Many say Trump is not a successful business person. Is he now?

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volfanhill said:
www.marketwatch.com

Cha-ching! How Trump is making $4 billion from his 2024 campaign for president.

Away from the legal headlines, Donald Trump has just made a staggering amount of money, all of it driven by the publicity from his campaign for the White House.
www.marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com
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Trump is far, far better at branding than real estate. First with the Apprentice and now with TS.

Given what he's inherited and real estate returns the past 50 years, he's significantly underperformed with real estate. He is and has always been incredible at maximizing his brand...
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Trump is far, far better at branding than real estate. First with the Apprentice and now with TS.

Given what he's inherited and real estate returns the past 50 years, he's significantly underperformed with real estate. He is and has always been incredible at maximizing his brand...
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Well with this I think we would have to say he is a master media mogul.
 
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volfanhill said:
www.marketwatch.com

Cha-ching! How Trump is making $4 billion from his 2024 campaign for president.

Away from the legal headlines, Donald Trump has just made a staggering amount of money, all of it driven by the publicity from his campaign for the White House.
www.marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com
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As an MBA graduate and entrepreneur myself, I for one am truly inspired and impressed by our former Presidents ability to execute such a complex and lucrative strategy. Clearly his business acumen is getting stronger as he ages. Well done Trump! Well done indeed.
 
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VOLS INC. said:
As an MBA graduate and entrepreneur myself, I for one am truly inspired and impressed by our former Presidents ability to execute such a complex and lucrative strategy. Clearly his business acumen is getting stronger as he ages. Well done Trump! Well done indeed.
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It's still all a paper gain now. Trump can't sell any shares until 6 months after shareholders vote on the deal.

Truth Social, given it's going concern status, might be worthless if Trump loses in November.

But if he wins.....
 
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I've shared a few times Trump's philosophy wrt media. He explained it in his book the Art of the Deal. He sincerely believes (and his life proves the point) there is no such thing as bad press.

From OP's article:
"Trump was trailing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the presidential race until the first of his legal indictments landed."

Trump's lifestyle, his ability to brand, market, and promote are all born from his philosophy. He will not change because it continues to work.
 
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It was marketing not business sense. He had no other platform thus no choice. The software was an untested, bad twitter ripoff full of bugs and had a horrible go live. I'd fully expect to be fired if one of my projects went out like that. It takes a huge leap to believe he hitched his wagon to that and just knew it would work. Still not for sure it will anyways
 
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hog88 said:
Call me crazy but I’ve always considered marketing a big part of business.
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This was more desperation and luck. He needed a platform and that was all he was allowed to use. Maybe it got better but the initial versions were horrible. I know no one who uses it

Still yet to be seen if he'll make anywhere close to the reported amounts
 
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utvolpj said:
This was more desperation and luck. He needed a platform and that was all he was allowed to use. Maybe it got better but the initial versions were horrible. I know no one who uses it

Still yet to be seen if he'll make anywhere close to the reported amounts
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Sometimes its better to be lucky than good.
 
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MG1968 said:
Trump is the Lululemon of politics. Great marketing, horrible product.
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Great marketing? What is his marketing--standing up and making rambling, incoherent, clownish remarks full of lies in front of country crowds?
It's great marketing if you're a fan of wrestling and monster-truck shows. He's a complete embarrassment.

This, from his niece, who is a psychologist. I'm fairly sure that if the gangster were in any way a reputable man of even halfway decent character, she might support him. But she loathes him, like most everybody who's every worked with or been around the man.

 
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