So now we know for certain why so many people had to die

[Major Nikon]

Trump was and still is looking at the biggest bankruptcy of his entire life. He owes about as much as his assets are worth, and being in the hotel and resort industry he relies heavily on people traveling. Without people traveling his finances which were already shaky to begin with are now swirling the bowl. He's on the verge of losing virtually everything and with so much of his own money on the line this isn't other people's money, it's his this time.

So what does he do? He pretends COVID is overstated, that it's not a real threat, that people can go back to business as usual and more importantly he can start making money. He does all of this while knowing he is dead wrong in very much the literal sense.

You have to look pretty hard to find anyone in history that was fully willing to sacrifice that many people in the interest of their own greed. That's some high level evil shit right there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sounds plausible to me. High level evil shit indeed. n/t

[torius]

2. Is this why Florida reopened too early?

MAGA-lago?

[Major Nikon]

3. We now know exactly what was going on

Prior to the Apprentice, Trump was very quickly going broke. During the Apprentice he used the associated fame to sell licensing deals to basically anyone who would give him money for his name, including scumbags like Trump "University" and very questionable people in Russia and others. He was putting his name on Vodka, Chinese made clothing lines, mattresses, and all sorts of other crap. No licensing deal was too small for him to accept.

All of this the licensing and Apprentice revenue was netting him a lot of money, but by 2011 the Apprentice ratings were falling and so were his revenue streams. And what did he do with all that money? He invested in golf courses that have yet to make any money and much of his debt is coming due. He's already mortgaged $100M of Trump tower, another $100m from other properties, and he sold another $100m in stocks and bonds.

This isn't the portrait of a successful billionaire. This is the portrait of a loser and a con man, only held together with smoke and mirrors.

So yeah, all of his COVID denial is about him making money and keep himself from a disastrous personal bankruptcy. Ironically had he done the right thing from the beginning, we could be on the backside of this thing and his businesses would be better for it.

[steve2470]

4. good analysis, I agree totally nt

[DanieRains]

5. If We Open Up Completely The People Who Live May Want To Golf At His Resorts

And the rest, well, they can't get everyone in their vicinity tested 3 times a day like Trump can.

1 + 1 = 2

[Cha]

6. Excellent POINTS!! KR! TY!

[BigmanPigman]

7. And yet, his cult would still give their last cent to him.

before they die of Covid that is. People who choose to remain this ignorant get what they deserve, the rest of us DO NOT!

FAKE genius businsessman, genuine con man...a sucker is born every minute.

[Sloumeau]

8. I was thinking the exact same thing after his taxes were released.

Trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars and his assets, such as his golf courses, his hotels, and his office space, all depend upon business not being frozen by COVID. This is why from the very beginning he was in love with the idea of herd immunity and of downplaying the virus. I could not understand why Trump did not do more to help eliminate the virus when I eventually realized that early on he decided his best play was to pretend the virus was not a threat in the hopes that his businesses would keep taking in money. This is why all Presidents should divest all of their investments when they become President--to remove the conflict of interest.

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R

[speaknow]

10. How's this one.

He showed loss to hide money off shore.
Money missing just about every where.
Where did it go, maybe off shore. I would guess
he dumped money in swiss banks Panama Banks
any where he could hide it, even in Bit coin.
What do you think Putin does with all the
money he steals, puts it every where to hide it.
They all do the same. As far as the Virus, he
has no empathy so he does not give a rats ass
what happens, because we are not "His People"

[Major Nikon]

13. I'm not sure he would even need to hide money off shore

Trump was doing what Trump does. He was just making shit up for exemptions so he could show no income.

The worst of it is had he not become President or he was able to hide his tax returns, he probably would have gotten away with most of it. But now he's going to be under a microscope from now on. Everyone is going to question every penny he didn't pay taxes on and he's not going to be able to run away from it.

Even if he doesn't go to jail for tax evasion, which he should. He is still looking at massive bills going back to the IRS. Either way this is going to break him.

[Earthshine2]

11. "while knowing he is dead wrong in very much the literal sense" -- perhaps not

Mary Trump says he suffers from "Toxic Positivity." Basically, if he wants something to be true, he just repeats it verbally, and it literally becomes his reality.

He fully expected COVID to go away simply by ignoring it, even though he is on Woodward's tape describing his full understanding of the virus.

This toxic positivity reminds me of the garbage that Oprah was peddling in that book The Secret, which describes how to manifest a personal reality of one's own choosing. From what I could tell, it only worked for Oprah.

[Major Nikon]

14. He admitted to Bob Woodward he knew it was wrong

I'm convinced Trump is a complete psychopath. It doesn't really matter to him if it's true or not and he sure doesn't care about any of the deaths. The one thing that's not true he's managed to convince himself of is he's always the smartest guy in the room and everyone else is stupid enough to believe whatever he says. In the case of his cult members, that much is true.

[Earthshine2]

15. Everything you say is true. But, he has additional reality delusions beyond psychopathy.

To him -- He thinks it, therefore it is.

[hkp11]

12. that makes sense

He also has used US to make money - by having secret service having to pay to stay at his hotels, making money however he can from our taxes!! His family grifters doing the same thing. Covid-19 was screwing his re-election bid - his Drumpters buying his hats, etc for his re-election and getting more donors. He was cooped up in the WH and wanted rallies where he could sell himself and his re-election products to make $$$ - and get coverage on faux news to gain more $$$.

[wsbradshaw]

16. Kurds

It might also explain why so many Kurds were left to die at the hands of the Turks.

[Blue Owl]

17. The more I think about it, the more plausible it seems

However, I don't think he ever took pandemics as a serious threat to begin with, given that he dissolved the CDC in his first year and did nothing to try and rebuild it. He knows nothing about them or how to manage them...

[BlueWavePsych]

18. Drumpf thanks you for your sacrifice.