Looks like Donnie has given himself a new name: “Honest Don”:
It’s fitting, really. Nothing like making yourself sound like a sleazy used car salesman, Donnie.
I’ve long thought that if Trump hadn’t been born rich, he’d be hawking used cars somewhere out in Jersey. Honest Don’s ads would be all over low budget TV stations in the dead of the night.
The sales office would have chintzy chandeliers and cheap ornate furniture sprayed with gold paint, all intended to denote “class”. In fact the sales office would look pretty much like the apartment of the villainous murderous reprobate in The Devil’s Advocate. Trump – clueless as always – was very proud that the scene, intended to denote tasteless excess, was filmed on location right in his own apartment!
Running a successful used car lot requires a certain amount of business acumen which Donald lacks. I think he would be a salesman, possibly one of the best on the lot, but I doubt that he would own the place.
In actuality I think he might just be a lesser version of what he is now. A con man who convinces people to invest their money in get rich quick schemes which in variably go belly up but only after he’s gotten away with the cash. The main difference I think is that without his clout and (until recently) his ability to outspend legal challengers, he’d be in prison by 30.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, no, he’d have started out as a sleazy salesman on his dad’s car lot and would be running it into the ground after inheriting it.
Why am i suddenly seeing Danny DeVito in Matilda?
I wasn’t sure whether you were kidding or not, but of course it’s true…
I actually think the real Satan would have much better fashion sense than that. He’s a man of wealth and taste, after all.
Hah!!
Well done.
I read somewhere that the film crew laughed and laughed “We don’t have to change a thing, it’s perfect”. I wonder if Donnie boy took that as a compliment.
I’m not even sure this part is true. He’s (nationally now and since the 80s in certain circles) well known for cheating his contractors and letting partners or lenders deal with the consequences of his bankruptcies. It’s only the fact he started as a millionaire that let him continue.
So, maybe he has a few months of good sales? That is, until his first several customers start figuring out they’ve been scammed, mechanics and technicians get tired of somebody wanting only to fix up cars well enough to fake their condition (and being asked to add a bunch of chintzy gold detailing and other tasteless crap), and the lot’s owner has to deal with that idiot who left you holding the bag and takes no responsibility.
I mean, there are lots of sociopaths who can sell cars for a few months by cheating their customers and bosses but not many who can sustain such behavior for years. Starting with a lot of daddy’s money shields one from dealing with such consequences, allowing one to continue scamming people for years. As the saying goes, when you owe the bank $1, you are in trouble, when you owe the bank $1000000, the bank is in trouble.
Basically, I think he does ok for a few months and then spins that out into a business selling his “system” for selling cars by giving “seminars” around the country to dumb schmucks looking to get rich quick and charging them $200 a pop.
No matter the viability of Bigly Trump Used Cars Inc., the one certainty is Donnie making his own TV ads. That asshole was born to bloviate.
I genuinely cannot believe the Republicans gave him control of the Party’s money. Absolutely amazing the complete and utter lack of courage in that Party, just astounding.
Well, we will see if down-ballot money and support from the national party means anything come November. Because I’m pretty sure Trump has nothing better to do than give some nobody in Wisconsin or Georgia $30k of support to run for a House seat.
Anyway, this is one of those landmark days where you’re like “we have reached a new stage in the disease’s progression”.
I saw a discussion about this over at my RWNJ lurk. The response, and I’m not making this up, was that the RNC is just an organ of the uniparty and they relish the idea of Trump bleeding it dry.
It really isn’t hyperbole to say that many of them really do worship him and think he can do no wrong. When caught red-handed, their reaction is that they’re glad he did it.
There’s a distinction to be made, I think.
There are Republicans and there are only-Trumpers. To be sure, there’s significant overlap but it’s not a complete overlap.
The Republicans who aren’t true believers in the cult have the proverbial tiger by the tail. On some level, perhaps even a conscious level, they know the only-Trumpers will only come out to vote if Trump is on the ballot and the notion of “Republican voter” is kind of silly these days. On that side of things, there’s Trump voters and there are Trump voters who claim they still think independently for themselves
So, do you hold on to the tail or do you risk jumping off? The jumpers have already done so. And we already know how seriously to take the cowards who merely make noises about it
This is the really important thing that I don’t see getting discussed enough. Organizational malfeasance in the national party will have major knock-on effects on dozens if not hundreds of races, literally everywhere. Obviously the state-level party orgs are also important in terms of fundraising and distribution, but cranking down the national spigot will have a massive impact. Not to mention just the organization and coordination of the national party in helping the state orgs network and cooperate with big-money groups. Those donors don’t want to deal with a free-for-all, but in the absence of traditional leadership it’ll be every man for himself.
I can’t help but think of that one giant aquatic louse that parasitically replaces the tongue of a host fish. Given Trump’s endlessly flapping mouth, it seems appropriately analogous to see Trump as having installed himself as the tongue of the party.
From a financial standpoint, I hope this means they all starve.
Not to mention, if Trump loses again, all the new court cases for illegal campaign finance acts. Because it’s a safe bet he’s going to be playing fast and loose with the rules. You think 91 indictments was bad? Hold on to your hat!
Well put!
In a rational universe, this would be where the tumor starts consuming itself.
But do we live in a rational universe?
To me, the interesting question is: what happens once Trump is out of the picture? You’d still have the same dynamic — the true believers speaking highly of Trump and meaning it, and those who speak highly of him without meaning it — which, so long as he can be a candidate, comes to the same thing: he’s the candidate. But what happens when he’s not around to run? If both types sing his praises then, and talk then about how they wish he could run — again, some meaning it sincerely, and some while holding back a snicker — who’d wind up as the candidate at that point?
Assuming he loses, who would hold him accountable? Would the DOJ under Biden care enough to pursue criminal indictments? Or would disaffected Republicans have to pursue civil remedies? I’m assuming the shell of the RNC will be too weak and/or captive to do anything.