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Donald Love’s Presidency?


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LucidLocomotive

Should there be a line in the in-game radio of GTA VI that mentions the recent presidency of DONALD LOVE??

 

as most know, he is alluded to in the HD universe. 

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DeltaV20

i don't hate Donald Love but he is milked enough , he was a really cool character in GTA III but in LCS he was portrayed like a dumb politician , 'Toni this' 'Plzzzz Toni' 'oh Toni just one more job' 'Toni one last job 🙏' though the artworks gives a classy look of him , but yeah a little reference line from R* won't make much of a difference which will confirm that: 'yes they were also the developers of the 3D universe titles lol'

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A Good Man

They should make fun of the past and the current administration.

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RedDeadRus

If the next GTA is not sterile for the sake of political trends, then there must be jokes about the analogue of Trump and about the analogue of Biden.

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Thomas Cavendish

Today it would be an old joke, imagine ten years from now.

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Len Lfc
3 hours ago, Thomas Cavendish said:

Today it would be an old joke, imagine ten years from now.

Rockstar should make jokes about things that happen in the future, so it will age like wine.

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So you’re telling me that Donald Trump is a cannibal and eats people?

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Good one :kekw:

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LucidLocomotive
12 hours ago, Americana said:

No, why?

Because he has a star in Vinewood Blvd and is the GTA equivalent to Donald Trump

9 hours ago, RedDeadRus said:

If the next GTA is not sterile for the sake of political trends, then there must be jokes about the analogue of Trump and about the analogue of Biden.

Yeah definitely

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1 hour ago, LucidLocomotive said:

Because he has a star in Vinewood Blvd and is the GTA equivalent to Donald Trump

In the 3D universe sure but in the HD universe it’s Lyle Cleethorpes. Why? Because Trump tower is in IV and it’s called Cleethorpes tower.

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It’s too late to retcon that as the HD universe is already established with its own Trump figure.

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LucidLocomotive
4 hours ago, Zello said:

In the 3D universe sure but in the HD universe it’s Lyle Cleethorpes. Why? Because Trump tower is in IV and it’s called Cleethorpes tower.

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It’s too late to retcon that as the HD universe is already established with its own Trump figure.

Ah interesting. Is Lyle creep Thorne ever mentioned in the game? Is he mentioned in gta V and does he have a star in vinewood? Since they carried over other minor characters like Lazlow, love fist, OG Loc, etc. into the HD Universe, I figured they could with Love also

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57 minutes ago, LucidLocomotive said:

Ah interesting. Is Lyle creep Thorne ever mentioned in the game? Is he mentioned in gta V and does he have a star in vinewood? Since they carried over other minor characters like Lazlow, love fist, OG Loc, etc. into the HD Universe, I figured they could with Love also

He is mentioned in GTA IV and he does have a star on the walk of Fame in GTA V.

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Here's another thing. Donald Love has Love Media Trump at the time of GTA 3 and LCS and IV and V didn't run his own Media conglomerate like Donald Love did. Before he became president Trump was known for his real estate his hotels, casinos, golf courses, and The apprentice he did not own radio stations or TV networks.

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LucidLocomotive
20 minutes ago, Zello said:

He is mentioned in GTA IV and he does have a star on the walk of Fame in GTA V.

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Here's another thing. Donald Love has Love Media Trump at the time of GTA 3 and LCS and IV and V didn't run his own Media conglomerate like Donald Love did. Before he became president Trump was known for his real estate his hotels, casinos, golf courses, and The apprentice he did not own radio stations or TV networks.

Yes that’s true. Donald Love did become rich with real-estate though. Then later he got into media. That’s in the 3D universe at least. Well then in that case maybe they can mention cleethorpes presidency

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4 minutes ago, LucidLocomotive said:

Yes that’s true. Donald Love did become rich with real-estate though. Then later he got into media. That’s in the 3D universe at least. Well then in that case maybe they can mention cleethorpes presidency

Also Donald Love was just starting out in Vice City in 1986 he was taking notes from Avery Carrington. In 1986 Trump was already super rich and famous.

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Racecarlock

Honestly, forget the whole "how similar is the parody to real life" thing. If you want to get some real laughs, I say we hear some talk radio stations recount the presidency of Exploder star Jack Howitzer.

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KevinR1990

I think Jock Cranley would work better as a Donald Trump analogue than Donald Love, given how his campaign for governor of San Andreas was presented in V. Love was too much of a parody of '90s/'00s-era Trump, the flamboyant businessman who cares only about his public image, without any hints towards the real Trump's flirtations with politics (which go back way farther than 2016). Cranley, OTOH, was basically running a Trumpian campaign, a naked "screw you" (literally, his TV ads have a giant middle finger flipping off the viewer) to everything that "red state" America hates that was powered by an aggressive, implicitly phony machismo. If you want a parody of Trump the politician, make it so that Cranley got elected governor in 2013 and then used that as a springboard to the White House in 2016, with America still bitterly divided on him even after he lost his reelection campaign.

 

Also, it's shocking how much that radio subplot predicted how the 2016 election would unfold. Sue Murry reads like an unflattering parody of everything people hated about Hillary Clinton, and Cranley reads like an unflattering parody of everything people hated about Trump. It all feels like something that had been written in 2017, not 2013.

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On 4/24/2022 at 5:21 PM, Len Lfc said:

Rockstar should make jokes about things that happen in the future, so it will age like wine.

 

In GTA V there's 2 two politicians that look like Hilary and Biden, I'd say they were right on time considering how extremely relevant they've become in the years following the games release.

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Catsooey
On 4/24/2022 at 5:44 PM, Zello said:

So you’re telling me that Donald Trump is a cannibal and eats people?

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Good one :kekw:


 

Not to get off topic, but I’d be a lot more surprised if he didn’t.  I’m sure he’s spent plenty of time in Northern California.  How close is he with the Lipens brothers?

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Not to get off topic, but I’d be a lot more surprised if he didn’t.  I’m sure he’s spent plenty of time in Northern California.  How close is he with the Lipens brothers?

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Donald Trump is not a cannibal 

 

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Len Lfc
2 hours ago, Zello said:

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Donald Trump is not a cannibal 

 

How do you know? Maybe that’s why his name was in the little black book…

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universetwisters

I don’t really think Donald Love was meant to be a parody of trump tbh

 

It’d be funny tho but imo the 3D and HD universes should keep separate. It was fine in IV when the only things that really crossed over were the brands and Lazlow, but the HD universe really played fast and loose with the idea and idk it just came off as forced than natural 

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1 hour ago, universetwisters said:

I don’t really think Donald Love was meant to be a parody of trump tbh

He kinda reminds me a bit of Michael Bloomberg.

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universetwisters
3 hours ago, Zello said:

He kinda reminds me a bit of Michael Bloomberg.

 

I get Richard Branson vibes from him; a businessman with a sh*tton of businesses in different fields. But Branson isn't a politician, but Bloomberg isn't known for his business

 

idk, maybe Rockstar just wanted to do something really generic like a big wild businessman...and then made him get into politics...and then threw in cannibalism for good measure. Interestingly enough, Donald Love wasn't added into III's development cycle until fairly late, if the GDD video that gtaseriesvideos uploaded is anything to go by

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2 minutes ago, universetwisters said:

 

I get Richard Branson vibes from him; a businessman with a sh*tton of businesses in different fields. But Branson isn't a politician, but Bloomberg isn't known for his business

 

idk, maybe Rockstar just wanted to do something really generic like a big wild businessman...and then made him get into politics...and then threw in cannibalism for good measure. Interestingly enough, Donald Love wasn't added into III's development cycle until fairly late, if the GDD video that gtaseriesvideos uploaded is anything to go by

Could also be a businessman who isn't really in the spotlight there are quite a lot of millionaires that aren't well known. Love media's radio stations were probably a parody of Iheartmedia/Clear Channel communications. Whoever was the CEO of Clear Channel irl at the time of GTA 3 could be who they based Donald Love from.

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1 minute ago, Zello said:

Could also be a businessman who isn't really in the spotlight there are quite a lot of millionaires that aren't well known. Love media's radio stations were probably a parody of Iheartmedia/Clear Channel communications. 

 

Yeh, I def think donald love is just generally supposed to be a generic big powerful man. Could he be based on Trump? Of course, but they missed the best chance to make a nod to him in the HD universe by not naming the trump tower after him in IV.

 

Also I just looked it up, Bloomberg actually has a sh*tton of businesses and it's equally diversified. You learn something new every day and stuff!?!?!?!?

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2 minutes ago, universetwisters said:

Also I just looked it up, Bloomberg actually has a sh*tton of businesses and it's equally diversified. You learn something new every day and stuff!?!?!?!?

Only thing against Bloomberg is that he isn't involved in construction or real estate like Love was.

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Catsooey
9 hours ago, universetwisters said:

 

I get Richard Branson vibes from him; a businessman with a sh*tton of businesses in different fields. But Branson isn't a politician, but Bloomberg isn't known for his business

 

idk, maybe Rockstar just wanted to do something really generic like a big wild businessman...and then made him get into politics...and then threw in cannibalism for good measure. Interestingly enough, Donald Love wasn't added into III's development cycle until fairly late, if the GDD video that gtaseriesvideos uploaded is anything to go by


 

Side note on Richard Branson - check out ‘The Filth and the Fury’ and watch Johnny Rotten’s response to clips of Branson giving interviews while the London police are rounding people up after the Sex Pistols crashed the Queen’s Jubilee festival.   

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