Typical leftist. When you don’t like the news, attack the source.
My bad…
Should have cried
“FAKE NEWS!”
Seriously, Slack Jaw…wtf is it with you people?
“Donald Trump has over a decade of experience delivering sound bites on his former game show that need to be very short, clear, and effective,” continues Jenkins, suggesting how Trump’s work on The Apprentice helped him resonate with American voters in spite of his lack of political experience. “That [skill] is what is required of a judge on a game show, which is a fantasy. This is now reality. From my perspective, to see that basically the judge of a game show is now preparing to be the leader of the civilized world is like having a toddler drive a city bus.”
It was the spring of 1995. Donald Trump was this close to finished. He had spent the previous five years constantly, and barely, avoiding financial ruin and what he worried would be a permanent stain of personal bankruptcy. In that time, his marriage had collapsed, he himself had incurred debts of almost a billion dollars, all three of his casinos in Atlantic City had filed for bankruptcy, and the best of the three, Trump Plaza, was losing almost $9 million a year.
The aura of success was gone. Banks wouldn’t anymore lend him the kind of money he needed. From this crouch, Trump hatched a bold, almost absurd plan: He chose this moment to take his company public—and sell stock in his casinos. He created a new company, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc., and hoped to rustle up about $300 million from stock and junk bonds to expand the Plaza, develop a riverboat casino in Indiana and reduce his personal debt.
Analysts frowned on the idea. “We are not entirely confident,” one from Standard & Poor’s warned, “that Mr. Trump will respect the interests and preserve the capital of equity investors in his properties.” The media was harsher, a columnist at Newsday portraying Trump as part carny, part con man. “Step right up, cries the barker with the jaunty derby and twirling cane,” Sydney Schanberg wrote that April. “Donald Trump has a deal for you.”…
Few chapters exhibit this talent of Trump’s better than what happened in 1995. In the first week of June, Trump stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and watched over the successful debut of his publicly traded casino company, the stock symbol his initials—DJT. He got the low end of the price he wanted, $14 per share, but enough to bring in $140 million, plus an additional $155 million in 10-year junk bond notes for a total haul of just shy of $300 million.
Trump’s casinos could have been concrete blocks lashed to his ankles. But at that perilous juncture, he somehow transformed them into a personal lifeline. From that point until 2009, when Trump stepped down as the company’s chair, his Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts would pay him $44 million in salary and $82 million overall. The people who invested, who threw him that lifeline, didn’t do so well: The company lost $1.1 billion over that time, filing for bankruptcy twice. The stock price would peak at $35.50 in 1996—and ultimately fall to as low as 17 cents a share. “People who believed in him, that listened to his siren song,” the uber-investor Warren Buffett would say “came away losing well over 90 cents on the dollar. They got back less than a dime.”
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grifty lost 980 million…
But you’ve got a meme?
Buffet lost a Billion…
Vanilla shady ICEBERG that make president Trump NOT ONLY YOUR president but your sugar daddy , deal with it ■■■ . 
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Stop calling yourself names!!!
So what’s a share of BRKA worth now?
How about DJT?
Feel free to round up.
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DUMMY
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