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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,214 posts)
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:22 PM Apr 2025

Dowd: So much about Trump's business acumen isn't adding up

By Maureen Dowd / The New York Times

You have to hand it to Donald Trump. The man is a marvel at multitasking.

In one sensational swoop, President Trump was able to set the global economy reeling, shatter our alliances, shred our standing in the world, tank consumer confidence, scupper the Kennedy Center and tart up the Oval Office, turning it into Caesars Palace on the Potomac.

And yet he still managed to find time to brag about winning his Jupiter golf club’s championship and sign an executive order relaxing restrictions on water pressure from shower heads; “I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” the president cooed. He also ordered an investigation of an election security official he had fired four years ago for having the temerity to acknowledge that the 2020 election was not stolen.

“We’re living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them,” David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist, told me.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/dowd-so-much-about-trumps-business-acumen-isnt-adding-up/

What acumen? You know better.

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Dowd: So much about Trump's business acumen isn't adding up (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2025 OP
This is her second, "I just don't understand this!" article this week. Not really making herself impressive here. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #1
She is really slow in the uptake isn't she? Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #2
Acumen? creon Apr 2025 #3
Rut-roh... MoDo is concerned and confused. FalloutShelter Apr 2025 #4
MoDo supported him for a long time before starting to wake up Ritabert Apr 2025 #5
Pretty sure she uses the term acumen sarcastically. Raven123 Apr 2025 #6
She's just realizing it doesn't add up? Laffy Kat Apr 2025 #7
Maybe she should quit listening to her MAGAt family BS Hassler Apr 2025 #8

Scrivener7

(56,514 posts)
1. This is her second, "I just don't understand this!" article this week. Not really making herself impressive here.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:24 PM
Apr 2025

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
2. She is really slow in the uptake isn't she?
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 05:25 PM
Apr 2025

Maybe should consider another line of work where it does not take her 40 years to figure
out the obvious.

Trump has aways been a liar, crook, and failure.

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