C-Rice is the typical Establishment enemy we are fighting. No conservative patriot would ever consider Condi Rice. Ever!
Posted on 05/20/2016 7:00:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump has hired hundreds of people throughout his career and soared to national fame as the star of a reality TV show dubbed the "ultimate job interview."
Now, as the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Trump is beginning the most consequential interview process of his lifetime: choosing a vice president.
While Trump has never before had to pick a political partner, he has had plenty of practice sifting through resumes and hand-picking executives to help run his real estate empire. Four current and past senior managers at the Trump Organization who agreed to speak with CNN -- including the general managers of the Trump golf course in Los Angeles and the Trump International Hotel in New York -- shed light on how Trump deliberates over his corporate hires -- and what kind of qualities Trump likes in a No. 2.
"Many of the same qualities that he would look for for someone to work closely with him within his organization are going to apply to his search for a VP," said Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel for the Trump Organization.
Deeply loyal
Martin and others describe a boss who demands deep loyalty, both to him and his franchise. He is drawn to conventional markers of prestige, such as Ivy League degrees or past employment at well-known firms. He can be somewhat of a micromanager, at times involved in even the minutiae of decorating decisions throughout his numerous properties. Despite exerting this level of control, he also takes to employees who push back and speak their minds -- as long as they remember he is u
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Hopefully Trump doesn’t pick his unemployed golfing and texting buddy John Boehner.
Trump’s not tone deaf. No way that’s happening.
There is a huge case to be made for Kasich. He has a lot of the same bona fides as Gingrich, without as many downsides.”
IMHO Kasich is the next thing to a Democrat and that is why he got money from Soros. No to Kasich.
C-Rice is the typical Establishment enemy we are fighting. No conservative patriot would ever consider Condi Rice. Ever!
Did I make a comment on Trump’s business acumen? Trump is not a business executive he is an owner and he hires executives to help him run his business. Trump has complete autonomy over his domain but he will not have control over the USA. I wish him well but if he can accomplish two things I will be happy. Immigration and SC picks.
The US does not need to be run like a business it needs to be run like a the Constitutional Republic is was intended to be.
I am trying to think of all those successful US presidents who where successful businessmen prior to being elected. Maybe you can help with a few names. You know the ones who fired 100,000s of bureaucrats, vanquished our enemies, and healed our land, oh yeah, and made billions prior to being President.
Trump’s son said career politicians wouldn’t last fifteen minutes in the business world. One reason for that is the bloated, inefficient, corrupt, top heavy, unwieldy bureaucracy that DC expands more every year. If you think a businessman like Trump will do nothing in the face of this idiotic behemoth, you have a real shock coming.
I and all my girlfriends love Newt. So does my mom and my sister.
Trump’s son is 100% correct. So why do you think the exact opposite is true? The shock and disappointment will be yours. Business owner billionaire is a different skill set then history making president. Not saying that Trump does not have the skills needed just that it won’t be the ones that made him rich and famous.
Jimmah was a business man how’d that work out? Truman was a broke businessman great prez lousy exec. Reagan, the greatest ever was not a businessman.
If you’re not a career politician then you’ve missed your calling. You have the perfect DC attitude: nothing will ever change, the cripplingly vast, corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy will only become even more vast, corrupt and cripplingly inefficient, Trump = Carter [do you actually think about what you’re writing, or is it just brain-detached stream of consciousness?] and blah blah blah.
As enamored as you are of business-as-usual/the status quo, you must be a huge fan of the Permanent Political Class. Perhaps at one time you even had good things to say about Cruz?
If I cared enough, I’d remember your name so that, God willing, a couple of years into Trump’s term I could point out how fortunate we were to have dodged the career politician bullet, but this is not an exchange to remember. Hope you’re not too disappointed when Trump shakes things up far more than you anticipate. The rest of us will be delighted.
Still waiting for any support that being a great exec will make him be the best president of all time. You really thinkTrump has a better chance to remake the US more than the actor no businessman Reagan?
I just said Jimmah was businessman who didn’t succeed. Maybe you don’t understand business execs as good as you think. Romney is good at business. So is Bloomberg.
Your posts read like they were written by a angry teen. Sorry your guy Cruz turned out to be such a disappointment. The bitterness of his supporters is the stuff of legends.
The only time/way Cruz supporters will grasp the advantage of putting Trump in the WH will be after they’ve seen his accomplishments. Right now the dislike of him is too big an impediment to allow for more than (misplaced) disdain..
Can’t write more...too busy laughing about your comparison of Romney’s business acumen to Trump’s. You know, Romney himself tried that once. You really should look it up. Let’s just say it’s a mistake not even Mitt will make twice.
BOL.
Bad blood is relative. Remember early on in their campaigns they both went out of their ways to not attack each other.
Then, when Cruz abruptly dropped out, it sealed the nomination for Trump, which might suggest that Trump offered Cruz an incentive. Big business can often be this way, with personalities set aside for “the deal”.
Personally, about the optimum scenario for me would be for Trump to use Cruz to slash and burn the government, which since it would ruin him politically, then to make a deal with Mitch McConnell to shepherd him through the senate in a nomination for the SCOTUS.
This would mean ruination for both bloated parts of the government and the Democrats. That is why Trump floated the list of nominees for Scalia’s seat. To put in a strong conservative justice, but one who can get through the senate; then after Cruz does his job as VP, he gets the next seat, like that of Ginsburg.
You are the one making the case that Trump will be successful because of his business prowess. You have yet to give one example of a successful businessman becoming a successful president. Let alone that remakes the country. I have given you several examples to contrary.
You can keep name calling, a favorite tactic of liberals, it just proves your inability to ground your argument in facts. I never said Trump was like Jimmah or Romney. I used them as examples of businessmen, who you said I do not understand how they operate, who where or wished to be president. Now it’s your turn to offer some evidence that a great businessman will make a great president.
I have made the case that business success does not necessarily lead to success as president and I have said I would be happy if Trump accomplishes two big things. If that crushes your vision of political nirvana I am sorry. Keep up your laughing and name calling it seems to be all you have.
“The only time/way Cruz supporters will grasp the advantage of putting Trump in the WH will be after they’ve seen his accomplishments. Right now the dislike of him is too big an impediment to allow for more than (misplaced) disdain.”
Your reply once again offers no support to your earlier assertions. You also offer no evidence that I am a dissatisfied Cruz supporter. You imply that I dislike Trump because I cannot get over Cruz. The former, even if true, is not proof of the latter.
But I say well done on imitating Trump’s style is on name calling. It sounds good when spoken to Hilliary. But unlike her I have not started the name calling.
You said yourself you dislike Trump. Shall I dig back in your posting history to discover whether you had anything good to say about Cruz?
Never made any bones about disliking Trump but that doesn’t make me a Cruz supporter. Even if I supported Cruz, let me know what you find, it would not have been out of dislike of Trump. My opinion on Trumps future success as president vis a vis his past success as a businessman is the nexus of our argument. But again that is not an argument about whether Trum will be successful.
You made the assertion that I do not understand how execs operate because if I did I would not deny that Trump will do all the amazing things you mentioned. Can we stick to that?
I went back far enough to read your comment about “Trumpnuts.” In light of that, it’s comical to watch you strain so hard to pursue this conversation. I wrote once, and then reposted, exactly what applies to people who run around spouting about “Trumpnuts.” You didn’t read or comprehend my comment either time. It’s not my responsibility to post it a third time. Neither the words nor the reasoning behind it has changed.
Look, it’s your prerogative to ignore those comments from now till the end of time; that’s nothing to me. But to slightly paraphrase Rand, “You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring realty.”
Keep diverting attention away from the fact that you made several assertions none of which you defended except to name call, and discuss likes and dislikes. You said I don’t understand how execs operate and therefore do not understand how Trump will cut 100,000s of government jobs.
You have chosen to intererpret my skepticism of business skills leading to success as president as dislike for Trump and like for Cruz. You of course couldn’t back your claim of my like for Cruz because you spoke first and researched later.
Trump will not cut 100,000s of government jobs. I do not think he will build a literal wall, he will not even greatly change our international trade. But I believe he can and will get at least two things right and in doing so will be marked as a great president someday. He will reorder immigration from illegal and 3rd world to legal and traditional western countries. Plus he will make good Supreme Court picks. He may put our fiscal house in order or not. Getting the first two is enough.
You are either the kind of person who says things he doesn’t mean, or you’re used to interacting with people who say things they don’t mean. I’m not that kind. I said, with crystsl clarity, that there is nothing to discuss, at this point in time, with the type of person who runs around labeling people “Trumpnuts.” I said it more than once. I meant it.
If we were to continue this conversation, it would be, as per my previous post, a few years into Trump’s term—God willing he has one. I’m making no commitment, however, to resume this discussion even then. Rather, your inability to read and comprehend what I wrote, or your unwillingness to respect it, terminates the exchange. Communication is a two way street, and so far you’ve demonstrated a need to talk coupled with an unwillingness or inability to listen. That precludes communication.
If all that weren’t enough, there’s the ‘Trumpnut’ silliness itself. If you enjoy such immature sobriquets, that’s your preference. Why you’d imagine anyone would want to converse with someone who calls them a nut is a mystery. Most people have better ways to spend their time.
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