NYT publishes Trump tax returns

[jon-nyc]

It confirms what we’ve always known - he’s a shit businessman and a first rate self-promoter. The Apprentice kept him afloat and gave him a platform from which advanced to the presidency.

[Axtremus]

Krugman picked up on Trump’s debt problem as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/trump-taxes-debt.html

The most important revelation from the Times report, however, is its confirmation of another thing many observers already suspected: Trump has hundreds of millions in personal debt. It’s unclear whether he has the resources to repay it.

Personal financial trouble has always been a red flag when it comes to filling sensitive government positions, because it’s an open invitation to corruption.

So the confirmation that the nation’s chief law enforcement and national security official — whose business empire already offers many opportunities for undue influence — is drowning in debt is chilling.

[Jolly]

Being a Republican, I generally do not vote multiple times, like some Demonrats. This year, I may make an exception...It's too much fun watching y'all screaming in the aisles at least once a week.

Re-elect Donald J. Trump!

[xenon]

@Jolly said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

Being a Republican, I generally do not vote multiple times, like some Demonrats. This year, I may make an exception...It's too much fun watching y'all screaming in the aisles at least once a week.

Re-elect Donald J. Trump!

Meh - he bothers me less than he used to for some reason. He’s an entertaining buffoon if nothing else.

[Jolly]

@xenon said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

@Jolly said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

Being a Republican, I generally do not vote multiple times, like some Demonrats. This year, I may make an exception...It's too much fun watching y'all screaming in the aisles at least once a week.

Re-elect Donald J. Trump!

Meh - he bothers me less than he used to for some reason. He’s an entertaining buffoon if nothing else.

I dunno, maybe that works for you. But notice which threads take off around here...They ain't about Biden. And that's the case in other places I frequent and some I check occasionally.

Most conversations are Trump-centric.

[xenon]

@Jolly said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

@xenon said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

@Jolly said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

Being a Republican, I generally do not vote multiple times, like some Demonrats. This year, I may make an exception...It's too much fun watching y'all screaming in the aisles at least once a week.

Re-elect Donald J. Trump!

Meh - he bothers me less than he used to for some reason. He’s an entertaining buffoon if nothing else.

I dunno, maybe that works for you. But notice which threads take off around here...They ain't about Biden. And that's the case in other places I frequent and some I check occasionally.

Most conversations are Trump-centric.

Biden is boring incarnate.

[xenon]

There's always a relevant Trump tweet:

[Mik]

How, pray tell, did a shit businessman manage to get himself elected president?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

How, pray tell, did a shit businessman manage to get himself elected president?

Because the country preferred the unscripted internet troll to the scripted dirty politician.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

@Aqua-Letifer said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

Don't the details that were publicized mean that either he's using loopholes, legal though they may be, or he's not the successful captain of industry his devotees make him out to be?

1. Trump Steaks

2. GoTrump

3. Trump Airlines

4. Trump Vodka

5. Trump Mortgage

6. Trump: The Game

7. Trump Magazine

8. Trump University

9. Trump Ice

10. The New Jersey Generals

11. Tour de Trump

12. Trump Network

13. Trumped!

14. Trump Taj Mahal

15. Trump’s Castle

16. Trump Plaza Casinos

17. Trump Plaza Hotel

18. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts

19. Trump Entertainment Resorts

....wanna guess what these all have in common, besides having the name Trump in them?

They're all the mark of a winner? Who keeps winning, on so many levels of D that it approaches infinity?

[Rainman]

@jon-nyc said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

It confirms what we’ve always known - he’s a shit businessman and a first rate self-promoter. The Apprentice kept him afloat and gave him a platform from which advanced to the presidency.

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Please be clear. Is "we've always known" include everyone here, everyone in the world, everyone in the universe? Even God!!?? Could be, your mind-reading is that objective? And "always" must mean like centuries ago, like gravity, right? "We've always known..."

"shit businessman" -- of course!, but that phrase just wouldn't fit on the side of one of his jets, so what's a guy gonna do.

"first-rate self-promoter." That's true, I can't stand second rate self-promoters, know what I mean? Especially when he is surrounded by modest politicians, humble, quiet, deep. So many examples of humility in politics and all walks of life. Even Ax's piano playing!

I never watched his "Apprentice" TV show. Heard it had quite the following. Thanks for keeping him afloat, though. And from a TV show, advancing to the presidency. . . so THAT'S how it's done! I have been misled all these years.

And, I've decided that the Vette should be candy-apple red, with a tan ragtop. Definitely tan.

[Larry]

@jon-nyc said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

It confirms what we’ve always known - he’s a shit businessman and a first rate self-promoter. The Apprentice kept him afloat and gave him a platform from which advanced to the presidency.

No, it's called licensing your brand.

[Larry]

It would be funny if it werent so sad, watching some of you show how ignorant you are of how business works. I guess its true that some people just need to stick to desk jobs.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

How, pray tell, did a shit businessman manage to get himself elected president?

See the other half of the quote.

[jon-nyc]

@Rainman Self-promotion can sometimes be more remunerative than business acumen. Much, much more in Trump’s case.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

How, pray tell, did a shit businessman manage to get himself elected president?

The same way that shit actors manage to get themselves elected governor of California, and in some cases President?

[Jolly]

Trump has a point about taxes.

I think everybody with any level of income, should pay taxes. Any income.

[Mik]

I think he needs to not discuss it in the debates. Been audited, no laws broken, end of story.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns:

I think he needs to not discuss it in the debates. Been audited, no laws broken, end of story.

According to Trump himself, the audit is still on-going, so you cannot yet conclude whether there is any law broken, the story has not ended.

[Copper]

There are a lot of businessmen who would sell their souls to achieve what Mr. Trump has achieved.

By almost any measure he is very successful.

For example, the presidency is a prize that has eluded many talented people.