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US hotel owners expected a World Cup boom - so far it hasn't happened (www.bbc.com)

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 75 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trump is a hotel owner.

Destroys tourism.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 43 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

> be Trump

> be participant in largest blackmail influence network in history

> banks, shahs, princes, empires, all crumble between your fingertips

> get to bang models when they’re still teenager virgins

> become president

> “wow I’m the greatest genius ever, make American great again”

> everyone talks shit about you but who cares? Have fun talking shit right back you’re the king of the world

> FBI arrests your Mossad agent partner, he’s gonna squeal

> you have to have him killed to keep everything from getting out

> tfw “I’ll show them, I’ll destroy their precious country for what they made me do to you, Jeffrey”

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 32 points 3 months ago

My take is different.

Trump was in bed with the New York Mafia for decades. The real bosses stayed as far away from him as possible, sending their stooges to control him.

Trump had one really smart mentor, Roy Cohn. He ditched Cohn when Roy was diagnosed with AIDS.

Trump thinks that he's a genius because he does scams like selling NFTs and golden sneakers to chumps.

A real boss would have quietly extorted $50 billion out of Saudi Arabia on Inauguration Day 2017 and then just been quiet.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

We're taking about someone who bankrupted four (4!) casinos. Some of them multiple times.

He might be a successful grifter (though that's probably more due to luck and being a useful and extremely easy to buy or convince puppet than any kind of talent), but a shrewd businessman he's most definitely not.

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