Has there ever been a bigger and better con man than Trump in history?

No not really.

The neo-liberal party, Democrat party will tell you wealth inequality exists and needs to be solved but through the means of the current hierarchical economic system. They want to reduce wealth inequality while still maintaining the same overall economic hierarchy. The GOP is like "lol wealth inequality?!? Who the **** cares about that?"

Leftists are like "you ain't going to solve wealth inequality with the current system and hierarchy in place".

 

No not really.

The neo-liberal party, Democrat party will tell you wealth inequality exists and needs to be solved but through the means of the current hierarchical economic system. They want to reduce wealth inequality while still maintaining the same overall economic hierarchy. The GOP is like "lol wealth inequality."

Leftists are like "you ain't going to solve wealth inequality with the current system and hierarchy in place".

 

and I don't think speculations about Trump's income have anything to do with that. you seem to be arguing against a completely different point completely.

I feel like you just had some info you had to get out

 

Neo-liberals = "all his wealth is fake news"

Leftist - "he has money but through no individual merit and through abject conning people in a inherently corrupt system that makes it easy to con people for multiple decades along with pure luck with the NBC deal"

Though I'm sure a lot of moderate liberals believe the later also.

 

Yes Jack Welch is bad but he’s not endangering National Security, the safety of members of Congress or even his VP.

you were a soldier. Given that Trump usurped the Constitution, abandoned battlefield Allies and as we found out just this week possibly exposed national security secrets wouldn’t you say that is more dangerous than what Jack Welch did?

 

PT Barnum

Bernie Madoff

The entire shenanigans of 100 years?

You guys let us know.

 

Gregor MacGregor

 

Good to know trump wasn’t the dumbest person to see national secrets.

 

...what makes you think trump is smarter than kid rock? Atleast kid Rock is self made

 

...the "100 years" part is a nice catch-all...

...but Charles Ponzi has to be mentioned...
...he kinda just fits right now, y'know?

 

"No one has ever gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

 

Kinda. I believe his parents were pretty well off from the car industry.

 

So Mike Lindell?

 

“There’s a sucker born every minute”

 

Mike Lindell wishes he was in the same tier of conman as Trump.

 

I liked the guy Jimmy Kimmel has doing Mike Lindell.


Kimmel had had the actual Mike
Lindell on with the fake one.

 

NO YOU'RE ON CRACK

...oops, sorry

 

Pretty sure he grew up in a 5,000 square foot home on acerage in the Detroit suburbs.


Anyways, Trump is what you get from the evolution of a business family flirting on the fringes of the mob for years, in a way that is smart enough to not be prosecuted. His whole life has likely been training for how to get away with borderline criminal acts. He's a neo fringe mob boss, essentially.


Problem is, when you flirt the line for as long as that family, the one wrong move will eventually be made. Donald has been oh so close to making it several times.

 

You might be reflecting the facelessness of the mob. You get a bunch of liberals mostly saying the same thing. Then one liberal says Trump is broke, and you think, okay, they all think he's broke. Then another says he's too rich and you think, they're being so inconsistent! But it might be that it changes, not with the context, but with the person speaking. But you can't remember who said what because they are all members of the same mob.

Anyway, I don't think greatest conman needs to be measured in dollars. Money is just a proxy measurement for power. But the dude was president. Not many roles more powerful than that.