There's one thing that strikes me about Scott Adams. He keeps talking about how Trump is using strategies from business negotiations. Well... that assumes that you won't have to come back and keep dealing with the same people over and over.
Indeed, he has a track record of stiffing suppliers and subcontractors - especially when they're not in a position to support a protracted legal battle.
The myths of Trump's business acumen always gets me grinding my teeth. The reality is that he's the head of a family owned business and has never had to answer to a board. No reputable businesses will deal with him, to the point where banks don't even want to loan to him. In the real business world you don't go around stabbing people in the back, and hell - no competent businessman would use something like a legal technicality to screw another party out of payment for work that was completed.
For example, agreeing to a $100000 contract and finding out after signing and completing the work that the contract actually had a typo and said $1000000. Here you'd legally be able to collect the higher amount, but no self respecting businessman would actually do it because positive long term relationships, based on a reputation of fair dealings are worth more than that amount, and more importantly one's self respect is too. Similarly having a reputation for screwing over the other party in negotiations due to duplicity or leverage is an albatross for any normal business. There's a reason he was mostly doing brand licensing deals instead of development, until he was able to use public office to drive traffic to his properties more recently that is.
Trump's strategies are those of a used car salesman. I will say that the unpersuasiveness of Adams' argument about Trump's masterful capabilities is the most he's made me laugh in a long time.
