begin to suffer the consequences of their actions - some are merely scorned (women have their heads shaved and are shamed publicly) others are put on trial and face the death penalty.

Over the course of the series, once looks into the lives of the many villagers, it is easy to know who are the ones who are only out for themselves, the ones who are just trying to make sure that others don't suffer.

There were several villagers that I had begun to despise greatly so their executions were justice served in my eyes.  

Different look at WWII from what we Americans have generally been taught in school.

Excellent series, well worth watching.