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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 10:44 AM Oct 2015

A brilliant profile of Donald Trump, featuring this splendid tidbit:

Last edited Tue Oct 20, 2015, 01:59 PM - Edit history (1)

‘I have made myself very rich,’ Trump says (over and over again).
‘I would make this country very rich.’ That’s why he should be president.








much more here:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n20/deborah-friedell/tycooniest
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A brilliant profile of Donald Trump, featuring this splendid tidbit: (Original Post) kpete Oct 2015 OP
An entire career built on lies and bullshit... TreasonousBastard Oct 2015 #1
LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2015 #2
Hasn't he declared bankruptcy a couple times, too? Doctor_J Oct 2015 #3
4 times iirc davekriss Oct 2015 #12
Delish! City Lights Oct 2015 #4
That is pretty funny. I look forward to reading the rest. Bookmarking. (nt) PotatoChip Oct 2015 #5
The inventor of Spanx is young enough to be his daughter, and then some. Hortensis Oct 2015 #6
The word is tidbit Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #7
Only in the US and Canada. :) Titbit is found everywhere else they speak English. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2015 #8
Absolutely correct! (nt) mr blur Oct 2015 #10
I am now enlightened! Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #11
you are right about my breasts kpete Oct 2015 #13
no wonder tea baggers idolize the scum bag olddots Oct 2015 #9
 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
3. Hasn't he declared bankruptcy a couple times, too?
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 11:31 AM
Oct 2015

that means that part of his current fortune is in reality owed to people he stiffed at one time.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. The inventor of Spanx is young enough to be his daughter, and then some.
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 11:43 AM
Oct 2015

If she'd started with his advantages 40 years ago, instead of in the late 1990s with just $5000 she scraped up selling fax machines and her big idea, she'd be worth one heck of a lot more than somewhere over $1 billion today.

America has over 500 billionaires, many of whom started with far less than he, and Trump's one of the "poorest."

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