From The Bulwark (I subscribed because the NY Times and Washington Post are falling down on digging into Trump misbehavior): “Our Company Could Not Coexist” with Trump as a Partner
Will the Republican party ever learn the lesson that people in the business world learned long ago?

(Hopefully this is readable, I used their share link since this is a subscription site.)

Call it the boomerang presidency. Or the whiplash or rug-pull presidency. The bottom line is the same, whether we’re talking about tariffs, Ukraine, Social Security, immigration, or anything else: You cannot count on Trump. You cannot trust him. Also, he knows nothing about the economy.

“I don’t have a changed view of him,” Satre told me in a phone call this week—the first time we’d ever talked. “His whole approach during the periods that I was involved with him in a partnership were examples of somebody who talked a lot about himself with a great deal of bombast. And there was no regard to accuracy of what he said or truthfulness. And as a consequence, ultimately, our company could not coexist with him as a partner.”

Negotiating with Trump then sounds a lot like negotiating with him now. “What was negotiated in those days was his name and how valuable his name was. We had lots of disagreements about that,” Satre said, deadpan, and we both chuckled. Were they resolved? “No, they weren’t,” he said.

In a way, though, they were. Satre and the rest of the Harrah’s team decided to sell their half-interest in the project back to Trump. They didn’t lose any money in the transaction, Satre said, but Trump nevertheless claimed it was “a great deal for him.” . . . .And furthermore: “I am convinced he simply does not have the temperament to be president, or more importantly, commander in chief: His hair-trigger temper, bluster, racial rhetoric and divisive domestic and international views will endanger our democracy and risk permanent damage to our society.”