Let’s be perfectly honest, trump said and did what he needed to say and do to get elected …
People with integrity know the tricks, they just don’t use them.
The deal with trump being a corrupt and narcissistic, sociopathic (and horrible) business man is that his presidency will just be about writing laws to make him wealthier.
That’s all this is for him.
Possibly, it could also be about making up for being a jackass in life. He could be honestly trying to be good in order to make it into his heaven. A lot of folks that realize that they are going to die, try to turn over a new leaf. Being a great president could be his golden ticket.
Lots of old folks run for president.
And I figure that in part they do so because they need something to distract them from death. From oblivion. And few things work as effectively as being the most powerful person in the world. I’m sure there are any number of things that will focus their attention away from the fact that they are rapidly running out of time just like all the rest of the seniors.
And in that regard it must be particularly brutal being Hillary Clinton now. Bill too.
No wonder she wants those fucking recounts.
I’m pretty sure Trump likes oat cookies.
By the way, I like oat cookies too.
It is a sad indictment of the USA, and its ‘democratic system’ that such a man could get elected; that there was only the choice of these two unsavoury characters; that he lied and contradicted himself day after day; and continues to spout crap without let-up.
We expect the Republicans to be corrupt and self serving, but when both parties are so similar that you could hardly place a cigarette paper between them, then what does ‘democracy’ even mean.
Despite these failing Americans seem incapable of admitting there is something wrong, and repeat the blatantly false mantra that the US is the home of freedom and democracy; that US democracy is the best in the world; and that it is the envy of the rest of the world.
If this was ever true; which I doubt, then it is certainly far from the truth now.
I think this is probably wrong. My impression is that most people who are very, very wealthy are not that concerned with making more money. To the extent they pursue wealth, it’s about the game, the contest, winning, beating the next CEO, etc.
For Trump, I think he wants to redeem his name. He has literally been a joke for most of his life. As President, I think he wants to perform greatness and be remembered as great. It’s more about legacy than wealth.
I think Ec is right. Trump sees the presidency as a way to make himself great, and he thinks that making gaining more wealth is that way to do it. In a sense you are both right.
More wealth to do what, though? What will he be able to buy after the presidency that he couldn’t buy before (other than a presidential library)?
We will be statistically over the average age Americans die be time he gets out of office, if he gets out. We are likely looking at a presidential funeral and the VP being sworn in, in most scenarios.
His businesses are gonna boom like a motherfucker just by association to him now, he always ran on a luxury highest class (deeply tasteless upper class, I can’t imagine Bill Gates bring wooed by his golf courses or stupid gold apartments)- but George Washington did this too. DC was built on his lands, because we wanted to associate with the grandure of the man.
I don’t think his impulse will be for greed, his business and family prospects over the next few generations, looking at Barron Trump, as a future old senators billionaire, is much, much higher if he plays the straight and narrow and focuses on reforms. I predict he won’t target real estate speculation, and will fight for easier laws in regards to streamlining sakes and acquisition of properties- a lot if the commentators studying HUD don’t get that laws that benefit him would mostly by default benefit small, impoverished owners too (only thing I fear from Trump in this area is a strengthening of eminent domain for private businesses like colleges or developers)… bit overall Trump’s family gets maximum benefits from him playing his last days out as the straight and narrow patriarch, who commands the free world, and slams the gravel down on corruption, and makes the US functional again. It isn’t in the benefit of the Trump name, his family’s chief asset, to turn into a little greedy ferengi bitch at this point, they will inherit far more by him playing it safe- he can focus on bring a good leader.
I don’t even want to imagine what happens if he lives long enough to design his presidential library. We are all gonna get fucking suckered I to building something bizarrely expensive on that one, in downtown Manhattan. Sigh…
This makes sense. I’ve often thought that if I was some business guy, as soon as I made my first hundred million dollars (or more like 5 million), I’d just liquidate everything, fire everybody, and lay on my back blowing spit bubbles on my giant pile of cash for the rest of my life. I’ve often wondered why more zillionaires don’t go the Notch route and do exactly that. So they must have some love of the activities that bring them the money, and not just the money itself, or they’d be like me.
As far as the prestige goes, certainly. It’s hard to imagine a person that would not see being POTUS as extremely prestigious, while at the same time having the means and motivation to become POTUS.
Ucc, there’s such a thing as being competitive down to your bones that drives certain kinds of people. Money isn’t an issue when you’re just built that way. The things you need are actually pretty easy to get your hands on, and enough money to buy pretty much what any normal person would want isn’t that hard to find either. Once you have enough to do those things, you don’t just keep making more money in order to buy even more shit. You do it to prove that you’re better than the next man.
What things.
Having wealth is nothing to do with buying stuff at that level.
You could ask that same question about a million CEOs, bankers and financiers.
Having money, a lot of money, is not the problem. Money can help people who are in difficulty if so inclined. The love of money is where it goes pear shape, where wealth becomes an idol, where it is master for the person, where the obsession to accumulate it is the sole purpose, this then becomes greed.
The film Wall Street, featured the famous line spoken by Gordon Gekko: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.”
Remember that scene. HA!
Eh… he was on TV.
Democrats should’ve run Oprah
Compared to Hillary? Why not.
The good that he has accomplished already is to scare the military subcontractor regime shitless by canceling the Boeing Air Force One project based upon frivolousness pricing. That one act will save trillions of otherwise corrupted and wasted tax dollars.
How the hell can he cancel it yet?
