What makes president a smart businessman?

Posted May 30, 2025 4:00 am

This letter was prompted by an April 11 letter headlined “Damage control,” wherein the author writes “Donald Trump is a smart businessman.”

Like many Trump supporters, the author of the letter was conned by Trump into believing that he was a smart and successful businessman, despite compelling evidence that makes this a questionable belief,.

For example, consider former NBC chief marketing executive John D. Miller’s, apology to all Americans about NBC’s The Apprentice show’s portrayal of Trump as a very successful businessman in an October 16, 2024 US News and World Report opinion piece, “We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for ‘The Apprentice’.”

Furthermore, there were Trump’s four filings for business bankruptcies as well as his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump that was spun as “lawfare” by the right-wing media during the 2024 election.

Frank G. Splitt

Mount Prospect

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