#trump is a nepo baby

[tomorrowusa]

This POLITICO article is from 2019. But little mentioned in its content has substantively changed since then except that Trump is out of office.

There are few things less real than so called "reality shows". And Trump's Apprentice shows were even less real than most of that genre.

A lot of Trump supporters are unaware that he is a nepo baby who was known mostly as a self-promoting publicity hound who suffered a string of business failures and bankruptcies prior to making it big with the Apprentice.

Who is Donald Trump? Ask Americans and many of them will describe a self-made billionaire, a business tycoon of unfathomable success. In research recently published in Political Behavior, we found that voters are not simply uninformed about President Trump’s biographical background, but misinformed—and that misinformation has serious political consequences. Large swaths of the public believe the Trump myth. Across three surveys of eligible voters from 2016 to 2018, we found that as many as half of all Americans do not know that he was born into a very wealthy family. And while Americans are divided along party lines in their assessment of Trump’s performance as president, misperceptions regarding his financial background are found among Democrats and Republicans. The narrative of Trump as self-made is simply false. Throughout his life, the president has downplayed the role his father, real estate developer Fred Trump, played in his success, claiming it was “limited to a small loan of $1 million.” That isn’t true, of course: A comprehensive New York Times investigation last year estimated that over the course of his lifetime, the younger Trump received more than $413 million in today’s dollars from his father. While this exact figure was not known before the Times’ report, it was a matter of record that by the mid-1980s, Trump had been loaned at least $14 million by his father, was loaned at least $3.5 million more in 1990, had borrowed several more million against his inheritance in the 1990s after many of his ventures failed, and had benefited enormously from his father’s political connections and co-signing on loans early in his career as a builder.

Yep, The Donald was a rich kid who spent his dad's money rather poorly. While his father Fred was despicable in his own right, at least HE really did have a successful real estate empire.

When people do discover the true story behind Trump, attitudes about him are changed in a statistically noticeable way.

On perceptions of business acumen, which are higher across both parties, the information regarding Fred Trump’s role in his son’s business success is equally important. Democrats reduce their perceptions of Trump as a good businessman by 6 points, while Republican perceptions decline by 9 points.

And the producers of the Apprentice series had to do a lot of work just to keep up Trump's image.

Apprentice Producers Struggled to Make Trump—and His Decisions—Seem Coherent

The producers were the real (evil) geniuses of the series – not Trump.

Putting the series together was incredibly time consuming. According to journalist Patrick Radden Keefe in the MSNBC clip below, they would have to shoot 300 hours of footage for every 1 hour they actually aired. That is some serious editing for a "reality" show.

Mark Burnett was the metaphorical man behind the curtain pulling the levers of Trump's business image.

In close contests, it takes only a small percentage of votes to change an electoral outcome. The reality about Trump's business image is an additional tool we can use to gnaw away at his vote totals.

[odinsblog]

Large swaths of the public believe the Trump myth. Across three surveys of eligible voters from 2016 to 2018, we found that as many as half of all Americans do not know that he was born into a very wealthy family. And while Americans are divided along party lines in their assessment of Trump’s performance as president, misperceptions regarding his financial background are found among Democrats and Republicans.

The narrative of Trump as self-made is simply false. Throughout his life, the president has downplayed the role his father, real estate developer Fred Trump, played in his success, claiming it was “limited to a small loan of $1 million.” That isn’t true, of course: A comprehensive New York Times investigation last year estimated that over the course of his lifetime, the younger Trump received more than $413 million in today’s dollars from his father. While this exact figure was not known before the Times’ report, it was a matter of record that by the mid-1980s, Trump had been loaned at least $14 million by his father, was loaned at least $3.5 million more in 1990, had borrowed several more million against his inheritance in the 1990s after many of his ventures failed, and had benefited enormously from his father’s political connections and co-signing on loans early in his career as a builder.

—The Myth of Donald Trump’s Meritocracy

[jacks-weird-world]

🎶❝Money is the anthem of success,

So before we go out, what's your address?❞🎶

💸

[amberofember]

born to be a nepo baby studying art history, forced to learn about macroeconomics 😔

[slacktivist]

WHEN WAR CRIMES ARE NO LONGER ECONOMICALLY LUCRATIVE

[sebibibebi]

breaking my silence. someone please god give mick a haircut

[messenger-of-stupidity]

Dude, this is killing me.

I genuine cannot understand how trump voters are choosing this guy. Like, WHY???

This man is a nepo baby and has never worked a real day in his life.

He's friends with Diddy and praised the bastard.

He's found guilty of 34 felonies.

He wants to turn the US into a fascist country.

He was friends with Jeffery Epstein.

He's friends with Elon Musk, a fellow nepo baby who's kids don't even want to associate with him. Who think women shouldn't be able to vote. Who didn't even design Tesla, but just bought it. Who's a massive fucking hypocrite. Who is a hateful bastard.

He hypersexualizes and objectifies women.

His only real defense is anti-immigration (bullshit), anti-LGBT (more bullshit), and misogynistic (surprise surprise, even more bullshit).

He's a horrible person. He doesn't care about this country, or the majority of people in it. He doesn't care about women's bodily autonomy. He doesn't care about survival.

He feeds lies and propaganda to make you think he'll make a change.

The only thing this man cares about is power and winning. And the people that voted for him are supporting that.

And if you're worried about the economy, let me tell you something.

Democrats don't fuck up the economy. Republicans do.

The way the government system works is that every policy takes time. A republican gets into office, and starts putting forth all these policies that aren't really going to take a strong effect until their term is almost up. Then a democrat gets into office and gets the blame for the negative effects that the policy has taken. They put in changes to fix it, which takes time. Their term is up. A republican takes office, and gets the credit for the benefits, only to fuck it all up again.

Also, Kamala Harris can't use tax dollars to fund sex changes for illegal immigants (because we've all seen that one ad). That's not the way the American healthcare system works, and sex changes are done through the American healthcare system. We'd have to be more of a socialist country for our tax dollars to go towards that. (Not that anyone should care about what someone wants to do to their body to feel more comfortable in their own skin.)

This man does not care about this country, so he should not be getting votes. And not voting for Kamala or Trump isn't going to help either. Independent parties pull votes away to give power to the Republicans. Most of the people who vote outside of the two major political groups are liberals. Which makes it more likely for the Republican party to win.

Stop voting for yourself, if you do this. Vote for the people who are going to be affected. Vote for the women who are going to die because they can't get the healthcare they need. Vote for the transgender individuals who are going to be hurt and attacked for something that we should all be sympathetic for. Vote for the people who aren't going to be able to marry those they love. Vote for the people who are going to lose the ability to safely practice their religion.

I've seen so many Republican woman talk about how "well it doesn't affect me, so why should I care?"

You should care because of human decency. Because of empathy.

Also, fun fact, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to vote liberal.

(It's British, but the point remains. I couldn't find the one specific towards US statistics. But it's almost 2 in the morning, so forgive me.)

And one of the first groups to be attacked in a fascist state is the more educated and intellectual individuals.

Secondly... Do you really want this being the face of America for four more years?

[liberalsarecool]

Every accusation is a confession.

So telling that Conservatives attack DEI, a policy that helps everyone [looking at you Appalachia], a policy that creates a pathway to success for white people just as much as anyone else, and use it to smear black competence and black excellence as unearned, all while turning a blind eye to white elites in Conservative culture with extreme unearned positions.

When the Right Wing whines about 'didn't earn it', they are talking about nepo baby Trump and his third generation of grifter scam artist children.

[psychiatricwarfare]

i think the greatest one is the Richest Man In The World claiming Green Day is "raging for the machine" when He is quite literally The Machine

one thing that genuinely confuses me about conservatives is who do they think The Man is??? bc they get all angry at punk bands, claiming punk has "switched sides" (it hasnt) and is now pro-The Man (its not) but.. who did they think they were talking about before??? like who actually listened to bands like GD & RAM back in the day and genuinely thought "yeah these guys definitely hate minorities and the poor and women" ??????

[liliesmultiverse]

how i felt after scripting that donald trump, joe biden, sam taylor, gracie abrams, wilbur soot & j.k. rowling don’t exist in my nepo baby reality

if you have any other suggestions pls gimme

[tomorrowusa]

It's sadly hilarious how some incel Trump fanboys consider him to be a hyper-masculine role model. Being a bullying nepo baby with creeping dementia does not make somebody a superhero.

In fact, he's a pathetic wimp who tries to make up for his deep insecurity with fulminating rants which consist of fantasies, self-aggrandizement, and verbose threats – but seldom any reality.

[jacks-weird-world]

Vogue replaced the word "nepobaby" with "pedigree" 🐶. Cause, u know, if he were to depend on his own merits...

Funny the subtly underlined link redirecting to his Tik Tok... Negative marketing is the new thing now. Of course, in a mass culture – especially North American – it’s worth doing anything to win and generate buzz, Including using the sensationalism strategy!

https://www.vogue.com/article/jack-schlossberg-first-presidential-debate-2024

[shredsandpatches]

every time i think of that post about how the correct way to understand Richard II is as a trump-like nepo baby a little piece of my soul dies

(Also the post seems to be predicated on the assumption that Richard is meant to be the villain of the piece and I think that thinking of the play in terms of heroes and villains is deeply wrong-headed)

a very important element of Richard's character is that he was BORN INTO political power and there is only one way out of that, something that Richard makes explicit before anyone else in the play does and refuses to let anyone pretend it's otherwise. That's very different from rich people in a present day secular democracy believing they're entitled to power! Also if you associate Richard with the modern-day far right you're going to end up in very uncomfortable places at the end of the play because it's not like Bolingbroke is a heroic figure either and if you frame him as one you are just going "well both sides are the same" which is a much more valid take on feudal monarchy than on our current state of affairs! He sucks too, he just sucks differently! And he's also a nepo baby because THAT IS HOW ARISTOCRACY WORKS

[thesickleandthepen]

This country will very soon become nothing more than a pseudo-dictatorship, with Trump at the head and his incompetent cronies beneath him, allowing Trump to dl anything he damn well pleases.

Elon Musk is one of the funniest yet most depressing examples. This goddamn nepo baby buffoon who somehow even smiles wrong will soon be the head of a new government department Trump made just for him, its acronym being a reference to a shitty memecoin.

He will also eventually replace the current FBI director with one of his fucking loyalists named Kash Patel, a man who actively criticizes investigations into Trump and has accused the "deep state" of undermining Trumo and making his power and reputation weaker while he was in office the first time. He's called for mass firings within the FBI, robbing civil servants of their jobs, and he may possibly use the FBI's power to silence any media that criticizes him. While that last one is just a fear, I have no doubt it will happen, given how these scumbags act.

Unfortunately, this is a pattern of hirings from Trump. He will hire nothing but his ardent supporters, allowing him to have full control of the entire government. It's only one more example of the broken government we have today, and a painful demonstration of the consequences of the election. This shouldn't have happened; Trump should be in jail, where he fucking belongs. However, wishful thinking won't get us anywhere. I urge all who see this post to be better. Protest, vote, fight back. Help those in need who will be disadvantaged and hurt by the laws that will soon be put in place. Rise above Trump and his supporters; revel in knowing that you are better than them.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Republicans have found a new way to try to curry favor with Donald Trump: by pushing to have his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, appointed to the Senate. A number of Republicans are cheering the idea that the daughter-in-law could take the place of Sen. Marco Rubio, who has been picked to serve as secretary of State. As in her current role co-chairing the Republican National Committee, Lara Trump’s main qualification appears to be that she married into the Trump family. “Lara Trump would be a GREAT Senator and represent Floridians well,” Sen. Rick Scott wrote on social media. Scott is reportedly the most prominent Republican pushing for Trump.

Alabama Sen. Katie Britt is also on board the nepotism train. She told Axios that Lara Trump would be a “tremendous pick” and said she “understands the America First agenda.” In a social media post, Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna demanded that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appoint the daughter-in-law. If Rubio leaves the Senate, the decision would fall to DeSantis, one of Donald Trump’s failed primary rivals who was derided as “pudding fingers” in a pro-Trump ad. Trump also floated other demeaning nicknames for DeSantis, including “Meatball Ron.” In an interview on Fox News, which has specialized for years in promoting unqualified Trumps for major positions, Lara Trump said she would “love to consider” taking the position. Lara Trump, who is married to Trump son Eric, was installed as the Republican National Committee’s co-chair earlier this year. She previously served as a producer and host of a pro-Trump video program run by the Trump campaign.

Nepo baby Lara Trump could be in line to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat in Florida for at least until the 2026 elections.