{"id":33405,"date":"2016-05-11T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:04:15","slug":"donald-trump-will-bring-his-business-acumen-to-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/donald-trump-will-bring-his-business-acumen-to-the-presidency.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump will bring his business acumen to the presidency!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019m hearing the mantra, now, that I ought to support Mr. Donald Trump for the presidency because, as a spectacularly successful financial and real estate entrepreneur, he would bring business approaches and skills to the White House.<\/p>\n
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Well, maybe.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s something<\/a> that I posted on that topic roughly two months ago:<\/p>\n
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Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he\u2019s a brilliant businessman?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Mr. Trump would have been richer had he simply put his inheritance in a conservative, low-risk bank fund and gone golfing, I\u2019m not sure that his failure to lose <em>all<\/em> of his inherited money constitutes sufficient\u00a0grounds for pronouncing him a genius of capitalism or anointing him as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Color me skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Venice, Italy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m hearing the mantra, now, that I ought to support Mr. Donald Trump for the presidency because, as a spectacularly successful financial and real estate entrepreneur, he would bring business approaches and skills to the White House. \u00a0 Well, maybe. \u00a0 Here\u2019s something that I posted on that topic roughly two months ago: 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