• Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    When it comes to selling shit, trump is pretty good at it… when it comes to keeping shit secret, trump is a walking, secret spilling megaphone.

    But hey, we got some sweet submarines out of it! Thanks guys!

    • orclev@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Trump is really good at selling shit, but anything actually useful not so much. He’s a con artist, always has been. His true calling in life is parting morons from their money, and that’s about it. Although even in that regard he’s had some pretty spectacular failures. He did after all manage to bankrupt a casino, something notoriously hard to fuck up as long as you can do some pretty basic statistics. He’s basically a slimy used car salesman who inherited a lot of money and who half paid attention to the lessons his equally slimy but actually dangerously smart father taught him.

      Fred Trump was a real piece of work, a true slum lord, and far too clever to get caught in the many illegal schemes he had running (mostly tax fraud, but I’m sure he had plenty of other scams going). Donald Trump on the other hand is barely literate, has the attention span of a gnat, and is such a raging narcissist that if his name isn’t mentioned for more than 10 minutes he loses interest and checks out. His military advisors literally sprinkled his name throughout their reports just to get him to read the damn things, something that in retrospect was probably a mistake as we’d all likely be safer if they hadn’t.

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        1 year ago

        He and his family have wiggled out of things before because investigators thought they were too dumb to know they were committing crimes.