Nicholas Kristof: The Black Eyes in Donald Trump’s Life

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/opinion/the-black-eyes-in-donald-trumps-life.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

The Black Eyes in Donald Trump’s Life

Nicholas Kristof
SEPT. 8, 2016


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There are now more than 20 books out about Trump, and while I can’t claim to have read them all — I am not a masochist! — I have waded through his life story so that you don’t have to. You’re welcome! As a reader service, here are highlights.

Donald attended the New York Military Academy, where he thrived despite a regrettable attempt to throw a smaller student out a second-floor window (this comes from one of the best of the biographies, the brand-new “Trump Revealed,” by a team from The Washington Post).

Enough of Trump’s youth; now let’s hurtle through his business career. After graduating from Wharton, Trump joined his dad’s real estate business and, er, worked his way up: At about the age of 25, he was named president of Trump Management.

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Whether in his youth, in his business career or in his personal life, Trump’s story is that of a shallow egoist who uses those around him.

Even as a child, he personified privilege and entitlement. In business, he proved a genius at marketing himself but grew his fortune more slowly than if he had put his wealth in a stock index fund. He made a mess of his personal life and has been repeatedly accused of racism, of cheating people, of lying, of stiffing charities.

His life is a vacuum of principle, and he never seems to have stood up for anything larger than himself.

Over seven decades, there’s one continuous theme to his life story: This is a narcissist who has no core. The lights are on, but no one’s home.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. He is the worst human a major party has ever nominated

He does not have a single redeeming feature. I would make sure he had nothing to do with my life, and warn everyone about him. Even his family.

[jaxind]

2. Unfortunately...

Unfortunately, if he were to become President (God forbid!), he would have everything to do with our lives!!

[world wide wally]

3. Would anybody in here even hang around with an asshole like Trump even if there were

No politics involved?

[Botany]

4. Good God in Butter ..... from the article

Enough of Trump’s youth; now let’s hurtle through his business career. After graduating from Wharton, Trump joined his dad’s real estate business and, er, worked his way up: At about the age of 25, he was named president of Trump Management.

Unfortunately, the Trumps seemed to have a policy in some properties of not renting to blacks. “I’m not allowed to rent” to black families, a Trump building superintendent reportedly explained at the time, adding that he was just doing “what my boss told me to do.”

If a black person did make it as far as filling out an application, it was coded — in some cases, “C” for “colored” — to make sure it was not accidentally approved. The Nixon administration sued the Trumps in 1973 for breaking anti-discrimination laws.