The Art of the Grift
Since he lost the election, Donald Trump has received over $250 million from loyalists. Few controls exist to regulate Trump’s use of the money.
He’s a grifter.
I’m from New York too.
Connecting those two pieces was once something of great pride to street smart teens such as myself in 1970s and 1980s New York.
We all knew how to rip people off. The issue became if we followed through on that knowledge.
We also all knew the more renowned we would become, the easier it would be for us to assume that fortune on the backs of well-meaning friends and strangers.
Some of us elected to go the way of character and morality instead.
Others went the way of the man who is presently the outgoing President of the United States.
To answer an obvious question, what Trump is doing is, of course, anything but “small scale.” However, when individuals donate small dollar amounts the definition of “grift” holds well.
