When I heard about the NYT article this evening, my first thought was, “At last, the house of cards well and truly starts to fall. Keep sticking your undersized fingers in the dike, Donald. At some point you’re going to run out of fingers.”
But really, I don’t know. Remember during the debates, when Trump said that not paying taxes made him “smart”, and that got a big laugh and applause? I’m predicting right here, right now, that that’s how his idiot followers are going to see this story.
In a way, I almost agree. It seems like there is some sort of weird genius in managing to claim losses averaging >$100 million a year for a freaking decade, and yet a) still find suckers willing to invest in such a clearly incompetent businessman; and b) manage to somehow avoid the wrath of the IRS during all that time. According to the reporting I’ve heard, for one (unspecified) tax year, Trump by himself was responsible for something like 1% of all the losses claimed for the entire country! How the hell did that manage to skate through the audit process?
With all that said, the next couple days of Trumpian Tweetstorms should be something truly magical to behold. Got loads of popcorn on hand; let her rip, baby.
He faked his own credentials and got banks interested in loaning him money. He just cons, abrogates, then ties up the courts in logjams. He never stays around to witness the trainwrecks. That’s what winners do.
“Has anyone noticed how the SUN comes up EVERY MORNING since your FAVORITE PRESIDENT became PRESIDENT! And how gravity keeps things sitting right on the ground! Crooked Hillary couldn’t have done that! WINNING!”*
*This is not a real tweet from The Donald. Just in case anyone was wondering.
At certain times, I like to amuse myself by thinking what the world would be like if Hunter S. Thompson were 35-40 years old today instead of back in the '70s. Imagine if he had had Trump as his foil instead of Nixon…
He claimed the Patriots but I don’t give a fuck about football, but now he’s tainted my beloved Sox. I’m sinking to a new low if even I, a multi-generational Sox fan, is now wishing the Yankees won.
