really underappreciated how despite being the main character of politics for literally the last decade, for a lot of people Trump is still the guy from The Apprentice - ThreadSky

jongreen.bsky.social • 1 day ago

really underappreciated how despite being the main character of politics for literally the last decade, for a lot of people Trump is still the guy from The Apprentice

Reposted from Amanda Terkel

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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cdgd.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QGy9D_c1pY

jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social•1 day ago

I worried reality TV would ruin the world but the mechanism is very different than I would have predicted back when my otherwise smart friends were obsessed with Jersey Shore

rsgreen30.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same

jlindy.bsky.social•1 day ago

An MTV reality guy is in the cabinet! Crashing planes almost every day!

primad.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hate the fact that when he ended up a Rep, I questioned the judgement of Wisconsinites that would vote for someone who married someone who willingly had sex with Puck.

I'm embarrassed that I even have that knowledge in my brain.

waternymph.bsky.social•1 day ago

Business acumen 🤣🤣🤣

deusericus.bsky.social•1 day ago

These are people who would try and smoke that Magritte painting.

msgl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Politics has become a type of entertainment in America. People seem to regard it as a type of sporting event, down to the fan apparel.

changememe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Poor Robert - he overestimated Trump's "business acumen". The shame is that so much of it, including the bankruptcies, was public record.

nukidz13.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tired of listening to all of the”regretful”ffousa voters.YOU WERE F’ING WARNED!!You had no problem with him going after somebody else and ruining their lives.Now that you were targeted your full of dismay.Suck it up buttercup.Enjoy the ride you put us on.

notlikewe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thinking Trump has business acumen exposes yourself as having zero business acumen.

geemcgee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Any light reading about his life would quickly disabuse you from the notion that there is any acumen or nuance to his business.

petrarca.bsky.social•1 day ago

In a minute or less. Found a copy of Art of the Deal; in less than a minute, found a quote: "don't pay for lunch, make someone else pay for your lunch." Fucking business jenius!

l0urd3scorrea.bsky.social•1 day ago

And this guy works at the IRS hello 👋 have you seen all the bankruptcies the orange blob have

mmwritessf.bsky.social•23 hours ago

That's because 90% of America doesn't follow politics at all. Like... zero.

Hell, not even half of Americans can name all 3 branches of government.

yatesyman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't mean to be mean to the newly jobless, but wtf about Trump says 'fine-tooth comb' to him?

tree83.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh I WANT to be mean. I'M PISSED. I'm a 64 year old woman who is stuck in this country. I'm retired, so I have no value. Even though I'm healthy & educated, no other country will take me. I cry A LOT. Republicans throwing up Nazi salutes? Where will I go?

roddyceramics.bsky.social•1 day ago

delusions of grandeur

highpoh.bsky.social•1 day ago

The guy bankrupted his own casino! Where the house always wins.

The leopards are hungry again I see. No shortage of faces to eat.

jeffgrim.bsky.social•1 day ago

highpoh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ha ha! Yes, the leopards are feasting right now.

automaton4u.bsky.social•1 day ago

Americans think TV is real. Most Americans prob think the actors that play Superman can fly in real life.

christopherloza.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump being a great business man and Elon being the smartest man on Earth are the two most maddening and nonsensical enduring myths going.

erinerex.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is all Mark Burnett's fault

dyepurrdhon.bsky.social•1 day ago

This guy?

erinerex.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's the one

moye.bsky.social•1 day ago

But even this part doesn’t make sense. “Why would the You’re Fired! guy from tv fire me???”

dfp2017.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Bingo. He was literally on a show where his catchphrase was firing people.

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•1 day ago

People are dumb. It’s an epidemic of stupidity.

davetait.bsky.social•1 day ago

And this all comes back to Fox. People form an understanding of the world based on the information and advice they receive from sources they trust (which usually means those they like). Fox has constructed and sustained the myth about Trump, and has stayed likable to its audience. Simple as that.

dvdbutler.bsky.social•1 day ago

I knew nothing about him back then, I just figured he was a flamboyant real estate guy...and some comment by one of the early winners of that show made me think his tough guy act was hiding a genuinely good person.

But then I became part of the 'Birther' conspiracy he promoted.

lindatilsen.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Why on earth (or any planet) would someone accuse Trump of possessing "business acumen?" Actual facts suggest the opposite.

cinnamon--girl.bsky.social•1 day ago

they all love trump until it affects them personally.

kevincastror.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think no one's figured out how to counter the problem that Trump tosses so much word salad that anyone motivated to do so can hear what they want and disregard the rest.

djbackward.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest

badfengshui.bsky.social•1 day ago

Before the election I had a conversation with a Dem who said Harris should pardon Trump and make him part of her cabinet: "challenge him to fix the housing crisis so his pride and business experience work *for* us".

That is, there are voters who reject him, and are still blinded by his old TV days.

dyepurrdhon.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a dummy. Has that sucker been in a coma for the past 10 years?

Trump's business acumen 🤣😂

FAFO

ryanhassett.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even if these people who got laid off after voting for Trump still thought of him as the guy from The Apprentice rather than the man he's revealed himself to be for decades, the guy from The Apprentice's catchphrase was literally "You're fired!".

all-a-mort.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like JFC. His business acumen of not being able to keep a casino in Atlantic City afloat, of having failed to run an airline or a "university" and having been bankrupt multiple times. That fucking programme is to blame for *all* of this. It made idiots think he was competent.

rbv-3896.bsky.social•1 day ago

They only “know” what they see on TV

cdwilsher.bsky.social•1 day ago

IRS is better off without somebody as stupid as Robert.

emmabedw.bsky.social•1 day ago

They edited an openly racist, incoherent, low functioning, incontinent into a 'successful', 'straight talking' business man. It's unforgivable given the US culture and the precedent of an actor in the White House.

pulletsurprise.bsky.social•1 day ago

LOL. Ex-IRS guy gets to look in the mirror and see himself on the receiving end of a Trump boardroom elimination. Except this time it’s not scripted and televised for his entertainment.

animalover.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is a dumb person.

roddyceramics.bsky.social•1 day ago

unfortunately just one of 70M

alexanderfurnas.com•1 day ago

The American Voter (pejorative)

tree83.bsky.social•1 day ago

I prefer American Idiot

jr-fellow.bsky.social•1 day ago

So absurd that 1) performatively firing people somehow makes him good at business and 2) that any of this would make him able to lead the country. Trump’s biggest accomplishment is revealing just how profoundly ignorant and incurious the American electorate is.

jr-fellow.bsky.social•1 day ago

…as well as how driven Americans are by resentment and tribalism

blmckean.bsky.social•1 day ago

really have to wonder if anything can break that perception at this point - American celebrity culture is so strong

jongreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

especially if apprentice viewership is negatively correlated with political news interest

jongreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is going to be Mark Cuban’s theory of the case in 2028 isn’t it

blmckean.bsky.social•1 day ago

knowing the Dems, yeah, they'll swing too far and end up backing a celebrity with no interest in politics at all (whereas it wasn't why he was famous but Trump had been thinking about running for president since at least 1999)

ouisiem.bsky.social•1 day ago

So strong and so unhealthy—in all its forms.

sophieehill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting to square this with the observation that Dem cultural dominance doesn't seem to help them as much as one might think.

Perhaps GOP dominates in celebrity "experts" (Trump, Dr Oz) who get taken more seriously by voters?

blmckean.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think celebrity culture's influence on politics in general is small-d anti-democratic so to the extent that the GOP is more open to embracing hierarchy and anti-democratic institutions, it will tend to empower them

nikedomelon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup,

77+ million voters know it’s

Apprentice 2: White House Edition

Starring; a felon rapist,

An apartheid Ketamine baby

Billionaires friend from South Africa

An animal abuser.

Shall I go one
🇨🇦🇺🇦✌️

annrn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Chuck Manson look-a-like

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the bbc news reports in Texas on the election was going round asking people who they voted for and almost all the Trump voters said it was because Biden was too old, as if he were still on the ballot

nerdicity.bsky.social•1 day ago

They use that to cover their racism and exist. It's not a real reason.

1000bookslater.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yes! What I see is people dissatisfied with what they perceive as their low social status getting their self-esteem juiced by mentally aligning with someone they see as rich enough to make others grovel & get away with transgressions. Better than heroin, but just as addicting.