Trump's Forgotten Failure: How He Helped Ruin a Football League
Two weeks ago, on the Sunday HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” comedian John Oliver did what the mainstream media has largely failed to do — namely, to counter Donald Trump’s narrative of business success by listing the real estate mogul’s long string of failures:
“Trump Shuttle, which no longer exists; Trump Vodka, which was discontinued; Trump magazine, which folded; Trump World magazine, which also folded; Trump University, over which he’s being sued; and of course, the travel-booking site GoTrump.com …” as well as Trump Steaks and, in 2006, “just before the entire mortgage industry collapsed,” Trump Mortgage.
The segment got so much attention that Trump responded by attempting to deny the truth about each failure, even offering steaks to an audience at $50 each, despite the fact that the trademark on Trump Steaks had been canceled in 2014.
Oliver is British, so it’s understandable that he might not be as knowledgeable about Trump’s failure in sports, particularly his disastrous involvement with the United States Football League in the 1980s. I was there and saw it firsthand.
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