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The US military plans to increase the presence in Yemen. «As we continue on the mission, I think there will be some additional troops that we will ask to bring in», US Army General Joseph Votel, who heads the US Central Command, said in an interview in Baghdad on July 14, without disclosing the number.
According to him, a variety of locations could be suitable for American forces. He did not disclose potential sites.
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab states, supported by the US
and the UK, has been involved in the Yemeni conflict since March 2015.
So far, it has not gained much ground. The Yemeni capital Sana’a is
still in the hands of the Houthis group (Ansar Allah – «Supporters of God»).
The fighting has resulted in more than 3,200 civilian deaths, over 60 percent of them from coalition airstrikes, according to the United Nations.
Around 6,000 civilians have been wounded in the conflict. Airstrikes
have damaged or destroyed numerous civilian objects including homes,
markets, hospitals, and schools, as well as commercial enterprises.
On 30 June an HRW report stated that US-made bombs were being used in attacks indiscriminately targeting civilians and violating the laws of war.
The report photographed «the remnants of an MK-83 air-dropped 1,000-pound bomb made in the US».
On 1 July, the UN announced that Yemen was at the highest level of humanitarian disaster with over 80% of the population needing help.
United Nations agencies agreed to classify Yemen as a level 3
emergency as the UN envoy for Yemen stated that the country is one step
away from famine.
The announcement of the US plans to bring in more forces came amid
the reports that the Saudi-led coalition may be preparing to attack
Sana’a, the Houthi-held Yemen’s capital, following the breakdown of the
UN-led peace process in Kuwait. The UN-led peace process in Kuwait was
suspended after 77 days of negotiations that achieved no significant
progress.
The US mission in Yemen is just the latest in a growing number of
small US deployments across the world. US special operations forces
(SOF) have been deployed to 135 nations – around 70% of the countries in the world.
Every day, they carry out missions in 80 to 90 nations. Approximately 11,000 special operators are deployed or stationed outside the United States with many more on standby, ready to respond in the event of an overseas crisis.
The US military is also looking to further beef up its presence in Iraq. The administration has recently announced that additional
560 troops will be sent to Iraq to strengthen the Iraqi offensive to
retake Mosul, the Iraqi second biggest city, that is now an Islamic
State (IS) stronghold.
General Votel said, the request for more troops will be on top of the
560 already announced. His remarks came just three days after Obama’s
administration announced a 560 troop increase as part of an effort to
facilitate an Iraqi offensive to retake Mosul. The General cautioned
that Americans should not expect a rapid, wholesale withdrawal from the
country. He emphasized that the forces will stay even after the US
military accomplishes the mission of driving out IS forces from Mosul in
Iraq and from the Syrian city of al-Raqqa. According to Votel, once
their objectives are met in the areas, it will be imperative that they
ensure the militants do not shift base and begin operating from other
locations outside those cities. He said the goal was to achieve a
«lasting defeat».
It’s not the US only. French President Francois Hollande has said that
France will send heavy artillery to Iraq to support the fight against
the Islamic State. Hollande announced the plan on July 22, saying the
artillery equipment «will be in place next month». The
president also reiterated that the French aircraft carrier Charles De
Gaulle will be deployed in the region in late September to help in
ongoing operations against the IS. Elsewhere, protests erupted in Libya
on July 21 after the president confirmed for the first time that French
special forces were operating in the country. Libya’s UN-backed
government in Tripoli also condemned France’s military action.
It starts with clandestine operations of limited scale conducted by
special operations forces to be followed by reinforcements sent to beef
up the presence, and then artillery units deployed to support them on
the ground. Step by step the West is expanding its military intervention
on the ground in Yemen, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. There
deployments are described as ‘small-scale’ operations conducted without
putting troops on the frontlines fighting firefights. This way the
leading Western nations may be trending towards another war in the
Middle East without the public realizing it. In Yemen, Iraq and other
places, the deployments will gradually lead to full commitment to a
ground war and it will be too late to turn back the clock.
Internal IMF report questions the fund's independence in bailoutsDonal O'Donovan and Colm Kelpie
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been severely criticised by
its own internal watchdog for being too close to the European Central
Bank (ECB) and the European Commission during the bailouts for Ireland,
Greece and Portugal.
Father Of Muslim American War Hero To Trump: 'You Have Sacrificed Nothing'
PHILADELPHIA ― The father of a Muslim American war hero addressed the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, delivering a brutal takedown of Donald Trump and his inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Rachel Moss Lifestyle Writer at The Huffington Post UK
David
Goodings wanted to do something special for his grandma Iris’ 86th
birthday, so he took her for a ride in his car to remember.
“I thought I would do something a little bit different for my nan this year,” he wrote on YouTube.
“Once she was in the car and thinking she was listening to the radio she suddenly got the biggest shock of her life...”
David had created a mixed tape filled with birthday messages for Iris from friends and family.
He’d even managed to track down her brother in Australia to send a recording.
The birthday girl was moved to tears of joy at hearing the voices of her loved ones.
Great work, David.
Iraqi Catholic Leader Blasts Assyrian Commander for Tribute to U.S. Troops
Assyrian International News Agency Iraqi Catholic Leader Blasts Assyrian Commander for Tribute to U.S. Troops By Edwin Mora Breitbart 2016-07-29 04:53 GMT ( SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Breitbart TV)Chaldean
Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, head of Iraq's largest Christian
community, decried the commander of the Christian Assyrian Army, known
as Dwekh Nawsha, for shedding tears for U.S. troops killed in Iraq,
suggesting the Americans do not deserve to be commended for their
sacrifice.
In an interview with Assyrian TV earlier this year, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Sako, declared:
There
went one [man] from here crying at the graves of the troops of America –
crying for those who died liberating the Nineveh Plain. Americans died
liberating the Nineveh Plain? What saying is this? Where did they die in
the Nineveh Plain?
The patriarch of the Chaldean church,
which is one of the Eastern rite churches in full communion with the
Roman Catholic Church, was referring to Cmdr. Emmanuel Khoshaba
Youkhana.
Sako added that the Christian Assyrian Army leader's emotional display, which took place during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News earlier this year at the Arlington National Cemetery, was not "proper."
Tears welled in the eyes of the Assyrian Army commander when he reached the section of the cemetery where U.S. troops who died in the name of Iraqi freedom have been laid to rest.
According
to the Pentagon, 4,497 Americans, including 13 U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) civilians, were killed during the first Iraq War that started in 2003, which was known as Operation Iraqi Freedom until September 2010 when it was renamed Operation New Dawn.
Another 32,247 were wounded. A tally by CNN
shows that many of the casualties (estimated in the hundreds) took
place in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, particularly Mosul, once the
home of the largest Christian community in the country.
Moreover,
three Americans have died in combat in Iraq while supporting the
campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), including one who died in Nineveh province. Overall, there have been 23 U.S. military fatalities, including 3 civilians, and 16 injuries under the mission against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
The
Assyria Nineveh Plain, a region in Iraq's Nineveh province outside
Mosul, is the historical homeland of the Assyrian Christians.
At
the Arlington National Cemetery located in Virginia right outside
Washington, D.C., the Assyrian Christian commander told Breitbart News,
as tears ran his face:
I want to show appreciation on
behalf of the Christian communities in Iraq's Assyrian Nineveh Plain for
the sacrifice that the United States made to liberate our country and
for the souls of those soldiers who lost their lives to give Iraqis a
good life and democracy…
Really, I am filled with emotion
when I see the brave heroes buried in this cemetery. I appreciate all
who sacrificed [their life] to make a good life and future for other
people. It's an honor to be in the section where those who died and
sacrificed for Iraqi freedom are laid to rest.
Cmdr. Youkhana told
Breitbart News he was “dismayed" by Patriarch Sako's comments, adding
that he remains "very thankful" to the U.S. troops who were killed in an
effort to improve Iraq.
"For me, the visit was very necessary. It
was an opportunity to pay respect to the souls of the people who have
sacrificed their lives for Iraq," he added.
The commander said that his tribute was "reduced to a political pawn" by Sako.
He accused the Catholic leader of ridiculing him for crying at the cemetery, adding that he did so for "political reasons."
Youkhana
also blamed Sako for inaccurately translating his comments in honor of
the U.S. troops into Arabic and turning them into a "personal attack"
against him, seemingly fueling the rifts that already exist between
Muslims and Christians in Iraq.
The translation falsely suggested
that the he "went and cried at the Arlington Cemetery to collect some
money from the U.S.," said Youkhana.
Patriarch Sako did not immediately respond to Breitbart News's requests for comment.
It appears that Patriarch Sako plays the role of both political and religious leader.
Some Assyrian leaders have condemned the Chaldean patriarch for urging the United States not to arm Christian forces fighting ISIS in the Middle East.
In a statement, the Assyrian Confederation of Europe (ACE) said in May:
We
urge Louis Sako not to confuse his role as a religious figure with that
of a political leader, just as political and secular leaders refrain
from passing comment on theology or ecclesiastical affairs.
While Sako
would like to see the Christian groups join the Iraqi army and forces
loyal to northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),
Youkhana wants his forces to remain independent.
Youkhana's
Christian army has managed to hold territory in the Nineveh Plain
despite repeated attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). His army has implored President Barack Obama to provide weapons and military equipment to no avail.
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Israel and the United States have reportedly staged a joint secret
war game in southern Israel amid growing military cooperation between
the two sides.
Israeli media said on Thursday that the drill dubbed ‘Noble Shirley’
was held in Negev Desert to improve cooperation between American and
Israeli forces.
The drill, which was said to have been conducted during day and
nighttime hours over the past week, involved the US Marine Corps as well
as special units from the Israeli air, naval and ground forces.
During the exercise, the troops and commandos took part in drills
simulating helicopter landings behind enemy lines, and urban warfare
above and below ground. They also practiced close-range combat and
military takeover techniques.
Israel’s so-called ‘David’s Sling’ missile system, which targets medium to long-range missiles, was also used in the maneuver.
Moreover, forces also simulated both night-time and day-time combat
situations at the Ze’elim training facility, which was built to look
exactly like a Palestinian city.
The drill comes some three weeks after Israel’s ministry of military
affairs and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a test aimed at
ensuring Israeli and American missile systems can operate cooperatively
in a future war.
During the trial, the physical connectivity between the systems was
tested. The test involved sites scattered around the United States,
Europe and Israel.
Elisra Group, which is an Israeli manufacturer of high-tech
electronics, led the trial, which was designed to see if Israel’s
David’s Sling and Arrow systems could link up with American systems.
Also in February, the US and Israel held joint ‘Juniper Cobra’
exercise in Israel. The drill is held every two years between United
States’ European Command and the Israeli military.
Israeli and US authorities claim that growing military cooperation is
aimed at countering terrorism. However, critics blame the US and its
closest ally Israel for pursuing a vicious agenda amid ongoing militancy
in the Mideast region. ‘Safe zone’ in Syria
Meanwhile, Kamal al-Labwani, a Syrian opposition figure with strong
ties to Israel, has confirmed an increased interest in the creation of a
so-called safe zone in southern Syria.
On July 11, the Israeli army deployed several bulldozers and a tank
300 meters (328 yards) inside Syrian territory in Quneitra and began
digging, threatening to shoot anyone who approached them.
According to Labwani, the zone is supposed to run 10 kilometers deep
into Syrian territory and approximately 20 kilometers along the Syrian
border.
The developments come as the Damascus government says Israel and its
Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri militant groups operating
inside the Arab country.
The Syrian army has repeatedly seized huge quantities of Israeli-made
weapons and advanced military equipment from the foreign-backed
militants inside Syria.
Reports say Tel Aviv has set up field hospitals in the
Israeli-occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights for the treatment of
injured militants.
In December 2015, the Daily Mail said the Israeli regime had saved the lives over 2,000 Takfiri militants at the cost of around USD 13 million since 2013.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War
and later occupied it in a move that has never been recognized by the
international community.
As
debate moderators introduce every other candidate by their political
credentials (Governor, Senator, what have you), Donald Trump comes to us
only as “businessman.” So considering it’s his one and only
qualification for the candidacy, you’d think he’d be better at it.
Trump’s
purported lack of business acumen has been a major sticking point
recently, with Marco Rubio (may he rest in peace) even calling Trump out
for his shoddy record:
“I mean this is a guy that’s taken Trump airlines bankrupt, Trump
vodka, nobody wanted it, Trump mortgage, was a disaster, Trump
university was a fraud.” Rubio’s right—but he’s also barely scratched
the surface.
Of course, everyone is familiar with Trump’s real estate failings (more generally known as Atlantic City),
but it’s the business ventures where his recklessness really shines.
The man licensed his name to hundreds of trademarks (like the game show
below that lasted but a year) and incorporated countless
businesses-to-be, but only a select few (dozen) were actually led by the
hand of the Donald himself.
So
to commemorate our country’s imminent President Trump-wrought downfall,
we’ve compiled every major, non-real estate-related Trump business
disaster out there (we think). Because while we aim for completeness,
the man has failed—a lot. If you know of anything we missed, please do
let us know down below. And Donald, good luck with that wall.
Trump Steaks
Launched: 2007
Service rendered: Steaks Years in business: 1 What went wrong: Trump filed the trademark
nearly ten years ago, noting that it would be used for “meat, namely,
beef, veal, lamb, and pork.” The meat itself came from the Sysco-owned
Buckhead Beef, and after first (and presumably, unsuccessfully)
attempting to sell the Trump-branded meat on a custom steak-centric website...
...Trump
decided to work out an exclusive deal with—where else but—The Sharper
Image. A bizarre pairing, sure, but The Sharper Image had nothing to
lose. From Think Progress:
[Sharper
Image CEO Jerry] Levin described the licensing agreement as “unique,”
noting that it lacked the kinds of things he had seen in traditional
agreements, like minimums,
which would have required the Sharper Image to pay the Trump
Organization a set amount regardless of how many steaks they sold.
As
you would expect of anything worthy of bearing the Trump name, the
steaks didn’t come cheap. For instance, $1,000 would buy you 24 burgers,
16 steaks, and the dull pangs of regret.
For whatever reason, the wildly expensive steaks sold by a novelty electronics chain didn’t fly off the shelves. Or, as Levin put it,
“The net of all that [media attention] was we literally sold almost no
steaks,” Levin said. “If we sold $50,000 of steaks grand total, I’d be
surprised.”
But how did they taste? According to one reviewer, “They are really greasy, have no flavor, over-priced and just gross!!”
GoTrump.com
Launched: 2006 Service rendered: Travel search engine Years in business: 1 What went wrong: Remember
Orbitz? Expedia? What about Travelocity? GoTrump.com provided exactly
the same service but with significantly more Trump (i.e. pictures of his
face, a delightful mustard-gold trim, and “Trump Picks,” which highlighted “specific hotels and vacation packages that are his personal favorites”).
As Trump explained in the website’s About
section, “I only put my name on the best, and at GoTrump.com you will
get the best information and the best online rate available.”
Unfortunately for the Donald, “the best” doesn’t really mean much of
anything when you’re boasting both private jets and cheap hotel deals.
When the site launched, a financial analyst told The Washington Post that it seemed like “a vanity site” that “won’t make much money.” He was right. The site shut down the following year.
Trump Airlines
Image: APLaunched: 1989 Service rendered: Hourly flights between Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C. Years in business: 4-ish What went wrong: This
was another case of Donald Trump attempting to turn a service that
already exists into something a little more Trump-y. But this time,
rather than build something entirely new, Trump purchased Eastern Air
Lines Shuttle, which had been offering hourly flights on the East Coast
since 1961 with moderate success. That all changed with Trump’s magic
touch.
The
airline had succeeded largely because of its no-frills service—you
didn’t need a reservation ahead of time, there were no seat assignments,
no check-ins, and no boarding passes. You’d show up and hop on a plane
for relatively cheap. When Trump bought 17 of the company’s Boeing 727s
for $365 million in 1988, “he added maple-wood veneer to the floors,
chrome seat-belt latches and gold-colored bathroom fixtures.”
Apparently,
customers who appreciated the service’s ease weren’t into the
over-the-top makeover. Alienated customers combined with the high fuel
prices of the late 80s translated to Trump Airlines never turning a
profit. As Time explains,
“The high debt forced Trump to default on his loans, and ownership of
the company was turned over to creditors. The Trump Shuttle ceased to
exist in 1992 when it was merged into a new corporation, Shuttle Inc. No
word on whether the gold-plated faucets survived the merger.”
Trump Vodka
Images: APLaunched: 2006 Service Rendered: Drunk Years in business: 5 What went wrong: After
labeling the drink as “The World’s Finest Super Premium Vodka” and
proudly quintuple-distilling it in Holland from “select European wheat,”
Trump was proudly telling anyone who’d listen that T&Ts (Trump and
tonic) were about to become the number one drink in the country.
Trump
was supposedly attempting to rival Grey Goose for a spot on the
nation’s top shelves. No one else seemed to have gotten that message,
though, and the drink went out of production in 2011 when no one ever wanted to drink it.
Trump Mortgage
Screenshot: Archive.orgLaunched: 2006 Service rendered: Residential and commercial real estate financing Years in business: 1.5 What went wrong:
Even someone as deluded as Donald Trump probaby should have been able
to predict this one. While the bubble hadn’t burst quite yet, in 2006,
market prices were already starting to fall. And a few months after that
is when Trump Mortgage decided to make its debut, with Trump telling CNBC that
it was “a great time to start a mortgage company. I’ve been hearing
about this bubble for so many years from you and everybody else in your
world, but I haven’t seen it. I will let you know when I see it.”
A year and a half later, after failing to hit any of
its financial targets, Trump apparently decided he saw it, and Trump
Mortgage shut down for good. Although if you ask him about it now, Trump
calls the business a “tiny deal” that “he never ultimately moved
forward with”—which is objectively untrue. Trump did move forward with
the company, it’s just that no one wanted to follow.
Trump: The Game
Images: AmazonLaunched: 1989 Service rendered: Family fun Years in business: 1 What went wrong: In
1989, Donald Trump decided that if people love Monopoly, surely they’ll
love what is essentially the same thing but Trump-themed. He convinced
Milton Bradley to release the game, assuring them that this face could
move 2 million units off shelves in a year.
His face, of course,
could not, and the game went out of production after a year. But for the
Trump purists among us, you can still buy a (lightly used version of)
the game for an appropriate $69 on Amazon.
Trump Magazine
Launched: 2007 Service rendered: Entertainment for luxury-enthusiasts Years in business: 2-ish What went wrong: The
magazine launched in late 2007—just after his mortgage company was
forced to shut its doors. Most people might see a failing market and a
just-failed business venture as a sign that maybe it’s not a
great time to start a print publication dependent on a general interest
in luxury goods. Donald Trump, however, is not most people. While the magazine
“saw early success, cashing in on the booming advertising market for
yachts and other high-end commodities” (at least according to the
closing press release), in actuality, it... did not. As it turns out,
people suffering from a major recession aren’t too keen on “yachts” or
“high-end commodities” or “anything that requires money.” Who knew.
Trump University
Screenshot: Archive.orgLaunched: 2005 Service rendered: For-profit, non-accredited fake business degrees Years in business: 6 What went wrong: For
a “school” that can’t actually give you any sort of recognized degree,
$35,000 is a hell of a lot of money to spend on tuition. Especially when
that school, according to the lawsuit four students filed against the business in 2010,
consists of classes described as “extended infomercials,” sells
“non-accredited products,” and takes “advantage of these troubled
economic times to prey on consumer’s fears.”
Screenshot: Archive.orgOnce the lawsuit hit, state education officials started
hammering the school for operating under the name “university,” since
it was never chartered as such and was operating as an “illegal
educational institution.” So that same year, Trump changed the name to
the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative. Already outed as a fraud, though, the
business shut down a year later.
Trump Ice
Image: TrumpTowerNy.comLaunched: 2004 Service rendered: Hydration Years in business: Less than 1 What went wrong: In 2004, Donald Trump decided that people were crazy about the water available in his hotels and casinos, announcing that
“it was so good that people wanted to buy cases of it.” Attempts to
distribute widely failed, and the water is once again relegated to
Trump’s own properties.
The New Jersey Generals
Owner: 1984-1985 Service rendered: Football Years in business: 2 What went wrong: Since
Trump couldn’t buy an NFL team of his own, he settled on the next best
thing—the short-lived United States Football League established to
challenge the NFL. Realizing he had a million other projects on his
plate, though, Trump quickly sold the team only to buy them back again in the very same year.
Things only got worse from there, according to Business Insider, “The team folded one year later, in 1985, along with the entire USFL. People blamed Trump
for the demise of not only the team, but the entire league. Allegedly,
he was trying to pull the Generals into the NFL — and made poor
investment decisions in the process.”
Talking about the ordeal
now, Trump notes that he “did something I rarely do with the USFL. I
went into something that was not good.” As rare as every single endeavor
on this list.
Tour de Trump
Launched: 1989 Service rendered: Bike races Years in business: 2 What went wrong: Keeping with the theme of taking an iconic, wildly successful established tradition and turning it into a fucking mess,
Donald Trump decided that he’d bring the Tour de France to us, just—you
know, Trump-ier. When asked why he didn’t go with something that made
sense, like the Tour de America, for instance, Trump said, “We could, if
we wanted to have a less successful race. If we wanted to down-scale
it.”
The
first year, which sent riders from Albany to Atlantic City, actually
managed to bring in some bag names, but unfortunately for Donald Trump,
he just didn’t have the money to keep his name attached. Two years after
starting the circuit, he was forced to sell his race to the DuPont
Corporation, which then changed the name and removed every last trace of
Trump.
Trump on the Ocean
Image: JonesBeach.comLaunched: 2012 Service rendered: Restaurant/catering hall Years in business: 0.3 What went wrong: Located
on the boardwalk in Jones Beach, Long Island, the gargantuan dining
space totaled 80,000-square-feet with a 14,000-square-foot basement, all
of which we’re sure looked great for the four months before Hurricane
Sandy hit. According to Eater,
the state had actually shot down Trump’s proposal four separate times
since 2006. Once the hurricane took down Trump, though, he agreed to
kill his plan—much to the delight of the surrounding community who never wanted it there in the first place.
The Trump Network
Launched: 2009 Service rendered: Vitamin pyramid scheme Years in business: 2 What went wrong: Since the folding of Trump Magazine proved that people clearly didn’t have money to spare after the bubble burst, Trump decided to change strategies.
With the Trump Network, Trump offered a get-rich-quick scheme centered
around what else but nutritional supplements. The motto: Discover the
Difference between Opportunity and Success.
The supplements came
from Ideal Health, Inc, which Trump purchased in 2009. In addition to
the supplements, though, Trump also offered the PrivaTest, which Trump’s site described as
“a scientific window into your personal biochemistry.” A test that the
Trump Network recommended be repeated every nine months for $100 a pop,
which would be outrageous even if the test actually worked. But as Dr.
Stephen Barrett, of health watchdog site Quackwatch, noted, “No single
test can provide a rational basis for dietary supplement
recommendations.”
What’s more, the company didn’t even deliver on
its promised scam. A FOIA by Quackwatch in 2004 turned up the following
complaint on Ideal Health filed in 2001:
The consumer
states that she was working for this company trying to sell their
dietary supplement products. The consumer states that she paid the
company $5,412.50 for promotional leads, and marketing programs. The
consumer states that the company never did the promotional leads, and
took the consumers [sic] money and ran
And that’s what Donald Trump decided would be a great investment.
Trumped!
Launched: 2004 Service rendered: Talk radio Years in business: 4 What went wrong:
Trump’s radio “show” was really just a two-minute-long segment
(sponsored by Office Depot) of Donald Trump talking about whatever came
into his head. Donald Trump, however, called it “the biggest launch in radio history.” Buzzfeed recently tried to secure audio of the Trump’s hours of archived programs but couldn’t nail anything down but the demo. So we may never know exactly what
Trump decided to share with the masses (since absolutely no one ever
tuned in), but judging by segment descriptions such as “No More Viagra
for Rapists” and “Stay out of the tabloids and, for goodness sake, don’t
say hello to those little boys” (referring to Michael Jackson), it
sounds like his stump speeches are the next best thing.
Trump New Media
Almost launched: 1998 Service rendered: Video-on-demand and high-speed internet Years in business: None What went wrong:
Eager to get in on the exciting world of the information superhighway,
Donald Trump was apparently about to dip his toes into the ISP world
back in the summer of 1998, announcing that the newly formed Trump New
Media would “wire his 20,000 residential apartments with high speed $30
monthly access.”
And sure, Trump could have gone with something
vaguely within his realm of expertise—but why break with tradition? A
local announcement at the time wrote that “Trump admits he’s hardly the
man to head a new media firm. ‘I’ll tell you what I know about it:
Absolutely nothing.’” He partnered with Freelinq Communications to
launch the firm, but after getting shut out by his more competent
competition, the endeavor failed to ever take off.
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