Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Famous Donald

by Neil Bamforth

As the current President of the USA is DONALD Trump (God or the deity of your choice help them), my mind, such as it is, started to think along the lines of ‘has there been any other Donald’s that have been either famous or, more accurately, infamous?’ and the answer, of course, is no – at least for the infamous bit anyway. I was, however, slightly surprised at the number of famous ‘Donald’s.’ Obviously I knew of Donald Duck – I would respectfully suggest to other Donald’s the most famous of all – but I was amazed at how many famous Donald’s there have been. This, of course, puts Trump in a league of his own as he is the first infamous Donald as far as I can tell.

Without resorting to Google I could immediately name the magnificent actors Sutherland and Pleasence as I’m sure we all could. I was aware there was Rumsfeld in America even if I had no idea precisely who he was. I’d heard the name in the news at some point therefore, I suppose, he could qualify as famous in some way. (I’ve just Googled him. Nah. Not really famous to be honest but, as his name is known I’ll give him the nod).

Other Donald’s with claims to fame?

Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn sprang immediately to mind as a lover of ‘The Blues Brothers’. I just checked and he passed away in 2012. Sad. Any member of The Blues Brothers Band is a star in my eyes.

I know there’s a ‘Donald’ in the hierarchy of The European Union called Donald Tusk. I’m uncertain, given my views on The EU, whether to acknowledge that he is famous – probably infamous is closer albeit he’s a million miles from infamy in comparison to Trump so, at the moment, Trump is well ahead on the infamy scale.

Another who has suddenly sprung into what passes for my mind is the late great British speed demon Donald Campbell who, of course, drove very fast, held the land speed record and then died on the water. Should have stayed on dry land mate.

Don(ald) Bradman was a famous Australian cricketer – I know! How would you lot know you’re bloody American and you don’t play cricket. That’s probably why Trump got elected actually. If you’d played cricket you wouldn’t have elected him as it just wasn’t cricket – I could explain but you’d lose the will to live half way through.

Donald Sinden was a marvellous British actor. He appeared in typically British movies so, perhaps, wasn’t that well known across the pond albeit he was in that African movie with Gable and Ava Gardner ‘Mogambo’. Actually I met him once at a book signing and am the proud owner of a signed copy of his autobiography.

Obviously there are a lot of ‘Donald’s’ in America that you think are famous but they aren’t. I only include ‘Donald’s’ with worldwide fame.

Clearly Donald Sinden was particularly British but his name was well known across the globe even if America didn’t really know him so he counts whilst American Football player Donald Brown doesn’t ’cause nobody outside of America apart from American Football anoraks have ever heard of him (Sorry Donald Brown, nothing personal).

Wasn’t there a boxer called Donald? Hang on a minute whilst I Google.

Ah! Yes! Don(ald) Curry! I vaguely remember him so I’ll give him the benefit and include him.

So. There aren’t really, in the general scheme of things, that many famous Donald’s.

Is Miami Vices Don Johnson a ‘Donald’? I seem to recall he was a ‘Donnie’ or something. Anyway, he was a crap actor so we’ll pass him by I think.

Not many famous Donald’s then in the scheme of things.

More to the point – unless you include Donald Tusk who is clearly a shit bag of the highest order but, in all honesty, has little real genuine power or authority – the only actual genuine solid gold ‘INFAMOUS’ Donald, as opposed to merely famous, is your chap Mr Trump.

Well done America! You are the first! You win! You have produced the first ever infamous Donald in the history of the world!

Not always good to win is it eh? 😉

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