Trump has failed over 60 businesses. And these included six bankruptcies for many billions of dollars altogether. Trump bankrupted three casinos, which no one thought was even possible at the time, since casinos can “dial in” their profit margins.
Trump has vastly exceeded all American presidents combined in failed businesses, at least 64 and still counting:
Trump Taj Mahal Casino (bankrupt four times)
Trump Castle Casino (bankrupt three times)
Trump Plaza Casino (bankrupt three times, and not only bankrupted, but demolished!)
Trump Plaza Hotel NYC
Trump Indiana Riverboat Casino
Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for the fourth Trump casino-related bankruptcy in 2014. Trump now claims he had “nothing to do with” the company despite it bearing his name and his owning 28% of the stock, which proved worthless in the end.
Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama (the Trump name was removed from the building after numerous Trump lies and shady dealings):
Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama was the first international "named branded development" of The Trump Organization. But it was surrounded by shady dealings:
Donald Trump arranged financing for the project from Bear Stearns: a $230 million bond offering for which he received a $2.2 million commission. During the financing, Ivanka Trump falsely claimed that over 90% of the units had been sold, and that their sale price was five times that of comparable units. She also exaggerated demand for the units, claiming they were selling out even as potential buyers were being offered substantial discounts.
During the development, Donald Trump falsely implied that the Trump Organization had a financial stake in the project and was acting as the developer, neither of which were true.
The hotel opened on July 6, 2011, approximately a year behind schedule. Two months later Fitch Ratings downgraded $220 million in construction bonds from B-sf to CCsf due to "continued uncertainty over the willingness and ability" of buyers to take possession of apartment units.”
The Trump Organization managed the hotel until Cypriot businessman Orestes Fintiklis, who had bought a majority stake in the hotel condominium association, legally ousted them and had the Trump name removed from the building in 2015 and from the hotel in 2018. The hotel was renamed The Bahia Grand Panama until Marriott took over on September 26, 2018. Professional management at last!
In June 2019 Fintiklis accused Trump companies of tax evasion.
The 13-story base is topped by a tower resembling the Burj Al Arab, a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the Jumeirah Group sued over the similarity.
Trump Airlines aka Trump Shuttle
Trump Mortgage was unable to pay its debts, including unpaid taxes. Yes, Trump even failed at his specialty!
Trump Steaks went out of business owing Buckhead Beef $715,000.
Trump Steakhouse was shut down for 51 health code violations, including serving five-month-old duck!
Trump Wine
Trump Vodka
Trump Fire
Trump Power
Trump Pale Ale
Trump Water
Trump Ice
Trumped! was an American daily talk radio program hosted by Donald Trump.
Trump the Game (failed twice)
Trump the Fragrance
The Trump Foundation, a fraudulent “charity,” robbed the poor of charity donations and was shut down by the State of New York.
Trump “University” was shut down as fraudulent after bilking over 5,000 students and Trump was penalized $25 million. Trump staged wealth-building seminars that cost up to $35K. The instructors turned out to be motivational speakers, some with criminal records.
Trump Institute was separate from the fraudulent “university.”
Trump Princess
Tour de Trump
Trump Modeling
TrumpNet was called “the worst idea in the history of the Internet.”
Trump Telecom was a telephone communication company that abandoned its trademark.
Trump Tower Tampa
Trump sold his name to the tower’s developers and received $2 million. The project folded with just $3,500 left in cash. Condo buyers sued Trump for allegedly misleading them. Trump settled and paid as little as $11,115 to buyers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Trump Chicago
Trump Soho
Trump Golf Puerto Rico
Trump Baja Mexico
Trump Atlanta
Trump Charlotte
Trump Fort Lauderdale
Trump Waikiki Hotel
Trump Jupiter
Trump Baku Hotel in Azerbaijan never opened.
Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai never opened.
Trump International Hotel and Tower New Orleans never opened.
Trump Tower Palm Beach
Trump Empire Cologne
Trump Success Cologne
Trump Style
Trump World
Trump Magazine
Trump Travel Agency
Trump Mattresses
goTrump-dot-com
Trump IPO ticker DJT
Trump Vitamins & Urine Test Kits
“Paris is Out” Musical
New Jersey Generals
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in accusations by women of rape, sexual assault and/or other sexual improprieties: 27 to zero.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in billion-dollar bankruptcies: 6 to zero.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in states with fake electors: 6 to zero.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in trials for rape and defamation of a rape victim: 2 to zero.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in coup attempts: 1 to zero.
OTHER NOTABLE TRUMP ACHIEVEMENTS
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling women “pigs,” “dogs,” “disgusting animals,” etc.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling America’s valiant war dead “suckers” and “losers” for serving their country.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in insulting Gold Star families.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in preferring Russian intelligence to American intelligence.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in praising foreign despots like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.
Donald Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in a number of important categories such as accusations of rape and sexual assault, felony convictions, bankruptcies, business failures, etc.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents in lies: more than 30,000 in just four years.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in felony indictments: 91 to zero.
Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in fraudulent election lawsuits: 62 to zero.
Not that I could find, but reading through the article I linked. One topless server and other interesting implications along the same lines, all denied of course. This swill is still being sold, at least as recent as 2025, in Israel. Take from that what you will, me, I am not surprised.
This isn't going to convince anyone. His base are fine with him being a draft dodging pedophile rapist with a criminal record and coup attempt under his belt. The rest of us already think he's a piece of shit.
This list says there have been zero presidents besides Trump who have been accused of sexual impropriety and whatnot. This is simply false as Bill Clinton exists
Because he had been rebuffed by the NFL owners, he bought into that league, and took if from making money on a spring schedule to trying to directly compete against the NFL. Attendance and television income fell to near zero. The league folded.
He had built casinos in other areas because he was denied a gambling license by the Nevada Gaming Commission. It was for the same as some of the reasons as the NFL denied him any ownership. His deep ties to organized crime, and having Roy Cohn as his legal head was only a small part of that denial. Both entities looked into his financials, and they saw really bad things that he was doing. Neither one released this info until much later because of his constant threats of litigation.
I mean depends on what you mean. Before or After the first presidency? If you are talking about after, sure 100% since he did alot of shit but before it. He done shitty things but this country doesn't really treat white collar crimes with any amount of seriousness. All his felony are related to his hush money scandal during his 2016 campaign but I have my doubts if he wasn't elected in 2016, it likely wouldn't have ever been prosecuted. They should 100% been but I don't think the ire was there for it to manifest but after he lost 2020 election he had a target on his back and people were trying to get anything to stick.
34 felony convictions ; he was indicted on 91 felony counts, but time ran out to prosecute them and Eileen Cannon obstructed Jack Smith's ability to go to trial.
He was a propped up star. When you look back at it yes to a certain degree he was a star who did have a fan base but when you looked into it even then it was a hollow fanbase. Unfortunately advertising for both a Monopoly game and the TV show Apprentice did make him a star. Just you know one that needed to do everything to cling to relevance
I wouldn't even say that, he was like the judge, the stars were the participants, they brought the content and were who people talked about, he just uttered "you're fired".
He was marketed as the star. The fact that his actual contributions were staged and bullshit doesn’t matter. That’s every reality TV show. He was the star. People bought the marketing of him as a successful businessman and here we are today thanks to crappy reality tv shows.
I just don't understand the premise. "If not a president he'd be a five star." People realize it takes time to become a general (plus lots of other things). If he hadn't run for president it's not like he could have just decided to become one in 2016. Or conversely, if he had wanted to be a general, he could have worked on that long ago. It's not like he spent his whole life training to be president in some way that made it impossible to join the military.
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u/gaporkbbq 15h ago
No. If not a President, he would be a reality TV star.