Let's Hear It For The Donald!

[Khandro]

He not only hates drug and alcohol abuse - and the reason with the former why he wants the wall to prevent drugs entering the US, but he is prepared to put his own money to help in this and other matters;
'During the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump vowed to donate his annual salary of $400,000 if he were elected.
In 2017, the president donated his quarterly salaries to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation, and the Education Department.'
Now it is going to help alcoholic abuse.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/26/donald-trump-donates-third-quarter-salary-to-alcoholism-research/

Has any other leader been so magnanimous ?

[naomi24]

JF85 . //In stating that Donald Trump has been bankrupt more than once, and that creditors have lost out, I am simply stating widely available facts.//

Trump has ever been personally bankrupt. Some of his businesses have filed for bankruptcy – and if you know anything about business you’ll know that is often an astute business decision – but don’t let the ‘widely available facts’ deter you from spinning.

[naomi24]

/Trump has *never* been personally bankrupt./

[spathiphyllum]

No, not trump himself, but his companies have declared bankruptcy

[spathiphyllum]

One famous case... "Trump Castle, 1992".

[spathiphyllum]

"While six in 25 years is a lot, five were tied to a struggling gaming industry."

[jim360]

Oh come on, spath. I regularly misrepresent what Naomi says, deliberately and with malice aforethought, and even I could see that she literally said the same thing in the very next sentence.

[spathiphyllum]

:P

[naomi24]

Jim, what are you talking about? What did I literally say in the very next sentence. What next sentence?

[Gromit]

Barak Obama donated $1.1million of his salary to charity, and it wasn’t even a pledge during campaigning, he just did it anyway.

[youngmafbog]

Not all bar $1 then?

And over two terms too.

[Gromit]

Obama also donated the $1.4million prize money for winning the 2009 NobelPeace Prize.

I’m not expecting the Duck to win any Peace Prizes during his tome in office.

[jim360]

Naomi: // Trump has ever been personally bankrupt. Some of his businesses have filed for bankruptcy ... //

Spath: // [N]ot [T]rump himself, but his companies have declared bankruptcy. //

I did not realise this would need clarification.

[naomi24]

Jim, what on earth are you talking about? What was my ‘next’ sentence that you referred to? There was no ‘next’ sentence.

Incidentally, //…deliberately and with malice aforethought//

I’ve never said that. What was that about misrepresentation?

[jim360]

Your first sentence: "Trump has ever been personally bankrupt."

Your next sentence: "Some of his businesses have filed for bankruptcy..."

Also, no, you didn't say that about me, but it was meant to be a deliberate and humorous exaggeration. Not the first time that my attempts at satire have been missed, but I wasn't wanting to start an argument -- not with you, at least: I was criticising spath for seeing an apparent need to clarify what you had very clearly already said.

[naomi24]

Okay.

[jim360]

So hopefully we've understood one another this time at least?

[Gromit]

Trump’s first Corporate Bankruptcy in 1991 left him $900million in debt. But he muddled through.

He also learned his lesson, and restructured his companies so that the 1992, 2004 and 2009 Trump Corporation Bankruptcies had no financial effect on him personally.

[Canary42]

Sounds like a blatant bribe to me.

[Gromit]

// Has any other leader been so magnanimous //

So to recap, Trump has given $800,000 and Barak Obama gave $2,500,000.

[Khandro]

//He also learned his lesson, and restructured his companies so that the 1992, 2004 and 2009 Trump Corporation Bankruptcies had no financial effect on him personally.//

Pretty smart eh?