And as he began to speak, Trump said, ‘they all stood there and didn’t go back [to their chairs]’.
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Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that photos showing his speaking to a half-empty South Carolina ballroom were unfair and told a skewed story.
However, Trump recently previewed his tax plan in an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation”, saying the full proposal is about two weeks away. He looks like a spoiled brat.
The Donald brushed off the idea that the crowd on Wednesday was a fair representation of his “massive, huge” audiences at events planned by his presidential campaign.
But Trump isn’t advocating anything like that in 2015.
“I like that he is putting America first”, said a man.
Donald Trump doesn’t like a lot of people – losers, Mexican immigrants and hedge fund managers. Heilemann asked.
“The photographer is a f***ing thief”, Trump said.
Trump’s disdain for hedge fund managers may be part of his populist plutocrat posturing, but his tax policy is not that radical anymore. Real estate developers like Trump may argue that, unlike hedge fund managers, they conduct activity that has some social value. For investments held for more than a year, those profits are called “carried interest” and are taxed as capital gains.
As is the case with Bush’s tax plan, Trump could unveil a plan that lowers the highest tax rate, and thereby provides tax relief to the majority of wealthy taxpayers.
Now, anyone who knows Trump well knows that one of his favorite things to talk about his the size of the crowds he get. For now, the private equity world is waiting for Trump to actually release a tax plan before reacting. “… It’s going to be very specific”.
‘I’ve never made a speech where there were so many people wrapped around the podium in the front. They all rushed to the front of the room. He’s paying for his own campaign. “I’m going to bring jobs back”.
“Well, would you agree he is a plainspoken kind of guy?” As Trump noted (at about the 3:25 mark) in the same interview, support for a graduated income tax – as we now have – “doesn’t mean a raise in taxes”.
“Right now he is one of my favorites”, said a woman.
Earlier in the evening, Trump blasted the head of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, who catapulted into the spotlight this week after a New York Times report revealed he raised the price of a pill from $13.50 to $750. “And he has vowed to change laws that allow American companies to benefit from cheaper tax rates by using mergers to base their operations outside the United States”.
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“[Trump] said he plans on making up for the revenue that is now generated through taxes by imposing tariffs on imports from countries like China and Mexico, but that could result in a trade war, which could negatively impact the jobs market”, Boyd says. And inasmuch as some of them have been waiting since 2001 for an appointment, it is safe to assume that a great many of them are dead.
