It was not until finding out that American bikers love Donald Trump that we think we have come to grips with his appeal. This guy feeds on negative vibes. He is like top-selling sales persons who tell you that they are never really selling until somebody says ‘No.’ It is all beginning to come clear.
It also figures that the candidate for the Republicans in the American presidential election this year is an out-and-out misanthrope. It is not that he is just anti-social or misogynistic towards women, but he also seems to have little use for men. It is not that he hates Mexicans, Muslims or people of a different colour. Nor is it his over-inflated ego that causes his problems but he simply thinks he is better than anyone else.
And this explains his affection for bikers. Now we are not talking about your granddad’s hog-riding seniors club here, we are talking about the dope-running, prostitute pandering, hard-drinking, inter-connected outlaw gangs who can even scare those mafia dilettantes. Donald Trump must figure these hard-riding bikers are his kind of people.
Though The Donald might hope he smells better. Anyone who spends as much time and money on his hair as Trump does is obviously fixated on his daily ablutions.
But bikers love The Donald anyway. As a bully and a developer, he has been screwing the system every way he can for years. You can hardly get anywhere in his kind of development scams without being an unfeeling, uncaring, con artist.
And what Trump has never been is a good businessman. His corporate bankruptcies are classics of over-reaching, junk-bond schemes. The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was such a bad deal that it is claimed his slot machine supplier had to repossess 500 slot machines in the first week the casino was open because Trump was so badly over-extended.
And this is the guy the American religious right thinks can take them down the Glory Road to Make America Great Again!
Now, Trump insists that he has never been personally bankrupt. He has only left behind corporate entities that were over-sold, under-funded and doomed to failure. The Donald just kept accumulating his wealth that today might be between $2 billion and $3 billion. You can deduct what he is wasting trying to buy the American presidency.
Oh yes, the presidency. That is the ultimate ego trip. Here is a person who has made billions marketing himself. He is the ultimate egotist. His slogan in the fall might as well be: Fuck America; Vote Trump.
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