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User drop suggests ‘rejection of harsh rhetoric’ spewed by the former US president, rightwing media analyst says

Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform experienced a third straight month of audience decline in June, a leading analyst of rightwing media said, detecting signs of “trouble at the ballot box” for the Republican presidential nominee.

The diminishing audience levels for Truth Social suggest a rejection of the harsh rhetoric expressed by the ex-president and his political allies that is one of the hallmarks of the two-year-old platform,” Howard Polskin said.

“If this softness persists, it might portend trouble for Mr Trump at the ballot box in November.”

Polskin is president of TheRighting, a site that seeks to “inform middle-of-the-road and liberal audiences about stories and viewpoints not on their radar that are shaping political opinion across a wide swath of America”.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

He bankrupted a casino. I'm not surprised!

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

More than one.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's the deal, I think that was on purpose.

He bankrupted 3 casinos and a number of other businesses at the same time.

The banks couldn't simply seize the properties so they paid him to keep those businesses running until they could be, which meant Trump, by bankrupting businesses, was being paid tens of millions of dollars a year by the banks he owed money to. The longer he kept going bankrupt, the longer they kept paying him.

He drew loans on those businesses he was never realistically going to be able to pay back, he lied to regulators about it. The plan was for the casinos to fail. It always was.

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's there evidence for any of this?

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I still don't understand the logic of this. Tens of millions of dollars a year is a lot of money, but so is the profits from running three casinos.

Wouldn't running the casinos well be more profitable in the long term? And generally more sensible unless the goal is specifically to hurt the banks?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

THREE!!!!

He bankrupted THREE casinos.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

That's all he has ever done. Born into wealth by the work of his mother. Like Musk and his father. When you're that rich, you can fail your entire life and still be rich.

If people just understood this more broadly, the misplaced respect for them wouldn't exist.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Wow, that's actually pretty impressive.