Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
1) What do trump's businesses sell?
Really dude? You don't know what he sells?
https://www.trump.com/merchandise/signature-collection/

https://www.ivankatrump.com/articles/category/style

Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
Trump certainly hasn't been good for his hotels.
Trump's DC Hotel made a massive profit in 2017, which was unexpected because most new luxury hotels don't turn a profit in their first few years of operation.

https://www.axios.com/the-dc-trump-h...74fda0396.html

Meanwhile after he was inaugurated, the membership fee at Mar-a-lago DOUBLED from 100K to 200K:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a...-200000-2017-1

Certainly seems like people are willing to spend money at his properties in order to curry favor with the President.


Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
How much did he pay out of his own pocket to get elected. Do tell if he has made that back on his businesses.
Very good question and one that is also very easy to answer. He spent $66.1 million of his own money on his campaign, which represented 8.4% of his total campaign funding. A sizable investment, to be sure, but a profitable one. For starters, about $12 million of that was in loans, for which he can be paid back by his campaign. Another $10 million or so was funneled back into his own pocket by buying goods and services from his own properties [[golf courses, hotels, restaurants, rental space in Trump Tower, etc.). So at the end of the day, it's really closer to about $45 million.

Now, how much has his $45 million investment paid off? Well, just from the tax cut alone, he stands to save about $15 million per year in taxes. So his modest $45 million investment will pay for itself in just three years, after that, it's all profit. I'm not including extra profit he's making from things like Mar-a-lago and the DC Hotel from people looking to spend big money to curry favor or get close to the President.

As for Trump having a 50% approval rating, what polling agency did that poll? What prominent house effect are they known to have [[Democrat or Republican)? And does that number concur with literally every other approval rating poll taken at roughly the same time? I already know the answers to these questions, just curious if you do.

FYI, just a little civics lesson for you, the military CAN'T act in a law enforcement capacity on American soil. There's this little law called "Posse Comitatus", look it up. Sorry to burst your masturbatory bubble, but U.S. Army soldiers aren't going to be apprehending illegal immigrants on American soil at gunpoint. Best Trump can do is send the National Guard to provide "support functions" [[surveillance, logistics, transportation) to the Border Patrol, just like Bush and Obama both did.