This multilevel marketing plan which Trump traveled the country to promote is finally getting news coverage, complete with clips of his sales pitch assuring that people could beat the recession if they signed on to his con-job scheme.
“The fact is, most of us have not been conditioned, have not been mentored, have not been coached, have not been inspired, have not been motivated to go out and generate wealth,” (Trump) says with the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of a televangelist. “Yes or no?” he asks, scanning the crowd intently. “We’ve been motivated, inspired, encouraged, taught—to do what? To work hard. To get a steady job. And where has that gotten us?” New York Magazine
This is from a recent Daily Beast article “Trump Vitamins Were Fortified With B.S.”
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Call it “Vitamin T.” For several years in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Donald Trump encouraged people to take part in a pseudo-scientific vitamin scheme—all without expressing any concern about how it might potentially endanger people’s health.
Through a multi-level marketing project called The Trump Network, the business mogul encouraged people to take an expensive urine test, which would then be used to personally “tailor” a pricey monthly concoction of vitamins—something a Harvard doctor told The Daily Beast was a straight-up “scam.”
While not exactly selling poison, leading people to believe that they can make a fortune is a kind of poisoning of the mind.
Among other claims, The Trump Network asserted that it could use a urine test to recommend customized nutritional supplements, its signature products. It also offered products that purportedly tested for allergies and bone health. But scientists said such claims were never backed up by modern medicine.
“They make an outrageous statement, which is that this testing and supplement regimen, this process, are a necessity for anyone who wants to stay healthy,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance and an expert on dietary supplement safety who reviewed some of The Trump Network’s marketing materials at the request of STAT. “That’s quite insane.” From an excellent scientifically based analysis, including a video, describing what the Trump Network was all about.
How much will it take to convince Trump supporters who have been endowed with at least an average level of critical thinking intelligence, otherwise known as a working bullshit detector, to see that like his vitamin boondoggle his promise to make America great again doesn’t come close to passing the smell test?
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