His show wasn’t just cancelled, he got replaced by Ahnold.
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He can still make a decent living lecturing at monster truck shows.
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It just looks bigger because it’s in the foreground.
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On my monitor, it’s smaller than my thumb, so yes.
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If his brand name is going down now, imagine what it’ll do after he loses the election. Not only will he be a misogynistic racist, but he will be a loser. He may retain some support by claiming the election was rigged, but I suspect he’ll lose many of his supporters who love him just because he appears strong and successful. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he goes bankrupt after that.
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He wouldn’t even need to pay an investment manager. He’d do better with an index fund than he has running his own businesses.
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Start here perhaps.
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It’s the one thing he’s very successful at.
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I think a narcissist would underestimate how bad he might look under the close scrutiny of a presidential campaign.
Isn’t one of the typical characteristics that they can present a great-looking facade, but once you get close enough it’s Dysfunction City?
I’m batting around the metaphor that all he’s doing is trying to keep his (celebrity, big wheel) balloon from touching the ground, whatever that takes. Or maybe something about kiting, as in check-kiting but with reputation instead. So many metaphors, all of them mixed.
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He just has to rebrand a different product.
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That’s libel. Slander. Defamation. Whichever is the one that applies here.
Trump has never gone bankrupt.
He’s merely driven several businesses into the ground to the point where those have gone bankrupt.
There’s a big difference. YUUUGE.
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That’s what I’m saying: I think he’s building a whole new brand. This election is a grand PR campaign as he builds a fervent following. Once this is all over, Trump has quite a lucrative career ahead of him as a pundit, a media mogul, as head of a new Breitbart venture. Trump TV, where he can say anything he wants, and the people he’s preaching to on the campaign trail will have him doing extremely well financially.
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Indeed. I doubt it’s a coincidence that most of the people running his campaign are from Breitbart, Fox News etc.
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Not if all the stress causes him detrimental permanent harm to his health before then.
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Give it a couple of decades, and Hipsters will be raiding used clothing stores for “Trump” ties and jackets just for the irony value.
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And I don’t think that brand building will work. I imagine the headlines after election day will be “YOU’RE FIRED!” as Trump loses, and one thing his brand can’t survive is people laughing at him. Hating him, no problem, but laughter, nope his crowd won’t take that.
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Their “brand” doesn’t necessarily make all that much money. And the usual line about Hilter is that he made the trains run on time not how much money he made in trains. Frankly I haven’t met too many Neo Nazis who buy in because its so good on business.
The linked article is based on some wacky marketing metrics to speculate that his brand might be failing. And its focused pretty strictly on the US. Even starting in Primaries we know its not doing to well. TV show cancelled, clothing line cancelled. Many news reports of reduced bookings at Trump branded hotels and what not. Even some about branding deals for properties being cancelled. Apparently a lot of this is taking place internationally. Which is where most of his branding business takes place. Trump in the US has largely been a bi-name for gaudy shit. In Dubai? Not so much.
Oh please god no. I listen to Alex Jones at work sometimes just because it’s fun to pick apart his arguments. Until it’s not fun anymore and my soul feels like a cigarette butt in a strip club urinal. But now that you’ve said it, Trump is like pharmaceutical grade Sean Hannity/Alex Jones/Bill O’Reilly all rolled up into one, he’s perfect for it.
Brought up Alex Jones because he is Trump’s biggest fan, and endowed similarly in the brains dept.
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You can pretty much bet that his craptastic new hotel in DC will crumble as well.
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Although I don’t share this belief with you, I hope you’re wrong. People need to see it to be pissed about it. Which is why elites are isolating. There was a really good article about the mega-wealthy self-segregating in I think the NYT, I’ll post it if I can find it on my crapwagon Android phone without triggering a 5 minute reboot.
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