How Trump’s Antiquated Vision Of How Business Works Led To Disaster
Donald Trump ran for the presidency based on a completely invented myth generated by his prime-time portrayal of a “business executive” on The Apprentice. But his real vision of how business works in America has led to the coronavirus response disaster.
Trump does not see or understand business as most modern Americans do. His world is not the world of Apple and Google and Silicon Valley executives harnessing technology and innovation to change the world. As far as Trump is concerned, that is all new-age touchy feely stuff, invented by nerds with pocket protectors sitting next to a giant, room-filling ancient IBM computer in a back office somewhere. For all intents and purposes for Trump, the technology business might as well be alchemy practiced by weirdo wizards.
For Trump, real business resembles something out of a 1950s-60s era parody of the extremely white and straight businessman who is very busy at business, all the time. Trump does not look at Mad Men as an antiquated time capsule of how business was once done in America. He looks at that world and sees paradise.
