2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm leaving DU!!! [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)On his stationery. On the front of his Trump hotels. He wants to make money off of it. That's all he cares about. Even his daughter sees this as an opportunity to make money off his campaign. She tweeted about her outfit after her speech last Thursday, trying to redirect followers over to her designer fashion website ("Shop Ivana's look!" .
Further, this brings back to the fore - what was said by his son Donald Junior (who denies it now) to John Kasich while trying to woo Kasich as a possible running mate. Pointing out that a President Trump's Vice President would be the most powerful VP in history - in charge of both domestic AND international affairs. Why? Because there are parts of the President's job that Trump doesn't want to do. (!?!!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??! I swear - that still floors me. Even writing it FLOORS me.) Remember what happened the last time we had a "most powerful VP in history?" His name was dick cheney, who also had a dim bulb mental-absentee "President" to partner with. And how'd THAT one work out?
And of course, Donald would be looking for all kinds of new ways to make money. Evidently the Russians are into him by hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and investments, because American banks don't want to deal with him anymore:
"I'll list off some facts.
1. All the other discussions of Trump's finances aside, his debt load has grown dramatically over the last year, from $350 million to $630 million. This is in just one year while his liquid assets have also decreased. Trump has been blackballed by all major US banks."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-putin-yes-it-s-really-a-thing
Hmmmm... no wonder he doesn't want to release his tax returns... George Will is probably right (for once).
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/george-will-trump-wont-release-tax-returns