The Trump name being removed in 2014 from the facade of
the
Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, which had gone
out of business. [Photo
Credit: Mark Makela / Reuters]
I note: RU are the first
two letters in spelling Russia. Ironic they still stand while Trump is being
taken down – simple analogy and maybe good metaphor, too? (But, I leave
that to history).
Now we wait for Trump to once again
call it “Fake News” from the “failing NY Times” – his shield against any criticism
and truth about him – in short, he cannot accept failure or honestly or
anything except being 1st place center stage in the limelight and
Goldberg nails that point precisely and I say with great concern: “America: We've been had, bigly.”
Enjoy the article – the
introduction is here:
“Donald Trump has failed at most things he’s tried to
do in life, with the crucial exception of selling himself as a success.”
“Consider his business record over the past thirty
years. In 1988, he bought Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel for over $400 million — at
the time an unprecedented sum for a hotel, according to The New York
Times. A few years later it was in bankruptcy protection. His casino company
went bust, dragging the economy of Atlantic City down with it. Trump Airlines failed; the president defaulted on
the loans he took out to buy it. Trump University was a con; he settled a lawsuit
over it for $25 million.”
“But as a self-marketer, Trump is peerless. He
convinced people that he was a self-made tycoon despite receiving at least $413
million in today’s dollars from his father, much of it, as The Times has
reported, through legally dubious tax dodges. He was cast a paragon of
business acumen on The Apprentice when most banks refused to lend to him. And then, to America’s enduring
disgrace, he was able to use his fictional reality-TV persona as a
steppingstone to the White House.”
Thanks for stopping
by – enjoy the rest of this fine article.
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