You Fool

Sorta long ramble here, but something to think about...

He said he was a self-made millionaire

"My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and

I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars,"

Turns out the "very small loan" was, he said, $1 million.

Except that it turns out he lied about that.

He and his parents cheated on their taxes to give him millions of dollars

before he was an adult and

his daddy loaned him $60 million to start his business.

But THEN, he was a

self-made man

who built a company that's worth billions of dollars.

Except that it turns out he lied about that.

For a ten year period

the time he was "writing" his book about

the art of the deal

and boasting about how great a business man he was

he lost $1 billion

over a ten year period.

$1,000,000,000.

Lost it.

Mismanaged a billion dollars away.

In ten years.

I'm pretty sure I couldn't even spend a billion dollars

in ten years.

What would one buy?!

No, he was an awful business man during those years.

But he kept borrowing money and then

borrowing more money and then

getting more in debt and then

borrowing more money and then

when he got in trouble with his business being in debt

he'd go bankrupt

and get out of his debt.

All the while boasting (ie, lying) about his wealth and

using his boasts and privilege of wealth

to borrow more money and

get more in debt,

ultimately going bankrupt

six times

over 15 years

All the while boasting (ie, lying) about his great wealth and

using his boasts and privilege of wealth

to borrow more money

and get more in debt

and run for political office

based on his boasts (ie, lies, false claims, swindles, cons) of

what a great business man he was

(he wasn't)

and how wealthy he is

(we don't know, because he's very evasive about his money)

But as he was running for the office of president

he assured us he'd release his tax documents

so we could see where his money came from and

to whom he was indebted.

He didn't release this tax documents.

Refuses to do so.

Actively fights to keep them hidden.

This clever business man created a school and made

"millions"

(but we don't know how much because

Trump won't tell us)

off the school

which was eventually found to be a fraudulent university

and was shut down and Trump was sued over it.

At about the same time, Trump donated thousands of dollars to

Pam Bondi

who was in charge of deciding whether or not

to investigate Trump University for fraud/crimes.

Bondi and Trump said that there was no relation to that donation

and the fact that

she decided not to investigate Trump University.

At about the same time

Trump was found to have used his charity

A CHARITY

to enrich himself and his family.

The Charity, like the school, was

shut down as fraudulent

and Trump and his family were told they could

never run a charity again.

This man who was constantly in debt to the tune of

hundreds of millions of dollars

eventually started meeting with

Russians

to conduct

"business"

with them and various Russians have paid Trump

maybe hundreds of millions of dollars

we don't fully know

because Trump keeps his finances secret

and assures us we can trust this man

who cheated with his charities organization

and his university,

who was barred from being involved in charitable organizations,

who lied constantly about his wealth

who used his false claims about his wealth to get loans of

hundreds of millions of dollars, and

promptly "lose" $1 billion,

who has gone bankrupt

six times

in fifteen years

Who has used his wealth to raise

Large Gold TRUMPs everywhere he went

in tribute to his own name

and who built himself

Gold Toilets

on which to shit.

Who said to himself,

‘This is what I’ll do.

I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.

And I’ll say to myself,

“Self, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years.

Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

And he made himself merry

assaulting women

and boasting about it

and laughing about it

And used his money and privilege to

force his way into the rooms where

teen-aged girls

were changing their clothes

and he laughed about getting to

ogle half naked teen-aged girls.

Laughed about it on a public radio show.

And some might rightly note that God once said to a rich man

"You fool!

This very night your life will be demanded from you.

Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?"

and...

"Depart from me, you who are cursed, 

into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, 

I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 

I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, 

I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, 

I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-father-was-more-like-60point7-million-nyt.html

https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-chapter/chapter-1/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html