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thucythucy

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1. There's a reference to Trump in "Scrooged."

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Sun Dec 27, 2020, 10:07 AM

Dec 2020

Bill Murray's character is sent into a sewer by the ghost of Christmas present. Finding himself in this dank, freezing, filthy place below the streets of NYC he says something like, "Looks like Trump Tower."

This of course was years before 2016.

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