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Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:03 AM Jan 2017

No One Loves the 45th President Like Donald Trump (Der Spiegel)

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The hope that Donald Trump might become more presidential as his inauguration approached has proven misguided. The 45th president of the United States has shown that his own public image is his first priority.



To understand how the future president of the United States thinks and acts, a look back at how he treated one of his former employees can be helpful. The woman in question didn't become known because of complaints regarding Donald Trump's behavior. Rather, he himself boasted about his own treatment of her in one of his many books.


Trump hired the woman in the 1980s. "I decided to make her into somebody," he writes in "Think Big and Kick Ass," a book in which he seeks to share the secret of his success with the world. He gave her a great job, Trump writes, and "she bought a beautiful home."

In the early 1990s, when his company ran into financial difficulties, Trump asked the woman to request help from a friend of hers who held an important position at a bank. The woman, though, didn't feel comfortable doing so and Trump fired her immediately.

Later, she founded her own company, but it went broke. "I was really happy when I found that out," Trump writes in his book. Although he had done so much for her, he writes, "she had turned on me."

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No One Loves the 45th President Like Donald Trump (Der Spiegel) (Original Post) Solly Mack Jan 2017 OP
No one could. For someone who cares about his own Cha Jan 2017 #1
I like Blotus! Great name! Solly Mack Jan 2017 #2
Yes.. that's why he insults all the great people calling him out.. Cha Jan 2017 #6
BLOTUS malaise Jan 2017 #11
Trump produces nothing, his name is his product. Rex Jan 2017 #3
He is his brand and his brand is shit. Solly Mack Jan 2017 #4
Total shit and everyone on the planet knows it. Rex Jan 2017 #5
Pretender Usurping The United States DFW Jan 2017 #7
Cronyism is going to remeble that of Russia when he's done. joshcryer Jan 2017 #8
Your link doesn't work (just missing the final 'l', I think) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #9
Thanks! Fixed now. Solly Mack Jan 2017 #10

Cha

(297,240 posts)
1. No one could. For someone who cares about his own
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:08 AM
Jan 2017

public image so much.. he sure does fubar.

BLOTUS is a vindictive, predatory asshole and shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.. yet here we are on the precipice.

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)
2. I like Blotus! Great name!
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:12 AM
Jan 2017

I suspect the man has a very low self-esteem and in the dark of night, when he is trying to sleep, the agony of being him gets the better of him...so he grabs his phone and tweets to make himself feel better.

He has to lash out to keep from looking in....he's weak and pathetic.

And he knows it.

Cha

(297,240 posts)
6. Yes.. that's why he insults all the great people calling him out..
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:21 AM
Jan 2017

he knows they're right and hates them for it.

I stole BLOTUS from someone last night.. it's perfect. Thank you to whomever..

Bloviating Louse of the United States. Is what I came up with.

FYI.. louse

/lous/

noun: louse; plural noun: lice; plural noun: louses

1. a small, wingless, parasitic insect that lives on the skin of mammals and birds.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. Trump produces nothing, his name is his product.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:12 AM
Jan 2017

Expect to see the most superficial First Family in our history. People will be begging for someone else in just a few months. He's an asshole to everyone, that won't fly.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. Total shit and everyone on the planet knows it.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:14 AM
Jan 2017

That it just one of the insults of him being the next POTUS.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
8. Cronyism is going to remeble that of Russia when he's done.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:47 AM
Jan 2017

The government is going to become so corrupt it's insane. If you thought it was corrupt before... man.

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