These bits of news are small fries (chips?) next to the obstruction, stonewalling, strong-arming, extortion, self-dealing, constitutional crisis on this side of the pond, but hey, it’s almost Hump Day! Let’s have some fun at the Orange One’s expense by looking at one of his ongoing failures.
The losses are as follows:
- Turnberry: $13 million loss for 2018, following a $4.1 million loss in 2017.
- Aberdeen: $1.3 million loss in 2018. The course lost $1.8 million in 2017.
“Turnberry has not turned a profit since Trump has owned it,” the article notes, and the Aberdeen property has lost money for seven straight years.
There’s this, which will sound familiar: The Trump Organization so far hasn’t paid legal bills it owes the Scottish government for its failed challenge against windmills off the coast in Aberdeen.
And also this reminder:
These two courses are among 14 properties Trump bought without loans between 2006 and 2014, an all-cash spending binge that topped $400 million.
I try to keep that somewhere toward the front of my mind as this mendacious morass of a presidency lurches from screwup to coverup and back again. Where did all that money come from? Articles here and here wondered the same thing. Don Jr.’s quote about “money pouring in from Russia” was during that time period.
And now I’m no longer enjoying making fun of his golf failures, because I’m convinced the spending spree is directly connected to recent events. The Ukraine nonsense, the pullback in Syria, the attempt to leave the Open Skies Treaty … Trump is famously unpredictable and inconsistent, except when he isn’t. And he’s remarkably consistent in two areas: Hiding his finances, and pursuing actions that benefit Vladimir Putin, because Daddy Vladdy owns Individual 1’s bulbous ass.
Plus he’s a deadbeat.
So I take heart in the small things:
Since Trump became president, his company has lost hotels in Panama, Toronto and New York’s SoHo neighborhood, as the building owners severed ties with the brand.
Is that a business-speak way of saying they impeached the motherf*cker already?