“The Art of the Deal”
Donald Trump supposedly wrote a book that helped propel him into the national spotlight and eventually into the White House. The book, entitled The Art of the Deal, was published in 1987. Trump tells so many lies, and this book is an example of it. Tony Schwartz has been saying for decades that he not only ghostwrote this book, but Donald didn’t have much to do with it except give Tony some interviews for it.
The Art of the Deal presents Donald Trump as a great and successful businessman. But most business people nowadays are not willing to come forth and declare the truth about Donald Trump, that he was not that good and successful in business. After all, his casinos went bankrupt. And he declared bankruptcy either four or six times, depending on how it is defined. This book helped cast Donald into being the main character of the very successful, reality, television series “The Apprentice,” in which Donald is portrayed as this amazingly successful business person.
Is Trump Almost Broke?
But Mark Cuban—the star on the very successful TV show “Shark Tank” and former owner of the Dallas Mavericks—is not afraid to tell about Trump not being such a good businessman. Cuban now says Donald Trump may be nearly financially broke. And Cuban claimed today that Trump’s new activities this year of selling Trump sneakers, a Trump Bible, a Trump watch, etc. more likely is evidence of it.
The movie “The Apprentice” was released this weekend with disappointing success for its backers. It is about the early rise of Donald Trump to fame, at least in New York City where his real estate company was located. An actor in the film portrays Tony Swartz writing The Art of the Deal. And The New York Times published an article today written by Schwartz entitled “I Was Trump’s Ghostwriter” (short title).
Donald’s Persona Shaped by Father and Lawyer
In this article, Schwartz say the film “The Apprentice” is mostly about how Donald Trump became the person he did, with his personna being shaped mostly by two people: Donald’s father Fred Trump and Ray Cohn, Donald’s unscrupulous lawyer. Sçhwartz says of these two men, “What they had in common, and passed on to Donald in spades, was their shamelessness when it came to winning and dominating others, whatever that took. The end always justified the means.”
Schwartz continues, “What Mr. Trump never let me know was that amid all those glittering external signs of success, he was in increasingly desperate financial trouble, drowning in debts that would lead him into a series of bankruptcies. I did not yet realize that he routinely lied as easily as he breathed, including to me for his own memoir, and without a hint of a guilty conscience.”
Schwartz says of the film, “What ‘The Apprentice’ captures most evocatively is Mr. Trump’s transition from pleasing his father to enlisting Mr. Cohn as a mentor and role model.” Indeed, I tell about Cohn’s importance in Donald’s life in my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall. Cohn was a well known layer in New York City who worked for the Mafia.
Swartz Suggests Donald Trump Is a Psychopath
Schwartz says of Donald’s psyche, “It’s long been deeply unsettling to me how many behaviors associated with psychopathy Mr. Trump exemplifies. There are seven characteristics associated with “antisocial personality disorder,” according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: … I’ve observed all seven in Mr. Trump over the years, and watched them get progressively worse. It’s the last one—lack of remorse—that gives him license to freely exercise the other six.”
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