And now, Trump.
Trump Entertainment Resorts, $1.2
billion in debt, went to bankruptcy four different times.
Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino, cost $1
billion, collapsed under a massive pile of debt. A financial analyst predicted
the collapse, Trump harassed him, analyst nailed him in court.
Trump Place, lost $1 billion in
value, bankers forcibly took control.
Trump Shuttle, cost $380 million,
collapsed.
Trump Tower Philadelphia, $300
million spent, collapsed.
Trump Fort Lauderdale, defaulted on
$139 million in debt.
Trump Waikiki, all the rooms were
pre-sold for $700 million, but years later most of the rooms were empty due to “an internal matter
with the financing of the building.”
Trump
Tower New Orleans, totally dead, the site is now a parking lot.
Trump
Tower Toronto, weak demand, controversy, lawsuits; a petition to take Trump’s
name off it due to his racist comments. Years later the project was still
incomplete with a massive sign reading “TRUM”.
Trump Soho, huge losses, a number of
investors successfully sued to get their money back because of fraud. Also, the
builders illegally cut corners on the construction site and a worker was
killed.
Trump Club Panama, paid for with $200
million in bonds which were downgraded due to poor performance.
Trump Tower Dubai, project
collapsed.
Trump Tower Charlotte, project
collapsed.
Trump Plaza, bankrupt, 1300 out of
work.
Trump Ocean Resort Baja, failed,
Trump violated both federal and state law, and was sued by angry investors.
Trump Tower Tampa, massive loss.
Trump Tower, promised artwork to a
museum and then destroyed it, using illegal workers.
Trump Towers Istanbul, the owner is
moving to remove Trump from the project because of Trump’s anti-Muslim insults.
Balmedie golf resort, damaged a
habitat; Trump lied about creating jobs there, got laughed out of court for
trying to block a windfarm project.
Trump Mortgage, partner lied on
resume, it’s gone.
Trump University, fraud, collapsed, millions
lost, Trump was nailed in court.
Trump Steaks, health code
violations, collapsed.
Trump the Game, Trump Vodka, GoTrump,
Trump Magazine, Trump Ice, New Jersey Generals, all gone.
NBC, Univision and Macy’s, dropped
Trump due to racist comments.
Trump went to the Mafia for concrete
and trash trucks.
Trump’s net worth is about $4
billion. Neatly enough, that’s just about how much money he’s made disappear –
other people’s money. Trump has stolen more than the hundreds of millions that
Baby Doc Duvalier stole on his way out of Haiti, but not quite as much as
Ferdinand Marcos stole before fleeing the Philippines, or what the Nazis stole
from the Jews of Europe. So technically Donald Trump is not the biggest thief
of all time, which is about all you can say for him. And that stolen money is
what he’s using to finance his campaign.
Neatly enough, Baby Doc Duvalier
lived at…Trump Tower. I’m sure Baby Doc and Trump had a million-dollar bottle
of champagne and laughed about all the Little People whose money they made
disappear. The same little people who now are begging him to take over as President.
Because Americans are Trump’s favorite kind of people – gullible.
Trump on his bankruptcies: “What the
hell did I care? I told you, you shouldn’t have loaned me that money. I told
you the goddamn deal was no good."
Usually when a criminal enterprise
endeavors to steal money from other people, they try to hide what they’re
doing. Trump, however, puts his name on everything. Every time your plane lands
in a major city and you see a tower with the word “TRUMP” on it (or “TRUM” in
Toronto), you can bet that around the corner there’s a little bank whose
customers got lost their life savings because the bank invested in that tower. Each
of those towers is a metaphorical middle finger: Trump is flipping the bird at
the American people, proclaiming, “boy, are you guys stupid!” When he came out
after his Nevada victory and crowed, “I love the poorly educated”, he was
calling us all morons. And if we elect him, we ARE morons.