#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.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Samuels at Daily Kos:

There’s a new nepo baby in the White House. On Wednesday, an aide for Vice President JD Vance confirmed that he hired Tucker Carlson’s 28-year-old son, Buckley Carlson, as his deputy press secretary. According to ABC News reporter Will Steakin, Buckley’s hiring has been in motion since at least Monday. He added that the former Fox News personality’s son has only worked on Capitol Hill since 2019, most recently as a communications director and deputy chief of staff to Rep. Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana.

President Donald Trump is known for building a White House rife with nepotism, so Buckley’s new role is sure to reignite backlash to what looks like biased hiring.  Then again, given that Tucker has long been a Trump ally and a prominent voice in conservative media, his son’s hiring might not come as that big of a shock.  Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time that Tucker might’ve pulled some strings to help out his son. The Washington Post reported in 2022 that Tucker and his wife, Susan Andrews, called on Hunter Biden to help get Buckley accepted into Georgetown University. “I realize you don’t really know Buckley,” Andrews wrote in a 2014 email to Biden, who is a Georgetown graduate. “Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could send you a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached.”

Vance and Tucker also appear to be close. After all, it was during Vance’s 2021 Senate run that he lamented to the then-Fox News personality that Democrats were promoting an “anti-family” agenda led by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.” This, in turn, became a campaign issue after Vance was selected as Trump’s running mate in July. More recently, Vance was featured on Tucker’s streaming platform, Tucker Carlson Network. 

Tucker Carlson’s nepo baby son Buckley begins his job in the Trump White House, to serve as JD Vance’s deputy press secretary.

[twinklerei]

Killing nazis used to be okay, can we please bring that back?

[faeloon]

I am so enfuriated now. The country who fought against fucking nazis back in the years, are now being commanded by a fascist and a neonazi suckler by the higher power.

Where the FUCK is the whole thing about freedom and justice USA was all about?

What is this even about? Making america great? Or turn the next dictatorship country?

[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

[agentfascinateur]

(courtesy of Occupy Democrats)

Only there because his name is Kennedy...

[jacks-weird-world]

🎶❝Money is the anthem of success,

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

💸

[momohotdogaroni]

How do we get MAGA people to wake up. 😭😭

Donald Trump is manipulating you. He was hearing what you needed and telling you everything you wanted to hear in order to get elected. Now that he’s elected he’s trying to pass laws that benefit the billionaires and corporations.

Like we all agree that politicians are slimy. The media is full of propaganda. We all agree that there is a lot of wasteful spending but to take the money away from everyday Americans? Is that really the answer?

Humans DO NOT deserve to suffer. We deserve to have our basic needs met. We deserve to enjoy life. Yes our system does need to change but to give billionaires control over that change is not the answer. Please do not blindly follow such an angry man.

These are not “lies being pushed by the left”. These are true things that are happening now and its just gets worse and worse.

If some people aren’t free (trans, POC, immigrants) nobody is free. They will continue to take from us because they don’t care about us. They just want money and power. Please don’t be fighting for another dictator.

Wake up

[amberofember]

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

[slacktivist]

WHEN WAR CRIMES ARE NO LONGER ECONOMICALLY LUCRATIVE

[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.

[sebibibebi]

breaking my silence. someone please god give mick a haircut

[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

[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

[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?

[momohotdogaroni]

Sent this to my family lol

For some reason the versions of this where he gives two salutes is being deleted and replaced with a version with a quick cut to a cheering crowd so I’ll just share it here 🙃