Chapter 12: Fake Businessman
The European Union has struck a deal to initially pay less for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine candidate than the United States, an EU official told Reuters as the bloc announced on Wednesday it had secured an agreement for up to 300 million doses.
Somehow Trump has used each of his bombs to propel him another step up the ladder. He has done so by inverting what most of us have learned to accept about what it takes to achieve success.
"The beauty of me is that I'm very rich." Donald Trump said that in 2011, when he was talking about a White House run. In 2015 he took his ride down a golden escalator and made his super-patriot's promise to use his unmatched business skills to make America great again, as great as he was. Enough people believed it to win him the Electoral College (losing the popular vote) and the Oval Office.
Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.
Trump likes to brag about his wealth, but some of his business decisions have been real duds
By Sahid Fawaz Donald Trump loves to talk big about how great he is at business. His record says otherwise.
The president would likely have to engage in a series of high-stakes transactions that could produce unfathomable conflicts of interest.
If he can’t build, he can definitely borrow.
Experts say president’s $750 tax payments show he is abusing the system
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has a pattern of not paying or underpaying bills to everyone from waiters to painters and carpenters to a banking firm — and was even facing foreclosure at the…
It's no surprise that Trump's campaign is a giant grift. But will his donors keep pouring good money after bad?
Donald Trump dumped $400 million into his clubs in Aberdeen and Turnberry. Now, lawmakers in Edinburgh want to investigate him for money laundering.
When Trump ran for president in 2015, he had 19 companies paying him to put the Trump name on their products. Now, only two are left.
Quite a coda to the campaign.
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.
Although President Donald Trump has insisted that he is a friend of the working class and famously told a 2016 audience, “I love the poorly educated,” he is also obsessed with status and brags about his net worth. But financial writer Adam Davidson, in a Twitter thread, stresses that the president g
As hospital intensive care units overflow again, and delays in COVID-19 testing reports reach record levels in many cities, a conversation I recently with Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, reminded me that I had forgotten something utterly critical: Donald Trump's decision to unilaterally di
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) accused President Donald Trump of "dizzying" corruption after a report that the president had asked his ambassador to the U.K. to help steer the British Open golf competition to one of his Scottish resorts.
Although President Donald Trump has insisted that he is a friend of the working class and famously told a 2016 audience, “I love the poorly educated,” he is also obsessed with status and brags about his net worth. But financial writer Adam Davidson, in a Twitter thread, stresses that the president greatly exaggerates how wealthy […]
Let’s take a look at Trump’s biggest successes and failures in business.
Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.
Forbes republishes a classic 1990 investigation into Donald Trump's finances.
Trump likes to brag about his wealth, but some of his business decisions have been real duds
Find out which of Donald Trump’s companies went bankrupt. See how many times Trump has sought bankruptcy protection for his ventures.
Don’t let anyone tell you that the businesses Trump operated were successful, or that the huge losses they sustained were simply tax dodges. They weren’t.
Many Americans still believe that the President is a savvy and successful businessman who knows what he is doing. But the actual record suggests the exact opposite.
Trump likes to brag about his wealth, but some of his business decisions have been real duds
We're one step closer to the nightmare conflict-of-interest scenario.
Here’s to many more Trump failures to come!
Let’s take a look at Trump’s biggest successes and failures in business.
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
Now we have the receipts to prove it
The president isn't a shrewd executive. He's a workplace bully—and it's undermining his policy agenda.
Don’t let anyone tell you that the businesses Trump operated were successful, or that the huge losses they sustained were simply tax dodges. They weren’t.
Here’s to many more Trump failures to come!
Republicans still believe Donald Trump kicked ass in the business world.
The family business of U.S. President Donald Trump is in informal discussions with Deutsche Bank AG about delaying some loan payments as the coronavirus forces widespread disruptions to the economy, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Trump's baffling business empire, explained
The man thought of as being so bold with the media once hid behind a fictitious spokesman.
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President Trump knows the country will not reopen on May 1 or anytime like it. But instead of apologizing to the public for raising their hopes about packing church pews on Easter Sunday, he now laments on TV about the hard decision he has to make, the hardest in his life, and how he is evaluating the pros and cons, and praying to God for assistance and guidance.