There are Trump Towers, hotels, golf courses and perhaps other named assets after him, suppose that in the (likely) scenario that Trump loses the election, what happens to his assets? Nobody wants to sleep in a hotel named over a xenophobic candidate, especially to a losing candidate.
I think that for his constituency, vacationing at one of his properties will become the new definition of “success.” The ones who would otherwise stop going won’t stop because they would never have gone in the first place. The vast majority of Americans already had a pretty bad opinion of the man.
Trump hotel selfies have become “a thing”. A friend sent me one he made during a recent trip, and he told me people were jockeying for position to take their own.
He will be just one of those dozens of people whose buildings are named after him befre he dies but renamed as soon as he is dead. Unliked Crooked Hillary who only gets buildings when dead.
And that 40% of the electorate supports him, by and large, because they think he’s a non-loser. It remains to be seen how the cognitive dissonance is resolved after he loses.
Really? I remember when he announced his campaign and released financial statements, he valued his “brand” at something like 3 billion dollars, almost half his fortune. Now it’s worthless? That’s rich. He may not have spent his own money on this campaign, but he lost half his wealth on it.
The same for his tower so that when I take the brown, orange, green, pink and sometimes red line (in emergencies), I don’t see his namesake over Wabash. Although I was praising him for a good business practice. :rolleyes:
I mean, they’re not the Richest Of The Richest Of The Richest, but they’re certainly doing well for themselves, and they can support an upper-middle-class luxury hotel, one which catered to people who work for a living but can afford nice trips on a regular basis.
Well failed car brand to be fair. I think Toyota’s said the discontinuance of the Scion brand would result in 22 people having to find new jobs within that giant company.
Which might actually be somewhat relevant here. Trump claimed I believe ‘the Trump brand’ was worth several $bil of his claimed $10 or more bil net worth. But estimates like Forbes’ or Economist’s getting $2-4bil aren’t counting that intangible at all, as you normally would not in a personal net worth. So depending where you start from it doesn’t necessarily make that huge a difference. The hotels/resorts are worth what they are worth in a real estate market, not necessarily with some big premium value because they say ‘Trump’ over the door.
It’s true Trump will probably have to shift the ‘licensing’ part of his business to adjust to the new reality of being a much bigger star with a certain sizable domestic audience*, but more of pariah with other people, and especially outside the country. But the question said ‘his assets’, so again is ‘the value of the brand’ really an asset? A lot of people have scoffed at that concept in the context of Trump’s claims of wealth so should be consistent here.
*as of now, though statistically only a small % of people voting for Trump are the same 45% or so of primary voters who did and of the majority of likely Trump voters Nov 8 who didn’t vote in the primaries, probably a lower % than 45 would have. By the same token though, the hardcore is big enough for potentially serious money making. Fox’s daily audience is only a couple of million people, right wing talk radio superstars’ (Limbaugh, Hannity level) audiences are 12 million or so distinct listeners weekly. Back to the discussion of what unique business Trump can build with/through his ardent fans that existing talk media doesn’t satisfy. And how does ‘loser’ affect the ardent fans? That’s a reasonable question too.