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it will b like the president charity where all charity money goes to the president instead.
Americans are not mad; they need a strong leader to whack the ISIS and their sympathisers out of existence and make the world safe again. If Trump did not have common sense, how could he have made billions from his businesses? This guy is a fighter but an unconventional whacker.
As for madness, Trump is perfectly sane. Only the local born sinaporans are mad, choosing pappies to run a country to provide jobs, HDB flats and privileges to jobless foreigners.
Fucking happy that Trump won again. hehehehe....
Americans are different from stupid sinkies.. they know any alpha male when they see one... people are getting smarter now..unlike stupid sinkie losers.
i pity sinkies to have a low life ball-less coward shit Loser for a PM.
isnt this the same line george bush took?we have to fight the terrorists,we have to fight the war against terror,and took america and the rest of the world on a eleven year joyride of insanity in iraq costing the nation nearly 1.3 trillion dollars and killing millions of innocent people?chasing a invisible man in a cave for eleven years and invisible wmds?what did they achieved after eleven years????? and guess what?america created fucking ISIS!!!!!!!?!!!??!??
and donald trump is the sleaziest businessman in the world,trusting him is like trusting that scumbag sheldon adelson,going bankrupt three times and still gets to keep his money u believe him?????probably fucking with the law and screwing loopholes god knows what......theres so many billionaire role models why choose him?why not elon musk?or mark cuban?or steve wynn?or ray dalio?all of them have characters and conscience 100 times more credible than this scumbag.....and i guarantee u they are 100 times smarter than him too,wtf does he think this is?a tv show apprentice?
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No difference from from the perceived 70% gong cheebyes who keep pap in power.
and one more thing tonychat,donald trumph can claim he is his own man cause he funded his own campaign,theres no such thing,u think the trillion dollar industrial machine and the illuminati and the bildenburg and the corporations and conglomerates and banks and the republicans will let him get away with it?they will stick their fist up his ass like a puppet and make him talk like charlie chaplin.donald trump is nothing more than a fake billionaire who screwed his shareholders during bankruptcy in order to save his own ass.and the stupid muthafarker went bankrupt three times.
tonychat u nigger i hope donald trump catch u and put u in chains to work on his cotton fields.
tonychat u nigger i hope donald trump catch u and put u in chains to work on his cotton fields.
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Business Illusionist Donald Trump Perfect For President
The country is tired of Barack Obama and his unfulfilled campaign promises. Voters are equally unhappy with the Congress which is bickering over pennies when it’s Ben Franklin’s face on hundred dollar bills we need to be watching. Cutting off funding for free jazz and opera broadcasts on National Public Radio hardly seems the ticket out of our deficit problems yet that is what John Boehner is focusing on in the House these days.
As our country hurtles toward the possibility of bankruptcy, we need a man who understands the bankruptcy laws inside and out. We need a leader who has been to the brink or gone over the falls in his corporate barrel more times than you can think of. Enter Donald Trump. If practice makes perfect, who do you know who has filed for bankruptcy more times than Donald Trump’s businesses?
In the early 1990s Trump almost went over the cliff of personal bankruptcy. He advises in his books to never personally guarantee business loans and admitted he didn’t follow his own good advice. The country was in a downturn and was vastly overleveraged. He had also made the extreme error of personally guaranteeing his commercial real estate loans. He was quoted in 1997 in the New York Daily News that his personal wealth was about minus $900 million.
Over the decades, “the Donald,” as his former wife Ivana dubbed him some years back, has avoided personal bankruptcy by borrowing heavily from his very rich father and his siblings when there was no other option, and by playing brinkmanship very well. Even so, his companies have very publicly failed on many occasions.
In 1989, Trump bought the Eastern Airlines shuttle service from Eastern as it was trying to stave off its own collapse by selling off its better assets. He renamed it The Trump Shuttle and tried to class up the service and its image. The Eastern shuttle was an efficient service for business people to get back and forth from NY to Boston or D.C. Nobody cared if it was fancy inside the plane or not. It didn’t take much for the Trump Shuttle to fail in an economic downturn. It was loaded with way too much debt, a Trump hallmark. Rather rapidly, in September 1990, never having made a dime, the Citibank led group of 22 banks foreclosed on the Trump Shuttle’s $380 million loan. That was Trump’s first introduction to the bankruptcy courts but he’s been there several times since.
As the New York real estate market cratered, Trump was able to work his way out of his difficulties by 1. turning to his family for desperately needed cash, 2. convincing those who held his loans that they were more likely to recoup their money if they allowed him to stay involved in the workouts. He lost vast parts of his real estate empire along the way. Think the Plaza Hotel, the NYC Rail Yards (now the Riverside Complex) and other properties as well. He nonetheless carried on in a way that obscured this fact from the public, especially those outside New York City. New Yorkers could read about Donald’s travails in the NY Daily News if not elsewhere and knew then that he is really mostly bluster and bluff and lives a life as full of puff as his ridiculous hair do.
Bankruptcy laws were intended to allow companies to reorganize their businesses and keep going when debts overwhelm them. Sometimes there is a path to the future if given time and a better economy to bail you out. Bankruptcy usually results in the wiping away of considerable debt that can otherwise hobble a company. Debtholders often wind up with control of the company and stockholders are wiped out completely. Excessive debt makes it impossible to ever survive the rising interest costs you must pay once your debt becomes junk . It is hard to have any money left to remain competitive. On a smaller scale, think about your credit cards that started with low interest rates that zoomed to 30% during the recent banking crisis if you were late with a payment.
To Trump, bankruptcy is simply a useful “tool.” For sure, it works if you have no regard for your fellow shareholders who are pretty much wiped out in the bankruptcy process. In the case of his casinos, Trump has screwed his shareholders three consecutive times by wiping out their investment. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. In 1992, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Castle and Trump Plaza had $1 billion in debt when the 1990-91 recession hit. This was simultaneous with the failure of the Trump Shuttle. The first go at Chapter 11 was in 1992 and Trump’s stake was reduced to 50% by the bondholders.
The second time around was in 2004 when Trump Marina, Trump Taj Mahal and Trump Plaza in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy. In an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Trump said: “I don’t think it is a failure. It’s a success.” That time the debts totaled $1.8 billion. The third time, it was Trump Entertainment Resorts that filed for chapter 11. In an interview with Neil Cavuto that day,Trump bragged that “we have a lot of cash.” He also said that “bankruptcy is a tool. And you can use bankruptcy to your advantage.” The modus operandi was to reorganize, retain a huge salary and other payouts to himself, even if you still have a ton of debt so the company is likely doomed to go down yet again. The last time, he and his daughter simply quit the week the company went bust so he could say he no longer had a role in the company and even though it had his name on it.
If, like the Donald, you are used to being involved in defaults in the billions, one surmises it would be easy an easy transition to the concept of owing trillions as the United States has now done. George W. Bush pushed us off that ledge of a balanced budget when he came into office in 2001. Now, it seems, there is no turning back. It’s quite amazing to think how low we have sunk in only a decade. In the midst of this, the current ill regarded Congress, with an approval rating lower than President Obama’s’ is fittingly focusing on National Public Radio and the small dollars we spend on making classical music, jazz and opera available to the masses who can’t afford $100 tickets to walk into live performances.
For Trump, the U.S. presidential race, must be amazingly enticing as a self promotional tool and a way to further aggrandize his limitless ego. It’s a free national platform with zero cost advertising. Forget the recently reported facts that only once in the last number of decades has Trump bothered to vote in a primary since 1989, according to the New York Board of Elections records. He hasn’t always voted in regular elections either.
When you are a publicity hound to promote your other business activities, just having your name in the papers is reward enough. It embellishes your brand. It garners viewers for your The Apprentice shows. It drives even more tourists to New York to have their photographs taken in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and emailing them home via their cell phones. Maybe one of them will decide to buy an apartment from someone to whom Mr. Trump has licensed his name.
At some point Trump will have to get off the Obama birther flap now that the President Obama has published the long form of his certificate of live birth. He must move onto important issues that voters want addressed. That has to be really challenging for a man with little apparent substance or interest in policy matters. Not only has Trump embellished his net worth over time but also his veracity has been called into question regarding even the height of his buildings and the number of floors they contain. This was highlighted in New York magazine in 2001.
Remember that to run for public office, you must reveal your personal finances. Since Trump is quite vested in embellishing his net worth at every possible opportunity, his jig would be up rather quickly. In 2009, Trump sued a reporter at the New York Times who wrote that in reality he was at best a millionaire, but surely not a billionaire no matter where he showed up in the Forbes 400 list. The N.J. Judge, Michelle J. Fox, threw the case out of her court.
While Trump isn’t quite as bad as Newt Gingrich in his marital infidelity record, he did have an open affair with Marla Maples, 17 years his junior, that resulted in his nasty divorce from Ivana Trump. (Ivana was famously quoted as saying: “Don’t get mad. Get Everything.” She left their marriage with an estate in Westchester, $10 million in cash which the Donald had to borrow from friends and family to pay her off, and reportedly 49% of the Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla, but Donald denies that he had to go hat in hand. Ivana also got a nice set of alimony and child support payments to keep her going in the future. Maples had already given birth to their daughter, Tiffany, two months before she and Donald finally got married in 1993. The marriage went through five postponements as he insisted on a “pre-nup” as described in the People magazine article linked above. She left with only $2 million. He’s now married to Melania Knauss, who is 24 years his junior and he has one son with her named Barron born March 20, 2006.
P.T. Barnum had nothing on Donald Trump. In fact, we could argue that beyond being a promoter of the first order, Trump missed his true calling. It isn’t rendering business advice on TV. It isn’t building tall, gaudy buildings that will far outlast him. It isn’t being a circus barker as Barack Obama called him recently in the flap about Obama’s live birth certificate. Trump really is an illusionist when it comes to his net worth, just like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
Also implicit in seeking public office is to engage the voters, kiss babies, and shake hands with your adoring public. However, Trump is an admitted “germophobe.” He cannot shake hands with others. How do you run for office that way? If he does, Purell, the maker of hand sanitizers, is going to love this man!
The country is tired of Barack Obama and his unfulfilled campaign promises. Voters are equally unhappy with the Congress which is bickering over pennies when it’s Ben Franklin’s face on hundred dollar bills we need to be watching. Cutting off funding for free jazz and opera broadcasts on National Public Radio hardly seems the ticket out of our deficit problems yet that is what John Boehner is focusing on in the House these days.
As our country hurtles toward the possibility of bankruptcy, we need a man who understands the bankruptcy laws inside and out. We need a leader who has been to the brink or gone over the falls in his corporate barrel more times than you can think of. Enter Donald Trump. If practice makes perfect, who do you know who has filed for bankruptcy more times than Donald Trump’s businesses?
In the early 1990s Trump almost went over the cliff of personal bankruptcy. He advises in his books to never personally guarantee business loans and admitted he didn’t follow his own good advice. The country was in a downturn and was vastly overleveraged. He had also made the extreme error of personally guaranteeing his commercial real estate loans. He was quoted in 1997 in the New York Daily News that his personal wealth was about minus $900 million.
Over the decades, “the Donald,” as his former wife Ivana dubbed him some years back, has avoided personal bankruptcy by borrowing heavily from his very rich father and his siblings when there was no other option, and by playing brinkmanship very well. Even so, his companies have very publicly failed on many occasions.
In 1989, Trump bought the Eastern Airlines shuttle service from Eastern as it was trying to stave off its own collapse by selling off its better assets. He renamed it The Trump Shuttle and tried to class up the service and its image. The Eastern shuttle was an efficient service for business people to get back and forth from NY to Boston or D.C. Nobody cared if it was fancy inside the plane or not. It didn’t take much for the Trump Shuttle to fail in an economic downturn. It was loaded with way too much debt, a Trump hallmark. Rather rapidly, in September 1990, never having made a dime, the Citibank led group of 22 banks foreclosed on the Trump Shuttle’s $380 million loan. That was Trump’s first introduction to the bankruptcy courts but he’s been there several times since.
As the New York real estate market cratered, Trump was able to work his way out of his difficulties by 1. turning to his family for desperately needed cash, 2. convincing those who held his loans that they were more likely to recoup their money if they allowed him to stay involved in the workouts. He lost vast parts of his real estate empire along the way. Think the Plaza Hotel, the NYC Rail Yards (now the Riverside Complex) and other properties as well. He nonetheless carried on in a way that obscured this fact from the public, especially those outside New York City. New Yorkers could read about Donald’s travails in the NY Daily News if not elsewhere and knew then that he is really mostly bluster and bluff and lives a life as full of puff as his ridiculous hair do.
Bankruptcy laws were intended to allow companies to reorganize their businesses and keep going when debts overwhelm them. Sometimes there is a path to the future if given time and a better economy to bail you out. Bankruptcy usually results in the wiping away of considerable debt that can otherwise hobble a company. Debtholders often wind up with control of the company and stockholders are wiped out completely. Excessive debt makes it impossible to ever survive the rising interest costs you must pay once your debt becomes junk . It is hard to have any money left to remain competitive. On a smaller scale, think about your credit cards that started with low interest rates that zoomed to 30% during the recent banking crisis if you were late with a payment.
To Trump, bankruptcy is simply a useful “tool.” For sure, it works if you have no regard for your fellow shareholders who are pretty much wiped out in the bankruptcy process. In the case of his casinos, Trump has screwed his shareholders three consecutive times by wiping out their investment. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. In 1992, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Castle and Trump Plaza had $1 billion in debt when the 1990-91 recession hit. This was simultaneous with the failure of the Trump Shuttle. The first go at Chapter 11 was in 1992 and Trump’s stake was reduced to 50% by the bondholders.
The second time around was in 2004 when Trump Marina, Trump Taj Mahal and Trump Plaza in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy. In an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Trump said: “I don’t think it is a failure. It’s a success.” That time the debts totaled $1.8 billion. The third time, it was Trump Entertainment Resorts that filed for chapter 11. In an interview with Neil Cavuto that day,Trump bragged that “we have a lot of cash.” He also said that “bankruptcy is a tool. And you can use bankruptcy to your advantage.” The modus operandi was to reorganize, retain a huge salary and other payouts to himself, even if you still have a ton of debt so the company is likely doomed to go down yet again. The last time, he and his daughter simply quit the week the company went bust so he could say he no longer had a role in the company and even though it had his name on it.
If, like the Donald, you are used to being involved in defaults in the billions, one surmises it would be easy an easy transition to the concept of owing trillions as the United States has now done. George W. Bush pushed us off that ledge of a balanced budget when he came into office in 2001. Now, it seems, there is no turning back. It’s quite amazing to think how low we have sunk in only a decade. In the midst of this, the current ill regarded Congress, with an approval rating lower than President Obama’s’ is fittingly focusing on National Public Radio and the small dollars we spend on making classical music, jazz and opera available to the masses who can’t afford $100 tickets to walk into live performances.
For Trump, the U.S. presidential race, must be amazingly enticing as a self promotional tool and a way to further aggrandize his limitless ego. It’s a free national platform with zero cost advertising. Forget the recently reported facts that only once in the last number of decades has Trump bothered to vote in a primary since 1989, according to the New York Board of Elections records. He hasn’t always voted in regular elections either.
When you are a publicity hound to promote your other business activities, just having your name in the papers is reward enough. It embellishes your brand. It garners viewers for your The Apprentice shows. It drives even more tourists to New York to have their photographs taken in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and emailing them home via their cell phones. Maybe one of them will decide to buy an apartment from someone to whom Mr. Trump has licensed his name.
At some point Trump will have to get off the Obama birther flap now that the President Obama has published the long form of his certificate of live birth. He must move onto important issues that voters want addressed. That has to be really challenging for a man with little apparent substance or interest in policy matters. Not only has Trump embellished his net worth over time but also his veracity has been called into question regarding even the height of his buildings and the number of floors they contain. This was highlighted in New York magazine in 2001.
Remember that to run for public office, you must reveal your personal finances. Since Trump is quite vested in embellishing his net worth at every possible opportunity, his jig would be up rather quickly. In 2009, Trump sued a reporter at the New York Times who wrote that in reality he was at best a millionaire, but surely not a billionaire no matter where he showed up in the Forbes 400 list. The N.J. Judge, Michelle J. Fox, threw the case out of her court.
While Trump isn’t quite as bad as Newt Gingrich in his marital infidelity record, he did have an open affair with Marla Maples, 17 years his junior, that resulted in his nasty divorce from Ivana Trump. (Ivana was famously quoted as saying: “Don’t get mad. Get Everything.” She left their marriage with an estate in Westchester, $10 million in cash which the Donald had to borrow from friends and family to pay her off, and reportedly 49% of the Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla, but Donald denies that he had to go hat in hand. Ivana also got a nice set of alimony and child support payments to keep her going in the future. Maples had already given birth to their daughter, Tiffany, two months before she and Donald finally got married in 1993. The marriage went through five postponements as he insisted on a “pre-nup” as described in the People magazine article linked above. She left with only $2 million. He’s now married to Melania Knauss, who is 24 years his junior and he has one son with her named Barron born March 20, 2006.
P.T. Barnum had nothing on Donald Trump. In fact, we could argue that beyond being a promoter of the first order, Trump missed his true calling. It isn’t rendering business advice on TV. It isn’t building tall, gaudy buildings that will far outlast him. It isn’t being a circus barker as Barack Obama called him recently in the flap about Obama’s live birth certificate. Trump really is an illusionist when it comes to his net worth, just like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
Also implicit in seeking public office is to engage the voters, kiss babies, and shake hands with your adoring public. However, Trump is an admitted “germophobe.” He cannot shake hands with others. How do you run for office that way? If he does, Purell, the maker of hand sanitizers, is going to love this man!
Donald Trump's Record of Business Failures and Bluster
Trump earns support from Americans who think he has a Midas touch and will use his business skills to fix the mess President Obama has created. But a closer look at Trump’s record reveals his success story is just that -- a story. How many of his supporters know about Trump University? Trump Air? Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump ties, or the United States Football League?
Trump's business history reveals someone skilled at making money at the expense of other Americans while his businesses fail, and a man who will say almost anything about these failures. And his legacy of business failures goes beyond the four bankruptcies of his Atlantic City casinos. It includes outsourcing jobs to China, ripping off students seeking an education, and leaving a path of devastated Americans in his wake.
Just ask Louis Piatt. He put his faith in Donald Trump before he concluded Trump University was a worthless scam. Trump University was an unaccredited program that was supposed to teach ordinary Americans how to hit the big time in real estate.
Professor Donald supposedly would offer personal lessons on how to make money. In a perverse way, Trump did. Trump University made money by fleecing regular Americans who saved and paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition before it vanished. Trump University taught a harsh lesson in grifting.
What of Trump’s skill at "getting things done"? When it came to Trump University, it was mostly bluster. Trump used his personal brand to separate middle class Americans from their money. One pitch about the faculty from Dean Donald went like this:
And honestly, if you don’t learn from them, if you don’t learn from me, if you don’t learn from the people that we’re going to be putting forward, and these are all people handpicked by me, then you’re just not going to make it in terms of world-class success.
Trump University collapsed in a blizzard of lawsuits in 2010, and in 2013 the New York attorney general sued Trump University for $40 million for allegedly defrauding students.
Did you ever try Trump Vodka? Not many did. It was another Trump failure. But Trump boasted it would become the most requested drink in America, surpassed only by the Trump Martini. The marketing campaign was even more ridiculous in hindsight -- the vodka was the “epitome of vodka and would demand the same respect and inspire the same awe as the international legacy and brand of Donald Trump himself.”
Trump claims that his ignorance of most issues he would confront as president is excusable because he will hire “the best people.” Yet another Trump business failure -- Trump Mortgage -- shows that boast doesn’t square with the facts.
Trump hired E.J. Ridings to run Trump Mortgage. Ridings claimed to be a top executive at a prestigious investment bank. In fact, he had only worked on Wall Street as a registered broker for six days. So much for Donald’s eye for talent.
Instead of hiring top talent, the record shows Trump seems to prefer hiring his children.
Perhaps Trump’s most memorable failure, however, was his role in the collapse of the United States Football League. The USFL played in the spring and did well in the first few seasons because it did not have to compete with the NFL.
Enter Donald Trump to foul it up. In the league’s second year he bought the New Jersey Generals. Trump browbeat other owners into moving the USFL schedule from the spring to the fall, thereby taking on the National Football League. That started the fast decline of the USFL.
To make matters worse, Trump threatened a lawsuit against the NFL. He uses the same bluster on the campaign trail, threatening even to sue people who speak ill of him. Trump instigated an antitrust suit against the NFL. The outcome of the lawsuit was a joke, laughed at in law school classrooms to this day: Trump’s USFL lawsuit resulted in a mere $1 in damages (increased to $3 under federal antitrust law).
Think about that next time you hear Trump threaten to sue someone, or talk about his record in the courtroom.
Throughout all of Trump’s bankruptcies, business scams, and failed gambles, however, there has only been one constant -- Donald Trump’s ability to come out on top. When he outsources jobs to China or rips off those who attended Trump University, it is American workers who bear the cost of his dealings, not Donald Trump.
Trump makes much of the claim that he is “self-funding” his campaign and thus immune to typical political pressures. Despite that claim, Trump is taking donations from the public.
When Ted Cruz stood up against the powerful ethanol lobby in Iowa, not only did Donald Trump refuse to do so, he actually led the charge on behalf of the ethanol interests. And how did Trump respond to his loss? He threatened to sue.
Standing up to special interests requires actually doing something to stand up against special interests, not just talking about it. Standing up for American workers and families actually means doing something to open markets and promote regulatory reform, not just hypocritically talking about it while looking out for himself at the expense of others.
Then there was Trump Air. The man who wants to be president managed to crash an airline focused on the lucrative Washington to New York shuttle market. Instead of offering a better product, Trump attempted to beat the competing Pan Am Shuttle by blustering that his competitor wasn’t safe. If that wasn’t enough, Trump wanted to overhaul his planes in style only Woody Allen’s Frenchy Fox-Winkler could appreciate. Trump wanted marble vanities in the lavatories and brass handles on the emergency exit handles.
Donald Trump is running a presidential campaign built on culture instead of ideology and issues. It is a culture furious with President Obama’s lawlessness and the failure of congressional Republicans to stop him. Unfortunately, the real culture of Donald Trump is a culture of bombast, bluster, and serial business failure. Perhaps this is the sort of person Americans want in the White House. Or perhaps they don’t know the sort of person Trump is.
Trump earns support from Americans who think he has a Midas touch and will use his business skills to fix the mess President Obama has created. But a closer look at Trump’s record reveals his success story is just that -- a story. How many of his supporters know about Trump University? Trump Air? Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump ties, or the United States Football League?
Trump's business history reveals someone skilled at making money at the expense of other Americans while his businesses fail, and a man who will say almost anything about these failures. And his legacy of business failures goes beyond the four bankruptcies of his Atlantic City casinos. It includes outsourcing jobs to China, ripping off students seeking an education, and leaving a path of devastated Americans in his wake.
Just ask Louis Piatt. He put his faith in Donald Trump before he concluded Trump University was a worthless scam. Trump University was an unaccredited program that was supposed to teach ordinary Americans how to hit the big time in real estate.
Professor Donald supposedly would offer personal lessons on how to make money. In a perverse way, Trump did. Trump University made money by fleecing regular Americans who saved and paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition before it vanished. Trump University taught a harsh lesson in grifting.
What of Trump’s skill at "getting things done"? When it came to Trump University, it was mostly bluster. Trump used his personal brand to separate middle class Americans from their money. One pitch about the faculty from Dean Donald went like this:
And honestly, if you don’t learn from them, if you don’t learn from me, if you don’t learn from the people that we’re going to be putting forward, and these are all people handpicked by me, then you’re just not going to make it in terms of world-class success.
Trump University collapsed in a blizzard of lawsuits in 2010, and in 2013 the New York attorney general sued Trump University for $40 million for allegedly defrauding students.
Did you ever try Trump Vodka? Not many did. It was another Trump failure. But Trump boasted it would become the most requested drink in America, surpassed only by the Trump Martini. The marketing campaign was even more ridiculous in hindsight -- the vodka was the “epitome of vodka and would demand the same respect and inspire the same awe as the international legacy and brand of Donald Trump himself.”
Trump claims that his ignorance of most issues he would confront as president is excusable because he will hire “the best people.” Yet another Trump business failure -- Trump Mortgage -- shows that boast doesn’t square with the facts.
Trump hired E.J. Ridings to run Trump Mortgage. Ridings claimed to be a top executive at a prestigious investment bank. In fact, he had only worked on Wall Street as a registered broker for six days. So much for Donald’s eye for talent.
Instead of hiring top talent, the record shows Trump seems to prefer hiring his children.
Perhaps Trump’s most memorable failure, however, was his role in the collapse of the United States Football League. The USFL played in the spring and did well in the first few seasons because it did not have to compete with the NFL.
Enter Donald Trump to foul it up. In the league’s second year he bought the New Jersey Generals. Trump browbeat other owners into moving the USFL schedule from the spring to the fall, thereby taking on the National Football League. That started the fast decline of the USFL.
To make matters worse, Trump threatened a lawsuit against the NFL. He uses the same bluster on the campaign trail, threatening even to sue people who speak ill of him. Trump instigated an antitrust suit against the NFL. The outcome of the lawsuit was a joke, laughed at in law school classrooms to this day: Trump’s USFL lawsuit resulted in a mere $1 in damages (increased to $3 under federal antitrust law).
Think about that next time you hear Trump threaten to sue someone, or talk about his record in the courtroom.
Throughout all of Trump’s bankruptcies, business scams, and failed gambles, however, there has only been one constant -- Donald Trump’s ability to come out on top. When he outsources jobs to China or rips off those who attended Trump University, it is American workers who bear the cost of his dealings, not Donald Trump.
Trump makes much of the claim that he is “self-funding” his campaign and thus immune to typical political pressures. Despite that claim, Trump is taking donations from the public.
When Ted Cruz stood up against the powerful ethanol lobby in Iowa, not only did Donald Trump refuse to do so, he actually led the charge on behalf of the ethanol interests. And how did Trump respond to his loss? He threatened to sue.
Standing up to special interests requires actually doing something to stand up against special interests, not just talking about it. Standing up for American workers and families actually means doing something to open markets and promote regulatory reform, not just hypocritically talking about it while looking out for himself at the expense of others.
Then there was Trump Air. The man who wants to be president managed to crash an airline focused on the lucrative Washington to New York shuttle market. Instead of offering a better product, Trump attempted to beat the competing Pan Am Shuttle by blustering that his competitor wasn’t safe. If that wasn’t enough, Trump wanted to overhaul his planes in style only Woody Allen’s Frenchy Fox-Winkler could appreciate. Trump wanted marble vanities in the lavatories and brass handles on the emergency exit handles.
Donald Trump is running a presidential campaign built on culture instead of ideology and issues. It is a culture furious with President Obama’s lawlessness and the failure of congressional Republicans to stop him. Unfortunately, the real culture of Donald Trump is a culture of bombast, bluster, and serial business failure. Perhaps this is the sort of person Americans want in the White House. Or perhaps they don’t know the sort of person Trump is.
Am amazed that a peasant like you have the audacity to criticise my idol & hero, a self-made billionaire Mr Donald Trump.
FYI Mr Trump's elder sister, Maryanne Trump is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and she was appointed by Presidents Reagan, Clinton & Obama.
who cares? as long as tony remains our dearest president, nothing else matters.
waiting for donald to date n then marry monica.
Yes America is the bastion of democracy.
Americans are many times politically savvy than the dumbfuck sinkie gong cheebyes.....they know the power of their votes.....the guy they voted in 4 years ago can't do the job then they sack him and let the next better one do the job.
STFU nigger. Ppl are free to choose who they want to trust.
Exactly.. That is how PAP lowlife behaves.
Just six months ago when Donald Trump declared that he was going to stand for POTUS, who on earth would ever expect him to narrowly lose Iowa and triumph in New Hampshire and South Carolina with very huge margins.
Also who would expect hot favourite Jeb Bush to call it a day in South Carolina, and in the DMC a 74 year old socialist is giving Hilary Clinton (another hot favourite) the fight of her life.
I can only conclude that there is a revolution in the US of A for the majority of the middle class is sick, tired and don't trust the establishment anymore.
You ignorant bastard ... Donald Trump has won more than 55% from Evangelicals, Blacks and Hispanics in S C and in Nevada he is leading by 35 points.
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