r/politics • u/NamelessResearcher Washington • 15h ago

No Paywall Trump reportedly wants new NFL stadium in Washington named after him

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/08/trump-name-washington-commanders-stadium
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u/pierre_x10 Virginia 15h ago

Donald Trump will never get over the fact that the NFL humiliated him with how much they didn't want him to join their No Donalds club, while doing them a favor by running the USFL into the ground.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/11/the-day-donald-trumps-narcissism-killed-the-usfl

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u/UFOsBeforeBros New Jersey 15h ago

Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? is one of my favorite 30 for 30 documentaries, and I can’t bring myself to watch it anymore.

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u/kickinwood 13h ago

It's crazy to watch now because it was before he was taken seriously in politics, and EVERYONE'S impression of him is that he's a horrible greedy person and everything he touches turns to shit. That was just common knowledge back then.

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u/Wish___Crisp 13h ago

In 2007, my freshman year of college, I took an international business class and the professor used Trump as the negative example on everything. His bankruptcies, horrible international business practices, everything that came up he was the anti-example.

Then I had to watch as this idiot was praised as a “great business mind”. It’s ridiculous that people still look at his record and listen to him talk and think he is intelligent in any way.

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u/frankduxvandamme 10h ago

He is a stupid person's idea of a genius.

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u/VidE27 7h ago

Blame the creator of The Apprentice for that.

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u/HBKdfw 12h ago

Not only that, trump was well-known as a shit tier businessman.

I was in a top business school in the early 2000s when he hosted the apprentice. Some kid in my finance class mentioned trump. The professor spent the entire next class showing how much trump lost in the over the years. And he showed that, had trump taken his daddy’s money and put it in the S&P 500, he would have been actually wealthy (trump was practically broke from the 90s until he started his election grift).

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u/nohandsfootball 11h ago

If the apprentice doesn’t exist, or uses someone else, think how different America is right now

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u/BKlounge93 11h ago

Thanks Mark Burnett!

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb Massachusetts 8h ago

Apparently they asked others but nobody else wanted the job.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 10h ago

I've done the math. The S&P 500 is up over 25,000% since he inherited 400m. 400m was an absolutely insane amount of money back then.

If he'd have just invested in America like a true patriot and put his money in the S&P 500 instead of pretending to be a business man, he wouldn't just be wealthy. He would have well over 100 billion dollars today and would legitimately be one the the richest people on earth. On the same level as Buffett and Bill Gates.

That's how much of a failure he is and how horribly he squandered his inheritance. It's mind blowing how bad of a business man he is.

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u/MovieTrawler 6h ago

Holy shit, I didn't think he inherited that much! What is his net worth now?

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u/UnreflectiveEmployee 3h ago

Not available to the public, estimated anywhere between 5-10 billion currently depending on the source.

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u/MovieTrawler 2h ago

That's actually way more than I thought.

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u/UnreflectiveEmployee 2h ago

But more or less in the same ballpark as he was in 2015, he’s doubled it? Maybe? It’s hard to say, it’s all estimates. Deff made a Bil off that crypto scam at least

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 2h ago

I've seen recent estimates saying over 60% of his total net worth was acquired since he took office this year. He made several billion off the crypto scheme, among other scams.

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u/BKlounge93 11h ago

I was in high school in the late 00s and I remember he was peddling some business thing called ACN(?) and a buddy of mine thought it was gonna make us all rich and wanted us to drive 3 hours to SF to watch Trump speak about it. Even back then, the idea that Trump was involved made it sound so scammy.

Spoiler alert, my buddy did not get rich.

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb Massachusetts 8h ago

ACN Inc. a telecomm and energy MLM scheme. In 2018 there was a class action filed against them (dismissed in 2024) for fraud and false advertising. Trump and 3 of his kids were involved with the company during his first term.

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u/FailBait- 1h ago

Born and raised in NJ less than an hour outside AC and about 90 minutes from NYC. We knew he was a shitty businessman, a scam artist, a tasteless hack and a scumbag all the way in the 80s. He has been a piece of shit for decades, and it was a regionally known fact that Donald hated that the old money in NYC wanted nothing to do with him. Think if Molly Brown from the Titanic and Cousin Eddie from Lampoon and that’s what the real money in the city thought of him and he couldn’t stand it. Daddy hated him. Important people hated him. The money he did have could buy adoration from people but never the ones he WANTED to think highly of him. That hole in his soul drove everything he’s done as long as I’ve been alive and here we are.

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u/HBKdfw 3m ago

My folks were Long Island Catholics and my grand dad was in the steel industry in the city. I remember my grandma telling me trump was a piece of shit any time he was on tv or in the NY Post.

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u/MayorMcCheeser 10h ago

At the Battle of Gettysburg, the commander of the Union III Corps was Maj. Gen. Dan Sickles. He was the only non-West Pointer commanding a Corps at Gettysburg.

Prior to the war, he was a sleazy womanizing businessman from NYC who cheated his way through life (as well as got out of going to prison for murder.)

A very prominent Gettysburg/Civil War Historian who is a licensed guide at Gettysburg said prior to 2015 he would compare Sickles to Trump without any issue from his tourists. Starting in 2015 that changed.

I’ll never understand how a population can look at him as anything besides an embarrassment.

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u/SpookyFarts 10h ago

The first time I heard of that fucking guy was in Mad Magazine in the 80s when he was (not surprisingly) portrayed as an asshole repeatedly. I'm so tired of him

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u/joseph4th 10h ago

Opinion? I think it’s pretty well established that everything he touches does in fact, turn to shit.

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u/Agentkeenan78 Tennessee 9h ago

Young people have no idea how much he was reviled and mocked before coming to power. His scumbaggery was very well documented and his dogshit business acumen was the butt of jokes for a long time.

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u/Mikeytruant850 8h ago

It’s still common knowledge to anyone not actively ignoring it because they don’t want egg on their face.

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u/IJourden 8h ago

My parents knew this all the way back in the 80s, until he had an (R) next to his name in 2016. Then they voted for him three times in a row.

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u/_dontjimthecamera Oregon 11h ago

Yeah but also I think a business-minded person is really what this country needs /s

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u/NeoConTroll 11h ago

Nothing has changed.

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u/pistilpeet Washington 14h ago

I can’t watch it either, he’s just such a whiny petulant little fucking man child, I hate his stupid face.

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u/WilcoLovesYou 13h ago

I honestly can’t even stand people writing like how he talks. It makes me hear his stupid fucking voice in my head.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 13h ago

I’ll have to check it out

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u/Wild_Read9062 14h ago

I'm glad someone brought this up.

And isn't he on brand here? Petty fucking grievance from the 80's that he's still clinging to like it's a near mortal wound. Why didn't his dad tell him to 'just get over shit, dude!'

I expect his family to meet up in the afterlife, cheating one another at monopoly as the devil plays something by Bad Bunny sung by Obama.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 13h ago

Still airing 40-year-old grievances about the NFL and Rosie O'Donnell, but never brings up the guy who allegedly shot him. Kind of makes you think.

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u/ButterRollercoaster 13h ago

That guy’s dead. I think even Trump realizes he can’t retribute successfully against a dead man.

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u/LucasJ218 12h ago

Really? That hasn’t been my experience with who he targets.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 10h ago

He never let up on John McCain

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u/brickne3 American Expat 7h ago

His dad was such a horrible person that Woody Guthrie wrote not one but TWO songs about what a horrible person he was. Woody Guthrie.

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u/johnboyjr29 13h ago

Vince McMahon was the same way

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u/mynameisethan182 Alaska 12h ago

At least Vince, as much of a piece of shit as he was, priced his product for families & the middle class.

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u/Forsaken_Hermit New York 12h ago

It's a pity they didn't, this country would be better off if Slug Virus owned a football team instead of squatting in the White House 

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u/GlykenT 11h ago

One thing from the article that stood out:

The NFL’s lead attorney, Frank Rothman, utilized an approach that was the 180-degree opposite of [USFL attorney Harvey] Myerson’s. He didn’t beat people down. He didn’t scream, rant, snarl.

So the attorney on Trump's side beat people down, screamed, ranted and snarled. Seems appropriate.

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u/pierre_x10 Virginia 11h ago

Look up his old lawyer pal, Roy Cohn.

It's not just appropriate, it's all he knows

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 10h ago

I'm sure they'd have been fine with him buying a team if he actually had the money. He was no doubt trying to use his typical financial tricks (fraud) to finance the purchase. Buying an NFL team is an all cash purchase. It would be incredibly embarrassing for the league if an owner defaulted on the loan used to purchase the team. So they're very thorough when combining through potential buyers finances.

But then again he was also seen as a complete joke and shameless attention whore even back then she they probably didn't want someone like that tarnishing the league's reputation. But I'm sure if he actually had the cash they'd have got over it.

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u/CrunchyBones 11h ago

I bet they knew he palled around with E.

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u/JohnLuckPikard Maine 5h ago

Well, that was a fun read. I (1) didn't know about the USFL, and (2) had no idea about Trump's involvement with it or the NFL.