Why don't we just call it failure, failure, failur
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All Trump EVER did was market his name, his 'brand'.
Now that's all for shit. Call it the 'canary in the coal mine'.
Mueller will provide the fatal 'gas' and then the 'cave in'.
Quote:
Trump's businesses take a hit as the brand 'has lost its mojo'.
Source: AP via Marketwatch
When workers pried the Trump name off another Manhattan building earlier this year, it capped a bad few weeks for the president’s businesses.
Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland had just posted millions of dollars in losses, one of his hotels in Panama had rebranded itself a Marriott MAR, -1.26% , and New York officials announced they were looking into how he avoided paying tens of millions in taxes.
All that, along with the daily drumbeat of Trump tweets and headlines about investigations into his administration, led Austin, Texas, tech executive Gary Barrett to finally give up hope of ever turning a profit on an apartment he bought as an investment in a Trump tower in Las Vegas.
“People with enough cash to buy these units seem to be shying away from the Trump name,” says Barrett, calling it “the Trump effect.”
From golf fees and licensing deals to prices for Trump condos, many metrics used to gauge his business in the first two years of his presidency are down as the divisive comments and policies so beloved by his political base have turned off a group just as dear to him — the affluent who fuel his businesses.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-busi...2018-12-23