What happens when you combine one of the world's most ridiculed business personalities with one of the world's most ridiculed business models?Posted on 06/19/2015 9:41:50 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
What happens when you combine one of the world's most ridiculed business personalities with one of the world's most ridiculed business models?
The Trump Network, the new Donald Trump-branded multi-level marketing business that is "designed to make people healthier with customized vitamins and nutritional supplements, and to encourage individuals to become entrepreneurs and to take control of their financial well-being."
In an e-mail, Trump told The Associated Press that The Trump Network is his "rescue and recovery program" for people who have been hit hard by the recession.
If you do want to join the Trump Network, you can start with just $48. That will get you a marketing kit and three months of access to a Web site where you can direct your customers and recruits. But the AP adds that "participants are often sold a $497 package that includes the marketing kit, products, CDs, sales tips and coupons."
Although the strength of Donald Trump's brand has been in decline for some time, he's probably a good fit for multi-level marketing. While most serious businesspeople see him as a pariah, there are quite a few wanna-bes who look up him -- and might just be desparate enough for cash to give multi-level marketing a try.
At least one ambitious distributor has already begun placing ads on Facebook to lure in new recruits (see the screenshots I took above) -- and with a significant chunk of the 10.2% of unemployed Americans sitting at home browsing Facebook, it just might work. But pay no attention to the grammatical errors in sentences like "Everyone deserves a chance to have the life they dream about!"
Is Trump Network a good ticket to wealth? Here's what the False Profits blog had to say about that in August, when news of Trump's MLM project first began to trickle in: "To those not caught up in MLM's delusions and entrapments, Trump's association with MLM is a red flag of flim-flam. A guy known for extravagant consumption, an overbearing braggart, a figment of PR spin, a regular on the covers of celebrity scandal magazines, a promoter of professional wrestling, a bankrupt executive in the gambling industry, a schemer notorious for skipping out on debts, a man famous for win-lose 'deals.' This is the spokesman for a business based on person-to-person selling to friends and relatives?"
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Reading about Trump’s antics makes my head hurt.
I am astounded at the number of friends who are glad he is running.
I think the denial is huge among his supporters.
His background is horrific. Multi level marketing?
Maybe he will add something by bringing up the border and the Chinese killing us in trade. And he hits pantsuit hard.
but..come on.
But he is like Teflon among his supporters. None of it seems to matter. Oh well. To each his own.
Of interest.
I certainly don’t want him to win, however, I am enjoying his brsshness and stirring things up. He was on Savage today, and Michael asked him about a 3rd party run if he didn’t win the R nomination. He said he didn’t rule anything out, and Michael interrupted him, and then came back and took it as a no. That isn’t what the Donald said. He said he wouldn’t rule it out, so, maybe he is doing Hillary’s bidding as Ross Perot did for her husband. Yeah, I know he has some ideas that sound plausible, but, his idea of tariffs is what Mark Levin said brought on the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley Act - we put tariffs on foreign goods, and the countries in turn jacked up their tariffs so high that no one was buying American made goods. Google the results of this disastrous bill - and both Smoot and Hawley were Republicans.
Not a defender of Trump, but I would rather have the purveyor of an MLM scheme in office than the outright liars like McConnell and Boehner we have now. These people ran for office under false pretenses and upon re-election immediately set out to defraud the millions of people who voted for them. They accepted donations from people under false pretenses. They accept and encourage enormous grift when it comes to what they support and how they sell the power they wield from office. Are their frauds more righteous or something? Half the population of the US is heavily invested in fraud is supporting this Dem party. And virtually everyone in government supports what is in essence giant fraud. The Clintons are world-class masters of fraud and skirting the law and they have tremendous support. At some level, if our society is going to venerate and ratify fraud while calling practitioners of organized religion bigots and racists, then society gets what it deserves.
I am not a Trump supporter. I like the bluntness of what he says, but IMO he will ultimately prove to be damaging to the GOP and he’s switched sides on very important issues many, many times. He’s running strictly for his ego, and if it’s even possible, he’ll make the GOP appear more clownlike than it already does.
For a century, Americans have voted for the candidate with the nicer hair.
1) “I probably identify more as Democrat.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004
2) “I’ve been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004
3) “Nancy — you’re the best. Congrats. Donald.” —Handwritten note to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, January 2007
4) “Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2007
5) “I’m totally pro-choice.” —Interview with Fox News Sunday, October 1999
6) “I want to see the abortion issue removed from politics. I believe it is a personal decision that should be left to the women and their doctors.” —Remarks to reporters, December 1999
7) “I’m very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care.” —Interview with CNN’s Larry King, October 1999.
8) “The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans… We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan.” —Writing in his book, The America We Deserve, January 2000
9) “By imposing a one-time 14.25 percent net-worth tax on the richest individuals and trusts, we can put America on sound financial footing for the next century.” —Writing in his book, The America We Deserve, January 2000
10) “I think he [Obama] has a chance to go down as a great president.” —Interview with NY1, November 2008
I KNEW IT!! THIS SOB is gonna run as an independent! Dammit.
VET..he’s gonna run as a third party. I know it!! That Mother...!!
I SAID his ego is too big to go away if he doesn’t get the republican nomination.
He said on Savage he wouldn’t rule it out.
Dammit.
This isn’t the only MLM he’s involved in. He’s also involved in at least one other: ACN: videophones made in China.
Thanks!
“VET..he’s gonna run as a third party. I know it!! That Mother...!!”
It’s probably been discussed here before, but in all seriousness, why doesn’t Trump take on Hillary in the Democrat Primary? Seems like a better fit.
Actually he’s not going to run at all. He will never let his real financial condition be known. But he will do as much damage as possible.
It’s a much better fit. A moderate democrat. He’s made so many unconservative statements in the past, how can he be believed?
Multi level marketing? why would a billionaire get behind something like that? and so much more. It boggles the mind.
But like the pos perot, he will run third party because he’s an egotistical narcissistic idiot.
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