More or less, you're right. I've said a couple times on here (and more elsewhere) that he has really never been successful at anything other than property development (much of which is branding) and his reality television show (which also thrived on the branding). His real estate business is not in the top-ten highest-valued real estate companies in NYC. He's failed at virtually all other business ventures he's attempted (including a mortgage loan company, which is even related to his real estate wheelhouse).gut;1809785 wrote:Good point.
And I've always questioned how much of a "businessman" Trump is. Real Estate is a very different animal, mainly about design/marketing/branding and controlling your vendor costs (construction). Nothing like running a company that manufactures widgets, or even a service provider, where you have constant decisions about labor, strategy, positioning, sales & promotion on a mass-market scale. Primarily just an asset manager much more than a true CEO.
Plus, for the last 20-30 years Trump hasn't really built anything, he's just been licensing his name.
The one thing he seems to do exceptionally well: brand and pitch himself. There's a reason he's able to continue to raise capital for these eventually failed businesses. I'd wager it's the same reason he won the Republican primary. He branded himself well with respect to the voter base. He sizes up a prospect audience well. Were he not gifted the CEO spot five months out of college and bequeathed about $40 million, he still would have had a solid career as a marketing or advertising consultant and could have charged big bucks for it.
But I digress, a true businessman he is not, and he's had too many opportunities to show that he isn't responsible enough to build and run ventures.
And before anyone goes there, "So you think Hillary would be better at running things?"
No. I don't. I trust neither of them to have adequate character OR competence, both of which should be necessary for the POTUS position.
