{"id":31585,"date":"2016-03-10T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31585"},"modified":"2016-03-10T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:31:33","slug":"do-you-intend-to-vote-for-donald-trump-because-hes-a-brilliant-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/03\/do-you-intend-to-vote-for-donald-trump-because-hes-a-brilliant-businessman.html","title":{"rendered":"Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he&#8217;s a brilliant businessman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/800px-Donald_Trump_mural.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31586\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31586\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/800px-Donald_Trump_mural-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"A mural of Donald Drumpf\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge.<br>He appears to be largely a phony.<br>Which means \u201cTrump in 2016!\u201d<br>\u201cMake America great again!\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s told you that he is, and that ought to be enough. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He tells it like it is. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll bring his legendary business acumen to bear on the federal government. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s pray that he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some truth about his business skills:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/09\/469775355\/trump-doesnt-own-most-of-the-products-he-pitched-last-night?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160309\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/09\/469775355\/trump-doesnt-own-most-of-the-products-he-pitched-last-night?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160309<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s some eye-opening analysis from that bastion of left-wing anti-capitalism, <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/08\/20\/donald-trump-index-funds\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you had an investment advisor with a track record like that, you would fire him or her. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump in 2016!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Make America great again!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The more bad things we read about him, the more we want him to be our president!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note that <em>Fortune<\/em> presumes Mr. Trump\u2019s net worth to be in the vicinity of four billion dollars. \u00a0Some, though, estimate him to be worth far <em>less<\/em> than that \u2014 possibly as low as <em>five percent<\/em> of that. \u00a0And <em>then<\/em> how successful does he look?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019s told you that he is, and that ought to be enough. \u00a0Right? \u00a0 He tells it like it is. \u00a0Right? \u00a0 He\u2019ll bring his legendary business acumen to bear on the federal government. \u00a0Right? \u00a0 Let\u2019s pray that he doesn\u2019t. \u00a0 Here\u2019s some truth about his business skills: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/09\/469775355\/trump-doesnt-own-most-of-the-products-he-pitched-last-night?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160309 \u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he&#039;s a brilliant businessman?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; He&#039;s told you that he is, and that ought to be enough. \u00a0Right? 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