He’s been using the line “lots of people are saying” for a long time to say how great he is. Check out this old Barbara Walters interview: https://youtu.be/mW1NPLeTf_c
Trump: The plaza is a very valuable property. Everybody told me, Oh, you paid too much. You paid too much. Now they’re all saying what a great deal he made.
Barbara: No they’re not.
I love the look on his face when she says that. Today he’d probably pivot into saying how unfair that is, and maybe mention her vagina being dirty or something. Back then, he had to sit and take the fact that his bullshit was called out and he’s has nothing.
This was in 1990. He bought the New York Plaza hotel in 1988 for $390M. By 1992, it was $550M in debt and was in bankruptcy.
He’s been using the line “lots of people are saying” for a long time to say how great he is. Check out this old Barbara Walters interview: https://youtu.be/mW1NPLeTf_c
Trump: The plaza is a very valuable property. Everybody told me, Oh, you paid too much. You paid too much. Now they’re all saying what a great deal he made.
Barbara: No they’re not.
I love the look on his face when she says that. Today he’d probably pivot into saying how unfair that is, and maybe mention her vagina being dirty or something. Back then, he had to sit and take the fact that his bullshit was called out and he’s has nothing.
This was in 1990. He bought the New York Plaza hotel in 1988 for $390M. By 1992, it was $550M in debt and was in bankruptcy.
Source: a young Senator in 2016 who is definitely going places
All I think of is when someone says that on Wikipedia and then they just add a superscript after saying “how many?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word