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Thursday morning, Morning Joe took a few moments out of their busy Hillary-bashing routine to interview Bloomberg Business writer Max Abelson, whom one of the Morning Joe idiots introduced as a Wall Street Journal writer, since his beat is Wall Street.
Abelson endeavors to bring his readers inside the Trumpian empire and explain "How Trump invented Trump." None of the people at Morning Joe, who were too preoccupied with their anti-Hillary jihad, had read the piece or were in the slightest bit interested in it or Abelson. The piece happens to be quite revelatory about the Republican Party presidential front-runner who keeps making outlandish claims about himself, his wealth and his business acumen. Ableson discussed business with him, not politics. "After all," he writes, "thats his central qualification for the job hes seeking."
When he asks Trump to name a business leader he looks to for advice on managing his company, Trump says, "Me." Does he admire anyone else? "I don't like the word admire," he says. Abelson comes to the conclusion that you can't take Trump's boasts about his empire literally, which seems to me a polite way of confirming that the man is a compulsive liar.
Im the biggest developer in New York, by far, he told Larry King in 1999. Im the biggest developer in New York, and Im not looking for additional work, he told the New York Post in 2003. My names Donald Trump, and Im the largest real estate developer in New York, he said in 2004s Apprentice pilot, introducing himself in a limo. Here I am, the biggest developer in New York, he told a reporter from Scotland in 2007. The greatest builder is me, and I would build the greatest wall you have ever seen, he said this May, invoking his plan for Mexicos border at a speech in South Carolina. He pointed at his chest while rolling his head around. The crowd went wild.
Trump isnt the biggest New York developer. He isnt really a skyscraper developer anymore, and he hasnt been for years. He put up huge buildings and casinos, borrowed to do it, nearly wiped out, came back as a brand name that often needed bigger partners, was smacked by the financial crisis when he tried to again take massive risks, and ended up with a profitable business anyway.
The lesson from the 150-story building he craved is the same one you get from stepping inside the company. Its not the hugest in the whole world, and its not what it was supposed to be, but its something. And, like his politics, it can seem much, much bigger than it is.
Trump has crushed his presidential competition by presenting himself as the finest businessman ever to don a suit. Will his careers blemishes hurt him? Could Americans who love the great, amazing, terrific, perfect version of Trump accept the flawed one? In his office, he tells me that someone said the cool thing about his race to be the leader of the free world is that if he loses he gets to go back to being Donald Trump again-- only an even vaster version.
So win, lose, or draw, Im glad I did it, he says. Although its too early to say that yet.
Trump isnt the biggest New York developer. He isnt really a skyscraper developer anymore, and he hasnt been for years. He put up huge buildings and casinos, borrowed to do it, nearly wiped out, came back as a brand name that often needed bigger partners, was smacked by the financial crisis when he tried to again take massive risks, and ended up with a profitable business anyway.
The lesson from the 150-story building he craved is the same one you get from stepping inside the company. Its not the hugest in the whole world, and its not what it was supposed to be, but its something. And, like his politics, it can seem much, much bigger than it is.
Trump has crushed his presidential competition by presenting himself as the finest businessman ever to don a suit. Will his careers blemishes hurt him? Could Americans who love the great, amazing, terrific, perfect version of Trump accept the flawed one? In his office, he tells me that someone said the cool thing about his race to be the leader of the free world is that if he loses he gets to go back to being Donald Trump again-- only an even vaster version.
So win, lose, or draw, Im glad I did it, he says. Although its too early to say that yet.
Last year his company's revenue was $605 million, a relatively small company with a profit of around $300 million. "{F}or purposes of comparison," writes Abelson, the Trumpian empire is "roughly the size of a company called NN, based in Johnson City, Tenn., which produces tiny steel balls."
Read more: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/09/trump-like-cockroach-under-magnifying.html
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Trump-- Like A Cockroach Under A Magnifying Class (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 2015
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Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)1. Just another blowhard whose ego outweighs his assets.
And by assets, I'm referring to more than just his monetary worth.