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In reply to the discussion: New Reports Suggest Trump Might Not Be a Liar at All, But Truly Delusional. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)he'd have managed it competently and earned a living from it?
I don't. I think he'd have run it into the ground. And quickly. Remember, he became wealthy in an era of enormous wealth build-up. Because he had wealth to begin with, as much as he lost through dysfunction, what he didn't lose kept building.
Also, his dad not only launched him in big business but rescued him many times before he was no longer there for him some time in the 1980s. After that the number of business disasters leaped, to the point that Trump stopped trying to build businesses and buildings and started just licensing his name to the creations of others.
If he wasn't extremely wealthy, would he have been able to buy his way out of his many, many legal troubles?
Would anyone have sucked up, or would he have become increasingly isolated as people learned to avoid trouble?
I believe he's proven profoundly dysfunctional.