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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 1d ago
Deadass like. Holy shit he doesn’t understand anything lmfao
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u/Ali_Cat222 ☑️ 1d ago
IT WAS 6. NOT 1, NOT 4, BUT 6 DAMN CASINOS!!!
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u/Real_Life_Firbolg 1d ago
I think it was 6 businesses, 4 of which were casinos, the other 2 I think were a fake university and a steak company. Correct me if I am wrong please.
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u/StandardEgg6595 ☑️ 1d ago
The wildest part of the casino thing to me is that he was actually having success with the first one he opened. Because of that success he opened a few more and built them directly next to each other. So not only was he competing against other casinos, he was competing against his own businesses. I’m still convinced it was all a money laundering scheme.
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u/Odd_Philosophy_9171 1d ago
I believe you’re correct, how else do you fail in the money printing business?
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u/avantgardengnome 1d ago
Nope it was 6 casinos: 4 in Atlantic City, 1 in Gary Indiana, 1 in Coachella California. Trump has bankrupted more than 6 businesses lol.
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u/Real_Life_Firbolg 1d ago
Thanks for the correction, and yeah looks like he’s trying to run the country the same way he ran all those businesses, into the ground.
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u/cturtl808 1d ago
What?!?! I thought it was just the one in AC. Where were all the others?
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u/TechnoBabbles 1d ago
Idk, I kind of think that he's doing it on purpose. The president can't just say something, or implement the market to go up. But he can absolutely do something and make it go down. So, he's making these terrible economic decisions. But what if he's giving his rich cronies enough of a warning so that they can take short positions, or buy puts?
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u/Julian_Betterman 1d ago
According to his niece, Don stopped learning around middle school.
To learn something new would mean there was something he didn't already know. As a narcissist, that notion is unacceptable.
He really is just a dumb, malevolent child encased in sandstone-colored pleather.
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u/Fuzzy-hugger95 1d ago
Im not from US, so I have only seen what media and people have showcased me about the US, from a outsider perspective.
But hollywood and news cant romanitize the US no more for me. It's clearly a shit place. A country for the rich.
If a spoiled billionare from new york literally can cheat, lie, rape and do illegal shit all his way to presidency, with his only promise is;
"I will fix everything" no follow up questions and yet people blindly trust that man. Idk.
Doomed country.
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u/UrUrinousAnus 1d ago
Remember what sub you're in, too. It seems like the descendants of the people it once enslaved are the most likely to see it for what it is. That says a lot...
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u/ImperialWrath ☑️ 1d ago
One clarification: the billionaire must be a straight white male who passes for Christian for this to work.
No notes otherwise. This place is cooked.
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u/Sweetpeach_tea 1d ago
It’s more that’s he’s an open racist. The people who elected him are as well.
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u/PolecatXOXO 1d ago
It's about power. Industry leaders will be lining up to kiss the ring to carve out an exception for themselves.
Use your imagination what they'll offer in return.
Economically it is completely batshit crazy.
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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago
Yeah, authoritarianism sounds appealing to many people. They don't see how to get ahead in society, and they've been told socialism is bad, so they now think that wearing special clothes, shouting emphatically and appealing to just one person sounds like a nice simple way to get ahead.
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u/sec713 ☑️ 1d ago
What he's doing all makes complete sense if you assume he's a Russian asset.
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u/koviko ☑️ 23h ago
idr which senator said it, but they said something along the lines of, "If he was a Russian asset, would he have done anything differently than what he's already done?"
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u/westtexasbackpacker 22h ago
Yup. 100% key question. There are no tarrifs on Russia by the way.
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u/Bridalhat 20h ago
Or North Korea. But there are tariffs on House and Macdonald Islands, which are inhabited entirely by penguins and the occasional researcher.
It’s very clear this was done with chatGPT which makes it all even dumber.
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u/Kick_ball_change 16h ago
…and a psychopath. Which is why the Russians wanted to use him in the first place.
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u/HitWithTheTruth 1d ago
I don't think he's not smart enough for all that, but he has advisors and other smart people telling him to. He's a useful idiot and a conman, but he has smarter people do the conning.
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u/Noblesseux 1d ago
He doesn't have to be. He's not reading half of these orders. They're being drawn up by people like the heritage foundation and being put in front of him and he just kind of signs them.
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u/Sweet-Paramedic-4600 1d ago
It's insane that we literally witnessed his real time surprise at some of the shit he was signing.
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u/Noblesseux 1d ago
He's like openly happily joked about "breaking Raegan's score" for the number of heritage foundation policy suggestions signed into law in one term too.
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u/Sweet-Paramedic-4600 21h ago
I hate how out in the open it all is and the main people crying about deep states and secret cabals are either silent or think Trump and his sychophants are just owning libs
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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 20h ago edited 1h ago
What's so stupid is he's not signing anything into law. He's doing a bunch of Executive Orders. The very same Executive Orders that he and other Republicans says meant nothing and were attempts at power grabs when Obama did them because the Republicans refused to work with him.
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u/WeirdJack49 1d ago
Yeah but hes kinda gone to far. Project 2025 says that he should use tariffs as a tool to get what they want, not just randomly throw them out without a second thought. It also doesnt say anything about starting with your allies.
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u/Noblesseux 1d ago edited 21h ago
I mean this is a heritage foundation backed document, I can pretty much guarantee you that they're still daily showing up asking him to do new insane shit and he's enacting it because he doesn't have any ideas of his own. Like this is coming from the same organization that said we should basically delete USDOT and let the broke states in the middle of the country just not have roads.
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u/Bsteph21 23h ago
Just like his Trump coin. He is in an interview literally saying he doesn't know anything about it he just launched it. He's a puppet for people like Peter Navarro
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u/OptionWrong169 16h ago
Cut education
Destroy economy with trade war
People can't afford basic necessities
"Hey idiots look what the bad guys did to us"
Fascism installed
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u/Remarkable-Snow-9396 1d ago
Yea. He is definitely not reading them. I don’t even think he can read or at least doesn’t care too much Samantha bee made a whole skit about it
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u/Monster887 1d ago
Nail on the head right here. He’s just a puppet. That’s why he sounds so ignorant when he speaks. He doesn’t know how anything works because he’s always been handed everything on a silver platter. Now he just accepts the money in the suitcase along with the instruction letter and away he goes, spouting whatever or doing whatever was on the paper. He doesn’t care either. All he knows is that he’s getting rich by accepting bribes to do the elite’s bidding.
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u/AnObsidianButterfly 1d ago
Honestly, I think it's Putin giving him orders to destroy America as much as he can.
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u/Key-Web5678 1d ago
I think he's being played by advisors and other people so he gets assassinated and not them for putting in effect their plans.
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u/DownvoterManD 1d ago
Yeah, these decisions from the president are pretty much the Project 2025 plan, and it also lines up with the accelerationism ideals from Donny Dumpy's biggest donors: Peter Theil & Errant Musk. The entire administration consists of Project 2025 writers, and conservative sychophant pundits.
The whole point is destabilization, not economic embetterment.
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u/hoodTRONIK ☑️ 1d ago
yup. they want to throw everything into chaos, then privatize everything as a solution to the problem they created. we are doomed.
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u/worstpartyever 1d ago
This is one of the tenets of Project 2025 — privatize government services. Cronies are standing by ready to scoop up sectors at bargain-basement prices.
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u/RozRae 1d ago
I keep telling people. If Putin could tell the POTUS to do anything in his power to tank the USA as a country and reshuffle the world powers, how would it look different from what we're seeing now?
Even if the current POTUS has sincere motives and thinks he's doing the best he can for the nation, the actual outcomes look like Putin's Christmas wishlist.
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u/pornographic_realism 1d ago
I'm wondering when he will sell Puerto Rico to Russia for that fabled warm water port.
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u/Morganvegas 1d ago
I used to think this before the whole Signal fiasco.
That admin isn’t capable of hiding their insider trading from the SEC, they can’t hide top secret military operations from the media lmao.
I do think people are capable of planting seeds in old Donny’s head and seeing which ones bear the fruit they want.
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u/AdAwkward8091 1d ago
LMAO he is definitely doing it on purpose.
Their entire goal is to nuke the economy so him & his rich goons can buy everything for pennies on the dollar. They then privatize everything & with so many people out of work, they have no choice but to work for these assholes. When you realize & accept the fact that everything he does is to benefit Putin, this all makes sense. Nobody but Putin benefits from the U.S destabilizing. Nobody but Putin benefits from us fighting with NATO when he annexes Greenland. He’s Putins useful idiot & it’s clear as day. The Russians have some major dirt on him , I’m guessing something sexual when they gassed him up at the ‘miss universe’ pageant.
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u/ImperialWrath ☑️ 1d ago
Putin might not have any dirt at all, Trump's worldview is so utterly fucked that he genuinely admires people like Vlad who take what they want and have no problem walking upon a carpet of corpses to get it.
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u/AdAwkward8091 1d ago
That’s the other aspect too. He literally admires dictators for all the ruthless power they possess , so he has nothing negative to say about Putin. He’s been broke since forever , The Apprentice was all played up to make him look like a success. Before he went to Russia , no banks would lend him money. All of a sudden he came back from that pageant loaded. They bankrolled him & it’s really not that hard to piece together.
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u/Geminel 1d ago
You're getting a lot of opinions on his motivations here, but I think most of those are better attributed to the people around him. Yes, the impending economic disaster is going to allow a lot of rich-people to buy-up what remains on the cheap and secure their power, and strip-away any regulation that stands between them and furthering their profit margins off the blood of America.
This is what the likes of Peter Thiel and the ghouls who populate the Heritage Foundation are all after, alongside their 'glorious' White Christian Nationalist ethno-state.
I don't think Trump actually gives a single fuck about any of that. He just barks to their tune because they put him where he is. All he cares about, is that everyone is talking about Trump again. That he's doing things which will be recorded in history books; for better or worse. The division between fame and infamy broke-down for him decades ago and the only thing that matters to him is continuing to sate his own over-bloated ego.
Beyond that, as far as he's concerned he's following the same playbook he has all his life to get where he is: Branding.
Find something good, tear it down and attack it until it no longer functions, then replace it with a worse version that has your name on it. He's crafting a shitty Trump-Brand America to go alongside his shitty Trump-Brand steaks and fraudulent Trump-Brand school.
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u/Beneficial-Mine7741 1d ago
People who think Donald J Trump is playing 3D chess should be silenced and/or muted globally.
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u/todayistrumpday 1d ago
I swear there is video of Trump from January or February making a statement when the stock market had a big one day drop that all his rich friends were buying while stocks were down and making a lot of money so it is intentional. All his rich hedge fund friends are either selling short or buying the dip.
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u/Spiritual_Juice7537 23h ago
This is exactly what’s happening. And they aren’t quiet about it either. It’s called accelerationism. Their plan is to accelerate the down fall of the United States until the people are powerless and too caught up with their own issues (no education, no money, bills to pay, mouths to feed, hating the other parties) so they can reimplement their own new government. Tech CEOs are working behind the scenes with trump bc they want to start city states that they run themselves. And they all say this openly, on podcasts or interviews. They aren’t quiet about it but the chaos in the news is so distracting (exactly the point that Elon and trump are chaotic and distracting so we don’t focus on what’s actually happening) so we lose focus or simply never see what’s happening.
It’s insanity.
I know this seems like a conspiracy bc it sounds so surreal. But again, they aren’t quiet about their plans. None of them have been.
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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago
Exactly this. Trump made a profit from the casinos while fucking everyone else over. Some very submissive people (republicans) want him to do it to them, too.
Of course, he probably could have made a lot more money by developing a successful business. But I don't think he operates that way. I think he wants to know who's "losing" so he can feel like he's winning.
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u/Sillysolomon 1d ago
I called my dad earlier to see how his appointment went and we got to talking about Trumpito. My dad said he thinks the only word Trump knows is "tariff".
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u/Fugacity- 1d ago
We need a fucking trade deficit to maintain the USD as the global reserve currency. If we don't have one, there won't be enough dollars in the global system to execute trade between other countries. Called Triffin's paradox.
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u/CitizenLohaRune 1d ago
It is even worse than that: the list itself is all fake numbers. The tariff percentages on that chart are all based on trade deficits, not on actual tariffs!!!
Trump is tariffing the world because most countries sell more products to america, then they buy.
His team took the value of each trade deficit, and then rounded down into a percentage.
This is pure insanity.
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u/Rude_Egg_6204 1d ago
Sounds like you are posting fake news!!
And those penguins on the Antarctic island have been ripping of the usa for years. They deserve high tariffs!!
At least they wears suits for the camera
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u/Poggystyle 1d ago
He does have lots of confidence though. You could call him the Confident Man. That's kinda long though.
How a about just Con Man. That feels right.
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u/TheHighSeasPirate 1d ago
It all makes sense when Putin controls Trump and Putin is trying to destroy America from within.
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u/WaitingForReplies 1d ago
He probably insisted the slots pay out more than they take in and told people the Casino would make tons more money that way.
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u/ThatInstance9520 1d ago
He actually does
The tarrifs will make the US stock market crash.
Just before leaving office Trump will buy those dirt cheap shares.
Then sell them once the market recovers after he is no longer president
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u/thudapofru 1d ago
It's amazing how many people think Trump doesn't know how anything works. He's an expert at cheating the system. Sure, he has not been successful in all his business endeavors, but he's not one of the wealthiest people in the world for nothing. I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing and I'm also pretty sure his interests don't align with most people's interests.
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u/Dontbelievethehype24 1d ago
He was just straight up money laundering and robbing those casinos like he's robbing the taxpayers now.
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u/ozbandi 1d ago
The Wharton School of Economics must be one shit educational institution.
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u/pornographic_realism 1d ago
His professors have gone on record saying he's one of the dumbest students they had.
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 1d ago
A trashed economy will end up hurting all the casinos. Maybe that's his plan.
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u/Independent_Low_7219 1d ago
I love how, with absolutely no context, everyone still knows exactly who he’s talking about.
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u/Western_Focus4902 1d ago
It’s fairly specific. Honestly couldn’t tell you any other person that owned a casino.
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u/ISuckAtFunny 1d ago
Moving to a tariff based tax and removing income tax benefits the wealthiest individuals and fucks the average consumer even more.
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor ☑️ 1d ago
Yup, it’s a regressive tax. They’ll also cut Medicaid while giving tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy again. They don’t give a damn about the working class people who voted for Trump.
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u/gasblowwin 1d ago
so there was a protest that was happening where people shared what would happen to them if medicaid got cut and all these people on FB came out to comment shit like “they’re not cutting medicaid retards😂😂” like just wait until it happens and they’re gonna cry about how biden was somehow behind this the whole time.
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u/Ghostman_Jack 1d ago
Nuh uh! Trump said it’s good so it means the average person is gonna do good! I’m very smart! Trunk said so and he’s like a business man! And even if it does hurt us. Well the liberals will hurt too so that’s good!
Hopefully obvious /s
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u/Sol-Blackguy 1d ago
It hasn't even been 3 months, holy shit
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u/JanGuillosThrowaway 1d ago
You can afford whiskey?
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u/Bigfamei 1d ago
After this not anymore. We better start re-watching seasons of Moonshiners.
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u/mylittlewedding 1d ago
He’s going to start giving us steak vouchers
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u/exgiexpcv 1d ago
Hell, even his professor at Wharton said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."
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u/spotty15 1d ago
He didn't bankrupt a casino tho.
He bankrupted MULTIPLE casinos. Plural.
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u/i_suckatjavascript 1d ago
It’s actually 6 casinos, not four like OP said.
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u/Unhappy_Waltz5834 1d ago
I think it’s technically five casinos. Taj Mahal in 1991, two other Atlantic City casinos in 1992, Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004, and finally Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009. The other was Plaza Hotel in NY in 1992.
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u/shawntitanNJ 1d ago
Never forget, he ripped off a ton of contractors building his casino, BEFORE he bankrupted it.
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u/weed_cutter 18h ago
He actually bankrupted 5 casino companies
- Trump Taj Mahol, 1991
- Trump Castle Hotel and Casino, 1992
- Trump Plaza Casino, 1992
- Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, 2004
- Trump Entertainment Resorts, a casino holding company, 2009
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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN ☑️ 1d ago
Remember that time top economists and senior military officials were like “Donald Trump is an extremely dangerous choice. Do not elect him” and uneducated white America was like “fuck y’all; we need him?” In a just world, only their social security payments would be adversely affected by this DOGE bullshit. How fucking stupid do you have to be to vote for a rapist, insurrectionist, wannabe dictator…for a second time. Fuck, I hate republicans.
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u/Ok-Description-4640 1d ago
When you realize he’s a Russian agent whose job is to destabilize the US, and possibly the west in general politically, economically, militarily, and diplomatically, it all makes sense. Along the way, you strip the government for parts and sell them off like Tony Soprano busting out a sporting goods store.
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u/DickweedMcGee 1d ago
He really is one of the most unskilled and undeserved ‘wealthy’ persons in the news.
He’s only ever been proven to be successful at two things:
1.) Being born to wealthy parentsand
2.) The Apprentice TV show - which is its own inside joke because the premise showcases managing employees/contestants via a Vitality Curve which is a management style that has been proven completely ineffective for skilled & educated workforces and is only marginally useful in less skilled labor like fast food service
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u/tails99 1d ago
Dude sold out his father's legacy of working class housing in Brooklyn, shifted to luxury condos in Manhattan for bankers, oligarchs, and money launderers, and hasn't built anything except fancy lawns in the last 15 years.
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u/flashmedallion 1d ago edited 15h ago
His father was running a scam and coordinating with the NY mayors office to milk subsidies on certain low income housing classifications.
When the press attention got too hot, suddenly Trump Sr took a step back from the business and the hot new story was his young up&coming property developer son ready to take over the empire.
Trump was an oblivious stooge in his father's con and then the con self-perpetuated ever since. Dude went through life thinking he was a top businessman but everything (including the casino deals, which were money laundering ops) could only go through with his father's signature on it up until he died.
One thing the Trump Family and Elon Musk both agree on is that the real way to get rich is off taxpayer money.
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u/SienkiewiczM 1d ago
The rapist in chief has Mark Burnett to thank for everything. He got to play a successful business man on well produced primetime TV show and that image stuck to so many people. Without the show his diminishing wealth would not have kept giving him publicity
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u/Derptholomue 1d ago
This podcast covers what happened as he built and destroyed his own casino business in Atlantic city.
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u/Sieve-Boy 1d ago
I'll just add this little tit bit in from the Land of Aus...
The idiot put tariffs on two uninhabited islands about 2,500 miles from Australia, islands close to Antarctica.
The islands are only visited maybe once every 3 years by the Australian Antarctic Expedition. There are no exports or imports from the island, no tourists visit the island. Nothing but penguins, the cold and an active volcano.
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u/new_handle 1d ago
And he was banned from operating casinos in Australia due to his connections with the mob.
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u/st3f-ping 1d ago
When all this blows over, Trump is dead, and U.S. politics have returned to the normal level of worshipping billionaires, I would love to see an honest book written about Trump's life. Not from a biographical or psychological point of view (although those might be interesting) but from a forensic accounting/counter espionage point of view.
I think that understanding why his casinos failed might be interesting: was it mismanagement? Or were they laundering money and going under was part of the scheme? I think there is so much of Trump's life that doesn't make sense without more information and I can't see that information getting to the public any time soon.
Like I said this is something for the future, assuming that we all get through this. For now stay strong my friends across the pond. Gain strength in knowing that any successful change has come about through people doing what they know is right without the knowledge that they would succeed.
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u/flashmedallion 1d ago
This will probably be interesting reading to you until that happens. A taster:
Michael Kruse: I’d like to start talking about Donald by talking about Fred Sr. and going back to the very beginning, to Jamaica Estates [the Queens neighborhood where Donald grew up]. What do people need to know? What should we know about Donald because of his father, because of that relationship?
Harry Hurt III: I ran into Fred at Coney Island, with his secretary-mistress, one day, and he usually went to a place called Gargiulo’s down in that area. But that was closed that day, and so I was with my researcher and we tailed them over to the original Nathan’s hot dog stand. Donald was flying somewhere at the time, and we overheard Fred wipe some mustard off his lip, like this here, and he said, “I hope his plane crashes.” And I looked at my researcher, and I said, “Did you hear what I just heard?” He said, “Yes, I did.” I said, “Well, that’s my man. That’s Fred. The apple don’t fall far from the tree.”
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u/st3f-ping 1d ago
Wow. Really interesting, particularly considering the date of the piece. Very much on the psychology/biography side of the space (with a little light financial info sprinkled in top). Not what I was thinking of but, as you said, "interesting reading until that happens."
Thanks for sharing.
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u/NickTButcher 1d ago
Dude is just a straight agent of chaos.
You remember those kids at school that were bad just for sake of being bad, that’s Trump and all the MAGAs are just the parents that enable his terrible behaviour
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u/fourpac 1d ago
He didn't bankrupt casinos because he's a poor businessman. Those casinos were specifically built as money laundering devices for organized crime. Trump was too stupid to keep a low profile and the SEC busted him and then all the mob money had to go elsewhere. That's why his casinos "went bankrupt."
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u/Kangarou ☑️ 1d ago
Somehow inherited all the racism (even added some of his own) but none of the business savvy from his father.
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u/PresstinHunts 1d ago
Ya'll should lookup the anti-Mohawk ads Donald put out in an effort to stop one of their new casinos from bankrupting him further. Scumbag 😮💨
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u/Sufficient-Squash428 1d ago
Meanwhile, MAGA walks around like nothing's going on ... till all this hits everybody.
3 months from now this MF going to be hated by them. Now, they still believe he's smart.
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u/Excellent-Hat5142 1d ago
He offloaded his debt onto said casinos, one at a time.
Each time the Casino would go bankrupt.
He killed Atlantic city.
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u/Neravy 1d ago
I really don’t think he’s as dumb as people make him out to be. He definitely knows what he’s doing and it’s definitely on purpose.
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u/Reasonable_Fee6893 1d ago
Exactly 👍🏽 and the ones who still believe this orange clown 🤡 is smart and business minded 🤷🏽♂️…SMDH
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u/HermesTundra 1d ago
Open casino
People give you free money
Somehow they keep coming back to do it again
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financial ruin
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u/raiderrash 1d ago
I’ve been thinking for years that there’s no way he manages his business or his money because if he did he’d be broke he’s too fucking stupid to manage anything
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u/thatguy420417 1d ago
That this fact wasn't hyped up more or even asked about during any election is mind boggling.
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u/JohnnyFartmacher 1d ago
Once you get past the headline there isn't a ton of meat to the story. Casinos go bankrupt just like any other business. Just because they facilitate gambling doesn't make them immune to market forces. He was focused in Atlantic City as well which was really on the downswing.
To me, the most egregious financial scheme he has been involved in was Trump Coin. That facilitates personal donations directly to Trump and fleeces the unknowledgeable who bought into it.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 1d ago
Atlantic City, NJ demolished his namesake casino right after his first term departure in 2021. Wise guys indeed.
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u/Wuntonsoup 1d ago
Everything that is happening now is like a fever dream. The amount of people I’ve met who have to think about how old they are since Covid is insane. And somehow this guy with a straight face can talk about Merit