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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump talking in 1997 about what he considers hard work. No wonder he needs so much time off...
I'd never seen this 1997 New Yorker article. "Trump Solo," before running across a link to it on Twitter tonight. I searched and saw it has been mentioned here before, but what I want to bring up now are a couple of excerpts showing how Trump defines hard work:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo
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He pointed to a stack of papers on his desk, closing documents for the Trump International Hotel & Tower. Look at these contracts. I get these to sign every day. Ive signed hundreds of these. Heres a contract for two-point-two million dollars. Its a building that isnt even opened yet. Its eighty-three per cent sold, and nobody even knows its there. For each contract, I need to sign twenty-two times, and if you think thats easy . . . You know, all the buyers want my signature. I had someone else who works for me signing, and at the closings the buyers got angry. I told myself, You know, these people are paying a million eight, a million seven, two million nine, four million onefor those kinds of numbers, Ill sign the fucking contract. I understand. Fuck it. Its just more work.
I think this helps explain why he thinks he's been doing so much just having those signing ceremonies.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)Obviously a lie.
He works very hard taking naps in between signing the documents he never reads.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)constantly.
Good point about him never reading the documents he signs.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... elected a lazy TV star to the Oval Office to preen, play dress-up, and complain about how hard his White House reality show is.
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Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... golfs every weekend is basically RETIRED.
(i.e. not working)
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)asshole. The last few lines sum him up nicely...
"And, most important, every square inch belonged to Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul. Trumpa fellow with universal recognition but with a suspicion that an interior life was an intolerable inconvenience, a creature everywhere and nowhere, uniquely capable of inhabiting it all at once, all alone. ?"
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)dweller
(23,641 posts)'he's always been an asshole'
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