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Trump, the billion-dollar loser I was his ghostwriter and saw it happenCharles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019
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I tend to see my time with him the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry as his King Midas period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, The Art of the Deal, which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once hed held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.
A real go-getter, right? But Trumps portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his French military helicopter to Atlantic City where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasnt. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the rack rate (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldnt cover the monthly payment of the loan hed taken out to buy the place. In other words, hed made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didnt want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.
Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
Faux pas
(14,717 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)Imagine what he would be now if he could read?
nolabear
(42,009 posts)Source: The Madness of Materialism
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201203/the-madness-materialism
nolabear
(42,009 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)to keep him out of trouble and occupied, like a golden retriever with a pile of tennis balls.
Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)Great idea! Good for the nation and planet.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)And evidently, so were Trump's favorite fabrics. If he had been good at it, maybe he could have broken even by attracting more people to his establishments.
Don't knock aesthetics unless you want your own operations to tank. One reason Starbucks took off, DESPITE lousy coffee, was the interior design and lighting. The truth is, Trump had no soul and therefore ZERO sense of beauty.
Don't mock the monster for having anything to do with good design. Mock Trump for his LACK of skill in fabric choices, not to mention inability to delegate that job to a professional designer.
But if you all keep mocking fabrics you will be visited by dragons 🐉.... and the ghosts of thousands of years of textile guilds.
Where did you all go to school? The USA?
Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)Design is a very important component of our worlds aesthetic.
Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485814/
Spot-on about those swatches above, too. They are dreadful.
Blue Owl
(50,605 posts)n/t
Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)This guy seems deranged in ways that seem beyond our science.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)...the worst.
What was Trump's insecurity? He was the son of an immigrant and the son of parents who were unable to give love. They only bought tokens of love.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)faculties, he was uninterested in the actual mechanics of running a business. All he cared about was getting the credit for any success, cared only about veneers; as shallow as a sidewalk puddle
mopinko
(70,395 posts)at the very least, this is the point where his brain so clearly started to atrophy.
i saw this and realized this is why there was NEVER going to be a pivot. his brain is too rigid to pivot.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)I opted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he doesnt deserve it.
Thanks for pointing that out
brush
(53,978 posts)Hahahahahahahahaha! What a great line, and so accurate.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)I couldnt think of anything shallower
brush
(53,978 posts)You are too kind
Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)Absolutely true and deep. And today the demented imbecile is president of the United States, driving the nation to total ruin like one of his bankrupted Atlantic City casinos.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)our White House. I still get furious with the thought of him and his grifter family in the White House. It seems unreal that it happened.
Kid Berwyn
(15,103 posts)Its like were all Gregor Samsa now.
Harker
(14,143 posts)and every day the decorator brings more...
nolabear
(42,009 posts)Harker
(14,143 posts)but I'm getting the eviction papers ready.
SWBTATTReg
(22,231 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Vinca
(50,342 posts)in between tweeting on the toilet and picking his nose.
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)Stains not coming out? 🤔
Stains were coming out alright. 😧🤣
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)🤣
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)But it's resisting/repelling this ********.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)About him showing everyone that came through different interior decorating options, he was very happy and proud.