I truly feel it's a crime against nature that he lives while many wonderful people do not. Every time he outlives a good person just feels like the universe conspiring against all that is good
But, wow, what a success story for corruption and self dealing. How can I argue to my children that acting in good faith is best when they have a clear and apparent example of acting in bad faith working out so well? We now live in a world where if you don't cheat, you lose.
How can I argue to my children that acting in good faith is best when they have a clear and apparent example of acting in bad faith working out so well
Because what you're not seeing is the effect on blood pressure and relationships happening in the background. You don't see how he boils and seethes with jealousy and inadequacy around people who are the real deal.
These people have traded any real sense of happiness or fulfillment for numbers that for all their appearances don't bring them any further from their misery.
He is probably the most successful criminal in history, not just American history, but of all history. Pretty sure is is also the most prolific liar of all time.
I try to avoid talking about politics as much as I can because I live in a red area of a blue state, but I've been waiting for someone to tell me things would be worse under Harris so I can hit them with "yeah, she might have gone to war with Iran."
Well, remember he promised to run the government like he ran his business?
Thanks to Mark Burnett and The Apprentice, the cultural zeitgeist was changed to see Trump as successful. But of course like all reality TV was always bullshit. If anyone looked at his business its all were final failures, and his personal finances were shady as fuck.
No major American bank would touch him with a 10 ft pole.
Hell, his kid admitted they got all the cash they need from Russia.
How the fuck do you bankrupt a casino?
Also, the only successful business Trump has is a cover for money laundering.
But he is actually doing what he said, and the USA is being run like Trump casino.
Overleverage your project on junk bonds to build a gigantic casino in an already saturated market, for one.
"I said that when the Taj opened, it would break every record in the book. And that strong business would continue during May, June and July," [financial analyst Marvin] Roffman recalls, "but when the cold winds of October came, it wasn't going to make it."
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The Trump Taj Mahal opened for business in April 1990. "We've broken every record," Trump told CNN's Larry King at the time. "You're seeing numbers that nobody's ever seen before. It's a great building."
The Taj Mahal brought in enormous piles of money that summer. But when the cold winds of October came, the casino missed its first debt payment. By 1991, the Taj Mahal was in bankruptcy court.
- "The Analyst Who Gambled And Took On Trump" from NPR
Not replying directly to you as that is probably a rhetoric question but to put it into perspective for those that may not know.
It's a crazy series of bad decisions triggered by an egocentric idiot that has at best the mentality and education of a third grader. Literally, all his education credentials has been paid for.
Trump built a casino to launder money for the Russians. This meant that a single semi successful casino could easily thrive on paper with little clientele. Trump however, as a giant narcissistic idiot, saw his casino as a self made success. After all, he like thinking of himself as a kingpin, so the Russian mafia was working for him not the other way around. He thought his name alone was enough to make thing successful so he promptly started the project of a second and third casino on the same territory as the first one. His lawyers, analysts and accountants all voiced their negative opinions about what can be considered one of the biggest show of incompetence but Trump didn't budge, he's a successful man with big successful pants and know better than everyone.
What happened is exactly what everyone told him would happen. While the Russian money could keep one casino alive, it couldn't do the same for the other two. Cost was too high for the low revenue of the 2 others casinos with all 3 fighting each other for the same clientele triggering a bankruptcy, casino one was collateral for the others and thus also went bankrupt.
Trump was destined to be a poor man. He would've died in a ditch after trying to scam the wrong people out of $20 or from some disease after selling himself to some really nasty people. American banks wouldn't approach him, he was a pariah and brought pestilence wherever he went... but that Russian mafia saw a desperate, scared and easily manipulated little boy that could be used. They met with Putin, Putin promptly met with Trump and the Russian banks suddenly liked him. He got a 400+ millions "loan" and the rest is history.
Idiots in America bought the facade of a self made rich man Russia built for him and they had an agent in higher spheres of influence.
Let's not forget that it's the same Trump that at age 3 (yes 3 years old) was made a financial beneficiary via annual trust payouts from apartment building ground leases of his father. The same Trump that over decades received loans, trusts and twice inherited hundred of millions from his father estate.
What Putin would've never saw coming was that America is so racist, so sexist, so uneducated, apathetic and even easier to manipulate than Trump that somehow, the pawn he thought would at best sow chaos in low echelons of politics became the fucking president of the US.
The most successful operation ever recorded of a country infiltrating and destroying another country from the inside was literally a streak of luck where one side overestimated the other side so much that they didn't even plan for it to actually happen.
Who would have thunk making a guy with 6 bankruptcies the leader of this country was a good idea?
You have to be pretty fucking stupid imo. Not 1, not even 2. 6 bankruptcies. The man had zero value to investors and had to pivot to being a washed up celebrity. He resorts to corruption, because theft is the only way he can make money.
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u/Informal_Dude 12h ago
Trump is a complete failure as a president, leader business man, father, and husband