Massachusetts Business Owner Destroys His Brand After Photo with Trump Published

[Atman]

60. Mostly this.

Ratner is a two-bit "celebrity" in his tiny Western Mass town. When I lived there we saw his commercials all the time. Hokey. Low rent. Anyone who has ever lived in such a market knows of these types of retail celebrities. Ratner was pretty much a goof. Just look at him he looks like a character from central casting. Anyway, I imagine that when someone of his stature (or, perceived stature) gets an invitation to visit the White House -- never mind actually being in a photo-op with the freakin' president -- their minds go foggy and the automatic reaction is to say "HELL YEAH!"

The real question is, if he's so big on providing insurance for his employees, how did the "good businessman" not know what Trump's plan was? Everyone who pays any kind of attention knew it. From that perspective, it's pretty difficult for me to believe he was duped. As another poster said, he probably jumped at the chance to cut his overhead substantially by only having to provide junk insurance to his minimum wage employees.