Trump-$1.2 Billion In Core Business Losses

[Weatherman2020]

The NYT got hold of “transcripts” from Trump’s tax returns from the late 80’s and early 90’s.

He lost a shit ton of money. A top money loser. One of America’s biggest losers.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

This is damning.

What kind of moron looses a billion?

 

[hadit]

We’ve had the largest wage increase in years under Trump, and a new all time high in median household income.


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One thing I can't deny is that I'm having the best years of my life. I was doing great under Obama but I'm doing even better now.

Overall Trump isn't worth it but I can't say he ruined the economy around me, yet.

Gore lost when the economy was great. He should have been elected based on the economy and so should have Hillary. Trump and Republicans convinced the voters that things weren't great in 2015 but they were. I was doing great. Manufacturing was doing great. We 80 straight months of adding jobs to the economy, no steps backward.

Republicans denied the unemployment number was real and didn't care that the stock market was doing great. They said what about blue collar. Well? What about them? They are still struggling. Far from maga.

/——/ I’ve made money no matter who was I office, and having Hildabeast as president would mean I’d leave my investment strategy untouched from Obozo. I voted for Trump because he is not part of the swamp and truly cares about MAGA.

Gimme a break. I'm not buying that. I think he's maga for the rich.

For example, if he truly wanted illegals to go home he would do more work raids but he's not going to do that and so illegals are going to continue to keep wages down. That wall ain't gonna make a dent in wages. We need to go back to before Bush stopped doing work raids. Why did he stop? I'll tell you why. Because the GOP is run by corporations who hire illegals. Hiring illegals is one of the reasons the gap between the middle class and rich are widening. Think about it. If the rich are saving billions of dollars a year hiring illegals, the are costing the middle class billions a year.

Reclaiming the Issues: "It's an Illegal Employer Problem"

"Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.

"In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004, it issued fine notices to three."

This is all Bush. He did this shit. Then 4 years later McCain and Romney were still telling us illegals were only here doing jobs Americans won't do.

Trump is a con man and you've been conned.

/——-/. “Gimme a break. I'm not buying that. I think he's maga for the rich
Why would he do that? What possible motive would a 70 year old billionaire subject himself for the sole purpose of helping other rich people, most of whom he doesn’t even know?

Because like the rest of you he believes he and his buddies pay too much and the middle class/poor don't pay enough.

Why did Reagan do it? Why did Bush do it? Why? Because the Koch Brothers told them to. Because A.L.E.C. said to.

I don't remember you being in the meeting. Were you hiding under the table again?

 

[Weatherman2020]

The NYT got hold of “transcripts” from Trump’s tax returns from the late 80’s and early 90’s.

He lost a shit ton of money. A top money loser. One of America’s biggest losers.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

This is damning.

Oh, and Trump scooped the NYT 13 years ago.

Trump Freely Admits in Old Video: 'I Was Billions of Dollars in Debt' About 13 Years Ago

 

[deanrd]

Billionaires like Trump lose billions of dollars in business ventures like us peons lose tens of dollars by not shopping the best bargains.

And yet he lost more than any other individual in the country.

The biggest loser, deadbeat donnie. Only a trump cultist would even try to spin that as anything other than what it is: horrible businessman losing his ass...

Okay, spin what he did since then.

Trump Airlines
Trump Vodka
Trump steak
Trump magazine
Trump's China business connections
GoTrump dot com
Trump University
Trump the game
Trump beverages
Trump mortgage
Trump tower Tampa

Those are his business failures minus the billions from his casino losses.

Want more?

 

[hadit]

Only Republicans could make a cult leader out of the worst businessman in America. Three years in a row he was the worst businessman in America.
And Republicans see that as a success.

Three years out of decades of success. Wow.

 

[hadit]

Billionaires like Trump lose billions of dollars in business ventures like us peons lose tens of dollars by not shopping the best bargains.

And yet he lost more than any other individual in the country.

The biggest loser, deadbeat donnie. Only a trump cultist would even try to spin that as anything other than what it is: horrible businessman losing his ass...

Okay, spin what he did since then.

Trump Airlines
Trump Vodka
Trump steak
Trump magazine
Trump's China business connections
GoTrump dot com
Trump University
Trump the game
Trump beverages
Trump mortgage
Trump tower Tampa

Those are his business failures minus the billions from his casino losses.

Want more?

Sure, go for it. Let's see how comprehensive your hate site is.

 

[deanrd]

The NYT got hold of “transcripts” from Trump’s tax returns from the late 80’s and early 90’s.

He lost a shit ton of money. A top money loser. One of America’s biggest losers.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

This is damning.

Oh, and Trump scooped the NYT 13 years ago.

Trump Freely Admits in Old Video: 'I Was Billions of Dollars in Debt' About 13 Years Ago

So who do you get money from when no American bank will lend to you?

 

[LoneLaugher]

To all of the weird people defending Trump for either being a huge loser or a huge tax cheat could REALLY make normal people eat their words if Trump were to release his taxes and proves that he’s as rich as he says he is and is not a fucking crook.

But, they won’t support calls for him to keep his word and release them.

Weird.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Only Republicans could make a cult leader out of the worst businessman in America. Three years in a row he was the worst businessman in America.
And Republicans see that as a success.

And Republicans see that as a success.

Republicans see beating Hillary as a success.

 

[georgephillip]

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals, according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns.

Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. He has attributed his first run of reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But 10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.

The data — printouts from Mr. Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994 — represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes, information he has kept from public view. Though the information does not cover the tax years at the center of an escalating battle between the Trump administration and Congress, it traces the most tumultuous chapter in a long business career — an era of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse.

The numbers show that in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.

In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

And this is the guy who is our president. He could not even run a small company. He lost over 1 billion dollars, but according to some here he is this great successful businessman. He has successfully conned his way into the presidency. And now he is conning people into believing he turned around an economy that was turned around when he got there and that a legitimate investigation is a coup.

How stupid are we in America?

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They are just rehashing old stale news. It’s all they have.

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They

Got a link proving that claim?

Many New Yorkers suspected Trump was a lying sack of shit in the 1990s, but the research behind today's story was compiled after the Biggest Loser in US Business History became POTUS.

The Biggest Loser | DCReport.org

"A major implication of these tax documents, as well as the 2005 partial tax return obtained and other records, is that Trump’s tax returns would not stand up under audit.

"For example, consider the paper real estate losses Trump took on his tax returns...."

"The real estate losses Trump took far exceed the value of his buildings and the limits enacted by Congress governing how much of that value can be written off each year.

"That means he also had large other losses, which was known generally, but not the scale of those losses."

Why is any of this important in any way? It was already known that Donald J. Trump was the poorest man on the planet in the early 1990's, but that he came back in a huge way to win bigly. He wrote a fantastic book about it all, "The Art of the Comeback" if you're interested.

In any event, it was all a long time ago, and we can see Trump's tremendous record since.

Why is any of this important in any way? It was already known that Donald J. Trump was the poorest man on the planet in the early 1990's, but that he came back in a huge way to win bigly. He wrote a fantastic book about it all, "The Art of the Comeback" if you're interested.

What's important is HOW Trump made his "huge comeback". Did it involve Russian money funneled through Deutsche Bank, for example?

"Deutsche Bank’s “$10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme” which became known as 'mirror trades,' was the subject of a May 23, 2017 letter sent by Maxine Waters, then ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee and other House Democrats to John Cryan, then the CEO of Deutsche Bank..."

"We write seeking information relating to two internal reviews reportedly conducted by Deutsche Bank (‘Bank’): one regarding its 2011 Russian mirror trading scandal and the other regarding its review of the personal accounts of President Donald Trump and his family members held at the Bank.

"What is troubling is that the Bank to our knowledge has thus far refused to disclose or publicly comment on the results of either of its internal reviews...."

"Likewise, Congress remains in the dark on whether loans Deutsche Bank made to President Trump were guaranteed by the Russian Government or were in any way connected to Russia."

Could Trump's Jones Day Lawyers End Up in Deutsche Bank-Gate?

If Trump has been laundering money for the past twenty years or more, would you consider that "important"?

 

[georgephillip]

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals, according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns.

Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. He has attributed his first run of reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But 10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.

The data — printouts from Mr. Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994 — represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes, information he has kept from public view. Though the information does not cover the tax years at the center of an escalating battle between the Trump administration and Congress, it traces the most tumultuous chapter in a long business career — an era of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse.

The numbers show that in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.

In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

And this is the guy who is our president. He could not even run a small company. He lost over 1 billion dollars, but according to some here he is this great successful businessman. He has successfully conned his way into the presidency. And now he is conning people into believing he turned around an economy that was turned around when he got there and that a legitimate investigation is a coup.

How stupid are we in America?

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They are just rehashing old stale news. It’s all they have.

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They

Got a link proving that claim?

Many New Yorkers suspected Trump was a lying sack of shit in the 1990s, but the research behind today's story was compiled after the Biggest Loser in US Business History became POTUS.

The Biggest Loser | DCReport.org

"A major implication of these tax documents, as well as the 2005 partial tax return obtained and other records, is that Trump’s tax returns would not stand up under audit.

"For example, consider the paper real estate losses Trump took on his tax returns...."

"The real estate losses Trump took far exceed the value of his buildings and the limits enacted by Congress governing how much of that value can be written off each year.

"That means he also had large other losses, which was known generally, but not the scale of those losses."

/——/ Orange Man makes $$$$ bad. Orange Man losses $$$$ bad.

/——/ Orange Man makes $$$$ bad. Orange Man losses $$$$ bad.

"Deutsche Bank was embroiled in a vast money-laundering operation, dubbed the Global Laundromat. Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB, used the scheme between 2010 and 2014 to move money into the western financial system.

"The cash involved could total $80bn, detectives believe."
Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme

Orange Man launders money for Russian gangsters.
Good or bad?

 

[Weatherman2020]

The NYT got hold of “transcripts” from Trump’s tax returns from the late 80’s and early 90’s.

He lost a shit ton of money. A top money loser. One of America’s biggest losers.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

This is damning.

Oh, and Trump scooped the NYT 13 years ago.

Trump Freely Admits in Old Video: 'I Was Billions of Dollars in Debt' About 13 Years Ago

So who do you get money from when no American bank will lend to you?

Yes yes. We all know about your conspiracy that Obama let Trump do it.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I guess you're even dumber than I expected if you don't already know this.......

Trump signs sweeping tax bill into law

/——/ That doesn’t prove your point, try again Cupcake.

some recent research presented here gave me some insight into Donald Trump’s motivations to pursue the presidency. So, why did he want to become the President of the United States?

First and foremost, Trump is a narcissist – perhaps on the extreme end of the scale. In fact, Trump can be best classified as a Grandiose Narcissist.Grandiose narcissism is a flamboyant, assertive, and interpersonally dominant style, characterized by an inflated sense of self, overconfidence in making decisions, and an inability to learn from mistakes.

Research shows that narcissists are over-represented in high-level leadership positions, which can be a problem in and of itself, but back to Trump.

There are 3 basic motivations that explain why people take on leadership positions:

1. Affective motivation (“I enjoy leading”). This is the motivation to lead simply because one enjoys leadership activities.

2. Calculative motivation (“What’s in it for me?”). This motivation to lead focuses on the rewards or personal gains one will achieve through leading.

3. Normative motivation (“Other people think I’d be an effective leader”).This involves pressure from others to pursue leadership positions.

Trump’s motivation to run for President may have been fueled by all three of these. He professes to enjoy being in charge, and has for some time (affective motivation). His serious candidacy was spurred on by backers who encouraged him to run (normative motivation). And, there may also be calculative motivation, as his detractors claim – Trump and his family may reap financial benefits from his presidency.

How does Trump’s grandiose narcissism fuel his desire to be president?

Research suggests that grandiose narcissists seek leadership positions for a couple of prime reasons:

1. Self-Enhancement. Narcissists seek powerful leadership positions to prove their superiority and to enhance their image.

2. Basking in the Limelight. Throughout his adult life, Trump has sought media attention and the sheer amount of “free” coverage that he got certainly helped his campaign and the election.

So, the research on narcissism and motivation to lead explains Trump’s behavior fairly well. But what might cause Trump to eventually regret attaining the presidency? Well, Howard Stern may have said it best:

"I know something about Donald Trump, he really does want to be loved," Stern said. "He does want people to really love him. That drives him a lot. I think that he has a very sensitive ego and when you're president of the United States, people are going to be very very critical."

Donald Trump has a notoriously thin skin and although his narcissism causes a feeling of superiority, it is fragile and, in the end, he may regret his motivation to this high, and very visible and vulnerable, leadership position.

One of the best ever......skip to 1:23

Boy was he wrong. I guess we know now that Democrats don't rig elections. If we did we would have rigged 2016 and we certainly would have won 2000.

The Libs did TRY to rig 2016. Holding the Access Hollywood tape until the last possible moment when it was seen as too late for Trump to recover was a dirty trick designed to fix the election results.

Pure fantasy...

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals, according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns.

Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. He has attributed his first run of reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But 10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.

The data — printouts from Mr. Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994 — represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes, information he has kept from public view. Though the information does not cover the tax years at the center of an escalating battle between the Trump administration and Congress, it traces the most tumultuous chapter in a long business career — an era of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse.

The numbers show that in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings. They continued to lose money every year, totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.

In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

And this is the guy who is our president. He could not even run a small company. He lost over 1 billion dollars, but according to some here he is this great successful businessman. He has successfully conned his way into the presidency. And now he is conning people into believing he turned around an economy that was turned around when he got there and that a legitimate investigation is a coup.

How stupid are we in America?

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They are just rehashing old stale news. It’s all they have.

/——/ The NY Slimes ran this story in the 1990s. They

Got a link proving that claim?

Many New Yorkers suspected Trump was a lying sack of shit in the 1990s, but the research behind today's story was compiled after the Biggest Loser in US Business History became POTUS.

The Biggest Loser | DCReport.org

"A major implication of these tax documents, as well as the 2005 partial tax return obtained and other records, is that Trump’s tax returns would not stand up under audit.

"For example, consider the paper real estate losses Trump took on his tax returns...."

"The real estate losses Trump took far exceed the value of his buildings and the limits enacted by Congress governing how much of that value can be written off each year.

"That means he also had large other losses, which was known generally, but not the scale of those losses."

/——/ Orange Man makes $$$$ bad. Orange Man losses $$$$ bad.

Orange Man bad on a train.
Orange Man bad on a plane.
Orange Man bad at night.
Orange Man bad at first sight.
Orange Man bad bad bad.

The NPCs have spoken.

The trump cultist has his typical breakdown....

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Oh, and Trump scooped the NYT 13 years ago.

Trump Freely Admits in Old Video: 'I Was Billions of Dollars in Debt' About 13 Years Ago

What? That's not an admission that he lost over a billion dollars.

And he is still deep in debt. I'm sure your emoji masturbation will comfort him.

 

[Papageorgio]

No it isn't anyone with a brain knows that when you risk a lot of money, you can lose or gain a lot of money. Nine out of ten businesses fail, that is why I don't begrudge those who make it big.

Dude simply lost a ton of money. Good businessmen make money.

Good businessmen come back from down times. Trump lost a ton of money...then he made a ton of money. Why you think that is "damning" mystifies me! Anyone who knows Trump's history knows that there was a real rough patch in the 80's and early 90's. It is what it is.

Trump has never made "a ton of money". None of Trump's business has ever been a success. All of his golf resorts are losing money Trump makes money except the East Coast courses where he spends his weekends. Trump makes money off his bankruptcies, his TV show, and laundering money for Russians. The rest of his businesses go broke.

Donald Trump is a conman.

You're rather amusing. If none of Trump's businesses had ever been a success...then his "brand" would not be worth millions to others. It is because he had a knack for promotion. He made his properties valuable because he understood what people desired and gave it to them. Have some of his businesses been flops? Oh, yeah...HUGE flops! But Trump has never been afraid of failing....most successful people aren't!

He hasn't suffered one bit from failing. The people he conned did.

During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.

The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.

Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

Got a link?

 

[georgephillip]

Billionaires like Trump lose billions of dollars in business ventures like us peons lose tens of dollars by not shopping the best bargains.

And yet he lost more than any other individual in the country.

The biggest loser, deadbeat donnie. Only a trump cultist would even try to spin that as anything other than what it is: horrible businessman losing his ass...

And he figured out a way to go bankrupt and not pay all the people he hired to do the work.

Trump is a master of using and abusing the courts in his favor. Trump is proof the game is rigged.

A brief history of Trump's small-time swindles

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills

During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.

The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.

Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

Trump is a master of using and abusing the courts in his favor. Trump is proof the game is rigged.

A brief history of Trump's small-time swindles

Your link:

"1. Trump's personal driver

"This is the latest entry in Trump's ledger: Noel Cintron, 59, says he worked as a chauffeur for Trump and his family for 25 years.

"On top of a mammoth unpaid overtime bill — 3,300 hours in the last six years — Cintron says he only got a raise twice after 2003: to $68,000 in 2006, and then to $75,000 in 2010.

"The second bump came with a requirement that Cintron give up his health benefits.

"All told, Cintron is suing Trump for at least $350,000 in damages."

 

[georgephillip]

Clinton raised a 1973 federal lawsuit brought against Donald Trump and his company for alleged racial discrimination at Trump housing developments in New York.

The Justice Department sued Donald Trump, his father, Fred, and Trump Management in order to obtain a settlement in which Trump and his father would promise not to discriminate. The case eventually was settled two years later after Trump tried to countersue the Justice Department for $100 million for making false statements. Those allegations were dismissed by the court.

The fair housing commission in 1973 was a new operation, that had to show its worth, so they sued the Trump Organization.

Donald Trump realized the complaints of discrimination were bullshit and objected to the settlement, but the elder Trump decided to make the settlement anyhow. Even though Fred knew that the charges were bullshit, it was still undoubtably the smart move to make the settlement. Had they fought and won, it would have cost as much as paying, and they would have received the enmity of NYC housing bureaucrats. Better to have a good relationship with the bureaucrats than a bad one where they are always looking to cause you problems.

Since them, 45 years ago, Donald J. Trump doesn't have any similar complaints against him. Clean record. BTW, in 1973, Fred was in charge, not Donald.

Donald Trump realized the complaints of discrimination were bullshit and objected to the settlement, but the elder Trump decided to make the settlement anyhow. Even though Fred knew that the charges were bullshit, it was still undoubtably the smart move to make the settlement

Fred Trump was an even more blatant racist than his bigoted son is.

Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump

"The lawsuit was based on evidence gathered by testers for the New York City Human Rights Division, which alleged that black people who went to Trump buildings were told there were no apartments available, while white people were offered units.

"Back then, Sheila Morse worked as one of those testers.

"When a black New Yorker was turned down for service and racial bias was suspected, Morse, who is white, would be dispatched to see if she received different treatment.

"In this case, a black man in search of an apartment in Brooklyn in 1972 saw a sign on a building: 'apartment for rent.'

"'He met with the superintendent, and the superintendent said, "I'm very sorry, but the apartment is rented — it's gone," ' Morse says. 'So the gentlemen said to him, "Well, why is the sign out? I still see a sign that says apartment for rent." And the superintendent said, "Oh, I guess I forgot to take it down.' "

"When Morse went to the building to ask about the same apartment, she says, 'They greeted me with open arms and showed me every aspect of the apartment.'"

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ That doesn’t prove your point, try again Cupcake.

some recent research presented here gave me some insight into Donald Trump’s motivations to pursue the presidency. So, why did he want to become the President of the United States?

First and foremost, Trump is a narcissist – perhaps on the extreme end of the scale. In fact, Trump can be best classified as a Grandiose Narcissist.Grandiose narcissism is a flamboyant, assertive, and interpersonally dominant style, characterized by an inflated sense of self, overconfidence in making decisions, and an inability to learn from mistakes.

Research shows that narcissists are over-represented in high-level leadership positions, which can be a problem in and of itself, but back to Trump.

There are 3 basic motivations that explain why people take on leadership positions:

1. Affective motivation (“I enjoy leading”). This is the motivation to lead simply because one enjoys leadership activities.

2. Calculative motivation (“What’s in it for me?”). This motivation to lead focuses on the rewards or personal gains one will achieve through leading.

3. Normative motivation (“Other people think I’d be an effective leader”).This involves pressure from others to pursue leadership positions.

Trump’s motivation to run for President may have been fueled by all three of these. He professes to enjoy being in charge, and has for some time (affective motivation). His serious candidacy was spurred on by backers who encouraged him to run (normative motivation). And, there may also be calculative motivation, as his detractors claim – Trump and his family may reap financial benefits from his presidency.

How does Trump’s grandiose narcissism fuel his desire to be president?

Research suggests that grandiose narcissists seek leadership positions for a couple of prime reasons:

1. Self-Enhancement. Narcissists seek powerful leadership positions to prove their superiority and to enhance their image.

2. Basking in the Limelight. Throughout his adult life, Trump has sought media attention and the sheer amount of “free” coverage that he got certainly helped his campaign and the election.

So, the research on narcissism and motivation to lead explains Trump’s behavior fairly well. But what might cause Trump to eventually regret attaining the presidency? Well, Howard Stern may have said it best:

"I know something about Donald Trump, he really does want to be loved," Stern said. "He does want people to really love him. That drives him a lot. I think that he has a very sensitive ego and when you're president of the United States, people are going to be very very critical."

Donald Trump has a notoriously thin skin and although his narcissism causes a feeling of superiority, it is fragile and, in the end, he may regret his motivation to this high, and very visible and vulnerable, leadership position.

One of the best ever......skip to 1:23

Boy was he wrong. I guess we know now that Democrats don't rig elections. If we did we would have rigged 2016 and we certainly would have won 2000.

The Libs did TRY to rig 2016. Holding the Access Hollywood tape until the last possible moment when it was seen as too late for Trump to recover was a dirty trick designed to fix the election results.

Pure fantasy...

/——-/ Ok post the date the tape was made and when it was released. Explain the time lag. You won’t because you can’t.

 

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Ok post the date the tape was made and when it was released. Explain the time lag.

Why? That wouldn't prove anything. In what universe does TMZ just make up silly fantasies, and they are true unless someone proves them false? Not this one...