figured that was plainly evident from the start lol

He's already rich as hell, too old for it to make as much sense as it would to others

no such thing

if he's doing it all for other people, he sure has a funny way of showing it lmao

The concept of having a 1 billion dollars

You can't put it into thought

if you get that much, there's no point in stopping

his reemergence into politics was on birtherism, and if he wasn't doing that to boost his own profile, i'm not sure who else he was doing it for lol

To be honest if he wants to make himself richer, I don't have a problem with it. Even then, his net has actually declined since he took office. Frankly he'd probably be making more if he didn't even run

Yeah, probably, and he's said himself he didn't expect to win

everybody thought he was gonna lose then start a TV network

he didn't, so instead he just has people stay at his DC hotel lol

Idk where he said he didn't expect to win, but hey I wouldn't blame him either. The polls were retarded - they were polling Dems

98%?

or something in the 88% range

Either way, it failed pretty bad

I mean, FiveThirtyEight did always maintain that there was a sizable chance of a Trump win

going into the election, I think they predicted a 1-in-3 chance

not like a 88% vote for Hillary lmao

yeah lil

lol

the 90% Hillary wins shit was hilarious

but back to the part of him running for president to boost his net worth. I find some flaws with a claim like that. I believe Trump was in his 40s when he was asked if he'd run as President. He said he hope he doesn't have to and if the country keeps going the way it's been going, he might have to. That was around 30 years ago, and the point is still valid. The country was going downhill

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