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****Trump is more straightforward because he has spent his life as a self-employed man with independent financial means.****

More The Onion material that many here take as fact because they're so f*cked in the head they don't realize our reality is now a satire.

Trump is not a man of independent financial means. He's an uber welfare queen. His entire life he's surfed atop a tsunami of debt. He has lived the life of a queen by virtue of insanely gratuitous handouts from the bankers. He's not a self-made man, he's a leech and a debt junkie whore.

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I never said that he was self-made. As for his money, only his accountants and his bankers know how much he has or where it might be stashed. You are right about debt, but just remember: US capitalism runs on cheap credit (ditto the masses in debt-bondage). As for corporate welfare, US business hoovers up welfare and the investment banks (soup kitchens for the rich operating on a franchise run by the Federal Reserve) offer the financial equivalent of lobster, caviar and venison, but only for bums in $10,000 suits.

My operative assumption is that Trump follows the old Broadway advice: NEVER PUT YOUR OWN MONEY IN A SHOW! Good advice, IMHO.

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****You are right about debt, but just remember: US capitalism runs on cheap credit (ditto the masses in debt-bondage). As for corporate welfare, US business hoovers up welfare and the investment banks (soup kitchens for the rich operating on a franchise run by the Federal Reserve) offer the financial equivalent of lobster, caviar and venison, but only for bums in $10,000 suits.****

Spot on. If anything, Trump is a crude in-your-face poster boy for this conspiracy tauntingly hiding in plain sight.

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Your comment brings to mind something that John Gray (English academic, onetime Thatcherite who turned into a big critic of neo-liberalism) once observed: that Bill Clinton was a political shaman who enacted the contradictions of US politics that Americans could never openly acknowledge (the trade off between the free market and social cohesion).

Trump is the same, a shaman enacting the contradiction between traditional entrepreneurship and debt-enabled corporate welfare. That is what leadership is all about in a society enchanted with spectacle.

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Indeed. The spell of the spectacle. It's like Crack. No, check that, it's more like Fentanyl and just as deadly.

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Phillip's avatar

The Chinese figured that one out, which is why they invented Tik Tok as revenge for the O[pium Wars.

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Tik Tok is appropriately named in this regard. Like the Tik Tok of a bomb about to detonate. Who needs nuclear weaponry when you have the bomb that is Tik Tok. Tik Tok incapacitates without all the nasty side effects of nuclear radiation.

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If Trump even has any money that his own. My operative thinking is Trump doesn't need his own money because he's well aware the corporate welfare is the gift that keeps giving so why bother with your own money when you have unlimited access to the printing press.

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He'd be a total fool not to have some stashed somewhere. Possibly in family trusts, in the name of the wife or the kids. Maybe loaned out via carefully crafted IOUs to cronies. Then again, maybe there is a banker in Manhattan or Connecticut sitting on an IOU worth billions signed by Trump?

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Scott William James Wright's avatar

I Agree - Trump was Never self made - inheritance & the creation of All County Supplies which was a fictitious company used to launder more of his daddy's money & avoid capital gains/inheritance taxation. David K Johnson has outed Trump as a coke dealer with millions of suspicious earnings with no obvious source. Trump was also implicated by Maurice Teeno in late 80's as a frequent brothel regular who preferred young blondes. Trump will NOT face any criminal charges because he IS the deep state. It is perfectly obvious to me that Trump is a CIA asset - what intelligence agency wouldn't make use of an American International Hotelier. Everyone gives Trump way too much credit. He is not funny, intelligent or brave. He is the greatest symbol & symptom of how far down the toilet American Politics have slid.

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