Jesus...

[PCIntern]

His former communications director said, "It's incredibly bad," she said. "This is a total blow to the brand of Trump; Trump is as much a brand as he is a businessman in some ways, even more so.”

Brand? A failed “University” which was sanctioned for fraud, steaks which were Outback rejects, a casino empire that went bankrupt, an airline which utterly sank into oblivion, a beauty pageant wherein pubescent girls were exposed in their changing room, a beauty pageant wherein adult women were assaulted, a vinegary variety of champagne, Trump Tea, (a totally forgotten enterprise), a fixed game show, as well as a whole host, actually an adult lifetime of outright lying - none dare call it exaggeration.

This is a brand? This is a catastrophe of capitalism. You know who’s a “brand” as an individual? Lee Iacocca, Steve Wynn, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Walt Disney, Frank Perdue, were ..and many others. Their names evoked some fair measures of quality and success. This truly uneducated, uncaring, uncivilized moron’s name evokes sense of failure and incompetence. This is MAD Magazine’s definition of a brand - satirically. Except it’s not fiction, it’s history.

And with any measure of good fortune, he will be history in a few months as well.

[underpants]

1. "How the ___ do you lose money selling red meat to Americans?"

- Howard Stern


The steaks were USDA Angus certified[8] and came in four packages with prices ranging from $199 (with two bone-in rib-eyes, two filet mignons and 12 burgers),[11] $349, $499, and $999,[12] with the tagline of "The World's Greatest Steaks."


According to Sharper Image CEO Jerry W. Levin, "The net of all that was we literally sold almost no steaks, if we sold $50,000 of steaks grand total, I'd be surprised."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks

[Mr.WeRP]

6. On a similar note, how does a casino in Atlantic City lose money?!!

Holy shit, these places practically print money.

[Niagara]

8. I had always assumed that he skimmed off his own casinos.

He has always carried this Mafia like personality so when all his casinos went bankrupt, I could only assume that he was skimming them, or he hired someone else to skim them for him.


I believe he skimmed all his own business adventures. That thought has been in the back of my mind for years.

[underpants]

16. He overpaid and didn't bother to learn how the games work

Basically he was a showman out in the street barking customers in.

[Niagara]

24. Exactly.

[yardwork]

26. Money laundering, probably for Russians.

[ShazzieB]

35. One casino in Atlantic City can make lot of money.

But when you build 3 casinos in the same city and let them cannibalize each other, it doesn't work so well.

Probably one of his dumbest business moves ever, if not the dumbest. I don't claim to know anything about business or finance, but even I know you don't set up your own businesses to directly compete with each other. You want to compete with your competitors, not with yourself!

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. You might if you paid yourself a hefty salary

from each business. The business can be broke, but Trump always got paid his management fees.

[ShazzieB]

42. Not impossible.

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But I don't see him deliberately bankrupting his own casinos. He's too proud of his fancy toys to want to make them fail on purpose.

I tend to think he got carried away, building casino after casino until the whole thing fell apart. If fits with his inability to anticipate the consequences of his actions.

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. Maybe not failed on purpose, but he certainly took

unreasonable risks because he knew none of his personal money was at risk. Refinancing his debt and bankruptcy were always a back up AND HE WAS OKAY WITH THAT. He's proud of his successful businesses and has ZERO SHAME about the that failed.

[Best_man23]

12. Jeesh, we once bought a quarter grass fed cow (120 lbs of meat) for $1000

Lasted us about 18 months. And we got a hell of a lot more burgers than 12 from that purchase.

Maybe the tRump meat still had the marks where the jockey was using the whip.

[tavernier]

30. Same here.

Bags and bags of one pound ground, steaks and roasts of every cut and variety.

This is at my daughter’s farm in Indiana. They grow all their own produce and trade garden goodies for eggs with their neighbors.

When I’m home in the Keys I miss the tasty beef and fresh asparagus, but I make up for it with shrimp and grouper and mango and avocado from my back yard.

You can bet that Trump’s beef was one third bull and two thirds shit.

[Best_man23]

49. I grew up in the Keys

Really miss fresh grouper and shrimp. You can get grouper here in Virginia, but its $$$.

[NanaCat]

44. For $3500 today, butchers will sell you a whole Angus

We bought the whole shebang back in the 70s, around 190kg (410 lbs) of beef. Staggering how much freezer space one needs for that much meat, but never mind that.

Who in their right mind would pay $199 for four steaks and a dozen mince patties? It wasn't even 4 kg of meat, what, just over 8.5 pounds? That's nearly 50 quid per kilo, or $23/lb.

Bloody hell, you can get Angus beef fresh at the local grocer for less than that, even now. Our local market sells Angus ribeyes for less than $20/lb and mince for $7/lb. prime filets are $42/lb, but come out to around $22 for an 8 oz portion. His nasty slabs were 5 oz.

So at my humble grocer, I can get two ribeyes, two (bigger) filet mignons, and 6 pounds of mince of the same or better quality for $129. And they're not frozen, but fresh. That's the cost in 2024. In 2007, that same meat would have been even cheaper!

The extra costs were all for his stupid, useless brand.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. "It takes a great man to make a tender chicken."

Every time Trump fails, he falls upward. The Peter Principle states people rise in an organization until they reach their level of incompetence, and then they stay there, which is why there are so many incompetents and the world is so f*cked up.

Never trust con men who make lateral career moves.

[Roy Rolling]

3. Failure

Of course Trump is a terrible businessman. He is a figurehead of a scam financed by foreign oligarchs like Vladimir Putin.

Profit/loss means nothing. This is not capitalism, it is crony capitalism. He could lose another billion—until his handlers pull the hook.

[Joinfortmill]

4. This!!!

[malaise]

5. The shock is still tthat he reached tthis far

[PatSeg]

32. Yes absolutely

It blows my mind that such an incompetent, talentless trainwreck could have gotten as far as he did. The only thing he is good at is grifting and honestly, he's not really good at that. He is a freak of nature.

[elleng]

47. as his

father suggested.

[Hekate]

7. Thank you. I got the same jolt when I read "this is a blow to the brand," ...

Except I couldn’t articulate it past “Brand?! “ and

You did so much better.

[sop]

9. Trump testified his "brand" was his most valuable asset, worth $10B.

"Trump testified in his NY depo that his most valuable asset is his name as brand, it’s worth more than all other assets combined, was worth $2.9B but becoming president made it 'the hottest brand in the world' worth $10B. So much for the cult argument that he 'sacrificed' for us." - Ron Filipkowski

[Best_man23]

13. I wouldn't give 10 wooden nickels for the "Trump Brand"

And that was BEFORE he came down the escalator.

[sop]

18. Lenders all agreed the "Trump brand" is worthless.

[Alice Kramden]

10. Well said!

"Catastrophe of capitalism "

[2naSalit]

11. His "brand" is...

'how to fail upward without giving a fuck about anyone'

[dalton99a]

14. And Republicans know all that

[yardwork]

27. And those are quotes from before the 2016 election.

They've known all along.

[rubbersole]

39. Lindsey - "(TSF) will destroy the republican party and we'll deserve it."

You are correct, sir.

[twodogsbarking]

15. The BLOAT. Biggest Loser Of All Time.

[niyad]

21. EXACTLY!!! I am sooooooo stealing that.

[Easterncedar]

31. BLOAT! Perfect. Thanks.

A great addition to the lexicon of contempt.

[prodigitalson]

17. Losing money on a casino still takes the cake

I mean wtf

[PCIntern]

20. I essentially live in Atlantic City and

His casinos and hotels were third rate including the stupid Taj Mahal whose parapets and roof design looked exactly like those in the Kremlin. I said that when it was built.

[niyad]

22. It takes a special level of stupid to do that, especially when it is

essentially a money laundering operation.

[SouthernDem4ever]

19. Well stated

Dump's brand is now the Nazi symbol.

[niyad]

23. Absolutely spot on, PC.

[Paladin]

25. Nicely put, as usual. (nt)

[3auld6phart]

28. Good

Right out of the ballpark. Bases loaded. Damn ? It’s incomprehensible to me why anybody would put that orange filthy bucketofgreaseon some kind of alter and praise him. Never knew about some of the shit he pulled off. Steaks and tea. Thanks for your rant. Every AM ,I get on Du to see if shitty diaper drumpfh has left this Vale of tears. . Damn he is still here

[livetohike]

29. Trump is a legend in his own mind. He only thinks he

has a brand. Other than hearing his name once in a while in the 80’s, who could name anything he owned? I didn’t read the tabloids then or now. His “brand” is going up in smoke.

[FalloutShelter]

33. Trump's "Brand" is DEATH.

Everything Trump touches dies.

Not hyperbole... FACT.

Now, he wants to kill the Constitution and our Democracy. THIS IS THE MESSAGE>

[Blue Owl]

34. Somehow tRump's carnival of failures has managed to be propped up as a legit brand all these years

How? Is it the M$M? Some kind of behind-the-scenes mobbed-up support network? I don't get it. It was easy to see what a clown tRump was back in the 80's & 90's for anyone who was paying attention.

[OMGWTF]

36. Check out the dictionary definition of "trumpery" --

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpery

[4lbs]

38. "Brand"? Well... if bankruptcy is your kind of brand, then yeah. His name is synonomous with Sump Pump

Dumpy the Clown

Chumpy the Cheeto

Heir Hair

Orange No.

[calimary]

41. Sump Pump Trump!

LOVE it!!!

[calimary]

40. Slowly but surely destabilizing the enemy.

EXCELLENT!!!

[KentuckyWoman]

45. Trump is indeed a brand.

Along the same lines as Hitler, The Hindenburg, Titanic, Chernobyl, and whoever that idiot was who pissed off Genghis Khan

[Kablooie]

46. BRANDED!

Branded!
Marked with a coward's shame.
What do you do when you're branded,
And you know your insane?

[PCIntern]

48. Excellwnt

Chuck Connors would have laughed.