The Oprah thing was a joke.
The humor escapes me I’m sure. Looking for a bank roll more likely.
What amazes me is that people talk about him as a good negotiator and think of him as a good hard nosed businessman.
The guy is a shyster developer. He is the slime-ball of developers. He would never pay a contract out in full. To him that is paying “retail” and why do that?
You have heard of negotiated contracts for construction that are cost-of-the-work plus a fee? Well Donald likes to pay cost-of-the-work less (not plus) a percentage when he has a plum project. That means he wants you to subcontract and spend 100 million but he wants to pay you 97 million. The big job is dangled in your face in hopes that you will cheat everyone you do business with out of about 4 million so you can get a fee out of it. Then at the end he stiffs you another 2 to 3 million on quibbles and you have to fight to a neutral number to close out the contract.
Slime is hurt that Trump is referred to with that name. Slime is better than Trump.