Trump will bring about a new era of prosperity

Herzlos

Fella wrote: »

He didn't inherit billions. Are you so desperate to appear correct you're just making stuff up?

Fair point. So he inherited a $200m business empire in 1982 (on top of whatever wealth he already had), which would be worth about $500m from inflation alone. Estimates put his actual wealth at about $1.5bn, but suspicions are his tax returns paint a much less rosy picture. So he's managed to gain an investment of about 3x inflation over the last 34 years. Not bad, but he could have got that from giving it to an investment company.

Also I note you've just ignored the fact he just successfully ran for president. If that was all he'd ever done that win would make him one of the most successful people on earth.

So you're saying that people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, are less successful in terms of merit, because they didn't run for president?

I'm not saying it's not an achievement to become president, but he won by a small margin, lost the popular vote, had the lowest ever approval rating on entry, and had the poorest innauguration turnout. So is he a successful president, so far?

Is he a successful businessman? He's just lot another $6m lawsuit where he was screwing over his customers.

Thrugelmir

Herzlos wrote: »

So he's doing pretty well, but only because it was given to him.

So in your view it doesn't require any degree of business management skill to run a large complex organisation successfully. Everything simply just ticks over and Trump has feet up all day.

I would hazard a guess that he works darn harder than you. Longer hours etc. When you've a CV to match people might take you more seriously. Until then stick to factual posts. Rather than posting for the sake of disliking the man. Which is based solely on a media view. People are rarely what they seem off camera. Acting being a skill in itself.

chucknorris

Thrugelmir wrote: »

So in your view it doesn't require any degree of business management skill to run a large complex organisation successfully. Everything simply just ticks over and Trump has feet up all day.

I would hazard a guess that he works darn harder than you. Longer hours etc. When you've a CV to match people might take you more seriously. Until then stick to factual posts. Rather than posting for the sake of disliking the man. Which is based solely on a media view. People are rarely what they seem off camera. Acting being a skill in itself.

If only people on forums could be bothered to start up and run businesses, instead of the idiots that actually do it, businesses would be so much more efficient.

Thrugelmir

chucknorris wrote: »

If only people on forums could be bothered to start up and run businesses, instead of the idiots that actually do it, businesses would be so much more efficient.

Trouble is they wouldn't have the mental strength of character to take all the rubbish that goes with doing so.

Enterprise_1701C

nkomp18 wrote: »

Whoever thinks Trump is anything but a warmongering racist that will bring disaster to the world needs to have their head checked ASAP. No delay...

Even if you are racist, you should be worried about climate change. When the planet dies, nothing else will matter

I need to pick you up on this.

Climate change is happening, but it is part of the natural process. If you look back through the ages you will notice that we are currently coming towards the end of an ice age. Yes, we probably have some very small effect on it, maybe accelerated it by a year or two, but no more. The ice age would end whatever we did.

As for the planet dying, it wont. We panic about the end of the world, but it is actually the end of humanity that we worry about, planet Earth will continue on quite happily without us as it did before we arrived, that is assuming there is no cosmic calamity.

And as an aside, there is actually a fair bit of research that has been done that showed pollution slowed global warming, look it up if you can bear to. Of course we wont hear about that in the news because the green energy apologists, the ones that are getting massive amounts of money from various governments, do not want us to hear that they are wrong.

Enterprise_1701C

chucknorris wrote: »

If only people on forums could be bothered to start up and run businesses, instead of the idiots that actually do it, businesses would be so much more efficient.

We do run a business, a small business, but it is blooming hard work. Good rewards yes, but red tape is the real issue.

chucknorris

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Trouble is they wouldn't have the mental strength of character to take all the rubbish that goes with doing so.

I know (more words for mods)

chucknorris

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

We do run a business, a small business, but it is blooming hard work. Good rewards yes, but red tape is the real issue.

So do I, but what on earth has this to do with my post? Which was aimed at someone (Herzlos) probably has no idea how to run a business, but was criticising someone who does.

padington

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I need to pick you up on this.

Climate change is happening, but it is part of the natural process. If you look back through the ages you will notice that we are currently coming towards the end of an ice age. Yes, we probably have some very small effect on it, maybe accelerated it by a year or two, but no more.

And as an aside, there is actually a fair bit of research that has been done that showed pollution slowed global warming, look it up if you can bear to. Of course we wont hear about that in the news because the green energy apologists, the ones that are getting massive amounts of money from various governments, do not want us to hear that they are wrong.

Apsolute nonsense.

vivatifosi

Well, he's good entertainment value, I'll give you that.

Cutting off the phone call to the Aussie PM, threatening to cut UCBerkeley's funding and having a twitter spat with Arnold Schwarzenegger all in one day.

You never got headlines like that with Obama.