But EVEN if he did do it for the net worth, so far it hasn't worked - and I find it unlikely, as long as he keeps doing what he is doing I'm fine with it

he was also echoing the rhetoric of other politically involved businessmen at the time like Ross Perot, who was saying exactly the same stuff

so it wasn’t a unique statement or prophetic or anything

plus: publicity! one of Trump’s hallmark moves is a “maybe” or “we’ll see” which is definitely what his calculation was saying that in, what, the early 90s?

Publicity was a tremendous thing with Trump's badass moves in business, actually in business he'd promote it even before the project was fully developed

He's been doing that since Manhattan

although I personally don't think Trump did it for personal gain, especially most of his hotels and buildings are in the liberal shithole, New York. It probably wasn't too good of a backlash running the way he did

It really doesn't make too much sense to me, also the guy is like 70 years old. He'd be making more off if he didn't run, ever since he took office he's lost 800 million?

You can bust a lot of politicians' balls for being greedy as a main motive, you can't bust a businessman who already has it all

Why can’t America be more like Australia

We’re mainly centrist. The parties are slightly left leaning and slightly right leaning, and beliefs barely ever clash

You don't see Australia having the best economy in the world do you?

True

Bur everybody is respectful of the opinions of others

And I value that over economy. Plus we have enough land to be self-sustainable

So are we lol

We export like 80% of the food we make

Tbh I just like my country more

We don’t freeze to death every winter

it doesn't snow in the south

The parties are slightly left leaning and slightly right leaning?

Sounds like nobody there has balls

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We don’t have clashing

lmao

Makes passing new laws easier, and nobody cares who gets elected

That doesn't mean anything

Labor doesn’t get elected? Big deal.

Nobody cares who gets elected? Isn't that a problem

Not really

Because most of us have the same beliefs

So you live in a perfect homogenous society

Like I match to 70% of labor’s policies and 70% of liberal

Not exactly

We still have idiots like Pauline Hanson

But they aren’t popular

You see here in America, you'd classify as liberal as hell

Everybody hates them, and the people who agree with them are too small to make a difference

The only bad thing here is that the government isn’t doing shit about the drought

Half of the country is in drought, and nobody is getting support

Frankly I could give less of a shit on what goes on in Australia, no offense. Here in the US, we got some reworking to do