Trump only claims one qualification for office (beyond the basic Constitutional minimum): being a successful businessman.
But he refuses to release his tax returns: the one thing that could prove his claim.
Because he is NOT a successful business man, he is a CON man.
Even his CASINO, the Taj Mahal, went bankrupt when all the casinos around it were thriving.
Anyone who can’t succeed in a business where “the house always wins” (while all his local competitors were and still are going strong) and literally failed at every legal thing he ever did in business (except money laundering), including six bankruptcies can hardly claim to be a successful business person.
Elizabeth Warren (former Harvard Law school professor of finance law who actually knows this stuff) calculated that if he had taken everything he got from Daddy (initial gift, loans that were never repaid and inheritance), not even factoring in the value of the free college education and networking connections, and just put it into a standard money-market account, he would have more wealth than what he achieved with all his supposedly amazing “artful” deals. And that was using 2016 figures BEFORE the New York Times revealed how much more his Daddy had given him throughout his life than we previously knew about.
Sadly….Very sadly….he settled for the ‘least’ possible gains he could have gotten from his business efforts. Trump will never be remembered in future years for all the benefit he was to the world at large. All people will think or talk about are the ways he connived and cheated his way to the top of the heap. Even the poorest person who donated his last $10 to Childfind etc.will be thought of with much greater pride.
What were the reasons behind Trumps lopsided thinking all those years? IMO, lack of self-esteem and self-worth. He has never loved himself or considered himself worthy…..of anything.
Yawn—-everyone likes to take aim at the rich. It’s just envy, watch the long lines to buy lottery tickets; folks trying to get rich! Do you take advantage of every tax loophole you can? They were created on purpose by Congress via the IRS, you know, to appease their wealthy contributors.
DD Wiz over 5 years ago
Trump only claims one qualification for office (beyond the basic Constitutional minimum): being a successful businessman.
But he refuses to release his tax returns: the one thing that could prove his claim.
Because he is NOT a successful business man, he is a CON man.
Even his CASINO, the Taj Mahal, went bankrupt when all the casinos around it were thriving.
Anyone who can’t succeed in a business where “the house always wins” (while all his local competitors were and still are going strong) and literally failed at every legal thing he ever did in business (except money laundering), including six bankruptcies can hardly claim to be a successful business person.
Elizabeth Warren (former Harvard Law school professor of finance law who actually knows this stuff) calculated that if he had taken everything he got from Daddy (initial gift, loans that were never repaid and inheritance), not even factoring in the value of the free college education and networking connections, and just put it into a standard money-market account, he would have more wealth than what he achieved with all his supposedly amazing “artful” deals. And that was using 2016 figures BEFORE the New York Times revealed how much more his Daddy had given him throughout his life than we previously knew about.
kfccanada over 5 years ago
Sadly….Very sadly….he settled for the ‘least’ possible gains he could have gotten from his business efforts. Trump will never be remembered in future years for all the benefit he was to the world at large. All people will think or talk about are the ways he connived and cheated his way to the top of the heap. Even the poorest person who donated his last $10 to Childfind etc.will be thought of with much greater pride.
What were the reasons behind Trumps lopsided thinking all those years? IMO, lack of self-esteem and self-worth. He has never loved himself or considered himself worthy…..of anything.
mourdac Premium Member over 5 years ago
Trump speaks with forked tongue.
William Bednar Premium Member over 5 years ago
He can sell himself to both ends of the Political spectrum, and still no one complains.
zippykatz over 5 years ago
Yawn—-everyone likes to take aim at the rich. It’s just envy, watch the long lines to buy lottery tickets; folks trying to get rich! Do you take advantage of every tax loophole you can? They were created on purpose by Congress via the IRS, you know, to appease their wealthy contributors.