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If you are on Donald’s sh*t list and you are in his way, he will smile at you and shake your hand while he leads you out of his office. And in walking you to the door as he smiles he might just say sarcastically “you convinced me” with a smirk.

And after he shuts the door he will admonish his gatekeepers to never let such people in his office again.

In Las Vegas the casino owners are similar but can be more passive-aggressive. There’s an anecdote about Steve Wynn after having been told of a customer at the tables hitting on the girls and calling them whores. After the customer was asked politely to refrain from that behavior, the customer continued and actually grabbed one of the girls.

Because the customer was known to be well-to-do, and because he had lost a very large amount at the tables he was ‘warmly greeted’ by a ‘smiling’ floor manager who told him that Mr. Wynn had heard he was in the casino and would he please accept Mr. Wynn’s invitation to have the pleasure of meeting him in his office. The customer entered Mr. Wynn’s office, warm smiles were on everyone’s faces all around, and Mr. Wynn smiled, shook his hand, offered him a chair and the following exchange occurred:

“Mr. Jones, So glad you came to visit us today!

“Thank you Mr. Wynn.”

“You find everything comfortable? Satisfying?”

“Why yes!”

“Food good? Have you been treated well?”

“Yes! Yes!”

“I heard you lost quite a lot at the tables, how much?”

“Yes, well about 100 grand give or take.”

Steve Wynn pulls out a drawer at his desk, grabs the casino checkbook inside, writes a check for $100,000 and presents it to the customer.

“Mr. Wynn thank you!”

Mr. Wynn leads him to the door and tells the customer sternly and aggressively:

“Don’t ever badmouth or touch any of my employees in my casinos again! Now get the Hell out of here and don’t ever come back!”

Now if Steve Wynn was running for President, the Press would lead with this headline:

“STEVE WYNN REIMBURSES UNDER THE TABLE FAVORED CASINO CUSTOMERS FOR CASINO LOSSES!”