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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump tells anecdote how useless "experts" are... SURPRISE! It was totally made-up.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/he-has-a-psychological-problem-21-club-owner-says-trump-made-up-anecdote-used-in-afghanistan-meeting/Speaking to his national security advisers, Trump reportedly explained Club 21 wasted a lot of money in the 80s when it hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation.
After a year, Trump said, the consultants only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen, NBC reported.
The clear message if you heard the story was: High-priced consultants, or high-priced anybody, expensive, supposedly big-brained people, but who are physically far from the source of the problem, often give you much worse advice than the supposedly low-ranking guys who are right there, a source told NBC.
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As it turns out, 21 did not close for a year. It shuttered for less than two months in 1987, and required no outside consulting. There was no consultant, Cogan told Page Six.
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Trump tells anecdote how useless "experts" are... SURPRISE! It was totally made-up. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Aug 2017
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canetoad
(17,088 posts)1. Does he hire architects?
Or just hire a bunch of builders to show up and put his buildings together from scratch?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)3. It's easy. Measure once, gild twice. nt
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)5. Oh that's good!
That's a double whammy!
genxlib
(5,506 posts)6. Yes he does
But I am not sure it counts when he doesn't pay.
https://m.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)2. He just can't stop himself from LYING
Orrex
(63,085 posts)4. It doesn't matter that the story is a complete lie
His drooling acolytes are suspicious of "experts," especially college-educated "experts," so the falsehood of the tale means nothing to them. They'll simply declare that their idiot god-king is only saying what everyone already knows, so what does it matter that the details are fudged a little?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)7. "Ha ha" - republicans enchanted with his* lies
* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino.