2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What an airline pilot says about Trump [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Your friend has been saying what I've been screaming at the TV set about for the past year and a half. Trump seems to have no intellectual curiosity about what he doesn't know about the government and running it and what he needs to know prior to taking its reigns. He has done nothing in the time since he announced to prepare himself or to attempt to learn what he doesn't know. Instead he spent the past 18 months name calling and bragging about himself. Trump likes to brag about how much money and buildings he has but what he is in short supply of and needs the most is to buy a CLUE. He has no humility and neither do his children; otherwise they wouldn't be so self absorbed as to believe they are qualified to be their father's presidential advisers while running the Trump family empire. Either there is no family business empire to run or they are as clueless as their father to think that being the leader of the free world is Drumpf change.
I realize that President Obama made the Presidency look easy and that now every white man in America thinks he can do it, because, you know, if a black man can do it, it must be easy because after all, I'm white, and gifted with great powers and intellect simply by having been born 'white'. Trump has had about as many failures if not more, as he has had successes. Others who make a living at following and being knowledgeable about his net worth have said that if he just took the money he inherited from his father and invested in CDs, at a marginal rate of return that he would have as much wealth, if not more, as he has now. Running Trump enterprises, whatever that is, is not the equivalent of running the entire US Government and being the leader of the free world.
I recall when the reporters visited Trump Towers several months after Trump announced, they all said the same thing. "there is no evidence of a presidential campaign there, only a handful of Trump employees, literally just a handful, and a lot of empty rooms." There was not even any evidence of an active Trump enterprises workforce. Trump and his kids all have large offices, but Trump hasn't really been building anything of his own lately. Instead choosing to license his "Brand" to other actual builders. His two most recent projects being converting the old post office in Wash D.C. into a hotel, and building a golf course in Scotland. Being President is much harder than building a golf course.