Never quite saw the point of showing off with a car, but whatever makes you happy... If you can reasonably afford it. So many people waste money on cars.
ICE injures an American then runs away.
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Matt Dillon
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In for seeing how disingenuous this thread actually is.
Matt Dillon
Retardium User
Yep. It's bullshit. 
QP!
Verified User
Yes because Trump's dad was constantly feeding him money trying to save failed business of Donald's after failed business.
Lots of analysis out there, had Donald just put all the money he got from his dad in an Dow Index fund he would have been richer than he was before the Presidency.
There is no identified solo entrepreneur in America who has the tax losses filings and business bankruptcies and discontinuations that Trump has had publically identified.
QP!
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Major Trump-Branded Ventures — status chart
| # | Business / Venture | Type (owned / licensed / JV) | Years (approx.) | Outcome | Notes / source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trump University (aka The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative) | Owned / for-profit education venture | 2005–2010 (lawsuits through 2016–2018) | Shut down; legal settlement — Multiple civil suits and NY AG action; federal settlement ~$25M finalized 2018. | ABC News; Time. ABC News+1 |
| 2 | Trump Entertainment Resorts (Atlantic City casinos: Taj Mahal, Plaza, Marina, etc.) | Owned (casino operator / public co.) | 1995–2016 (company dissolved; properties closed/sold earlier) | Multiple bankruptcies; properties closed/sold; Taj Mahal closed 2016; company defunct. | Wikipedia (Trump Entertainment Resorts), reporting on closures. Wikipedia+1 |
| 3 | Trump Shuttle / Trump Airlines (the shuttle service) | Owned (air service JV/asset buy) | 1989–1992 (merged/sold) | Sold / merged into Shuttle, Inc. / ceased as Trump Shuttle | Wikipedia / historical airline reporting. Wikipedia |
| 4 | Trump Mortgage (Trump Mortgage LLC) | Owned (financial services) | 2005–2007 | Closed; failed operation; litigation/claims followed | Independent, Bloomberg reporting on closure and lawsuits. The Independent+1 |
| 5 | GoTrump.com (travel site) | Owned (web travel portal) | 2006–2007 | Shut down (ceased operations) | Wikipedia/Time reporting. Wikipedia+1 |
| 6 | Trump Vodka | Licensed brand (Drinks Americas) | 2005–c.2011 (US distribution) | Discontinued in US; effectively failed to gain distribution | Wikipedia / multiple analyses of product failure. Wikipedia |
| 7 | Trump Steaks | Licensed product (Sharper Image / QVC sales) | 2007 (very short) | Discontinued within months (poor sales) | Wikipedia / reporting on Sharper Image discontinuing line. Wikipedia |
| 8 | Trump Magazine (print / luxury magazine) | Owned/licensed (publishing) | 2007–2009 (various relaunch attempts) | Folded / ceased publication | New York Post / Time reporting. New York Post+1 |
| 9 | Trump: The Game (board game) | Licensed consumer product | 1989 (re-released 2004) | Poor sales; discontinued; reissue underperformed | Wikipedia / toy-industry reporting. Wikipedia |
| 10 | Trump Steakhouses / Restaurants (various branded venues) | Licensing & owned locations | 2007–2012 (various) | Several locations closed; some faced violations; brand line discontinued | Time / reporting on closures. TIME |
| 11 | Trump Ice (bottled water) | Licensed product / distribution | c.1995–c.2010 (wider distribution c.2003–2010) | Distribution scaled back / product discontinued (brand largely retired) | Wikipedia; Reuters fact check. Wikipedia+1 |
| 12 | Trump Mortgage Insurance / other small finance offshoots | Owned / affiliated | mid-2000s | Many closed or wound down during 2007–2008 period | Time / Bloomberg summaries. TIME+1 |
| 13 | Trump University / Trump Institute (related seminar brands) | Owned / affiliated | mid-2000s | Sued; rebranded; operations ended; legal settlements | American Progress / ABC / state AG reporting. Center for American Progress+1 |
| 14 | Trump: licensing deals for fragrances, ties, apparel (various branded products sold by licensees) | Licensing | 1990s–2010s | Many brand license lines were discontinued or scaled back; licensing revenue variable | Washington Post (brand licensing overview). Wikipedia |
| 15 | Trump International Hotel & Tower projects (certain foreign/condo ventures that stalled or were restructured) | Joint development / licensing | 1990s–2010s | Some projects stalled, restructured, sold or rebranded (not uniformly failures; many successful towers remain) | Investigative summaries (NYT/Investopedia). Wikipedia+1 |
| 16 | Trump Entertainment (various Atlantic City properties that bankrupted under company ownership) | Owned | 1990s–2016 | Multiple Chapter 11 filings for the casino business (company emerged then later folded/sold) | Wikipedia & news coverage of sequential bankruptcies. Wikipedia |
| 17 | Other short-lived product tie-ins (e.g., Trump Mortgage services, small food lines, novelty items) | Licensed/partner | 1990s–2010s | Many quietly discontinued or sold; often limited commercial success |
QP!
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Lets not forget this...
Donald Trump’s massive historical tax losses were thoroughly exposed and confirmed. [1]
Here are the facts regarding his filings and how they stack up against the rest of American history:
Fact-Checking Trump's Historic Filings
The New York Times acquired printouts from official IRS tax transcripts spanning the years 1985 to 1994 for Trump's federal 1040 forms. The records revealed that Trump's core businesses—primarily his hotels, casinos, and apartment spaces—suffered a total loss of $1.17 billion over that decade. [1, 2, 3]
Furthermore, during a 2022 Manhattan criminal trial involving the Trump Organization, his longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified on the witness stand and under oath, explicitly confirming that Trump reported continuous losses every single year from 2009 to 2018, including nearly $700 million in losses in 2009 alone. [1, 2]
Is there any other American with a larger single-year loss?
According to the IRS's own data, no other individual American taxpayer is known to have filed a larger single-year loss during that era. [1]
When the New York Times compared Trump's transcripts against the regular anonymous samplings the IRS compiles on high-income earners, they discovered that Trump's core business losses in 1990 and 1991—which exceeded $250 million each year—were more than double those of the next-nearest individual taxpayers in the database. For that specific decade, he effectively lost more money than almost any other individual filer in the United States. [1, 2]
Donald Trump’s massive historical tax losses were thoroughly exposed and confirmed. [1]
Here are the facts regarding his filings and how they stack up against the rest of American history:
Fact-Checking Trump's Historic FilingsThe New York Times acquired printouts from official IRS tax transcripts spanning the years 1985 to 1994 for Trump's federal 1040 forms. The records revealed that Trump's core businesses—primarily his hotels, casinos, and apartment spaces—suffered a total loss of $1.17 billion over that decade. [1, 2, 3]
Furthermore, during a 2022 Manhattan criminal trial involving the Trump Organization, his longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified on the witness stand and under oath, explicitly confirming that Trump reported continuous losses every single year from 2009 to 2018, including nearly $700 million in losses in 2009 alone. [1, 2]
Is there any other American with a larger single-year loss?According to the IRS's own data, no other individual American taxpayer is known to have filed a larger single-year loss during that era. [1]
When the New York Times compared Trump's transcripts against the regular anonymous samplings the IRS compiles on high-income earners, they discovered that Trump's core business losses in 1990 and 1991—which exceeded $250 million each year—were more than double those of the next-nearest individual taxpayers in the database. For that specific decade, he effectively lost more money than almost any other individual filer in the United States. [1, 2]
Guno צְבִי
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T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Okay...
ICE makes a mistaken identification as the man looks like someone they are looking for. That happens with police.
The officers approach the man, identify themselves, and ask for his name and ID. He refuses. The officers detain him with the intention of identifying him since he refused.
He becomes hostile towards the officers. They go to restrain him. He fights back.
They finally get him restrained. They make their identification and determine the guy isn't who they are looking for.
They release him.
CNN reports it's all the ICE officer's fault.
As usual, CNN is full of shit. This guy should have just cooperated to begin with and he'd have been on his way unharmed. But he decided to fight law enforcement officers and got injured in the fight. He should count himself lucky they didn't go ahead an arrest him for assault and resisting arrest.
Detaining someone by mistake is one thing... Attacking a person and then running away is a crime.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
ICE doesn't appear to have attacked this guy. That looks like it went the other way around. He got into a fight with ICE agents. They detained but did not arrest him. He suffered minor injuries during the scuffle. Having identified him, they were finished with their reason for being there--to enforce a lawful court order to find and arrest some illegal alien. At that point, they uncuffed the person who was no longer a suspect and released him.
Attacking law enforcement officers is a crime. Resisting arrest is a crime. He should be thankful they didn't charge him with those crimes.
Even if this bullshit is true which is doubtful, collateral damage to reel in the last administration's skullduggery is inevitable and just fine by me.
IBDaMann
Probably the worse human in the threads
It's CNN. It's fake. That's why they were banned from the White House.
That's because you haven't the respect (or money) for older Detroit muscle.cars.
I drive class...
It's a mystery to me why Wrong Way Wally is so jealous of President Trump's business success and his wealth.
It's not healthy to be bitter because someone else has been far more successful than you.
President Trump won the presidency twice (actually three times), was an ultra successful businessman, an author, and an ultra successful TV performer. He is a multi-billionaire, 6.5 t0 7 billion dollars.
Let's list WWW's accomplishments...um...he still has his food delivery job even though he was once caught eating some of the food that he was supposed to deliver. His grammar is indicative of a high school dropout. He's cheap with his children.
He spends much of his time trying to convince us that President Trump, a multi-billionaire, is not a good businessman.
Um...that just about sums it up (sic).
It's not healthy to be bitter because someone else has been far more successful than you.
President Trump won the presidency twice (actually three times), was an ultra successful businessman, an author, and an ultra successful TV performer. He is a multi-billionaire, 6.5 t0 7 billion dollars.
Let's list WWW's accomplishments...um...he still has his food delivery job even though he was once caught eating some of the food that he was supposed to deliver. His grammar is indicative of a high school dropout. He's cheap with his children.
He spends much of his time trying to convince us that President Trump, a multi-billionaire, is not a good businessman.
Um...that just about sums it up (sic).
That is gorgeous, RB65.That's because you haven't the respect (or money) for older Detroit muscle.cars.
I drive class...
7 trophies this year, 2 Best of Show. Last car show of the season tomorrow.
Then it's bed time for the winter.
Kook
Yes, you are and it's good of you to admit it.