Team Trump v/s Everyone

[UNI88]

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.

Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House.

A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.

[UNI88]

[kalm]

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.

Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House.

A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.

He’s only ever been good at two things. Relentless self promotion and conning. A recipe for political success in a country below average literacy rates (OECD).

[Caribbean Hen]

Chang and End sound like they are posting from the psychiatrist office .... from the sofa

[kalm]

Chang and End sound like they are posting from the psychiatrist office .... from the sofa

Even after a bad week on trade policy, violations of individual rights, and a volatile market….here you still are…

[houndawg]

Chang and End sound like they are posting from the psychiatrist office .... from the sofa

Even after a bad week on trade policy, violations of individual rights, and a volatile market….here you still are…

indeed.....here he still is....Joe Stalin's Hen

[kalm]

The government is clearly in contempt and someone should be jailed until he’s brought home. I’d start with Bondi or Rubio.

[UNI88]

SignalGate: Trump’s team of sycophants is a cluster suck

In case you haven’t noticed, there is no bottom to the incompetence, lack of accountability and absurd chaos of the Trump administration. Every one of Trump’s cabinet picks are (A) completely unqualified (2) have a death wish for the department they’re heading or (C) both.

They all have three other things in common: Sycophancy. Complete sycophancy. So much sycophancy.

King Trump looks like a whale covered in sucky sycophant barnacles. (No disrespect to whales and sucky sycophant barnacles. Just a random reference.)

[UNI88]

In an Easter post, Trump said the businessmen who've criticized his tariffs are bad at both business and politics

"THE BUSINESSMEN WHO CRITICIZE TARIFFS ARE BAD AT BUSINESS, BUT REALLY BAD AT POLITICS," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Easter Sunday.

"THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND OR REALIZE THAT I AM THE GREATEST FRIEND THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM HAS EVER HAD!" Trump added.

trump reportedly inherited at least $413 million and Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.1 billion. That's about a 7.5% return since 1993 when the S&P 500 has return over 10% in that time.

Mark Cuban started with almost nothing and Forbes estimates his net worth at $5.7 billion.

Cuban is better at business than trump.

[BDKJMU]

SignalGate: Trump’s team of sycophants is a cluster suck

In case you haven’t noticed, there is no bottom to the incompetence, lack of accountability and absurd chaos of the Trump administration. Every one of Trump’s cabinet picks are (A) completely unqualified (2) have a death wish for the department they’re heading or (C) both.

They all have three other things in common: Sycophancy. Complete sycophancy. So much sycophancy.

King Trump looks like a whale covered in sucky sycophant barnacles. (No disrespect to whales and sucky sycophant barnacles. Just a random reference.)

Lol stopped reading right there. To say all 15 (or 25 if you include the cabinet level postions) are unqualified if just There‘s a number of them that are clearly qualified and some had bipartisan support.

[UNI88]

SignalGate: Trump’s team of sycophants is a cluster suck

Lol stopped reading right there. To say all 15 (or 25 if you include the cabinet level postions) are unqualified if just There‘s a number of them that are clearly qualified and some had bipartisan support.

Do you stop reading/listening whenever trump or his MAQA yahoo sycophants engage in hyperbole/trolling too? Or just when people who don't like him do it?

[BDKJMU]

Lol stopped reading right there. To say all 15 (or 25 if you include the cabinet level postions) are unqualified if just There‘s a number of them that are clearly qualified and some had bipartisan support.

Do you stop reading/listening whenever trump or his MAQA yahoo sycophants engage in hyperbole/trolling too? Or just when people who don't like him do it?

No, just when it’s clearly a garbage hit piece from a butthurt TDS lib.

[UNI88]

Do you stop reading/listening whenever trump or his MAQA yahoo sycophants engage in hyperbole/trolling too? Or just when people who don't like him do it?

No, just when it’s clearly a garbage piece from a butthurt TDS lib.

That doesn't stop you from reading the garbage pieces from end wokeness, catturd, elon musk, and other butthurt rightwing radical extremists.

[UNI88]

Trump Can’t Say It Out Loud, but He Really Doesn’t Like the First Amendment

What he doesn’t say overtly is that he’d really like to silence anyone who doesn’t say nice things about him. The list of offenders ranges from cable news networks MSNBC and CNN to professors at elite academic institutions like Harvard University, hiding behind the frequent lament that what they’re doing and saying is “bad for our country,” when, in fact, it’s really just bad for Trump. Or more accurately, it just hurts his feelings.

Given that the GOP has spent a long time railing, with some justification, about constraints placed on free speech by the “woke left,” an impartial observer might conclude they would recognize the hypocrisy in trying to stifle voices that criticize Trump. But no, the adhesive of this second Trump presidency has been the decision to rectify a first-term oversight by surrounding himself with a team that, once made aware of what their boss wants, tries to retrofit policy positions that will mollify him, sorting out the legal ramifications (and there have been a lot of those) later.

The Trump team’s assault on the First Amendment has thus become a focal point of several recent controversies, including efforts to force press institutions to knuckle under to administration demands because Trump was displeased with their coverage.

Poor, poor lil' donny snowflake and his fragile ego.

[SeattleGriz]

Team Trump sure is making douchebags cry. That's why we are seeing the unraveling of Uni St Behar and Klan. Bitter, angry, butthurt replies.

Despite their stochastic terrorism, we will prevail.

[UNI88]

Was This White House Press Release Written by “The Onion”?

“On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science,” the statement declared of an administration that has cut so much funding for science that 75 percent of 1,200 scientists responding to a survey by the journal Nature said they were considering leaving the country. The Trump administration has also laid off thousands of researchers, sidelined climate research, frozen all new grants from the National Science Foundation, appointed noted anti-scientific kooks who praise discredited measles treatments, and reportedly plans to completely eliminate the EPA’s science and research arm.

[Bobcat]

Team Trump sure is making douchebags cry. That's why we are seeing the unraveling of Uni St Behar and Klan. Bitter, angry, butthurt replies.

Despite their stochastic terrorism, we will prevail.

True, history has taught us many thing but the most important is that there isn't ONE liberal idea that have ever been applied or won over public thought. They have to force their ideas on you because their is no logic behind it and nobody wants it. Then you have to spend more money to wake it work when everyone knows it wouldn't work before hand.

Visionary, like Musk

[BDKJMU]

Team Trump sure is making douchebags cry. That's why we are seeing the unraveling of Uni St Behar and Klan. Bitter, angry, butthurt replies.

Despite their stochastic terrorism, we will prevail.

[Bobcat]

Team Trump sure is making douchebags cry. That's why we are seeing the unraveling of Uni St Behar and Klan. Bitter, angry, butthurt replies.

Despite their stochastic terrorism, we will prevail.

They are going back!

They lied again

[UNI88]

The trump/MAQA yahoo playbook:

1. Control the flow of damaging information.
2. Drown out scandals with relentless distraction.
3. Normalize authoritarian ideas by introducing them as “jokes.”
4. Reframe every controversy as an attack on his supporters.
5. Saturate the media with conflicting narratives until truth itself feels irrelevant.

Use of logical fallacies (especially ad hominem attacks), attempting to bury unfavorable or unflattering information, etc.

[Bobcat]

Your playbook is old and dated.

Come up with something new, our mandate isn't buying your old commie schtick, like I said, your "message" falls on deaf ears

[BDKJMU]

[Bobcat]

Rockstar with a mandate!

[BDKJMU]

Why less and less people watch the Fake News TDS MSM.

[Bobcat]

The Dim danger kitties are crying over spilled milk, again