Nick, Nick, I know the politicians have lied to you over and over again, but Donald J. Trump will deliver the goods. He will build the wall, and Mexico will pay for it.
Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I seriously wish we could be money on it, because Trump has no intention of doing that. The fact he said, 'hew will Mexico pay for it,' was a tipoff he was making fun of people like you.
But worse still. the wall wouldn't make a difference. If Trump had any knowledge of conservative economics, he would understand that. As long as the U.S. is incentivizing illegal immigrants, they will get here.
Doesn't Trump have a problem, 'delivering the goods.'
Remember back in the 2012 election cycle, when Trump promised he had a huge anouncement that would rock President Obama's presidency? He had proof! (Geraldo's Rivera's Al capone's vault)
Then remember he never, 'delivered the goods.'
By making promises and didn't follow through, DISCREDITING all of Obama's critics? When he helped Obama in 2012, and now you think he ON YOUR SIDE.
Do you have a response to why Trump didn't DELIVE THE GOODS and HELPED Obama?