I suppose I have had the same problems with once and maybe again President Donald

J Trump that are shared by many.

It wasn't obvious to me at all that his first shot at the leadership

of the world's most powerful country was anything other than a brilliant and unorthodox marketing scheme. Now be it one that succeeded beyond the wildest of imaginings.

Congratulations, Mr President.

Yeah!

Yeah! Mr. President. President. I knew him only at that point as a self-promoting

bombastic quintessentially American type celebrity reminiscent in my imagination of Colonel

Tom Parker, the morally ambivalent although indubitably successful promoter of

Elvis Presley.

However, Trump made a name for himself

in the difficult business of construction

where, particularly in cities such as New York and Chicago, all manner of corruption and trouble had to be managed,

a challenging matter, to keep the projects going on time and within budget.

Anyone who's ever undertaken a renovation of any magnitude

knows how badly such things can spiral out of control without diligent devotion of time and attention. He managed well doing so to make himself quite

famous another feat that is by no means as simple as those who have never done it might

imagine.

Somebody who was at the Michael Jackson concert in New York

said, when you were seated, you got the loudest applause.

People stood up and roared and cheered so maybe there was

something to him on the diligence attention and negotiation front that belied his

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