No Trump Card

The first 56-days of Trump's Administration was marked by calls of "DUMP TRUMP" without regard for the realities of his a salesman's apolitical approach to management and the "keeping of promises."

Numerous books describe how the Trumps echoed and followed PT Barnum's assertion that the vastness of America made it a land where wealth was to be made. The Trump family made full use of that vast land and opportunity, going from an immigrant who built a hotel for Gold Rush prospectors, to a New York city apartment house builder, and on to a man who took that American dream global without departing from his roots. His projects included hotels, resorts, apartments and office buildings. He is reputed to have studied Adolf Hitler's 1923 thesis on the British use of Propaganda to defeat Germany and saw its applicability in American Politics. The realization made him POTUS and his Real Estate skills defined his first eight weeks, as they will doubtless define whatever tenure he might enjoy.

In this book, the author -- who was himself Director of Real Estate for one of New York City's most politically connected Law Firms, with expansive global ownership interests and connections of a type that Trump has tried to emulate -- looks at Trump's style with the eye of an insider who was raised in a world of business and politics to see things which the media has missed but are slowly being revealed.

Those who lacked the training generally denounced as "nepotism" or advantages derived from "exploiting parental connections". But those raised in the NYC Real Estate Industry and its centuries-old political environment, consider it the proper way a family conducts a business designed to span generations. In the second 56-days, we will see "classic New York nepotism" based on a trust in those you trained to be better than you -- your children.