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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 216 points 7 months ago (7 children)

i almost feel bad for these guys.. but i dont. its common knowledge that no good comes from going into business with trump

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 95 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I feel nothing for these people. They knew he was a snake when they took him in.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Each one of Trump's business partners thinks "I'm not gonna get screwed by this guy!" and in the end each one of them does.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surely the 40+ years of people saying he's a con man narcisist are surely wrong.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

nO oNe SaId He WaS a CoN uNtIl He RaN fOr PrEsIdEnT

-my parents, who give zero fucks about all the counterexamples given to this idiocy

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

You'd think after walking past hundreds of guys with knife stabs in their back they wouldn't enter a business deal with the dimwit waving a bloody dagger around.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 7 months ago

Took him in? They pitched the idea. They deserve what they get.

[–] experbia@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

there are always the people in every horror movie who think that if they deliver their friends into the open drooling maw of the monster stalking them, they'll get a reward.

the "reward" is usually at least as bad as their friends' fate. it's just narcissism really. they think they're more like the enemy than they are like their friends, so it would be natural to spare them. but they're all just meat to the monster.

trump is just a shitty xenomorph. small hands instead of small mouth, and substantially less physically threatening. I think they both probably have the acid blood though.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My thoughts on the matter.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

I don't feel bad in the slightest. Everyone knows Donald is a sociopathic grifter. These guys wanted to run a con with him and got burned. I hope their lives are full of misery.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

In fact, they specifically targeted that demographic. They put their face inside a starving leopards mouth

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Except me. Right? He totally promised to make me president of Puerto Rico.

Because I'm one of the good ones.

I'm the exception.

Right?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry but your check didn't clear.

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

President of Puerto Rico I'd the potus isn't it? Puerto Rico I'd a us owned territory. Or was that the joke?

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

It was in reference to the fact that Trump, while president, says he "met with the "President of the Virgin Islands"

Which, despite his press room's spin, we all know he completely didn't know that he was the president of the Virgin Islands.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

Pretty much. What do you expect?