10 Stories About Donald Trump You Won't Believe Are True

[smirkymonkey]

Another hysterical AND informative Cracked article about Donald Trump. It's really worth reading. This guy is a bigger asshole than you could possibly imagine. One of my favorite quotes from the author "...He pits his own delusions against every legal and financial fact available, but in his defense that is his only job skill. We're not sure how insecure in your manhood you have to be to argue with ten-digit wealth, but we're guessing Trump's penis is a socket."

http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-stories-about-donald-trump-you-wont-believe-are-true_p2/

"...Telling People They're Lucky (That He Didn't Rip Them Off Harder)

Trump Ocean Resort Baja: those four words contain the entirety of Trump's contribution to the project. None of this stopped the Trumps (multiple, him and his and daughter Ivanka) from pushing the Mexican resort like the Lost City of Gold. The project collected 32 million dollars from investors, and then promptly sent them a letter saying that loan negotiations had collapsed. It also informed them that the buildings that were supposed to be built with the money didn't exist, then closed by quoting the part of the contract that said the company was allowed to spend the deposits anyway. Mission accomplished, Trump removed his name from the project the next month. He then told interviewers that investors were "lucky" because they'd have lost even more money if anything had been built.

How? Would the laborers have stolen bricks from their houses to build the resort? Rather than asking such questions, several victims sued Trump and developer Irongate to recover their $32 million, and his response was to sue Irongate as well - for $40 million. This is a man who charges eight million dollars for even being reminded that he screwed people over. Unfortunately, Irongate were bankrupt before either suit started." [more]

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Take note: The link takes you to Page 2. You;ll need to find your own way back to page 1. n/t

[niyad]

4. welcome to du

[smirkymonkey]

7. Thank you! Sorry, just re-visited this, so thanks for correcting for me!

And welcome to DU!

[roguevalley]

5. penis is a socket. that alone is the reason to read this. :D:D:D

[doc03]

2. I can't even stand to read about that simple SOB n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Good stuff there, but my fave so far is still...

how the world's greatest RE tycoon lost at least 300 million on the Plaza Hotel.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I knew he was nuts, but I had no idea how outrageously ballsy he was until I read this.

I mean, what an effing A-Hole!! It's unbelievable!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Pretty much everyone in NYC knows he's an asshole...

he's had a phone with a zillion buttons on it and if he went a day without being in the nooze, he went through all of them speed dialing anyone in the press.

Another favorite is the Central Park ice rink. The city tried a new technology someone sold it and it wasn't working. Trump jumped in to save the day and bragged about for as long as anyone would listen. What he did was simply pay to restart the old system to get it working again.

Somewhere along the line Mar-a-Largo was in play, but he couldn't raise a dime on it because he turned it into something a Renaissance whorehouse would be embarrassed by. That's what he did to help reduce the value of the Plaza-- gold toilets were not seen as luxury but as gauche.

Ever seen Trump's own digs? Every so often he opens it up to an interview or something, but the glare from the gold leaf everywhere screws up the cameras. He gives noveau riche a bad name.

[hedda_foil]

10. Confirmation that he doesn't acknowledge any rules or even laws as affecting him.

That's the impression I've gotten of how he'd deal with Congress, the courts, and the people were he to actually be elected President. And I believe he could be.