One of these days, I heard on the radio a commercial from Donald Trump. A faceless voice said something like: "If you want to be succesful, you have to assist to this seminar near you, straight from the Master of success, Donald Trump". After that, not only I was in actual shock to hear that, given the fact that to me, Mr. Trump has never been a role model for anything, as a matter of fact, He's been a model for many things you shouldn't do in life. But anyway, back to the point, after hearing the commercial, I've been re-thinking all the "success" script we have ingrained in our consciousness since early childhood.
First of all, I want to give a little background of "The Master" for all of us, in order to place the main factor in perspective:
Donald Trump, as far as I know, has been a Real Estate mogul for quite a few years, apparently he has a lot of money (strange fact that he never shows up in the real top positions in "Fortune magazine" ,"Forbes" or any specialized publications like that) but we have to admit, at least technically, that the guy is loaded. He has three offsprings from three differnent women; well, that's not exactly a model to follow, as far as I know. Flirting with moral issues, no different scenario. How is it possible that this person, dared to give an opinion and permission to exist to a young lady which admitted an "excess" behaviour years ago? Mr. Perfection, being the owner of the organization (Miss Universe, among others) feels the urge to speak and to give "forgiveness and permission to "live" and continue with her life to this young lady that shows her miseries on TV, crying and thanking the "Emperor" for saving her life and for allowing her to continue in the beauty pageant which she is proudly part of. That's really pathetic. First of all, Donald Trump doesn't have to be immersed in such details of his hundreds of companies. It's more than evident that what he's after is promotion of any kind. When he sees a camera around, the guy jumps in it's way no matter what: reality show, seminars all over the country, TV commercials, books, you name it. Funny fact, I've never seen Michael Dell involved in any of the things mentioned above...well, maybe thirty billion dollars of personal fortune isn't enough. That's money, folks; and despite of that, you don't see Mr. Dell showing himself to the world in any opportunity he may encounter in the way.
So, is having a fortune with Real-Estate success? We can say, yes.
Is having three kids from three different women success? Well, it depends; but to me, I don't think so, given the circumstances and the moral issues we have to live in this lifetime.
Is having that anachronistic hairstyle all the time and that "formal dress" with all accessories involved a success? Hell no! All of you guys agree that once in a while there's nothing like a good Levi's and a T-shirt.
So, what's the big deal with Donald Trump?
I've never trusted someone with a lack of expression in the face. Trump's face, as far as I remember, was, is, and apparently will be, the same expressionless face, no matter the circumstances, with that look of god-wanna-be, the attitude of almighty, that's really disgusting.
The bottom line is that if anybody wants to look for a role model to follow his/her steps in order to become wealthy, please, there are a lot of other moguls that really deserve your attention and not that bastard who believes he's God and, at least for me, the only good thing he's given to the world is his daughter. I have to mention that, in fact, we should follow other kind of people and not neccesarily the "money makers". Money will come anyway but the other values, those are more precious to keep.
Having money is not a problem, please! Having recognition isn't also, in fact, all of us in a way are looking for it (money and recognition) and it's legitimate and even healthy for our self esteem. Being red-headed, dress formal all the time, non of those issues are negative per se, the only thing we shouldn't do is pretend to be someone that we actually are not, to think that we are what we have and treat other people without respect and dignity. Folks, we all are the same, we all are a unity and we all deserve anything we want, material goods, spiritual values and all the other things we can imagine. What I think we ought to understand is that the healthy way to achieve all that, is through respect of others, dignity and much, much love.
I'm done. I have to go now to watch The Apprentice, season finale....
First of all, I want to give a little background of "The Master" for all of us, in order to place the main factor in perspective:
Donald Trump, as far as I know, has been a Real Estate mogul for quite a few years, apparently he has a lot of money (strange fact that he never shows up in the real top positions in "Fortune magazine" ,"Forbes" or any specialized publications like that) but we have to admit, at least technically, that the guy is loaded. He has three offsprings from three differnent women; well, that's not exactly a model to follow, as far as I know. Flirting with moral issues, no different scenario. How is it possible that this person, dared to give an opinion and permission to exist to a young lady which admitted an "excess" behaviour years ago? Mr. Perfection, being the owner of the organization (Miss Universe, among others) feels the urge to speak and to give "forgiveness and permission to "live" and continue with her life to this young lady that shows her miseries on TV, crying and thanking the "Emperor" for saving her life and for allowing her to continue in the beauty pageant which she is proudly part of. That's really pathetic. First of all, Donald Trump doesn't have to be immersed in such details of his hundreds of companies. It's more than evident that what he's after is promotion of any kind. When he sees a camera around, the guy jumps in it's way no matter what: reality show, seminars all over the country, TV commercials, books, you name it. Funny fact, I've never seen Michael Dell involved in any of the things mentioned above...well, maybe thirty billion dollars of personal fortune isn't enough. That's money, folks; and despite of that, you don't see Mr. Dell showing himself to the world in any opportunity he may encounter in the way.
So, is having a fortune with Real-Estate success? We can say, yes.
Is having three kids from three different women success? Well, it depends; but to me, I don't think so, given the circumstances and the moral issues we have to live in this lifetime.
Is having that anachronistic hairstyle all the time and that "formal dress" with all accessories involved a success? Hell no! All of you guys agree that once in a while there's nothing like a good Levi's and a T-shirt.
So, what's the big deal with Donald Trump?
I've never trusted someone with a lack of expression in the face. Trump's face, as far as I remember, was, is, and apparently will be, the same expressionless face, no matter the circumstances, with that look of god-wanna-be, the attitude of almighty, that's really disgusting.
The bottom line is that if anybody wants to look for a role model to follow his/her steps in order to become wealthy, please, there are a lot of other moguls that really deserve your attention and not that bastard who believes he's God and, at least for me, the only good thing he's given to the world is his daughter. I have to mention that, in fact, we should follow other kind of people and not neccesarily the "money makers". Money will come anyway but the other values, those are more precious to keep.
Having money is not a problem, please! Having recognition isn't also, in fact, all of us in a way are looking for it (money and recognition) and it's legitimate and even healthy for our self esteem. Being red-headed, dress formal all the time, non of those issues are negative per se, the only thing we shouldn't do is pretend to be someone that we actually are not, to think that we are what we have and treat other people without respect and dignity. Folks, we all are the same, we all are a unity and we all deserve anything we want, material goods, spiritual values and all the other things we can imagine. What I think we ought to understand is that the healthy way to achieve all that, is through respect of others, dignity and much, much love.
I'm done. I have to go now to watch The Apprentice, season finale....
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