Originally Posted by
hongkonger
You must be confusing me with someone else. I was impressed by Obama but I always wondered whether his performance would match his rhetoric and I'm less than pleased.
Trump inherited his money. When you inherit billions and you can buy lots of real estate and toss money around wherever you like you are bound to have a few hits. He has had way more misses than hits and has declared bankruptcy 4 times. Many bankers and financiers will no longer work with him. He routinely skips out on his lawyer/banker/accountant fees just because he doesn't want to pay. He puts his name on things he has nothing to do with just to collect a fee and then when the project goes south he disclaims any responsibility and demands that his name be pulled off of it. He scammed people out of millions with "Trump University" with false claims of personal coaching and one-on-one time to middle-class suckers who paid tens of thousands to learn how to be a real estate mogul like Trump. He took over the USFL, which was once a real football league albeit not as good or as successful as the NFL, and made one terrible decision after another, and killed the league within a year. He turned his beauty pageant from a modest success into a spectacular failure. Whenever anyone questions his shady dealings and mismanagement, he simply walks away and never takes responsibility for anything. He fucks people over one after another. The only truly successful thing he's ever done was his TV show, which was based on the false premise that he is a successful businessman. He was set up from birth and good for him but he's a shady wheeler-dealer type, not someone who actually knows how to DO anything.
Listen, I know it's hard to conceptualize when you have had everything, I mean every job you have ever had, given to you by someone who has accomplished more than you, especially when you work for large multi-national conglomerates or work for a government in some capacity. Not having to risk anything and yet still climb a ladder of success that someone else built can be it's own burden to bear. In your example, Donald Trump seems to be the only billionaire to ever have failed. You want some more examples of people you would take it in the ass from if they offered it that have failed miserably and still came out ahead? Of course you don't because it turns your narrative into the flaming pile of fail which is every one of your arguments.
How about Richard Branson:
http://www.globalstrategicinnovation...id=196&lang=en
You would so hit your knees for Mark Cuban:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237843
Fuck it, here's 15 more:
http://www.dividend.com/how-to-inves...-billionaires/
No, seriously millionaires average rate of bankruptcy is 3.5 times:
http://facts.randomhistory.com/millionaires-facts.html
Keep collecting that paycheck working for someone elses dream, but never from this day forward EVER criticize those that sacrifice and invest to give pieces of shit like you a job.
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