When Donald Trump visited the Indian city of Pune, his private jet was so large that he was forced to wait on board for nearly an hour while airport staff cobbled together a makeshift landing ramp for him to come down to earth.
According to his business partner Atul Chordia, Trump remained jovial despite the glitch during his grand entrance in August 2014. “He was joking around with the staff – he could have made a scene about it, but he didn’t,” said Chordia in a telephone interview. “He was nice, friendly. He was good with everyone.”
A slump in the US market had brought the real estate tycoon east in search of new opportunities; that search brought him to Pune, a sleepy city in western India.
—The Guardian
This caught my eye because of Rummuser. Are you familiar with the Pune Trump Towers and their luxury apartments, Rummuser?
The Trump Towers are eyesores, located just under a km from my home. The apartments are priced at obscene levels and only the super rich can afford them. Trump’s Indian partners for the project were employers of my daughter in love for a few years till she quit to devote her time to other worthier causes.
http://trumptowerspune.com/pune/apartments-in-kalyani-nagar
Your link is the same as mine above. Yes, they are for the super wealthy, costing millions of dollars. Their website is stunning.
I read an article talking about whether his becoming president will enhance his brand. Could very well be, but it could also make his projects easy targets for terrorists. As the saying goes, we’re in uncharted territory.
There’s talk of all Trump’s global businesses being a serious conflict of interest with his new role as American President. He can’t sell any shares because it’s direct ownership so I’m not sure what else he can do to separate his businesses from the Presidency.
He has been seeing his foreign business partners even during the transition. That’s why I got curious to see what he’s been doing in India. It’s hard to believe is business interests aren’t going to affect his foreign policy decisions. As usual, we will just have to see.
I just went to the website…
it’s staggering that some people have so much wealth
and others have annual salaries that wouldn’t cover a months rent
or purchase one of the sofas for that matter…..
and it’s hard to believe that someone whose plane is too big to land
can grasp what it’s like to struggle to make ends meet.
Or to care.
Yep, more likely just an ego trip to be President.
a power trip
and I don’t see how that kind of person could suddenly not care about his business.
Let’s hope his ego really wants to go down in history as making a huge difference and making America great again.
Yes, fingers crossed!
when rummy posted about it I followed the link.
46 homes each over 3600 square feet.
and as you say… the site itself is ‘stunning’ in portraying the opulence of it all.
everything cindi wrote is true. I find it hard to think he could possibly know what the majority of americans and others in this world live with on a daily basis. he was born wealthy and has little frame of reference or experience in relating to any of it.
I honestly can’t see him releasing all control of his business interests that might conflict to his children. it’s just not going to happen. so where are we now?
why wasn’t any of this brought out more in the actual election? !!!
Rummy’s link is the same as mine in the post. (“Are you familiar with the Pune Trump Towers and their luxury apartments, Rummuser?” )The site is definitely worth looking at.
I don’t think the people who voted for him were worried about conflict of interest. They just wanted change. And the media were seduced by his audience appeal, never expecting him to win.
interesting developments for sure
are any of the responders below the age of 30…it would be most interesting to see those people share their thoughts, are they worried, or ???
do they see a problem with the/their future or are they thinking more of fleeing the shores of their respective countries. Or even do they care?
when changes are put forth here, I can think of quite a few changes that would dearly affect me, I have ridden through the media naysayers and then usually I have managed to stay afloat…
a recent example was my big move to a smaller rental…my previous home was very low rent, because of my long term tenancy. I was expecting to get a whole less for my bucks – first I thought of a$$range I could cope with but what was in that range was not good at all…so I raised the bar, but didn’t want the rent to really be at the top end of my bar.
I somehow managed to find this place within the first bar-range, quite unexpectedly. okay it’s not a luxury “trump apt” but it more or less ticks all my boxes…
other major previous changes had to do with my ill health and the respective government handouts; there was talk of all kinds of detrimental ideals that would have really put the cat among my pigeons but in the end I was not affected…
all of my examples have to do with how my country is functioning…maybe the example of NZ which is the landmass size of Colorado has nothing to do with the entire hemisphere that you mostly all seem to live in, but politics and wealth is the same world-over IMHO….
I know people in their mid 40’s who are concerned about their future, but I don’t know of people who are younger. I imagine the more liberal of them are concerned, especially about global warming. That plus overpopulation means
I’m so happy you found a good apartment, and that your health is all right.
Come on, everyone. The American people were conned. Let’s stop the “hoping” and “let’s see” stuff. Trump is an opportunist, and the presidency will give him what he wanted in the first place: more power, and more riches. He is someone who hasn’t had a moment of adversity in his life, so how can he be expected to be a president for “all the people”, many of whom are struggling just to survive. There is nothing to be done now, but to see this through.Being alert, aware and informed is all we have.
No, the American people weren’t conned. First of all Clinton won the popular vote, and second, a lot of people who voted for Trump didn’t like him. They were just willing to take a risk on something new and different. And new and different he is. We can be sure he likes attention and wealth and power, but how that translates into policies we’ll just have to see.