The New York Times reviewed Trump’s business ventures over the recent past. Each was announced as the biggest, the best, the greatest, the most.
Hype, spin, lies. Like his promises to being back jobs lost to automation or to countries where workers make a few dollars a day.
“When Donald J. Trump unveiled his new online travel booking venture, GoTrump.com, he said in a promotional video in 2006 that customers would “love everything I put on this site.” “There’s nobody better,” he added. “There’s nobody even close!”
“A few months later, ground was broken for Trump Tower Tampa, a project he said would “redefine both Tampa’s skyline and the market’s expectations of luxurious condominium living.”
“And when he signed a long-term deal with the fledgling U.S. Pro Golf Tour that summer to become a partner on a new championship series, he proclaimed that “there is no doubt the talent level is among the highest in the world.”
“The travel venture never took off. The tower in Tampa, Fla., was not built. And the golf championships? Mr. Trump withdrew as the tour fell apart.
“Moving past a disastrous period that led to a loss on paper of more than $900 million — possibly freeing him from federal income taxes for years — Mr. Trump became a one-man factory of big ideas, churning out a constant stream of projects and promises. Together they fed the image of Mr. Trump as an American Midas, the foundation of his argument for why he would make a great president.”
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I HOPE that everyone saw the FRONTLINE show, 2 hours, that was biographical in nature of both Hillary and Trump. Also there have been on the Democracy Now TV show reporters who have followed Trump for years that have some VERY unflattering things to say about him and also yesterday retired colonel Bacevich gave his analysis of both Hillary and Trump also on Democracy Now. If you missed it you may still possibly watch it by typing in yesterday’s date on its website. I did not check it out today but it is well worth watching, Hillary or Trump supporters, both, Bacevich has written a book about the mid east. His analysis on Democracy Now was enlightening to say the least.
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Trump has a flier out where he claims all public schools are failing. I got one in my mailbox.
He sounds exactly like everyone in the Obama Administration.
When did it become so fashionable for politicians to parachute into these states and proclaim that all the public schools are failing? Has Donald Trump ever entered an Ohio public school?
I’m planning on sending him a flier to tell him his casinos are failing. He should get right on that or someone’s going to repossess that stupid plane.
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Casino Reform! CWFA – Casino Workers For America. Where’s Michelle when she’s needed?
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The NY Times is as crooked as Hillary.
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Jimmy, I agree. Neither the New York Times nor Hillary is crooked.
Trump is a major league con man, film-flam artist, and grifter.
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You care to offer some proof or do you just throw stuff out there and hope the ignorant Donald fans will believe it?
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Like and agree!
For Robert W: Judith Miller is all I have to say. Well, maybe add in their “education” coverage.
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BREAKING Olympia, WA: High court orders $100,000 per day fine to continue in McCleary school-funding case
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In his most recent speeches the past few days, Trump is even more rambling, incoherent and scatterbrained than his usual self. Is he reaching mental exhaustion or is he on some kind of medication (s)? Hopefully this man will not make it to the White House. This is not the time to make some kind of protest vote or vote for Jill. As for Gary Johnson, please look at his record as governor……pure Koch brothers crap. Privatizing the prisons, deregulating mania, lowering taxes on the rich, trying to privatize the schools. Libertarianism is just a different version of Republicanism and Tea Party ideology.
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A more interesting debate would have been Pence against Trump, as they seem to disagree on quite a bit. One talking head suggested Pence is throwing Trump under the bus to save his own career and concedes Trump will lose.
I read a CNN article summarizing Trump supporters in Florida. Basically, retirees in gated communities on Social Security or pensions telling everyone else they need to cut back to decrease the debt. As long as the retirees are not affected, of course.
The latest has Ohio turning blue. Finally, maybe people here are realizing they should stop voting against their own interests.
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For those who support him, it’s not Trump the man, but the ideas he has come to represent in peoples imagination, that has staying power. No matter how many perfectly reasoned points are made that detail all the different ways he is an idiot, his spell-bound supporters still cling to the fantasy that this self loving egotist will save us from life’s complexities.
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Jonathan,
Trump appeals to people who think he can turn back the clock to the world of the 1950s: no racial integration: women knew their place; less income inequality; no multiculturalism; lots of jobs; no outsourcing or automation. He can’t and he won’t.
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and somehow, magically, he can make the massive problems attached to the reality of overpopulation and climate change….disappear.
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I agree. I think that many people (maybe on some level all of us) have an aversion to the complexities inherent in life. Certainly Trump does.
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Jonathan,
Sadly, in this election, Trump supporters are not moved by any revelations about his business failures, his moral defects, his lies, his infidelities, his lack of any knowledge of government, his dodging taxes. He has promised a return to the days of white Christian supremacy, with a wink and a nod. The rest doesn’t matter.
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yup.
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You have watch MAD MEN nuf said
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I talked to a Evangelical preacher in West Virginia last weekend. He said he supported Trump because he felt Trump would be better at tackling terrorism and all the strife in the world. He’s a veteran also.
#ImWithHer
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The toxic lure of the death and destruction machine in cahoots with the xtian “preachers” = patriotism, oops I mean, nationalism.
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From what numbers we have, 900 million, 500 million in income from his statement to run this year. That would be TWO (2) years of not paying taxes.
The tax thing is NOTHING anyways.
Hillary got paid from companies that lost 900 BILLION B not M
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