Posted on 09/20/2015 11:44:57 AM PDT by NGC 6822
For weeks I have been wondering why no media reporter, GOP candidate, debate moderator, network political analyst or individual citizen has asked Mr. Trump a very simple and basic question.
“Mr. Trump, if you are elected president, who will manage your businesses?”
I do not think this is a trivial question. The job of president demands 100% mental dedication and cannot tolerate conflicts with personal business interests. Owning an on-going business is not the same as putting a stock portfolio in a blind trust. To be sure Mr. Trump does have many managers to run day-to-day operations. But, I see even now that his campaign priorities are being compromised.
He speaks about important issues in a broad manner, but his failure to provide detail and offer specific solutions reveals a paucity of deep knowledge about these issues. I believe that he has just not had the time to study the issues in depth. His business obligations take precedent.
He often says, “We are looking into this…” “We will study the problem.” “We will fix this so fast that it will make your head spin.” Who is “we”? My head is already spinning.
When the current president (with no experience) was elected, the American people were promised, “Don’t worry, he will receive good advice from his appointments.” After how many czar appointments, we ended up with nothing—not even the czars anymore. They have disappeared!
Consider the following headline taken from “The Wrap” 18 Sep 2016:
Donald Trump Cancels Major GOP Speech Amid Obama Muslim Backlash
Now, look at the text under the headline:
“But according to a statement sent by his campaign, the GOP frontrunner is ditching his appearance at the Heritage Action Presidential Forum because of a ‘significant business transaction’.” - See more at: http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-cancels-major-gop-speech-amid-obama-muslim-backlash/#.dpuf
So, are we to understand that when the going gets tough for Mr. Trump, business obligations will take priority?
If Mr. Trump is elected president, and the economy turns sour, will he be lying in bed at night wondering about the intrusion of Russia into Syria, or about the health of the real estate market in New York? And, if two urgent phone calls ring in the oval office, one from the secretary general of NATO, and the other from his top business manager about a delicate negotiation that has been hanging for weeks, which one will he pickup first? Of course we know what he will say, but what can we believe?
i think he can handle both
He already said his son and daughter would, in one of his earlier speeches.
His businesses will be much less a distraction then King Putt’s golfing. Besides I believe his children work for his business.
Hmmm. Good question
My guess is he’s got enough delegates to manage his business better than Obama has been able to put off playing golf and helping Muslim radicals. But that’s just a guess
What are we talking? Hillary? Huckabee? Bush?
Is someone else soghning up this week?
This has to be, by far, the weakest vanity I’ve seen posted, here.
For one....Trump has stated MANY times who/how his business empire will be run, once he’s elected Prez.
Second....he’s currently running his businesses....so, he STILL has business obligations.
But, thanks for dropping by...after five months of being away...to post this ill-informed nonsense.
/johnny
That's a very low bar...:^)
No, he can’t, without one or the other suffering. But that’s what General Managers are for . . . and I’m sure he knows some good ones.
He has already mentioned that his adult children will. Keep up.
Billionaire Donald Trump says his three adult children – Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr.
– are prepared to take over his business empire if he decides to run for president.
‘I have three children now who are grown and could run it,’ he told Daily Mail Online in
an exclusive interview at a New Hampshire forum for Republicans seriously
considering bids for the presidency.
‘When I looked last time, they really weren’t prepared, and they weren’t ready,’
Trump said, referring to his brief flirtation with a candidacy in 2011.
‘But now they’re ready – Ivanka and Don and Eric...’
Moments later the real estate magnate clarified that ‘my children and my executives’
could take command of The Trump Organization, a sprawling real estate empire whose
brand valuation alone is rumored to be in the billions.
The Trump business interests will be in a trust for as long as The Donald should choose to occupy the (restored) White House.
The Donald did not get where he is because he is a dummy or has failed to make shrewd assessments of his closest advisers. The trust shall be in competent hands, and The Donald shall not concern himself with the day-to-day operations. But by its very nature, it would be impossible to make the conglomerate operations “blind”, in the sense that The Donald would not know what was going on, or that by a simple clearing of the throat, the subordinates would not KNOW that something was displeasing to The Donald.
Los Bushes have no business successes to leave behind. Unless you count Jeb’s involvement with Lehman’s.
Agree completely. This vanity is pathetic.
.....”i think he can handle both”.....
If Trump wants to continue to run his businesses while being president, it would be like Berlusconi in Italy, which is probably the closest comparison..... He was also known for his crude and defamatory language.
Trump has already declared, quite honestly, that his policy positions are affected by his business interests. When asked whether he would support statehood for the District of Columbia, Trump pointed to his recent purchase of the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue, which he is turning into a Trump hotel.
Would he favor approving H1-B visas for foreign workers for his many business ventures, including his modeling agency, over other visa seekers?
But Trump has already said it would be a conflict of interest....regarding his buying the Post Office in DC he said..... “I have a total conflict of interest.”
It goes into a blind trust. He could not manage his businesses while president.
It’s already been asked. He said he will let his children run it and divest where necessary.
For laughs.
Really? Then please explain how Obama can have played 248 ROUNDS of golf so far! Add in his vacation days and all the political fundraising he has done almost constantly. How about you add in some of his meetings with moslem groups? Gay groups? Black lives matters? The list goes on. He will be wasting time with this past weeks little clock kinda looks like a bomb maker.
Trump is a master of his time and works on 4 hours a night. Obama leaves the ruination of the country to Valerie Jarrett and others while Obama mostly screws around.
Your assertion is absurd.
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