Tom-A-toe, TOM-ah-toe.

Here’s how to understand exactly how Trump thinks. Like a lot of weak people, he admires what he sees as strength. To him, ‘strength’ is acting like a low level Mafiosa. He’s never been inside with the real Capos, so he imitates the street bosses.

Something a low-level guy loves is a ‘bust out.’ It’s when a legitimate business is forced to partner up with the mob. The mob comes in and destroys the business by ordering all sorts of equipment. If it’s a resrtaurant they order enough décor for a dozen places; then sell it off cheap to their buddies. Naturally, they leave the owners of record on the hook for the whole payment.

If Trump had been a real tough guy he’d have extorted billions out of the Saudis on Inauguration Day, 2016. But he’s a schnook who only deals in penny ante crime.

Back in the day, they told Lord Byron that there was a rule against people having dogs at his college.

There wasn’t a rule against having a bear, so he got one of those.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-billionaire-profits-dropped-tariffs-b2731386.html

A lot of people made money off of this. It went according to plan.

Buy ear plugs.

What outlets do you follow?

Because this is the first I’m hearing about it.

Been carrying them since the 1980s.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/08/viral-image/no-these-photos-dont-show-donald-trump-and-barack-/

Someone made photos of Donald Trump being a hero on 9/11.

I happen to have been working in lower Manhattan at that time. During the recovery efforts, there were some restaurants and hotels that gave free food and/or lodging to the volunteers working at Ground Zero. No Trump property gave anyone so much as a bowl of soup.

15 minutes a day, the only thing you need is a stopwatch.

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TIL.

None of that changes the fact that the original definition of ‘astronaut’ was anyone who traveled into space [60 miles up] as a pilot or passenger.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

Here’s an entire article, including Trump using Polish immigrant workers like slaves, and a guest appearance by John Baron

Ron Varo.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/09/peter-navarro-pseudonym-ron-vara/

This shit is turning my hair white.

Just when you think that they can’t top Four Seasons Landscaping, they strap on a jet pack.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

Good article that details the whole story.

As an added bonus, John Baron makes a cameo

No. He’s from the borough of Queens. He always tried to get in good with the real Manhattan elites, and was always shot down. In fact, at the start, he only got a little fame because his first wife, Ivana, was really glamourous. He was just the guy who carried her bags.

https://abc7ny.com/election-2016-nyc-results-president/1598306/

In 2016 Trump lost by 80%. So I was a bit off.

No, he wasn’t, because there were no controls for him to use.

It cuts across all classes. The truly rich despise him. When he was building his Tower, he had a golden opportunity to preserve the original building. This was at a time when Jackie Kennedy was pushing to keep the classic NYC buildings safe. Even his own architect told him to keep the old façade and build around it. Instead he demolished it AFTER he’d promised not to. Then there was the time he brought the Plaza Hotel and had to sell at a huge loss because he couldn’t finance it. And that’s not even half of what I could tell…

“Favorite son” has been a standard American politics term for decades.

When Rudy Giuliani won in his second term, he was considered a massive winner, and he got less than 60% of the vote.

Something you don’t hear much about is the death of the ‘small town rich.’

Back in the day, a town would have a local bank and a local newspaper. The factory owners kids would go to the local high school. Sure they were capitalists, but they saw the town as their home. Those days are over. Even if a rich person lives in the town, they send their kids to a private school and would love to move out.

The locals can go hang.

The other part of the story is that a pollster told people that Trump was hated in his hometown and MAGats loved it. The same people who watch TV and movies made in NYC; who buy everything Madison Avenue advertises; who accept New York fashion sense without question, seem to hate New York.