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Half a billion, not half a million.
This happened because Trump was making billions before he was the president as well. Him losing billions was just an episode that got all the media attention, he was making way more than he was losing. Go figure.
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I don't think this is true.
Whether he should be a businessman is a good question indeed. I don't know all the details with Trump, but what happens in other countries is that the guy who becomes the president gives away all power it has in his former businesses - at least for the duration of the presidency. I think the same might have happened with Trump. If so, this news about Trump's businesses doing well is a story of Trump's former businesses, now controlled by someone else (children? either that or some trust) doing well.
The media who were constantly talking about how Trump is a terrible businessman appear to have hoisted on their own petard, because his businesses evidently continue going along just fine.
Look, I think you are playing it hard and fast and the above is mostly untrue. I don't know whether it is untrue, but I don't see anything that would make me go "yeah", all I see is unsubstantiated - so far - stories. There is a document on the previous page with the exact sources for the 400+ million (close to 450). If you could check it out and say something specific about the major sources, that would perhaps work better.
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I understand it, of course. Are you saying that Trump has probably been accumulating debt and we just don't know, so he is still a bad businessman even with big income?
Yeah....if you forget all the ones that have crashed and burned and his debts.
You could say the same thing about doctors fresh out of medical school. They are doing just fine if you ignore the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars of debt.
Seriously, you can't go "well if you only look at his successes and not the myriad of failures, he looks fucking great."
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Haha, okay, Trump University is totally unsubstantiated and doesn't have multiple lawsuits Trump's way because of it. He totally didn't have multiple failing casinos. Trump steaks is still going strong, his charity is much better, and more thrive-ier (yes, I know that's not a word, but it sounds like something Trump would say) than KKKillery's, he totally didn't have a fire in his hotel where a sprinkler system didn't work, he always pays every employee or anyone that has ever done anything for him, and every bank ever loves giving him money.
You're right, all of those are figments of MSM's imagination and it's all the deep state that made those up. If it wasn't for the oranges of the investigation all of those businesses would be the thrive-iest.
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Yes, if I forget all the ones that have crashed and burned. Crashing and burning is normal in business. You are measured by what has survived. For real, I am not saying it because I want to play a contrarian, this is how it really is.
I have no idea about his debts, that's true. Can you share any info on that? Yes, this could change things, but what's the info, what are we talking about?
If you are referring to the loss of 1.1 billion tens of years ago, he was doing way more than just losing money and his net worth when he was becoming president was estimated to be 3.5 billion, IIRC. Pointing to this loss and saying "yeah, this is a bad businessman" is just childish, the loss does not show anything like that. (And by the way, the decade was a boom in other markets than he was in. Real estate was losing money big, he was by far not the only loser there. Again, go figure.)
Nah, we know why you're saying it Ivan.
Even discounting Trump's outright failures, the fact that if his public statements are to be believed (they aren't) he has made less money trying to invest his money than he would have done by just letting it accrue interest should be damning enough in of itself.
There's no version of this story where Trump isn't an idiot with inherited wealth.
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Yeah, he was losing money when everyone else was making it rain. That's even worse, lol.
I also doubt that considering he lies to inflate his value.and his net worth when he was becoming president was estimated to be 3.5 billion, IIRC.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Welp, here's some more stupidity from Trump and what he wants from the wall. No longer will it be a solar wall, but now it must be painted black and have pointed tips, have less openings, the openings be smaller, and must be as tall as possible (let's not forget when he said only Mexicans that could get over would have to be Olympic pole vaulters.)
Apparently Trump is taking his wall aesthetics from the first Horde. Spikes. EVERYWHERE! Very menacing. Such black. Wow! Some orcs, I assume, are good on both sides.One design Trump panned, according to a former official, was topped by a rounded, barrel-like metal cylinder to prevent climbing. Approved barrier designs include a flat-panel anti-climbing surface that has been field-tested, but the president doesn’t like the way it looks either, arguing that sharp spikes would appear more intimidating.
Trump told one group of aides that the metal points would cut the hands of climbers and function as a more effective deterrent.
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http://fortune.com/2017/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/
https://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9248963...ump-index-fund
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/do...her-2017-04-06
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katesta.../#23645263437b
This has been common knowledge for years now. Try to keep up.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Thanks, I will check it out.
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Yeah, OK, no, that's mostly nothing. This "comparison" is a bogus one, it all hinges on the measurement period being awfully long. You just cannot measure like that, if you do, a lot of well-operated businesses will look underperforming. You have to measure saner periods and saner scopes (parts of businesses), otherwise garbage in garbage out.
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Nobody believed Trump was going to make a solar Wall. Especially not Trump. He just wanted something to taunt the Democrats with, so he came up with a stupid unbelievable lie. Not even the rabid fanbase believed it.
But I'll give him credit, "smaller openings" makes sense. Sense...sense...hmm. What rhymes with "sense"? OH WAIT it's "fence" isn't it? Pretty sure Walls don't need smaller openings, because they're called doors and windows.
Also, let's not forget, he's redesigning the thing and he's already past halftime. For someone who claims he could build the best Walls, that's sure a lot of Wall he's not building. This sounds like delegation from someone who we know for a fact watches Game of Thrones Memes. At least the spikey bits makes sense when you're dismantling a missile defense system to use as makeshift scrap metal (exaggeration).
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