What a pathetic answer! Trump should be educated enough on Planned Parenthood to already KNOW THEY DON'T PERFORM MAMMOGRAMS! This is exactly why I cannot trust him. He wants to have it both ways and that is disgusting to me. He ducked the perfect opportunity to slam dunk Todd and declined to do so. Ask yourself why?
Donald Trump didn’t say anything about mammograms. He mentioned cervical cancer screening. Apparently you folks, or Chuck Todd heard “cancer screening” and YOU thought of mammograms.
One of the reasons that we are this far down the road to perdition is that some “principled” people forgot Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to “take every thing by the smooth handle”, or as Donald Trump’s father used to tell him, “take the lumps out.”
You don’t slam dunk someone with whom you are going to do business with unless it is absolutely necessary. For example, unless it is absolutely essential, one does not call the Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate Floor.
Donald Trump said he is going to defund Planned Parenthood as long as they are performing abortions. Part of the Art of the Deal is: Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
So, Donald is just saying that they do wonderful things other than abortions because Donald doesn’t want to piss off the women in his life?
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You probably don’t have many women in you life if that is your attitude!
One of the reasons that we are this far down the road to perdition is that some “principled” people forgot Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to “take every thing by the smooth handle”, or as Donald Trump’s father used to tell him, “take the lumps out.”
You don’t slam dunk someone with whom you are going to do business with unless it is absolutely necessary. For example, unless it is absolutely essential, one does not call the Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate Floor.
Donald Trump said he is going to defund Planned Parenthood as long as they are performing abortions. Part of the Art of the Deal is: Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.