Many people who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election said they did so because he was a successful businessman.
They were half right.
He was a businessman alright, but if you’d been paying attention, there were plenty of better fitting adjectives to go around: unscrupulous, irresponsible, incompetent, crooked—and failed.
In 1990 Trump launched the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, which cost over a billion dollars to construct. He called it the “eighth wonder of the world,” and as he opened its doors he made the kind of wild, grandiose, pie-in-the-sky, too good to be true promises that became commonplace during the Presidential campaign and are now status quo in his presidency.
Hey may as well have stood there and said he was going to Make Atlantic City Great Again.
The casino closed in 2016.
He ended up bankrupting it, not once, but twice.
Trump has actually filled for bankruptcy several times.
Nearly a half a dozen times, he’s run a billion-dollar endeavor into the ground, leaving in his wake thousands of devastated employees and unpaid creditors and jumping ship without personal accountability of any kind. With each implosion, he’s shielded himself and his family, leaving everyone else to clean up his mess.
A Fortune.com story recounted that despite the Taj Mahal’s abject financial failure, Trump personally profited during its demise, by doing things like selling Trump-branded water—making himself over eighty million dollars as the casino slowly collapsed, its vendors going unremunerated, and its workers unceremonially discarded.
You might call all that being a successful businessman—or you might call it being a soulless parasite who feeds off things that were thriving, until those things are dead, and then moving on. And really, your definition is irrelevant, as regardless of the semantics, the bottom line remains unchanged: he is and has never been about making money for or lifting up anyone else. He didn’t give a damn about anyone associated with the Taj Mahal—and he doesn’t give a damn about you.
And this is the terrible history repeating itself right now. Donald Trump has neither the capacity nor the intelligence nor the aspiration to lead this nation, to honor its Constitution, to represent its citizens. He is not the least bit interested in people’s healthcare or their educations or their golden years. He couldn’t care less about morality or virtue or Christianity. He doesn’t lose sleep over disabled veterans or coal miners or single mother or suicidal teenagers. He has no interest in dignity or decency or nobility befitting the Office—not because, as his supporters say he is a “straight shooting Washington outsider”—but because America is nothing but another host to him.
As always, he is here solely to slap his name on something and to suck it all dry—and if your eyes are open you can see that he is doing that right now.
That’s the sick irony here: a guy who couldn’t run a casino in Atlantic City is now running the country. Unable to handle the complex responsibilities and manage the finances and solve the problems and do the work of overseeing a few hotels, he is now using this nation as a similar and doomed to fail vanity project; a way to build his brand and sell his chachkies and line his nest egg without caring how he does it.
I’m really sad how many Americans did so little research, how uninterested they were in his actual resume, and how easily they were duped (and still seemed to be) but his spit-shined snake oil sales pitch, which peddles only fool’s gold that will prove worthless.
Donald Trump will soon do to America what he did to the Taj Mahal. He’ll leave the former like he did the latter: bankrupt and crumbling, without giving a damn about the people whose lives he ruined or the suffering left in his wake.
I’m not okay with that—not at all.
I don’t think this country should wait until it simply becomes another hopelessly failed and beyond rescue business venture of a man who’s only allegiance is to himself.
We should fire him while we’re still able to recover.
We shouldn’t let him financially or morally bankrupt this nation
Apple has been sued hundreds of times and occasionally lost.
I guess Steve Jobs must have been a failure.
I guess Tim Cook must be a failure.
Each one of those men (including Bill Gates) made a ton of money for their companies and saw them grow to multi-national entities.
Please point out for me one company that Trump made, started, or ran that you can hold up as a success story.
You are a rtue idiot if you don't know what Trump's successes were:
Putting his fake name on buildings? If his name wasn't changed from Drumph he'd be cleaning streets
His name is on those buildings because he built them, you fucking moron.
Here you go ass kisser For your reading pleasure
How Trump has made millions by selling his name ...
www.washingtonpost.com › trump-worldwide-licensing
Jan 25, 2017 —
Trump licensed
his name to Talon International for the
Trump International Hotel and Tower Toronto. Since its 2012 opening, the
building has ...
When You See 'Trump' On A Building, It Might Not Be What ...
www.npr.org › sections › itsallpolitics › 2015/08/31 › are...
Aug 31, 2015 — Plenty of
buildings still boast Donald
Trump's name in Manhattan, ...
the years he's owned and
sold many of New York City's great
buildings, ...
Donald Trump's Real Secret To Riches: Create A Brand And ...
www.forbes.com › sites › steveolenski › 2015/11/24
Nov 24, 2015 —
Trump's name was on
the building, but he didn't own it. It belonged to Roger Khafif, who owned prime oceanfront real estate but couldn't get ...
Trump's Greatest Value, His Name, Erased from Yet Another ...
fortune.com › trump-place-votes-dump-trump-name
Oct 17, 2018 — Another
building will remove
Trump's name from
the facade, ...
Trump's Name Is Removed From
Trump Place,
the Latest Licensed Property ...
The company that completed
the project in which he held
a stake was
sold in 2005.