Just once I’d love to see Trump’s “real estate developer” success level measured against other developers, because the press sure likes to lean into the myth created by The Apprentice. I guess it sounds better than “lifelong grifter.”
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If only they laser focused on the housing racial discrimination parts of his illustrious real estate career. www.npr.org/2016/09/29/4...
aug 12, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Most other developers didn’t spend a decade laundering money for Russian oligarchs, so his success is really hard to judge compared to those with legitimate money streams.
aug 12, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen
aug 12, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The media has a habit of inappropriately describing Trump on the basis of the largely false image he presents of himself.
aug 12, 2025, 1:00 pm • 4 0 • view
legacy media is pathetic. No hunger, except for maintaining access
aug 12, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Painting stuff gold is not fixing up, it's the lipstick on a pig.
aug 12, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This is such horrendous gaslighting framing by the NYT.. disgusting
aug 12, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
A quick analysis by AI says "In terms of current volume, revenue, and market impact, Trump would not appear in the top 25-50 US real estate developers by most industry metrics." This is AI, so take it with a grain of salt, but based on what it showed me, it seems a reasonable estimate.
aug 12, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 12, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Or he’s fortifying the city against a future insurrection caused by his lawlessness
aug 12, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It's absurd. Trump has no interest in "fixing up" DC. He just wants to exercise visible control of its population. That has nothing to do with the condition of the real estate.
aug 12, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not as if there’s widely available gif’s and pics of his Atlantic City casinos getting imploded or showing signs for liquidation sales. Or even more pics showing his name removed from buildings.
aug 12, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
He was a laughing stock “real estate guy” in NY in the 80’s and 90’s. He was never good at it. His daddy gave him a billion dollars and he cosplayed. The only ones who fell for it were the MSM.
aug 12, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, they played the “real estate developer” game in talking about Gaza. Come on.
aug 12, 2025, 12:20 pm • 97 8 • view
All Jared K wants to do is "clean up" Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
aug 12, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone who's ever been near a Trump property becomes quickly aware of the lack of competence demonstrated by the titular company.
aug 12, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s been awhile, but North Korea too. Great beachfront property.
aug 12, 2025, 12:30 pm • 5 1 • view
Nah, it ain't real estate needing fixing. Its power. Federal powers misused against US citizens. It started with immigrants, and now its towards the poor. At this rate, there won't be midterms.
aug 12, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I always think of his real estate development in terms of decades-long discrimination lawsuits and imploded casinos.
aug 12, 2025, 12:18 pm • 9 0 • view
I’m old enough to remember when Trump said he’d end crime in Chicago in one week because “he knew people there.” I really hope there is a hell, even if it’s just for that sack of shit.
aug 12, 2025, 12:29 pm • 3 0 • view
MSM refuses to acknowledge that Trump was/is a terrible businessman. He didn't even write his own book about how to make deals! 😑
aug 12, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's amazing how fast the Times and WaPo folded.
aug 12, 2025, 12:19 pm • 4 0 • view
The Times has been opposed to democrats since at least the 1990s. They didn’t fold; they stayed true to form.
aug 12, 2025, 12:40 pm • 3 0 • view
The New York Times has a long history of Not Fucking Getting It (TM): www.cbsnews.com/news/new-yor...
aug 12, 2025, 1:01 pm • 3 0 • view
It goes back to Hillary’s emails. The beginning of the end.
aug 12, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
He had to do The Apprentice to help fund his bad real estate deals.
aug 12, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve been waiting a decade for good reporting on this. Con artist from the start.
aug 12, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously @nytimes.com, WTF is wrong with you? You could take one step towards redemption by following up this terrible piece with one highlighting how Chump is destroying the white house with his revolting interior/exterior design choices.
aug 12, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
its a natural instinct for lying liars to lie.
aug 12, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The headline is seriously sane-washed. I wrote to the NYT to say, in part, “Has the man ever cared about fixing anything that would help anyone but himself? How about ‘Trump lies about DC crime rates to justify an authoritarian takeover of the local police force’.”
aug 12, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a ridiculous headline deserving of a reprimand. This has nothing to do with his long past real-estate developer "chops" and there's nothing wrong with DC that Trump could fix! This is about using military power on citizens and hiding the Epstein story. Congrats @nytimes.com for assisting.
aug 12, 2025, 1:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Or at least mention how many times he had to declare bankruptcy when he was a developer
aug 12, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Notably, he was living on an allowance from the court due to his latest bankruptcy while he was playing “successful businessman” on “The Apprentice.”
aug 12, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
He, Junior, and Eric are now on the hook for millions in disgorgements from the Post Office Building lease, having gotten the lease by fraud.
aug 12, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Forbes said a few months ago he’s not even in the top 15 developers in NY, despite his spawn’s constant claims that he “remade the skyline.” 40 Wall is the only building of his vaguely visible on the skyline, and he didn’t build it.
aug 12, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm. In need of fixing up. I'd agree except I think they don't mean to make things more livable and better for the residents. There's not enough people able to afford the gentrified real estate.
aug 12, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
@nytimes.com serves as a major Trump propagandist, which is a violation of journalism ethics.
aug 12, 2025, 12:28 pm • 5 0 • view
NYT asked me to fill out a survey about why I wouldn’t subscribe. My response; “You’re PR fluffers for the fourth reich.”
aug 12, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
He needs room for the neuvo riche tacky palace he's plotting out.
aug 12, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
How many others have bankrupted a casino?
aug 12, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
When Trump bought a Palm Beach Estate (the one he had a falling out with Epstein over), he supposedly renovated it before flipping it to a Russian oligarch, who couldn't live there "due in part to a terrible mold problem discovered after he bought it."
aug 12, 2025, 2:02 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s actually a good parallel. He’s inherited valuable assets and then chiseled off enough to give himself quick cash, while the original assets crumble.
aug 12, 2025, 12:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah... I'm a better 'developer' than Mafia Don. I've built 3 properties, never stiffed a contractor, never gone broke and paid back every cent I borrowed. Never had to unalive my best mate 'cause he knew too much about 'my' (Donald's) pedophilic proclivities either.
aug 12, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
maybe he means like columbus, also a real estate person, but effectually more like genghis khan, another notable real estate person
aug 12, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Cowardly bullshit headline. Heil!!
aug 12, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
He wasn't even good at real estate development. I swear I will never understand how so many people attribute skill to him. Easily-duped sheep, the lot of them.
aug 12, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
When tf was he a real estate person I know he owned hotels but wth
aug 12, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view