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Gen Z is bringing back the ’90s, as I learned from TikToks where kids mock older millennials like me for refusing to go back to a world of midriff-bared tops and low jeans. The kids are right not big fans of Donald Trump, but now the former president has offered them a rare opportunity. Just look at this “truth” Posted Friday morning about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
I understand why the idea that law enforcement officers planted information during their search reminds Trump of “a Christofer” [sp.] Steele File!” – if you want to keep the audience happy, you have to play the hits. But for folks who lived through the ’90s and don’t just come up with false explanations for why their home was raided by the FBI, a national debate over whether law enforcement framed a major celebrity is conjuring up images of one thing: the OJ Simpson -process .
There are actually many similarities between the Trump raid story and the Simpson “Trial of the Century”. If you’re looking for a touch of nostalgia, here’s your big chance to obsessively follow and mock a serious crime story, only to feel weird about it decades later. There really isn’t anything more 90’s than that.
Are you so tired of hearing about Trump that you have a hard time worrying about this absolutely wild moment in American history? Is everyone you know divided into two camps: one who believes that a certain celebrity gets away with brutal crimes and the other who thinks they are being unfairly persecuted?
That’s what it was like to live the OJ Simpson story. Americans talked about little else from June 17, 1994, when OJ’s Bronco chase propelled us to our grainy 4:3 television sets, to October 3, 1995, when the nation was so stunned by Simpson’s acquittal that not a single Domino’s pizza ordered five minutes.
It’s impossible to truly replicate the Simpson trial’s media dominance, given that we only had a limited number of live TV viewing options rather than an endless supply of fresh streaming content. Even though I was only in grade school at the time, I’ve taken in a staggering amount of information about the double murder trial; I even had a PB Simpson pogo slammer.
We can all draw our own conclusions about the relationship of the two stars to the truth. But whether we believe them, both men insist they have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement — and sometimes they’ve supported each other on this point.
Simpson and Trump were once close friends until the soccer star attended the mogul’s wedding to Marla Maples in 1993. This was about six months before Simpson was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her boyfriend, Ron Goldman. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 but found liable for their deaths in 1997.
OJ Simpson’s red carpet interview at the Trump/Maples wedding pic.twitter.com/L1BlcKY8p4
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) October 9, 2016
While black and white Americans were famously divided over Simpson’s guilt, majority of both groups now believe he is guilty. It seems Trump’s mind has evolved as well. In a 1995 appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show, Trump said he thought Simpson had been framed – echoing the main argument of Simpson’s defense – because “50 people could have planted the blood in his Bronco”. However, in an interview with Stern in 2008, Trump said said he left Simpson when he “realized he had killed his wife.” But he still threw it like a… Famous Pupil contestant (who gives NBC executives a “heart attack”) because “there’s something called ratings.”
Likewise, Simpson this week urged people not to jump to conclusions about his former boyfriend. In this Mar-a-Lago raid comment that no one asked for, he recalled that the FBI robbed his house in Floridaalso saying, “My point is that the FBI could be wrong, even though it’s hard to believe Merrick Garland and some federal judge approved this.”
Let the system work! pic.twitter.com/go1cC2KklG
— OJ Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) August 9, 2022
On the night of the murders, Simpson flew from LA to Chicago for a… promotional golf tournamentand later a young Kim Kardashian searched his golf bag for a murder weapon. Trump likes to play golf when he visits Mar-a-Lago (although the resort itself is) no golf club), and he once met Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office. Attorney Alan Dershowitz was part of Simpson’s ‘Dream Team’ and he defended Trump in his first impeachment trial. Simpson was known as a Heisman Trophy winner and record-breaking professional soccer player before the murders. The FBI was reportedly looking for documents on nuclear weapons in Trump’s house, and… the bag containing the codes to carry out a nuclear attack is known as a american football?
Okay, I admit it’s all just red herring. But the overlapping terms give the two sagas similar vibes, and I hear we are now all about vibes.
Does it seem weird that after being charged with all sorts of crimes with little legal repercussions, the FBI is finally going after Trump for some missing presidential papers? It’s a lot like watching Simpson get acquitted in a double murder trial only to end up spending nine years behind bars for stealing memorabilia from his football career. No one ever said that 90s culture made sense.
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