2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Succinct Summary of Trump
Trump's basic game appears fairly simple. He asserts that he's successful with various conspicuous displays of wealth and power. This gets contractors and banks to do business with him. He then fleeces them and refuses to make payments in line with the economic value provided to him. That he's managed to create the appearance of success by doing this isn't genius. It's just deceptive. Michael Bloomberg was a far more successful businessman and started with modest means. He could buy Trump out without even thinking about it and he thinks Trump is an utter bullshit artist.
The key to pulling it off is having no sense of moral decency.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He's good at selling it as gold. Appeals to other peoples' greed. Dazzles them with his razzle-dazzle. He has the values of a crooked business man: that is, the only value is to win and make money and screw everyone else if you have to, to do it.
tblue37
(65,290 posts)all the trappings of wealth because God.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)When the 2000s came, the Iraq war came...people thought his opinion was still important. No one with common sense should have ever listened to him.
Henry Ford was rich too, and people listened to that shit. I've always had a problem with, just because someone is rich in this country, it makes them wiser. Too many...most?..of them know nothing of common humanity.
Skittles
(153,141 posts)I detest people who find him "entertaining" - the man is a narcissistic bully and a con man - WTF IS WRONG WITH people who find him "entertaining" ???
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)-Steph-
(409 posts)He's like the richest man in Qarth ...
with nothing in the vault.
Skittles
(153,141 posts)OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY