"Silver spoon babies are usually worthless, so it's impressive that Trump wasn't worthless."
Great, so now he's getting graded on a fukking curve.
And look at the Walton kids, the Koch kids, the Mars kids...plenty of silver spoon babies ended up WAY wealthier than Trump, as in an order of magnitude above him.
These are public companies with institutional shareholders not high end developers . Nice try ...
He agreed to star in a show that promoted Donald Trump, because his favorite activity in life is promoting Donald Trump. The show was being produced by the most successful reality show producer in history who pitched the show directly to him and offered to give him half the money - please don't make this more than it is. His name is on the show, but you know he didn't have crap to do with coming up with the idea or any of the actual workings of making it happen.
He said his agent said no
Yeah Mark had success but those shows weren't about business so it's a risk
One that paid off as it propelled his brand to a household name
and created other off shoots worldwide and indirectly Fathered the production of Shark Tank
Yes the japanese show already existed but it took The Apprentice to break the mould
More clout = more coverage = more gold memberships = licensing deals
but according to you Papa Trump gave him the connect on this too
I didn't say that it's BAD to make money off your name. It's just not a particularly impressive accomplishment.
Compared to what ?
Try putting licensing deals together then talk to me ... I've have and it aint what you think
Act like Trump's own assets didn't have massive volatility. Six major bankruptcies later....
900 million in debt and he told those bankers to kick rocks and he's still grinding....
There's broke ex-billionaires who haven't done that
And I didn't say that he "should have been in the S&P 500". I'm just pointing out that he didn't actually make an impressive growth on the enormous assets that his father had provided him with, especially with the enormous political connections he got as well. Of course he shouldn't have been in the S&P 500 - there he would have had to stand on his own two feet a lot more and not benefit from all the cronyism that got many of his most famous deals done.
See it's cool to throw shade but can you say if you were a wealthy son of a Clan member
You'd take your fathers money and try to outdo him in another borough? Develop golf courses ?
Not only that but make yourself into a celebrity/author too then a political candidate with your own pageant?
I can't.
So maybe you know better and are on your way to whatever you think is impressive in terms of sucess
Cronyism ? In competitive ass Manhattan where everybody got deep pockets ?
You think he hasn't been outbid by other developers you've never heard of ?
Nope. Everyday is a vacation....
Love to know. The world would love to know. But of course, those tax returns are a little bit too embarrassing to release...
Why ? so you can attack even further about how it aint impressive
It doesn't have to be about "morality". It's just not impressive when all your big early success came because of massive financial input from your father and only by exploiting major political connections that his father had given him, and then leveraging his name/wealth to power-play others for the rest of his career, until he gave up (few too many bankruptcies and failures, eh?) and started just selling the name and image alone.
I get that but show us who does impress you ?
While you are at it .... give us the aparthotels, high end developments, books and TV shows his father made
Yes, I should keep running an unprofitable business because I'm not a quitter!!!
I guess Blockbuster is impressive to you then
Besides his name and image, what's the great ongoing business success he's started in the last 30 years when he stopped feeding off his dad's NYC connections? Some golf courses that lose money? Meanwhile we watched Trump Airlines, Trump University, Trump Entertainment, about half-a-dozen billion-dollar "Trump" titled casinos and dozens of other "Trump" lines crash and burn. Thank American business law for having enough lawyers not to have to pay off your debts or your workers, otherwise he might still have negative net assets.
Getting his name to that point took shrewd moves.....
Whats the name Trump without Donald breh ?
The lawyers eat, workers eat , government eats off the taxes off of all that
so what's your beef with ?
The bankers funding his projects ?
You probably think the Robertson family would make good senators...I mean, they started a business in the 1970s and had a hit reality show too....
The only business turned politician I like is Bloomberg
He has experience
Actually, it's showing why there was a GOOD reason that this country was NOT founded as a democracy. A very large percentage of this nation doesn't know shyt about who can and can't run the country well. Our country has become far more democratic than it used to be, and that honestly hasn't been good for the quality of the politicians we produce.
You are all over the place .....is it OOchie Wally wally or One Mic ?
is this about the people or the bankers who deserve an ROI on their investment in Trump ?
- These Amerocacs are paranoid about muslims and yet blacks get executed by WHISIS cops everyday
- White boys are getting taken to the cleaners by beckies through child state robbery and the courts
- They are worried about mexicans taking their jobs and switching everything to Telemundo
- On top of being told they are patrichal rapists by crazy feminists and social justice warriors who want to police everything
- They don't like having a leader who doesn't look them who they think is beneath them
- They don't want their guns taken, they want to pay higher taxes for poorer whites/blacks
- They are the richest most wasteful and destructive race on this planet but everyone else is a threat
Be honest breh, if you was a billionaire with a shot at power ....would you pass up mirroring this sh!t ?