Trump Builds Crap

He has reverse Midas Touch — everything he builds turns to shit

A neighbor wrote this letter to the editor for a local Colorado newspaper. I thought it’s worth posting here:

Donald Trump keeps extolling his knowledge, experience and success as a builder to support his claims that he knows what he’s doing in building the ballroom, renovating the Kennedy Center, creating a huge arch in his own owner, recreating the reflecting pool.  Everyone, including the press and those on the so-called right and left, should look at the facts.  Many if not most of Trumps’ large real estate projects in this century and the end of the last have gone belly up because of bad planning, huge cost overruns, failure to deliver, bad partners, misappropriation of funds, poor management , and alleged fraud.  It’s easy to look up.  Check out the history of his three casinos in Atlantic City, which went bankrupt multiple times, the Trump projects in Baja, Mexico, Toronto, Tampa, and Panama.  Even Azerbaijan.  There are so many others.   When contractors, subs, investors, and would-be condo owners who had made deposits, or even golf course member who had paid their dues, sued him for the damage they suffered as a result of the failed projects, his defense, sworn in court, was that he wasn’t the contractor, but merely the licensor of his name.  He can’t have it both ways.  Love him  or hate him, he’s either a great builder or not.  Results say “not.”