A central premise of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s pitch to voters is that his business success qualifies him for the Oval Office — but his years-long effort to rent retail space at the base of Trump’s namesake tower in Chicago has been a total failure.
Trump and his three children (Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka) were all involved in the project. The article quotes from a brief filed by a Trump Organization law firm with the Cook County assessor, outlining why the commercial project was such a failure.
Trump International Hotel and Tower is a gleaming 92-story glass building at 401 N. Wabash Ave., along the Chicago River and just west of Michigan Avenue. Giant letters spell out Trump’s name on the riverfront side of the building.
...About 70,000 square feet of space on the terrace and riverwalk levels has never been rented since the building opened in 2008. That means Trump’s organization each year leaves potentially millions of rent dollars on the table, as the vacant space generates no revenue
The Washington Post, in an article about Hillary planning her White House agenda, has this to say about Trump:
Trump, who also has a transition team at work, trails by double digits in some national polls. No candidate in more than 60 years has come back to win after being so far behind at this point in the general-election campaign. Trump also is losing in surveys taken in battleground states where he is staking his campaign. Among those states is Virginia, where he has a 14-point deficit, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published in the past week.
The latest Trump campaign shake-ups, including the appointment of a new campaign manager who is an extremely annoying, uber-right-wing, Clinton-hating, "Coulter clone" from the 90's, with no experience running a campaign, and who has been stuck in a time-warp for 20 years ranting about Paula Jones and Clinton's infidelity, and the head of a right-wing online news outfit as campaign CEO, is further scaring even die-hard Republicans. The New York Daily News today suggests he's planning on self-destructing in the biggest way possible.
Make America great again — by lighting a match and flicking it into the dumpster of a floundering campaign.