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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump hadn't inherited $200 mill from Dad, was born with nothing, what would he be doing now?
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Don't want to make it out as though there is anything wrong with a good honest days work but I have no doubt he would NOT have been skilled at building his wealth having come from a poor family.
I kind of see him as a used car salesman or perhaps a mattress sails guy, maybe waterbeds, but he puts most of his energy into multi level marketing scams that have gone nowhere over the years. Kind of like the mattress guy from About Schmidt who Jack Nicholson wants to prevent his daughter from marrying. Just not as charming.
What do you think he would be doing now without all of Daddy's money?
I wish someone would produce an alternate life of Trump movie with this premise.
40 second mark:
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)He'd get involved with the mafia, but wouldn't last long due to his inability to keep his mouth shut.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,668 posts)Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Only with worse hair.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)He wouldn't have anything resembling Atchie's job history. He would have gone from job to job getting fired for laziness, anger issues, lying on his job application, and more recently sexual harassment. His glory days were when he was a slumlord manager, then he sold used cars, then he still felt pretty good about himself when he was employed and even managed pawn shops. When he landed in the fast food industry, he was too lazy to cut it.
Oh well, he can collect his SS retirement. One of his kids is generous enough to let him live in their basement and watch FOX all day.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)just a little. He would be spending a lot of time, not on the golf course, but in bars talking big and doing nothing.
I'm just guessing. Don't take my word for it.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)He'd be an English professor at Harvard. All the best words!
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)Aristus
(66,387 posts)I'm a firm believer in the free enterprise system. Why work for wages for someone else when you can be your own boss? Let me come over to your house, and I'll run some numbers by you. How does that sound? Get in on the ground floor with a bunch of other motivated entrepreneurs who have the same goals that you have."
How many of us have heard one variation or another of that pyramid-scheme sales pitch?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)If he had actually paid his bills along the way..... He also took a lot of apparently illegal shortcuts.
brush
(53,787 posts)than all of his stiffing of vendors, scam business, bankruptcies, cheating and money laundering shenanigans.
And remember, his daddy had to bail him out a couple times after he got the inheritance.
He'd have amounted to nothing but a two-bit con man without the power of his daddy's money.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Boasting all the way, just as much as he does now.
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Back to the Future Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/back-to-the-future-writer-biff-tannen-is-based-on-donald-trump
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)countingbluecars
(4,766 posts)Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)Getting the soap off the hood.
Timmygoat
(779 posts)Has always colluded with mobsters, and so did his father before him, who was also a member of the KKK, and was prosecuted for his
refusal to rent to black families, his grandfather who was an immigrant had been thrown out of his own country and came to the US and ran brothels and was a part of the protection racket. It is in the blood of the Trump family.
unblock
(52,253 posts)and looking for his fourth wife.
blogslut
(38,002 posts)Oh wait...
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)After being killed in Vietnam. The only recognition of him would have been on the memorial in DC.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)And for the 333rd time since 1988, I'd tell him "no".
kentuck
(111,103 posts)Probably used cars?
onethatcares
(16,172 posts)as a lot man
Initech
(100,080 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)I'm talking about the even sleazier one in the back alley off 15th St.
LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)He wasn't good at it and got caught before he could get rich.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)and now owes Russian mobsters 1.7 billion, thus the puppet situation.
He is the single worst businessperson in the history of business.
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)He is totally without a moral compass. He would not have lasted long in the real world.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He would still be just as arrogant, stupid and corrupt, but without the money he would definitely have ended up in prison or have been bumped off by some low-level mobster.
nwduke
(350 posts)on 5th ave. in NYC asking for spare change! But dont worry, his followers would still support him!
(Yuck-yuck)
tavernier
(12,392 posts)No disrespect to reputable car salesmen who work hard to earn a commission, but trumps only talent seems to be bullshit, and I can see him in the lot of a small used car business that is a money laundering business for the mob.
beveeheart
(1,369 posts)but I really like the post above this one where he'd be pushing a grocery cart - one with all his earthly possessions.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)grifter. He'd never hold a sales job for long, or a wife. Probably jailed for fraud or theft of some type.
ocd liberal
(407 posts)Amway
Herbalife
Mary Kay Cosmetics
Lifelock
Multi-level marketing for sure.
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mazzarro
(3,450 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Drunk jerk n a bar really excited that his favorite porn star came in.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)time share salesman in Branson...
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)If he was that lucky and if he wasn't in jail.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)doc03
(35,346 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)Luciferous
(6,082 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)"Goddammit! Did it again."
Yes. I actually saw that happen in the 1980's.
robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)...be in prison.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)Selling late model automobiles acquired along the Gulf coast this summer to gullible rubes who think they're getting a great deal.
You know, just about the same thing he's doing now!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)And he'd be losing at it, and getting beat up.