Trump has been a numbers guy since the 1960s, attending prestigious schools that had high academic requirements, and driven by a father who had very high expectations of his children.
He also attended Wharton school of Business, and worked real estate with his father on the weekends in-between classes.
He has overseen massive and ambitious construction projects, renovations, and reclamations of historic properties in New York, requiring levels of risk, executive management, personnel selection, employee hiring, training, retaining, and firing that precious few people will ever understand.
On top of that, he understands mass media and public perception better than any US politician in history, with Ronald Reagan being the closest 2nd place you will ever find.
So it’s always entertaining to see people think he’s dumb, uneducated about finance, or doesn’t know what’s going on with markets.
I watched some 1970s and early 1980s interviews with him that I hadn’t seen in a long time. He was saying the same things back then, how the US is being taken advantage of by foreign countries in trade, and how our politicians just let it happen.
He has been very consistent on this issue for generations now.
