Former Trump Casino Exec Shares 1 Intriguing Theory About His Controversial Tariffs Policy

[Amaryllis]

Marco Margaritoff
Tue, April 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM PDT

President Donald Trump has no qualms about slapping steep international tariffs on “the friends of America” and potentially destroying those historic relationships because “he’s never had any friends” himself, an ex-employee told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday.

Jack O’Donnell, who was once the president of Trump’s former Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, made his case after Burnett played an interview clip from 1990 in which Trump said “it would be hard” to choose a best friend because he’s “a non-trusting person.”

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“He’s always been a loner,” O’Donnell told Burnett. “He admits he doesn’t trust and he’s never had friends. And I think as a result of that, I think you take the friends of America, our historical friends, NATO, everybody we dealt with that came together during World War II.”

“He doesn’t look at them as friends, ’cause he doesn’t really know what friendship is,” he continued. “So that’s why it’s so easy for him to cast them away. They’re just another person. What Donald Trump has is acquaintances, and that’s it. He does not have friends.”

[The Blue Flower]

1. That's been my theory

He doesn't have any experience of friendship as a reference.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. "acquaintances"? tRump has people he can use, people who use him, and victims. . . . nt

[zorbasd]

3. That's because he thinks people

can be just as devious and untrustworthy..... like himself. Easy.

[Enter stage left]

4. No friends, but millions who fucking hate him and hope for his long lasting, painfull death.