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Yavin4

(35,443 posts)
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:07 PM Aug 2020

Has anyone eve heard Trump talk in detail about commercial Real Estate?

I mean an interview where he gets into the minutae about the industry or construction or architecture or anything that would indicate that he truly understands the business aside from getting loans from banks or declaring bankruptcy.

Like a walking tour of any of his "buildings" where he discusses challenges to building a sky scraper, handling the wind at great heights, an interesting design choice.

Sure, he talks in generalities about deals, but nothing specific. Nothing that makes you feel that he knows commercial real estate well.

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tanyev

(42,572 posts)
2. Mary said in her book that when she spent time at his office,
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:12 PM
Aug 2020

ostensibly to ghostwrite a book for him, she noticed he never did any real work. He would read all the newspaper and magazine articles about himself that somebody clipped for him and spend a lot of time gossiping on the phone, but no actual tasks that required knowledge and competence.

underpants

(182,836 posts)
8. That makes sense.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:43 PM
Aug 2020

From his “John Barron” days supplying gossip to the NY papers to, as was reported during the campaign, taping conversations with friends about their affairs and using the tapes to get their wives in bed.

When did this guy work?

spanone

(135,846 posts)
3. he's an ignorant bully. he doesn't have the capacity or the desire for minutia.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:13 PM
Aug 2020

he knows curtains and bed coverings....or so he says

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
6. I heard he once wanted to build
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:31 PM
Aug 2020

hotels on Park Place but didn't have enough houses to do it and didn't own Boardwalk.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
10. His hand-picked professors at Trump University knew it for him.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 10:42 PM
Aug 2020

His hand-picked professors at Trump University knew it for him.

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