Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he’s a brilliant businessman?

Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he’s a brilliant businessman?

 

A mural of Donald Drumpf
Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge.
He appears to be largely a phony.
Which means “Trump in 2016!”
“Make America great again!”

 

He’s told you that he is, and that ought to be enough.  Right?

 

He tells it like it is.  Right?

 

He’ll bring his legendary business acumen to bear on the federal government.  Right?

 

Let’s pray that he doesn’t.

 

Here’s some truth about his business skills:

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/469775355/trump-doesnt-own-most-of-the-products-he-pitched-last-night?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160309

 

And here’s some eye-opening analysis from that bastion of left-wing anti-capitalism, Fortune Magazine:

 

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/

 

If you had an investment advisor with a track record like that, you would fire him or her.  Right?

 

Trump in 2016!

 

Make America great again!

 

The more bad things we read about him, the more we want him to be our president!

 

Note that Fortune presumes Mr. Trump’s net worth to be in the vicinity of four billion dollars.  Some, though, estimate him to be worth far less than that — possibly as low as five percent of that.  And then how successful does he look?

 

 


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