{"id":6497,"date":"2011-04-30T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T23:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2011-04-30T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T23:17:17","slug":"inside-the-mind-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/inside-the-mind-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the mind of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"387\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=915306639001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fonline%2Fblogs%2Fnewsdesk%2F2011%2F04%2Fdonald-trump-mark-singer.html&amp;playerID=673564960001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF1454s~,QH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=915306639001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fonline%2Fblogs%2Fnewsdesk%2F2011%2F04%2Fdonald-trump-mark-singer.html&amp;playerID=673564960001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF1454s~,QH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=915306639001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fonline%2Fblogs%2Fnewsdesk%2F2011%2F04%2Fdonald-trump-mark-singer.html&amp;playerID=673564960001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF1454s~,QH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>One of the problems with appointing oneself The Ultimate Arbiter of Truth is that ultimately your own veracity comes under the spotlight, as does the &#8220;truthiness&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2011\/04\/donald-trump-mark-singer.html\" target=\"_blank\">of your financial claims<\/a>. And if the Ultimate Arbiter in question happens to be casino pitchman <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/11\/books\/review\/11letters.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a modest and charming personality<\/a> is also part of the package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to worry<\/strong>: Trump&#8217;s publicity tour-<em>cum<\/em>-prank poses no danger to the image of the casino industry <em>per se<\/em>. If anything, it actually <!--more-->improves it because every other CEO in the business has his or her <em>gravitas<\/em> enhanced even further by the simple virtue of not being a publicity-crazed clown named Donald J. Trump. The longer this stunt goes on, the better the chances that the enduring myth of Trump, Captain of Industry will be finally dispelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with appointing oneself The Ultimate Arbiter of Truth is that ultimately your own veracity comes under the spotlight, as does the &#8220;truthiness&#8221; of your financial claims. And if the Ultimate Arbiter in question happens to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/inside-the-mind-of-trump\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,42,22,119,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}