You make fair points. But here.
I don't think there is a racist point to a lot of this. It is drawing lines in the sand, which is important. The casino issue was a great threat to a heavily invested venture.
Recently, he has over a 25% success rate in profitable operations. That is a very impressive number overall. Higher then any individual I am aware of except for a select few, and it's important to note that in many of those failures, he is simply licensing out his name for branding and marketing purposes with very little activity in the day to day operations.
And yes, cash flowing assets. Buildings. Leveraged debt on real estate that is reinvested. Licensing. Royalties. This all amounts to cash flow.
Here are some articles supporting the claims. Unfortunately, on the internet, you can find whatever you are looking for, really, good or bad. It's all about perspective. I'll note the third article. I think a gross misstatement there is that he is a great salesman, which is different then being a great businessman. That is simply not true. Learning and using the sales process is absolutely the most effective way to generate success, in business, relationships, and just about any interaction we can have out and there. And the reality is, there is no such thing as negative or positive attention. Attention is just that. Attention. When it came to winning this election, he simply garnered more attention then anybody else, by any means necessary, noted who and where he was able to connect with the audience, and then focused ALL efforts there and disregarded the audiences that he would have had to convince. That, is sales and business in it's simplest form.
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-success-story/
https://unusualinvestments.com/donald-trump-is-a-huge-business-success/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...s-actually-a-pretty-good-record/#75efdff4486a