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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

It’s absurd that people think trump has any sort of “business acumen.” His businesses fail more often than they succeed. He’s been busted for fraud multiple times. Filed for bankruptcy multiple times. Sued for failing to pay contractors hundreds of times. Banks refused to lend him money. His contemporaries call him the dumbest person they’ve ever met.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s absurd that people think trump has any sort of “business acumen.”

He played a successful businessman on a reality TV show. That's it, that's why people think he knows what he's doing, because they evidently can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the thing he's actually good at. Acting. Getting people to believe in fiction. It's a good trait for an actor, a despicable power of conmen, and horrifying in a leader.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 33 points 1 year ago

Filed for bankruptcy multiple times.

Some of these were even for his casinos. He couldn’t even get casinos right.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

TV needed a star for a show and created a story that he was a great businessman. All the real successful businessman were busy, true story.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is after borrowing millions from The Bank of Daddy. Without his parents wealth, he'd be nothing.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

His contemporaries call him the dumbest person they’ve ever met.

Apparently they've never met his supporters.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I would argue Trump has great business acumen for exactly the reasons you describe.

He’s a mobster who got rich off strong arming, manipulation, and fraud.

Stop assuming his incompetence at being an evil capitalist billionaire and maybe people will finally accept that he is a highly capable amoral danger to the world.