• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Theee things: He’s absolutely stupid. He’s a self-centered narcissist. He’s immune to consequences.

    The confluence of the two and the power he has lets him do a lot of self-serving…well, everything. From money to bullying to whatever.

    And his position protects him from any consequences. Which lets him keep doing everything he’s been doing.

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      What is incredible is that he has been doing and saying heinous shit his whole life and his history of business failure was always still cast as success for some reason.

      Like he has been raping people his whole life, and he probably personally threw that baby in lake Michigan, things that are punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in some places. Yet he evaded everything.

      Even in the era he was doing this, the coked up 80s, lots of people went to jail for fraud and crap and the shit he was doing. The fact that such a high profile person like him evaded it still is just incredible.

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          And that is. How he got on the apprentice is because when they were looking for successful CEOs to star in the show they couldn’t find them. Because CEOs that are good at their jobs are generally too busy running their companies to be on some dumb reality show. Trump? He basically had an open schedule. All his time was devoted to the show. He didn’t have much else going on at the time.

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              I read the article. He not only singlehandedly rehabilitated his ailing image (he was seen as a washed up relic by that point) but the writing and the entire crew did their best to make him look like a competent leader and manager and ‘America’s boss’.