Hat tip to KeldBach’s Journal.
This informative 1991 documentary film about Donald Trump traces the history of his business up until the bankruptcy of Trump Taj Mahal, the first of four Trump businesses to seek protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Donald is the son of Fred Trump, a successful developer in Brooklyn. Part of his success, as the documentary shows, is due to the Trump family money. Part is due to Donald Trump’s use of his father’s name to obtain political influence and to get use of other people’s money.
The documentary shows Trump was a talented and successful deal-maker. It shows he was an even more successful salesman and promoter, and how that trumped (so to speak) his failure to provide good service to his tenants or to achieve sustainable financial results.
The makers of the documentary write Trump off as a failure, and yet, as we now know, he bounced back and survived even more setbacks, by using his celebrity to promote the Trump brand.
Is this what we Americans want in a President of the United States? It would not be a change for the better, but a doubling down on everything that has been wrong in Washington for the past 10 or 15 years—how repeated failures are hidden behind a smokescreen of denital and bluff.
Update [8/8/2016] The video is no longer in the public domain, but look at the trailer.
Tags: documentary film, Donald Trump, Fred Trump, Trump, Trump family, Trump Taj Mahal
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