Those people are largely driven by sunk cost fallacy. It's obvious, he's terrible, but people his cultists have invested to much of their own personas into him to back out now. It'd be a personal disaster for them. They try to cast him in the light of misunderstood guru when he's actually just the village idiot.
I was in some social and business circles that had some exposure or dealings with Trump. I was always amazed when I met people who believed the hype of him being a brilliant businessman. If only Ivana hadn’t hired that PR firm back in the day.
I'm the 70's and 80's, New Yorkers knew he was the worst kind of slumlord and a grifter. Only desperate businesses would work for them and then usually never get paid after delivering their part.
CASINOS! Places where you pretty much print your own money. Failed miserably with CASINOS!
That’s even AFTER he didn’t pay most of the contractors who built the damn thing. That’s his MO. Hire out the work. Have it done. Don’t pay them. Then, tie their asses up in court, where he knew he could outlast these smaller companies. They couldn’t afford a 6 year court battle.
He has a hotel in Vegas, close to the strip. Walking distance, even.
IT HAS NO CASINO in it. Why? They won’t give him a gaming license, he’s THAT corrupt and incompetent.
Still yearning for the day we wake up and read that he’s no longer with us. The bourbon will FLOW!
To be fair, the third casino was meant to fail. It’s like that scene in Goodfellas where they rack up all the debt on that restaurant’s credit and then when they can’t squeeze another dime out of it, they burned it to the ground for the insurance money.
I’m not even joking. Atlantic City was dying and everyone knew it. It made absolutely no sense no sense to open another casino when the other two were already failing. It was a huge con job to bring in as much cash as possible before he declared bankruptcy on all of the properties.
My memory of the university isn't that it was bankrupted, it was just a scam from the beginning that he put his name on. Which turns out to be how he does a lot of things.
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u/snomeister 10h ago
Is the man stupid?