Today's Tiedrich rant: top CEOs agree: Donald Trump has completely lost his marbles

[FakeNoose]

Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/top-ceos-agree-donald-trump-has-completely

if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. that’s always been Little Donny Convict’s thing: gather a dozen or so guys in thousand-dollar suits, sit them down and spin fantasies about magnificent golden towers and beautiful golf courses and luxurious casinos until they’re hooked, and can’t wait to sign their name on the dotted lines. shut up and take my money!

of course, it was always supreme scammery. investors lost their shirts as one casino after another went tits up — but that was part of the plan. Donny always managed to be the one guy to walk away with millions — and then it was off to find the next roomful of eager patsies. baffle them with bullshit. fake it ’til you make it.

unfortunately for Donny Convict, all that magic has gone bye-bye. a couple of days ago, he sat down with a bunch of CEOs and all he managed to do was mystify the shit out of them.

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New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin: “it was interesting. I spoke to a number of the CEOs who were at that meeting yesterday, a number of whom frankly had been predisposed to former president Trump, and they walked away from that meeting a bit disheartened, a bit questioning — I don’t want to say his mental fitness, but questioning just how meandering. in some cases, one said to me, he could not keep a thought straight. he would go in one direction, and then he would go in another direction, and that there wasn’t necessarily a throughline to the way he spoke, or what even he was talking about. at one point his discussed his plans to bring the corporate tax rate down from 21 percent to 20 percent, and apparently at some point in the meeting was asked about why he had chosen 20 percent, and he said ‘well, it’s a round number’ and I think that unto itself had a number of CEOs shaking their heads.”

oh dear.

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There's more to this rant, Tiedrich explains why these corporate CEOs who formerly supported Chump, had no idea that his brains are completely scrambled. They know it now....

Please click on the link to read the rest on "Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Trump must have been very careful not to screw over any "made men"

Otherwise he would have been Sleeping With The Fishes a long time ago…

[Arne]

3. Sleeping with Melaria and a friend?

Sorry. Not sorry.

[global1]

2. Are The Names Of These CEO's & Their Company's Name Available?.....

I like to know who the CEO's referred to in this post are? How many were at this meeting with TCF?

It really would be interesting to see the list of these people.

[FakeNoose]

7. I doubt that Andrew Ross Sorkin would reveal their names

He doesn't want to lose access to his big-shot CEO buddies.

OTOH if Jeff Tiedrich had been there, he'd have been delighted to embarrass them all.

[thucythucy]

4. And yet they'll still support him

and probably fund his campaign, because.... tax cuts! Ending democracy, placing the nuclear codes in the hands of a deluded sociopath, giving racism free reign--well, yeah, not so good, but, but, but... tax cuts!

"They walked away...a bit disheartened..."

Just a bit?!

This is what happens when whatever conscience you might have had is replaced by the dollar sign.

[EarlG]

5. Shame that the NYT reporter still can't quite bring himself to plainly state what is staring everyone in the face

They walked away from that meeting a bit disheartened, a bit questioning — I don’t want to say his mental fitness...

Oh really? What do you want to say then?

...but questioning just how meandering, in some cases, one said to me, he could not keep a thought straight. He would go in one direction, and then he would go in another direction, and that there wasn’t necessarily a throughline to the way he spoke, or what even he was talking about.

So, you don't want to say that they were questioning his mental fitness, even though you just described them questioning his mental fitness.

[joshdawg]

6. Hey trump, why not increase the tax rate to 30%,

that's a rounder number than 20.