ltimately, Mr Trump has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”
That’s the killer line from the sweeping New York Times expose of President Trump’s tax affairs, which reveal that he paid just $750 in federal income tax in the year he won the presidency, and $750 in his first year of the job, while painting a picture of a business empire teetering on the brink.
But that first statement misses the point: playing business mogul is in itself a business for Donald Trump, and it is a remarkably successful one. Not only does it appear to have propped up the Trump Organisation’s struggling real estate businesses, it is ultimately what delivered the presidency into his hands.
