1. Think Big Trump advocates for setting bold, ambitious goals rather than modest ones. Thinking big attracts attention, opens opportunities, and creates leverage in negotiations, whether in real estate or business ventures
. 2. Protect the Downside A central tenet is risk management: anticipate worst-case scenarios and structure deals to minimize potential losses. This conservative approach ensures that even under adverse conditions, potential gains remain intact
. 3. Maximize Options Maintaining flexibility by pursuing multiple deals or approaches at once enhances bargaining power. Trump emphasizes keeping several "balls in the air" to avoid overcommitment to a . 4. Know Your Market Trump relies on direct observation and personal research rather than solely on reports or surveys. Understanding clients, competitors, and market dynamics provides a strong informational advantage
. 5. Use Leverage Strategically Deal-making requires using leverage effectively without appearing desperate. Leverage can be something others value, information asymmetry, or scarcity. Appearing in control strengthens . 6. Enhance Your Location or Asset In real estate, Trump stresses value creation over simple geographic advantage. Improving an asset’s potential through renovation, promotion, or creative structuring can outperform simply choosing prime locations
. 7. Control Publicity Media attention, even if controversial, is a tool for increasing deal visibility and influence. Being bold, different, or provocative attracts favorable coverage and shapes market perception
. 8. Fight Back When Necessary Trump advises assertively defending your interests against unfair treatment. A strong stance . 9. Deliver the Goods Long-term reputation is built on executing promises. Promotion and hype generate interest, but actual results validate credibility and trustworthiness Inc.com+1 . 10. Contain Costs Spending should be strategic. Manage expenses diligently to protect profits; even small savings can compound into significant advantages
. 11. Have Fun Trump encourages enjoying the process. Viewing deal-making as a game or art form maintains motivation and creativity, which are essential for sustained success
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Right, a book written entirely by a ghostwriter that emphasizes hyperbole over substance and brash business practices that encourage screwing people over, a direct cause of the heavily litigious society the US is plagued by that leaves other nations scratching their heads. MAGA isn't confused by who Trump is, they're just enamored by the rise of the poster child for what *can* happen when you are always, without exception, the worst faith actor in the room.
. 3. Maximize Options Maintaining flexibility by pursuing multiple deals or approaches at once enhances bargaining power. Trump emphasizes keeping several "balls in the air" to avoid overcommitment to a .
The MAGAs absolutely HATED Vice President Pence on 1/6/21. I'm not sure what he did, but the MAGAs despised him like a sickness. If the MAGAs had busted into the Capitol a half hour earlier, only Christ knows what they would have done to Pence. At a minimum, he would been administered a beating to get him to accept the fake elector certificates. To this day, MAGAs consider Pence to be a traitor to the MAGA cause.
Here are some comments about Art of the Deal by the ghostwriter (Trump still claims he wrote it, which is a lie)
“I created a character far more winning than Trump actually is.” “Lying is second nature to him. . . . More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.” “He lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it. . . . [It] gave him a strange advantage.” [In the book, Schwartz’s wrote this in Trump’s voice:] “I play to people’s fantasies. . . . People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and it’s a very effective form of promotion.” [Here’s what Schwartz believes now:] “Deceit [is never] innocent. . . . ‘Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’ ” “[A] stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance. . . . I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.”
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
[Professor Laurence] Tribe likes to say he had taught about 4,000 students before Obama and another 4,000 since, yet none has impressed him more.
William Kelley: Donald Trump was the "dumbest goddam student I ever had".
p.s. How many articles did Donald Trump publish as the editor of the Harvard Law Review?
Trump did publish what is probably the greatest business book of all time, The Art of the Deal.
The MAGAs sent their best and brightest to the Capitol on that fateful day (January 6, 2021). MAGAs across the country heard their President's cry and they embarked on their mission. The true MAGA warriors and faithful.
They almost succeeded. But the liberal Deep State cops were just too much in the end. The MAGAs were defeated. But they can still be proud of how hard they fought for MAGA that day.
The MAGAs absolutely HATED Vice President Pence on 1/6/21. I'm not sure what he did, but the MAGAs despised him like a sickness. If the MAGAs had busted into the Capitol a half hour earlier, only Christ knows what they would have done to Pence. At a minimum, he would been administered a beating to get him to accept the fake elector certificates. To this day, MAGAs consider Pence to be a traitor to the MAGA cause.
History will remember Mike Pence as the first United States Vice President that served loyally for only 4 years in such a fawning manner that it looked like he was smitten with Trump. But then he had that audacity to tell Trump he couldn’t commit crimes against the constitution to help him stay in office. And that was a line that MAGA does not allow to be crossed. They would have beaten him to a pulp if he did not covertly escape in that parking garage as Trumps secret service was trying to get him in their car.
And now we have an eyeliner wearing couch humper today as the Vice President.
And now you know the rest of the story.
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Tesla the company doesn’t matter. It’s a cult of personality around Musk. Elon sells bullsht to incels. They in turn buy his stock.
Certainly a cult of personality. I also wonder if so many “intelligent” investors have strapped their wagons to the Tesla train (still holding a 300+ PE Ratio?!?) that they have to pretend the emperor has clothes? And with so much of this current bubble propped up by AI, admitting the Tesla truth would be a devastating encounter with reality…
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
But don't forget, as we're so often told, that Musk is a certified genius. A genius who thought, "I ought to 100% get in bed with a widely and rightfully hated 'leader,' spend huge amounts of my time doing extremely high-profile and hugely stupid and cruel and ineffective things to the U.S. government for a while, and all of that will turn out well for me."
Tesla the company doesn’t matter. It’s a cult of personality around Musk. Elon sells bullsht to incels. They in turn buy his stock.
Certainly a cult of personality. I also wonder if so many “intelligent” investors have strapped their wagons to the Tesla train (still holding a 300+ PE Ratio?!?) that they have to pretend the emperor has clothes? And with so much of this current bubble propped up by AI, admitting the Tesla truth would be a devastating encounter with reality…
well to be fair, the stock trades on what the next tesla products will be, not car sales. there is hope that the robots and other things will create billions of future value.
the stock doesnt' trade on car sales - it trades on hopium that musk will come up with the next big thing.
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
But don't forget, as we're so often told, that Musk is a certified genius. A genius who thought, "I ought to 100% get in bed with a widely and rightfully hated 'leader,' spend huge amounts of my time doing extremely high-profile and hugely stupid and cruel and ineffective things to the U.S. government for a while, and all of that will turn out well for me."
musk called for the execution of any MN fraudsters.
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
Norway wraps up 2025 with 96% of its new car market fully electric, and Tesla’s sales are surging there
Elon Musk’s Tesla cemented its position as the top-selling car brand in Norway for a fifth consecutive year. The U.S.-based EV maker found solace in Norway through 2025, despite a sustained slump in several other key European markets during the year. A total of 34,285 new passenger Tesla cars were registered in Norway last year, which means that almost one out of every five new cars in Norway was a Tesla. It’s a 41% year-on-year increase on the 24,259 new Teslas registered in the country in 2024.
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
Norway wraps up 2025 with 96% of its new car market fully electric, and Tesla’s sales are surging there
Elon Musk’s Tesla cemented its position as the top-selling car brand in Norway for a fifth consecutive year. The U.S.-based EV maker found solace in Norway through 2025, despite a sustained slump in several other key European markets during the year. A total of 34,285 new passenger Tesla cars were registered in Norway last year, which means that almost one out of every five new cars in Norway was a Tesla. It’s a 41% year-on-year increase on the 24,259 new Teslas registered in the country in 2024.
Will libs call Norway a sh!thole now?
Follow me slowly here (i.e. at your top gear): 1) "Libs" don't hate the EV innovation of Tesla, they hate the hyperbole, manipulation, disinformation, and democracy-eroding impulses of Tesla's CEO. 2) "Libs" have never famously called anywhere a "sh!thole" country, that's your cult leader's bag. 3) Does this mean you now rally behind the EV transformation of the vehicle landscape? This is a good thing, but I'm just trying to sort this mental soup out to see if any accidental lines of consistent logic poured out with the sludge.
Tesla sales cratering. China is eating Musk's lunch.
The world hates piggie and his piglets.
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles . The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declined 9 percent even as other automakers notched gains. In 2025, for the first year ever, the company sold fewer electric cars than China’s leading automaker, BYD.
Norway wraps up 2025 with 96% of its new car market fully electric, and Tesla’s sales are surging there
Elon Musk’s Tesla cemented its position as the top-selling car brand in Norway for a fifth consecutive year. The U.S.-based EV maker found solace in Norway through 2025, despite a sustained slump in several other key European markets during the year. A total of 34,285 new passenger Tesla cars were registered in Norway last year, which means that almost one out of every five new cars in Norway was a Tesla. It’s a 41% year-on-year increase on the 24,259 new Teslas registered in the country in 2024.
Will libs call Norway a sh!thole now?
that is one of the greatest cherrypicking posts ever. Um, congrats? You did it. You cherrypicked really really well.
here's what's going on in Europe with Tesla. It's a crater sitch. Catastrophic.
The world hates piggie and the piglets. Which is to say, the world hates you.
In France, Europe's third-biggest car market after Germany and Britain, Tesla registrations - a proxy for sales - slumped 66% last month to 1,942 vehicles, data from French car body PFA showed on Thursday. Registrations fell 37% in France in 2025 as a whole. In Sweden, Tesla registrations fell 71% to 821 vehicles in December, leading to a 70% drop in 2025, according to Mobility Sweden. They also dropped in Portugal, Spain and Belgium, by 13% to 1,207 cars, 44% to 1,794 and 28% to 1,084 respectively, official data showed. For 2025 as a whole, sales fell 22% in Portugal, 4% in Spain and 53% in Belgium.
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