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How on earth did Ralph Waldo Emerson predict that a Donald Trump would run as a reality show American president wannabe?

In 1875 Emerson published the work "Letters and Social Aims."

The following was written by him:

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."

Maurice Hebert

Salt Lake City