Is Trump's election bad for Trump's businesses?

[Pat Mustard]

According to highest estimates he makes even look Bill Gates like a midget.

I remember watching an investigative report about Sochi and how Putin effectively hired an entire entourage from his cronies list and received (probably) hundreds of millions of dollars in kick backs as a result (though of course nobody knows how much for sure). He has shell companies operating throughout all levels of the Russian state and military. 

And he has approval ratings nearing 90%. If Trump wants a lesson on how you get your populace to turn a blind eye to even the most blatant and flagrant corruption and nepotism, no wonder he wants to be a fan of Putin and the oligarchs.

It's easy to have 90% approval rating when those who don't approve of you tend to get mysteriously shot dead or poisoned.

[Pat Mustard]

When his investments are actually placed into a blind trust as required, it'll be amusing (in a sick way) when he leaves office and those investments have earned money, as opposed to losing money.

It isn’t required, it has been a tradition, and we know how much Trump follows traditions...like releasing his tax returns and such. 

Or not inciting treason in stump speeches. His "second amendment solution" should have had him locked up.

[CWoods]

How do you have a billionaire as your president. Fucking surreal.

Too right.  I'm still puzzled at how an unethical billionaire with poorly disguised contempt for the working class could successfully portray himself as the hero of the downtrodden and the oppressed.

Boru

A friend just sent me an article that might explain it.  It basically says that working class Americans have contempt for professionals.  They know professionals.  Often they are their bosses.  Some seem like young, just-out-of-college-know-nothings who are their supervisors, always telling them what to do.  So they hate them.  They think people who are college educated think they are superior and lord it over them.  They call Doctors "quacks:, lawyers "sharks."  I was a teacher and occasionally had a hostile parent who made it known that teachers didn't really know anything about children.

On the other hand, most working class people don't know any wealthy people.  So they admire them.  They think they worked hard to get where they are (just like the working class are working to do the best for their own families) and therefore, deserve their admiration.

It kind of makes sense, I guess. 

Here's the article, if you are interested:
 

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Too right.  I'm still puzzled at how an unethical billionaire with poorly disguised contempt for the working class could successfully portray himself as the hero of the downtrodden and the oppressed.

Boru

A friend just sent me an article that might explain it.  It basically says that working class Americans have contempt for professionals.  They know professionals.  Often they are their bosses.  Some seem like young, just-out-of-college-know-nothings who are their supervisors, always telling them what to do.  So they hate them.  They think people who are college educated think they are superior and lord it over them.  They call Doctors "quacks:, lawyers "sharks."  I was a teacher and occasionally had a hostile parent who made it known that teachers didn't really know anything about children.

On the other hand, most working class people don't know any wealthy people.  So they admire them.  They think they worked hard to get where they are (just like the working class are working to do the best for their own families) and therefore, deserve their admiration.

It kind of makes sense, I guess. 

Here's the article, if you are interested:
 https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

I see my link was blocked.  Search for it: "What so many people don't get about the U.S. working class" in the Harvard Business Review.