Trump has a big but

[gotsnowgotslush]

" I am a business man." *
- Donald Trump the Drumpf


Donald Trump has repeatedly and loudly proclaimed that he does not “believe” in climate change, calling it “bullshit” and a “hoax.” This is in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is happening in is man made.

In spite of these pronouncements, Trump’s company applied for a permit for a seawall for his Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland in County Clare to prevent erosion. According to Politico, the permit application it explicitly mentions the wall is to protect the golf course from “global warming and its effects.” Specifically the application mentions erosion from rising sea levels and the extreme weather displayed this century.

It is hard to say whether Donald Trump actually believes that his golf course will be harmed by rising sea levels or if he thought that his application would be expedited by invoking global warming.

https://whatdonaldtrumpliedaboutyesterday.com/

Trump’s sea wall application calls out an Irish government study for failing to account for the effects of climate change on coastal erosion, Politico reports.

“In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. … As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase.”

Trump’s company is also using the threat of climate change to increase support for the sea wall among local residents, Politico reports. An appendix to the application includes a scan of a brochure that the company has distributed to residents. One of included bullet points states: "Predicted sea level rise and more frequent storm events will increase the rate of erosion throughout the 21st century."

https://www.wunderground.com/news/trump-cares-about-climate-change-when-it-affects-his-golf-course


Trump has repeatedly taken to Twitter to express skepticism that human activity is causing the world to warm, raising sea levels as the polar ice caps melt. He has also said he would seek to "renegotiate" the global accord to cut climate-warming carbon emissions agreed to by President Barack Obama in December.


http://www.independent.ie/business/...oonbeg-resort-if-wall-not-built-34500269.html


Consultants acting for Donald Trump have warned that if the US billionaire doesn't secure planning permission for a 200,000-tonne 'wall' of rock armour to protect his Doonbeg golf resort, it risks potential closure.

behind closed doors he is using the case for climate change to argue that he needs to protect his real estate, legal documents show.

Mr Trump bought the golf resort in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland in February 2014, promising invest up to €45 million in the property. He said he would "make it one of the greatest golf courses in the world".
But before he could even close the deal a single storm eroded as much as eight metres of valuable golfing terrain.

Mr Trump failed to win a special approval from the government to build a sea barrier that would protect the resort.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...ect-doonbeg-from-climate-change-34741613.html

earlier this month Trump International Golf Links Ireland filed a planning application to the local county council asking to build a two-mile barrier, made up of 200,000 tonnes of rock, to protect the club from further erosion.

The permit request, which was reviewed by Politico magazine, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather — as a primary reason for building the structure.
The petition cited one Irish government study that assumed a steady rate of erosion through to 2050, but argued that this did not go far enough because it failed to consider the effects of climate change.

“If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland," the Trump application stated.
It added that, factoring in climate change, the estimated rate of sea level rise might as much as double.

The petition is at odds with Mr Trump's public posture. As he prepares for a general election battle, Mr Trump has been openly scathing about climate change.
The Pentagon describes climate change as “an urgent and growing threat to our national security". But Mr Trump has consistently mocked the warnings. He has repeatedly said on Twitter that global warming is a "total hoax".

Earlier this month, Mr Trump suggested that as president he might pull America out a landmark United Nations global climax change accord, a move that would hobble the deal reached in Paris last December by nearly 200 nations.
Mr Trump has not commented on what a pull-out from this agreement might mean for the future of his prized Irish golfing resort.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...limate-change-is-a-hoax-but-tries-to-protect/

Mr Trump failed to win a special approval from the Irish government to build a sea barrier that would protect the resort.

So earlier this month Trump International Golf Links Ireland filed a planning application to the local county council asking to build a two-mile barrier, made up of 200,000 tonnes of rock, to protect the club from further erosion.

The permit request, which was reviewed by Politico magazine, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather — as a primary reason for building the structure.

The permit request, which was reviewed by Politico magazine, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather — as a primary reason for building the structure.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

Neither Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, nor Alan Garten, the general counsel of the Trump Organization, the umbrella company for Trump’s business ventures, responded to requests for comment.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

*One of Trump’s glitziest forays into the industry didn’t didn’t end with such success, however. Trump Mortgage, a sketchy venture he launched in 2006, which sold residential, commercial and so-called “sub-prime” loans — the same loans that contributed to the crisis — in the years preceding the recession. The firm ultimately closed in 2007, however, after failing to meet expectations. Trump blamed the people he hired to run it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...us_5744703fe4b0613b512b4886?owsd5okbyuqlac3di

Jessica Mackler, president of the Democratic opposition-research firm American Bridge, said in a statement that the businessman’s ties to a private equity investor who made money off the crisis is just the “latest reminder that Trump is always looking to turn a profit, even at the expense of working families.”

 

[RUlookingup]

Sounds like the left is nervous.

 

[Iceprincess12]

I came to see his but. Disappointment tastes so bitter for dessert

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Here's my Truth Test for those who want a fool proof way to cut thru the bull shit.


After your mom or life partner or perfesser stops blabbering put a $20 bill on the table or counter, and offer them the money or whatever it is they say the world needs...like gay marriage, toilets for trannies, no grades or tests for college students, world peace, whatever their cause is. It works well for relationship issues, too. Like when she whines, I WISH YOUR PEEPEE WAS LONG LIKE LEROY'S. Just offer her $20 or her freedom to flee to Leroy.

 

[dan_c00000]

I WISH YOUR PEEPEE WAS LONG LIKE LEROY'S.

I'm sorry you have a small dick.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"I cannot wait to debate Bernie Sanders."


"We could have a lot of fun with it," Trump said. “I would love to debate Bernie, actually. I mean the problem with debating Bernie is he’s going to lose [the nomination] because, honestly, his system is rigged just like our system is rigged.”


"I’d love to debate Bernie. He’s a dream,” he told reporters in Bismarck, N.D.

So what we can do, if we can raise for maybe women’s health issues or something — if we can raise 10 or 15 million dollars for charity, which would be a very appropriate amount. I understand the television business very well.”


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ove-to-debate-bernie-to-raise-10m-for-charity

According to Briggs, the Sanders campaign was given the opportunity to submit a question to ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for Kimmel to ask Trump. Sanders chose to ask whether the presumptive GOP nominee is willing to debate him.

“Yes, I am,” Trump said. "How much is he going to pay me? If he paid a nice sum toward a charity, I’d love to do that.”

Sanders accepted his offer shortly after on Twitter, and proposed holding the debate in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary.


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ove-to-debate-bernie-to-raise-10m-for-charity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ts-a-price-range-for-debating-bernie-sanders/

But, but, but...


The statement came to light shortly after Traction and Scale CEO Richie Hecker volunteered to offer the $10 million the GOP nominee had wanted to be donated to charity as a condition of debating Sanders

“The networks want to make a killing on these events and are not proving to be too generous to charitable causes, in this case, women’s health issues,” Trump said in his statement. “Therefore, as much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders — and it would be an easy payday — I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/tru...ders-after-tech-company-offers-to-pay-for-it/

 

[JackLuis]

Trump realized that if he took on Bernie and lost!! And Hillary won, he'd be playing catch up all through the General.

Too bad for Bernie because it would have shown him really fighting for the Revolution, not pulling his punches for a woman.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

From my point of view, Bernie just had a lucky miss, when Trump stuck his but out, again.

Poor Bernie would not have been able to get a word in edgewise.
It would be an exercise in futility. You cannot have a conversation with someone who insists on converting every encounter into an opportunity to kick someone down below their level, in the most crude way possible.

Do not lie down with dogs, and do not argue with idiots. Good advice.

Donald Trump is a troll. Trump uses the fact that he will not be held accountable for anything he has said.

"Donald Trump finally made public an accounting of the $5.6 million in charitable donations to veterans groups he gave or raised during an Iowa speech in January. He also took the opportunity — at a news conference at Trump Tower (of course) — to lambaste the press for pushing him to be accountable on these donations."

gsgs comment-

As per usual, Donald Trump attacks with insults and accusations that could be applied to him. Today, he accused journalists of being dishonest.


"You're a sleaze because you know the facts, and you know the facts well,” Trump said in one instance, pointing at a reporter from ABC News.

“I have to tell you, the press is so dishonest and so unfair,” Trump said

Will Trump tell us about the vendors that he had removed ? Some were veterans.

Trump has sympathy for veterans, unless they are on the sidewalk in front of his building. Then, they are not welcome.


While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” Trump wrote in a 1991 letter to John Dearie, then-chairman of the state Assembly’s Committee on Cities.

“Do we allow Fifth Ave., one of the world’s finest and most luxurious shopping districts, to be turned into an outdoor flea market, clogging and seriously downgrading the area?” Trump demanded.

New York’s original peddling exceptions for veterans date back to 1894 — created to give those disabled during the Civil War a chance to support themselves.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...d-trump-push-street-vendors-article-1.2312519

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ny-over-delayed-donations-to-veterans-groups/

There was nothing simple, clear cut, or honest about what Trump did, when he tried to use veteran's charity groups for attention whoring.


Veterans charity groups that refused to be used by Trump, were abused, attacked, and were given death threats.


Did Trump really raise and donate $6 million — including $1 million of his own money — to veterans' organizations as he had boasted for months?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...mps-1-million-donation-to-veterans/?tid=a_inl

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Trump's business model is to borrow, and not pay back the money.

Spend lavishly.
Stiff the investors.
Stiff the suppliers.
Stiff the vendors.
Stiff the workers.
Stiff the bank.

Trump lost no money of his own, and he got everyone else to pay for everything.

He has been getting away with it, all his life.

What a great business man!/ end sarcasm sequence.

Potemkin wealth!

See - Trump Airlines

“I’m not criticizing Pan Am,” Trump said that day. “I’m just speaking facts.”

Executives at Trump’s newest venture were aghast. In a highly competitive business, one in which Trump had no experience, the new boss had tossed decorum to the wind and made claims he had no evidence to support.

“We said, ‘Donald, don’t ever do that again,’ ” recalled Henry Harteveldt, who was the company’s marketing director. “It was wrong. We had no proof to back that up. And there’s an unwritten rule in the airline business that you don’t attack someone else’s safety record. There but for the grace of God go I.”


https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/po...ash-landing/zEf1Er2Hok2dPTVVmZT6NP/story.html


http://wonkette.com/602407/it-seems...-that-good-at-business-but-that-cant-be-right



ABC News and The Guardian newspaper reported earlier this month that for tax purposes, Trump’s attorneys at first argued the property was worth just $1.35 million before increasing the figure to $9 million.
A golf property’s valuation can be much lower for tax purposes than the price it might bring in a sale. Tax authorities don’t take into account what the underlying land might be used for by another owner, along with other variables.
But in this case, this difference was far too great, according to Dana Levenberg, the supervisor for Ossining, New York, which oversees the property. Levenberg argues that Trump’s undervaluation of the property is taking money away from children in the local Briarcliff School District.
“We have somebody on the one hand who has lawyers saying the value is less than $2 million while at the same time he’s claiming it’s worth over $50 million,” Levenberg said in an interview. “And we have seen no revenue or expense forms. It can’t be that he is making all this money but saying he doesn’t have to pay taxes on it. That’s less money for the children in school, less money for learning.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-money-net-worth-223662

 

[phrodeau]

A great article about narcissism: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-narcissist-251ec901dae7#.lfxw6b53a

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

*reads the article and feels a cold shiver* yikes

This past week, non cable TV aired the Bernie Madoff story.
I paused several times to watch how they portrayed him.
I compared Trump to Madoff, and saw little difference between them.

Over, and over, again, a Republican takes their place at the helm,
and proceeds to throws a party for his friends at the expense
of the taxpayer and the country.

I dread to think what Trump would do, given his track record and his mentality.
Trump has not faced the pressure of the office of president, and he already has lost touch with reality.

 

[JackLuis]

Employees Of Trump ‘University’ Say It Was High Pressure Sales Scam. Whaaaaaat????

Hope everyone’s sitting down for this: In court documents unsealed Tuesday, former employees of Donald Trump’s fake “University” say the real estate seminars weren’t so much a way to learn Donald Trump’s secrets for getting rich as a high-pressure scam to sell people more expensive real-estate seminars. So at least somebody was making a lot of money from the fake “school.”

One sales manager for Trump University, Ronald Schnackenberg, recounted how he was reprimanded for not pushing a financially struggling couple hard enough to sign up for a $35,000 real estate class, despite his conclusion that it would endanger their economic future. He watched with disgust, he said, as a fellow Trump University salesman persuaded the couple to purchase the class anyway.

Schnackenberg said in his affidavit that he resigned his job at Trump University in disgust, saying that when he began working for Trump University 2006, the curriculum was based on an online training program focusing on real estate (though not one developed by Donald Trump), but that it was soon replaced by a program focused on high-pressure sales tactics run by people who knew little about real estate, where the goal was to upsell enrollees to the most expensive classes, whether they could afford the classes or not. Like other former Trump U employees, he said people were encouraged to max out their credit cards and request higher credit card limits to purchase the classes, although to his knowledge, “not a single consumer who paid for a Trump University seminar program went on to successfully invest in real estate based upon the techniques that were taught.” Schnackenberg also wrote,

Truck Fump!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

This week, Trump handed out many buts.

We have a smart arse journalist to thank, because that journalist asked the first question. He asked how much was raised.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/480247326/trump-calls-a-press-conference-to-bash-the-press

On Tuesday, Trump declared he came close enough, itemizing $5.6 million in contributions.

But that relied on at least 13 additional gifts in the past week totaling roughly $1.9 million. By NPR's tally, that figure incorporates a new $1 million gift from Trump himself dated May 24.

That is, the insistence on accountability from the dishonest, unfair, not good press, forced Trump to make good on his past pledges, as CNN political correspondent Dana Bash reminded viewers on Tuesday.

 

[sr71plt]

Unfortunately, Trump continues to be able to fool many of the people all of the time.

 

[lovecraft68]

Unfortunately, Trump continues to be able to fool many of the people all of the time.

Is he fooling them, or is it they just don't care? Just like Hilary's supporters don't care she's a lying fraud?

This is the ignorance is bliss election.

 

[sr71plt]

Is he fooling them, or is it they just don't care? Just like Hilary's supporters don't care she's a lying fraud?

This is the ignorance is bliss election.

They care about something. They're set on "sticking it to the man" for the way Congress has acted in recent years. The problem is that they aren't bright enough to realize that Trump is "the man"--and then some.

I don't disagree with "sticking it to the man," but I think they should realize that it's Congress that has been what has set them off and they should be giving more attention to who they're sending to Congress than who is going to be president and continue to be thwarted by Congressional do nothingness.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I am waiting to see what Trump's big BUT will be, when he is asked to explain Trump University.

His court case reminds me of the Real Estate infomercials, over the years.
"Get rich quick! Take my seminar courses and get rich, like I did."

Trump University Promised To Help People Profit Off The Foreclosure Crisis

The seminars were a sales pitch with a goal of bringing in at least $54,000 from attendees who signed up for future courses.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/02/48045...-aggressive-tactics-and-foreclosure-profiting

Scam artists defend Trump's scam seminars!

Michelle Gunn, her son Houston Gunn, Casey Hoban, Kent Moyer, who just happen to be friends with Trump and son.

http://wonkette.com/602519/not-at-a...mp-university-which-was-definitely-not-a-scam

News outlets are carrying the AP investigation on the video testimony for Trump's "University."


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rsity-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general-fraud

Donald Trump “personally pocketed $5m” from his Trump University “scam”, New York’s attorney general said on Thursday.

“This never was a university. The fraud started with the name of the organization,” said Eric Schneiderman, who is suing Trump University in New York over allegations of fraud. “It really was a fraud from beginning to end.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-taxes-trademarks-delaware-loophole

New York will not be getting money from taxes on Trump royalty fees

31 May 2016

Trump trademarks including simply “Donald Trump” are now owned by a company in Delaware – allowing the US presidential candidate to save a fortune in taxes.

Trump trademarks have been moved from various states to DTTM Operations LLC, a recently incorporated company registered alongside thousands of others at National Registered Agents office in Dover, Delaware.

The presumptive Republican nominee for president is exploiting the so-called “Delaware loophole”. It allows him to legally avoid paying taxes on royalty fees for use of his trademarks in every other state.

 

[JackLuis]

The Young Turks had this on Trump U.

"it's fraud, just plain fraud..." said the NY AG.