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inhis_service 08-May-18, 14:07	Happy Days or Something to Shout About! Do not know anything about what President Trump wrote in “The Art of the Deal”, but I will imagine it has to do with making money and how he has used his savvy to become as wealthy as he is. Saying all of that to say that Donald Trump evidentially seen the problem with America's economy and thought that if he were sitting in the White House, he could what he has done for building his wealth for our country. Recent news journals seem to agree. Trump Benefiting from Economic Policies “ WASHINGTON — A growing American economy and passage of a Republican tax overhaul appear to be helping President Donald Trump lift his approval ratings from historic lows, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.” www.voanews.com Americans Continue to Rate Trump Highest on Economy news.gallup.com Poll: More Say Trump Responsible for Economy than Obama More voters credit President Trump for the current state of the U.S. economy than former President Obama, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday. The survey results mark the first time since Trump took office that more voters say he bears more responsibility for the current economy than his predecessor, according to Quinnipiac. thehill.com
lord_shiva 16-May-18, 16:23	Trump's "Art of the Deal" I happen to have a copy of it, given to me by St. Insanity after I lost a bet on Hillary's election. I sent him a fine bottle of tequila brought back from Mexico, and he gave me the book. The book was largely ghost written by Tony Schwartz. Few imagine Donald taking the time, trouble, or effort to read a whole book, much less actually write one. www.newyorker.com But Trump does shine through in it. [From the link:] Trump, facing a crowd that had gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue, laid out his qualifications, saying, “We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” If that was so, Schwartz thought, then he, not Trump, should be running. Schwartz dashed off a tweet: “Many thanks Donald Trump for suggesting I run for President, based on the fact that I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” In Trump's book, self improvement is separated from morality--which is just about exactly the opposite the old school Christian teachings. Modern Evangelical Christianity has thoroughly and happily embraced Donald Trump's moral relativism, but the old school Christians would have viewed his magnum opus very darkly. www.theatlantic.com [Quoting] In the early republic, Benjamin Franklin advocated “virtue” as the pathway for aspiring individuals unshackled from aristocratic tradition. In the 1800s, Horatio Alger offered hard work and “character” as habits that would produce prosperity in a competitive market society. For a 20th-century society dominated by bureaucracies, Dale Carnegie urged strivers to cultivate human relations and an attractive “personality.” But Trump’s writing has destroyed many of this tradition’s essential elements... Trump’s injunctions look inward to promote a relentless self-aggrandizement, and outward to manipulate a world of facile images. These qualities, and their appeal to a popular audience, have reshaped America’s success tradition. They have jettisoned its moral ethos for one of bristling self-regard. [End Quote] And modern American Christians could not be more pleased. It is as if the sermon Jesus gave on the Mount of Olives (on which I have stood and gathered rocks for friends) has been drowned out by enthusiastic shouts of "mistreat foreigners in your land, take away their children, deport them, get rich quick, tax breaks for the wealthy elite, deprive the poor of food and housing!" The admonition of Jesus in Matthew 19:21 and Luke 18:22 has been replaced with Trump's Think Big (2007) "My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades." www.youtube.com Respectfully, above is President Donald Trump's version of Matthew 5:39. I have never pretended to be a good Christian, but President Trump's advice just seems from my secular viewpoint to be diametrically opposed to the teachings of Jesus. Maybe some evangelical Christian can explain it to me in a way that makes sense, but it sure seems like opposite day has been EVERY day since Mr. Trump announced his bid for public office.
mo-oneandmore 17-May-18, 09:51	service <<<Do not know anything about what President Trump wrote in “The Art of the Deal”>>> Neither does anybody else, because ---as shiva stated --- tRump didn't write "The Art of the Deal". He merely put his mug on the cover and took credit for it.
inhis_service 17-May-18, 12:51	mo-one . . . << Neither does anybody else, because ---as shiva stated --- tRump didn't write "The Art of the Deal". He merely put his mug on the cover and took credit for it. >> Why are you splitting hairs like this? The contents though not personally “written” by Donald Trump nonetheless are thoughts written for him. They are still Trump's original ideas as stated succinctly by this review of the book: “ByLady Vigilanton July 18, 2017 President Trump is so honest about his successes and failures as an entrepreneur and we all know it is far better to learn from someone else's mistakes than to make them ourselves. There is so much wisdom for entrepreneurs and everyday life in his writings. I really wish this book had been available when I was in High School. There is so much knowledge to process that I am only reading one chapter a day although it is hard to stop reading once I start. This should be required reading in school though great books like this rarely are these days. www.amazon.com Trump was persuaded to produce the book by Condé Nast owner Si Newhouse after the May 1984 issue of Newhouse's magazine GQ – with Trump appearing on the cover – sold well.[8][10] Schwartz was hired to work on the book, and began working with Trump in late 1985. He interviewed Trump and – with permission from him – listened in on his phone calls. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

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