Har! Mark Burnett (producer of The Apprentice) has a lot to answer for. Those of us paying attention for the past THIRTY FIVE YEARS have known that #45 was a lousy businessman, having blown so much of his father’s money that every bank in the world refused to loan him money except for a certain Russian-backed bank (gee, wonder why?), which ended his career as a “real estate mogul.”
His career for much of the past few decades has been to market himself as successful, famous, attractive and rich (hence his relentless lying about himself), license his name for other people’s buildings, and hope his name suckers people into buying in. And he’s so confident in this business approach that his contracts are always written so he gets paid up front – just as his lawyers are doing with him now!
Then he discovered the ultimate grift: politics. You don’t even have to pretend to do anything; you can just vent whatever horrible nonsense you think people want to hear, and people will send you money! Yes, even though the whole myth is that he is a billionaire who doesn’t need money…
Har! Mark Burnett (producer of The Apprentice) has a lot to answer for. Those of us paying attention for the past THIRTY FIVE YEARS have known that #45 was a lousy businessman, having blown so much of his father’s money that every bank in the world refused to loan him money except for a certain Russian-backed bank (gee, wonder why?), which ended his career as a “real estate mogul.”
His career for much of the past few decades has been to market himself as successful, famous, attractive and rich (hence his relentless lying about himself), license his name for other people’s buildings, and hope his name suckers people into buying in. And he’s so confident in this business approach that his contracts are always written so he gets paid up front – just as his lawyers are doing with him now!
Then he discovered the ultimate grift: politics. You don’t even have to pretend to do anything; you can just vent whatever horrible nonsense you think people want to hear, and people will send you money! Yes, even though the whole myth is that he is a billionaire who doesn’t need money…