I am tempted to leave it at the image I made using InPixio and BeFunky from this classic photo of W.C. Fields as a carnival sideshow announcer in a scene from the 1927 Paramount Pictures film, Two Flaming Youths.
After all there’s not much to write that others not in the Trump tank haven’t written or stated since the New York Times broke the news that Donald Trump was the biggest fraud of all time when it came to bragging about his greatness as a businessman.
This story had to piss Trump off big time:
Trump’s reaction via tweet was more measured than usual suggesting someone helped him write it:
Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” ...… ....you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!
Of course he leaves out the losses incured through his bad, dare I say reckless and stupid, investments not having to do with real estate. For example he spent $365 million in 1989 to buy a shuttle operation from Eastern Airlines which never turned a profit. Then there’s his failed Atlantic City casino and his ownership the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. He also he spent $29 million on a 282-foot yacht.
That Trump survived this decade and even “wrote” a best seller touting his biusiness expertise, and became a reality TV star based on his being a preeminent business mogul has to go down in history as the biggest con job on the public in history.
What Trump learned from this first decade is that a vast number of Amercans are gullible and fully willing and ready to swallow his line of self-aggrandizing bullshit hook, line and sinker.
He discovered the power he could wield exercising evil, pure unalterated evil. To borrow from Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, he brought his wicked carnival to town and suckered enough people into his hall of mirrors to get elected president.