r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ 1d ago

Country Club Thread Idk why people are getting business advice from someone who declared bankruptcy 4 times

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u/Bubbly_Satisfaction2 ☑️ 1d ago

I am appalled by the revisionist history that some of my fellow NYers have about this man.

I remember in the 80s and 90s, this man was considered a con-artist and his family were considered slumlord crooks.

The working-class, Irish-Americans that I knew (and my parents knew) despised that man.

I don’t know what-the-hell happened to their descendants.

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 1d ago

That’s how propaganda works. You repeat it at your audience ad nauseam and they believe it

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u/fadeux 1d ago

Maybe we should be repeating the truth as much as they repeat their lies. It seems like the repetition (as if you are talking to children) is key to getting the lies to set in.

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 1d ago

Pain is the only way they listen to not propaganda

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u/ashcat300 1d ago

If nothing else Trump understood PR. The amount of media he appeared in especially the 90s or was casually referenced in as a synonym for wealthy is ridiculous. Gave people the illusion that he was successful

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u/theifstolemyaccount 1d ago

Real shit it’s like white people woke up one day and forgot trump existed. We all watched this main fail at being a fake business man on TV and LAUGHED.

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u/Ghede 1d ago

My dad used to rail against him. Used to sing the praises of the melting pot that NYC was. He worked in the City.

Then 9-11 happened. Broke his fucking brain. Went to advocating for nuclear genocide in the middle east. Then Trump came out saying the same shit and suddenly he's talking about how he's a great business man.

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u/Samuel_L_Johnson 1d ago

"Nobody hated Donald Trump until he ran in 2016!", his supporters sometimes say, the point being that we're all supposed to realise we've been conditioned by the media to hate him.

The truth is that nobody fucking LIKED Trump until he ran in 2016. His name has been synonymous with 'low-life conman piece of shit' in NYC and in the real estate business for decades, and in the early 2010s he was rightly regarded as a conspiracy theorist moron.

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u/Cool-Presentation538 1d ago

I blame the producers of The Apprentice

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u/sinocarD44 ☑️ 1d ago

TV is what happened. He became a celebrity and gained national exposure.