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Maybe so. But didn’t FDR try to corner the ice market-among other flops? Business chops don’t always translate … twitter.com/wrmead/status/…
Mickey Kaus
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Maybe so. But didn’t FDR try to corner the ice market-among other flops? Business chops don’t always translate … twitter.com/wrmead/status/…
@kausmickey @wrmead Also, correct on Trump, but see recent book on Winston Churchill’s disastrous finances, gambling & stock market losses
@kausmickey George McClellan was an incredibly successful businessman and Ulysses Grant was a complete business flop.
@kausmickey (didn’t really translate to the battlefield or to politics)
@kausmickey @wrmead refrigerators are to ice markets the way Foxwood is to Atlantic City
@kausmickey FDR a much less nervous & insecure figure than Trump, and had sources of confidence other than business record.
@kausmickey @wrmead Haters be like: “Trump is a horrible businessman!” but also “A businessman has no skills that translate to a president!”
@kausmickey FDR started his politcal career at 28 by running for state senate.
@GreatUSJournal @kausmickey Churchill, FDR weren’t about business success. It’s the core of Trump’s persona.
@kausmickey @wrmead His “instinct and ability to read people” chops are excellent though. Think we’re done here.
@kausmickey @wrmead Sure guys like Mitt put up little money buy a business and drown it in debt to pay for itself. Slimey rats.
@kausmickey Trump’s probably worth $1 billion instead of $10 billion. So what?
@kausmickey Actually, that was a man named Charles W. Morse, who owned the American Ice Company of NYC.
@kausmickey @wrmead Perhaps, but putting up a skyscraper in NYC, et al, is a feat not many could do.