Trump's Business Acumen

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/behind-the-gold-curtain-of-donald-trumps-resume.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=B513F06B3790FFB9CF338A1170180791&gwt=pay&_r=0

"Trump’s primary claim to fame is as a Manhattan real-estate developer. ""He sits so far down the pecking order of Manhattan real estate that Adam Pincus, head of research at the industry publication The Real Deal, doesn’t recall ever including Trump or his companies in their major rankings of developers, owners or property managers. "

"Likewise, Trump’s importance in the industry of casinos and luxury resorts is far below what his public reputation might suggest. After multiple bankruptcies, Trump no longer owns any casinos; he owns only nine hotels, with three more said to be “coming soon.”"

"His scattershot approach to branding might also hint at cash-flow issues."

"The biggest mystery is why so many voters — apparently including, at least for now, some who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton — seem to have fallen for his act. Perhaps it’s simply the fact that in the absence of real information about Trump the businessman, Americans have spent years watching him play the part. His true calling seems to be acting like a successful businessman — a performance made all the more impressive by its distance from reality."

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Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business.

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He is a person who was born in to very rich circumstances. He didn't do very well with what he was given. He would be richer had he never invested in his own businesses and just rode the S&P 500.

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Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful

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Anonymous wrote:Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful [/quote

Ha. Oh Lordy.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business. [/quote
The government isn't good at government. Healthcare.gov anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business. [/quote
The government isn't good at government. Healthcare.gov anyone?

Well, actually, healthcare.gov was farmed out to a for-profit gov con company.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful

Did you read the article? Read people read - and do your your research. Trump PLAYS a businessman in TV, very different from actually being a successful businessman.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business. [/quote
The government isn't good at government. Healthcare.gov anyone?

Well, actually, healthcare.gov was farmed out to a for-profit gov con company.

You have no understanding how developing systems like that work obviously. Usually, the government has a list of requirements and manage then project and the contractors do the work. If the projects shit the bed, it's the governments fault

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful

Did you read the article? Read people read - and do your your research. Trump PLAYS a businessman in TV, very different from actually being a successful businessman.

A businessman that has 500 companies. How many do you own?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business. [/quote
The government isn't good at government. Healthcare.gov anyone?

Well, actually, healthcare.gov was farmed out to a for-profit gov con company.

You have no understanding how developing systems like that work obviously. Usually, the government has a list of requirements and manage then project and the contractors do the work. If the projects shit the bed, it's the governments fault

Ha. I know exactly how it works! FAR! DFAR! Whee!

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention whatever gave anyone ever the idea that being successful at business means you'd be a great president? Running government is very different from running business.

I agree with this. It seems intuitive that a "good businessman" would be good at an enterprise like government, but it is just as likely that a businessman would get frustrated with the machinery of government, the slow-moving bureaucracy, working with the legislature, not being able to fire vast amounts of people and reduce "overhead," dealing with a vast number of crises at any given moment, measuring progress without having "profit" as your goal, etc. It takes someone with a wide variety of skills, and that person could be a businessman or a former governor or even an inexperienced Senator. It's a lot of skills that just haven't been tested yet in most people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful

Did you read the article? Read people read - and do your your research. Trump PLAYS a businessman in TV, very different from actually being a successful businessman.

A businessman that has 500 companies. How many do you own?

He should release his tax returns and show us how many of those are profitable.

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The author of the NYT article is hardly an objective reporter:

http://www.alternet.org/has-nprs-adam-davidson-betrayed-his-listeners-serious-conflict-interest-issues-exposed

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Anonymous wrote:Trump owns 500 businesses. Four have been bankrupt. What's that? Like a .004 percent failure rate? Seems he knows his stuff, which begs the question. What do you do OP? Chances are you're not even 1% as successful

Source for the 500 businesses, please.