Bling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8203685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 635-641 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfz054 |
| OpenAlex | W4246398496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Bling: expensive, ostentatious clothing or jewelry, or the style or materialistic attitudes associated with them —Oxford English Dictionary IN THE AUGUST 2004 issue of Esquire, the reality-television mogul Donald Trump explains how he would run the country. He’d get the hell out of Iraq. He’d strongarm the countries that gouge us on oil. He’d have killed Osama bin Laden by now; how hard could it be? That’s how he does things. “I nod,” Trump explains, “and it is done” (Trump 2004). Trump is there on the cover of this issue, scowling, jabbing fingers at the camera, firing somebody. Each hand sports a fistful of heavy gold rings, the kind that tear flesh if the hand lands a punch. Hip-hop chains spell out TRUMP, BIG D, and MONEYMAN like so many medals on his chest, along with a dollar-sign pendant in platinum and diamonds. There’s no mention in the piece of the black gangster get-up or of the uses of racial fantasy in the production that even then was Donald Trump, no reference to, say, the full-page ad that real-estate mogul Trump took out in the New York Times and three other city newspapers in 1989, urging the reinstatement of the death penalty to deal swift justice to the five teenaged boys, black and brown, who were wrongly convicted of rape in the Central Park jogger case that year (Laughland 2016). The Esquire cover identifies Trump as the King of Bling.
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |