Let me begin with a personal disclosure - I will own up to having a long-standing dislike of Trump going to the mid-80’s when he burst onto the NY real estate market and was a shameless self-promoter. I thought he was a soulless, aggrandizing pompous ass then and he has done nothing to change my mind. When Trump seemed to fade away in the early 90’s as his empire crumbled, over $900 million in debt, and bankruptcy. I thought it was a clear repudiation of his failed business practices and I was happy to see him go away.
But somehow, to my great dismay, Trump re-injected himself into the mainstream playing himself on TV. In 1999 he began to inject himself into the world of politics – talking out of both sides of his mouth as he donated money to both Kerry and Bush. Since then his political contributions include questioning Obama’s birthplace and flip-flopping on issues. According to an article in Newsweek by Howard Kurtz.
“Trump declared in 2000 that “we must have universal health care”; now he says Obamacare is unconstitutional. He once pronounced himself “strongly pro-choice” but recently discovered that, guess what, he’s pro-life. Obama was “amazing” and “phenomenal,” Trump wrote in 2009; now, not so much. And while Newt Gingrich is branded an adulterer, Trump conducted a tabloid-frenzy affair with Marla Maples, the second of his three wives.”
While endorsing Romney, Trump claimed “ I have a great relationship, as you know, with the Tea Party folks. I mean, I love the Tea Party…..I have a great relationship with the entire Christian Coalition. I have amazing friendships in that whole group. And I love them and I respect them.”
What aspects of the Christian Coalition does Donald exemplify? Shouldn’t the Coalition be objecting to someone like Trump? Does anyone think Trump lives his life with Christian values - can we take any of this seriously?
The Tea Party and Donald? Exactly what points of convergence are there between Trump and the Tea Party. According to a story in the L.A. Times “top issues among the self-identified Tea Party followers are jobs/the economy and the exploding federal deficit.” Does anyone think Trump’s business practices of repeated bankruptcies hasn’t contributed to the federal deficit by fleecing banks? ABC News reports that Trump businesses have actually gone through Chapter 11 bankruptcy four times - in 1991, 1992, 2004 and most recently in 2009. Trump used the government and abused the system to further his own end.
www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-filed-bankruptcy-times/story?id=13419250#.Ty7KqsWXSRg
"I've used the laws of this country to pare debt. ... We'll have the company. We'll throw it into a chapter. We'll negotiate with the banks. We'll make a fantastic deal. You know, it's like on 'The Apprentice.' It's not personal. It's just business," Maybe that's part of what's wrong with the country - it's just business.
Doug Heller, the executive director of Consumer Watchdog, said Trump is the "most egregious, almost comical example" of the disparity between what the average American faces when going through bankruptcy and the "ease with which the very rich can move in and out of bankruptcy."
Lawrence O’Donnell of MNBC referred to Trump as "lying vulgarian" who inflates his wealth and embarks on garish rounds of self-promotion in order to boost the ratings for his show.
I think there should be more people willing to stand up and say the truth. Trump was running his mouth saying that he may be a presidential candidate - has being the President of the United States fallen so low that a huckster like Trump can be a credible candidate.
Trump Hotels& Casino Resorts, the publicly held firm, which owns gambling joints in Atlantic City and Indiana, has lost $170 million since 1996. Its stock, now trading at $6, has tumbled 83 percent from a high of $35 three years ago. The company, saddled with $2 billion in long-term debt, is often mocked by online sites like The Motley Fool and TheStreet.com. The website “thesmokinggun.com” found buried in a March 31 SEC filing that despite these financial woes, THCR has loaned Trump, the firm's chairman, a whopping $24.5 million and even gave the supposed billionaire an advance on his entire 1999 salary and expense account (another $1.5 million). www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/trump-and-crook-0
Self-aggrandizing blowhard – Donald Trump. Now if you want a symbol of what’s wrong with America – we can start there.
Self-aggrandizing blowhard – Donald Trump. Now if you want a symbol of what’s wrong with America – we can start there.
I don’t see Trump’s name up there but if you use the search engine from highly respected Google you can find plenty of stories about individuals who
have been royally screwed by Donald Trump.
or if you want to have some fun with it.
www.cracked.com/blog/10-stories-about-donald-trump-you-wont-believe-are-true/
I feel bad now knocking Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin in my last blog. Count Von Zeppelin was the inventor of the dirigible or "lighter-than-air aircraft" - kind of a hot air balloon if you like. We shouldn't have called them Zeppelins we should have called them "Trumps".
Oh, the humanity! And all the VOTERS screaming around here. I told you; it—I can't even talk to people, their friends are out there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen.
I feel bad now knocking Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin in my last blog. Count Von Zeppelin was the inventor of the dirigible or "lighter-than-air aircraft" - kind of a hot air balloon if you like. We shouldn't have called them Zeppelins we should have called them "Trumps".
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The Donald's hair DOES look like the plume of flame coming off the Hindenberg. Merely coincidence?...
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