According to several presidential polls, the majority of voters say that the most important issue in the 2024 election is the economy, and that Donald Trump is a better economic manager than President Joe Biden. They believe the economy should be run more like a business and that Donald Trump is a savvy businessman. To that I offer the following proverb: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
” Mr. Trump indeed assured voters in 2016, “If we could run our country the way I’ve run my company, we would have a country that you would be so proud of.” And during Trump’s presidency, he was as good as his word: he ran the country the way he ran his business.
But that just meant he fleeced American taxpayers, betrayed them with false promises, and left our children and grandchildren in debt to his moral bankruptcy. Far from being a self-made businessman, Trump proved he’s no more than a nepotist beneficiary, inheriting his father’s financial empire and subsequently trading on his father’s name and assets. Unlike many legitimate businessmen whose investments are tempered by the risk of personal loss, Mr.
Trump has always had the luxury of playing with house money. As an investigation by The New York Times concluded , “in every era of Mr. Trump’s life, his finances were deeply intertwined with, and dependent on, his father’s wealth.
” Consequently, Trump has played with his inherited real estate empire like the game of “Monopoly.” To him, t.
