Wednesday, I wondered if Donald Trump could learn a lesson from the origin of Spider-Man ("with great power comes great responsibility") and decided no, such thinking is alien to him. Today I woke up thinking, maybe I picked the wrong hero. Bruce Wayne is a lot more like Donald Trump: rich, inherited wealth, businessman, reputation as a playboy. Maybe Batman should be the role model.
Bruce Wayne saw his parents gunned down on the street. Traumatized, he vows vengeance...but not just on the person who killed his family. He vows a war on all of crime and evil...and he sets out from a very young age to follow through--with training, with education, with using his wealth to fund his campaign. Further, that wealth not only allows him to design, build and maintain his arsenal of weapons, it allows him to aid the victims of crime. Eventually, when Bruce finds the man who killed his parents, the crusade doesn't end--it turns from one of personal vengeance to societal protection.
What would Donald Trump take away from that story? I fear he would decide, as he would with Spider-Man, that Bruce Wayne is a chump. Why is he wasting his time and money on all these lesser mortals? Don't search for the killer yourself--hire some mercenary organization to do it for you. All those "wonderful toys" (as the Joker puts it in one of the films) shouldn't be used in crime fighting--they should be marketed and sold for a profit. And a foundation that helps others? Well, we know what Trump did with his foundation.
No, to become Batman, Bruce Wayne had to see his personal tragedy reflected in the tragedies of others and act on that realization. The evidence of his life is that Donald Trump is incapable of that.
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