Trump talking in 1997 about what he considers hard work. No wonder he needs so much time off...

[highplainsdem]

I'd never seen this 1997 New Yorker article. "Trump Solo," before running across a link to it on Twitter tonight. I searched and saw it has been mentioned here before, but what I want to bring up now are a couple of excerpts showing how Trump defines hard work:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo

“Part of my problem,” Trump said to me, “is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio..."

-snip-

He pointed to a stack of papers on his desk, closing documents for the Trump International Hotel & Tower. “Look at these contracts. I get these to sign every day. I’ve signed hundreds of these. Here’s a contract for two-point-two million dollars. It’s a building that isn’t even opened yet. It’s eighty-three per cent sold, and nobody even knows it’s there. For each contract, I need to sign twenty-two times, and if you think that’s easy . . . You know, all the buyers want my signature. I had someone else who works for me signing, and at the closings the buyers got angry. I told myself, ‘You know, these people are paying a million eight, a million seven, two million nine, four million one—for those kinds of numbers, I’ll sign the fucking contract.’ I understand. Fuck it. It’s just more work.”

I think this helps explain why he thinks he's been doing so much just having those signing ceremonies.

[Clarity2]

1. Remember when he said he was a workaholic?

Obviously a lie.

He works very hard taking naps in between signing the documents he never reads.

[highplainsdem]

2. He's as much a workaholic as he is someone who "cherishes" women, something else he also lies about

constantly.

Good point about him never reading the documents he signs.

[Beartracks]

3. So many Republicans who say "Hollywood elites" lead easy, out-of-touch lives...

... elected a lazy TV star to the Oval Office to preen, play dress-up, and complain about how hard his White House reality show is.

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[Beartracks]

4. I read somewhere that anyone who, like Trump, watches 8 hours of TV a day and...

... golfs every weekend is basically RETIRED.

(i.e. not working)

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[smirkymonkey]

5. I read the whole article. It's long, but an interesting read. He's always been an

asshole. The last few lines sum him up nicely...

"And, most important, every square inch belonged to Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul. “Trump”—a fellow with universal recognition but with a suspicion that an interior life was an intolerable inconvenience, a creature everywhere and nowhere, uniquely capable of inhabiting it all at once, all alone. ?"

[highplainsdem]

6. Agree completely.

[dweller]

7. no, you summed it up perfectly..

'he's always been an asshole'
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