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    “I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

    If you don’t want a reputation for screwing over contractors then you should pay your damn contractors. But we all know Trump would’ve just made up a reason to stiff them even if everything went smoothly.

    But I do find it amusing that he’s this close to figuring out why his mic didn’t work in the first place. Good contractors have options and won’t work for a known dead beat. So all he can get are incompetent fools.

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      If there’s no show at all, or it’s completely ruined, then you have them cancel the bill. You don’t just refuse to pay and stop picking up the phone. That’s childish and we know he doesn’t pay bills even when he gets everything he asked for, just more gaslighting.

      Plus when I hire someone for a price and they do a meh but ok job, i pay them and never hire them again. That’s how the free market works, at least in theory. He doesn’t see we can’t just “not pay our bill” when my internet goes down for a few hours. Normal people get fucked by that, he doesn’t know what normal is. Weird they don’t even realize they’re saying the quiet part out loud.

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      He never pays ANY of his bills. How many cities have ended up getting stuck with unpaid bills for his stupid fucking circlejerk events?

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        This is a common tactic the rich use all the time. They even hire people to contest valid charges because it often works. They are literally why we can’t have nice things. “So much winning” but they have to cheat and lie about everything.

        It’s disproportionately the rich who refund uber eats meals that were perfectly fine and shit like that.

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          It happens on business all the time as well. Huge company hires small company to outsource whatever, with the promise of more work if this project goes well, then they end up being a nightmare to work for, with impossible deadlines and constantly changing requirements.

          Small company ends up underwater on the project and the guy that outsourced it gets a promotion for getting it done under budget.

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            I have no idea why companies ever accepted net 30, let alone to the extent that it has become a sort of standard. I’d have the business owner as the guarantor at a minimum. Better yet, if they’re good for the payment, they can get a bank loan.

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      The whole reason he does outdoor rallies is because he stiffed all the indoor facilities in his last election run.

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    20 minutes to find a second mic? Or move the connection to a different input.

    Sounds about right for the people Trump hires.

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      I mean seeing how he has probably pissed off just about every theater kid living by now it’s just deserts. Nobody is racing down from the booth with a lav for this guy.

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      The sound tech probably didn’t have it on.

      Sometimes you wind up working gigs you wouldn’t want to. Easy to make mistakes.

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      Weirdly plausible. It only works though if they did this to him on purpose to keep everyone from hearing him speak.

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    So the guy who thinks he and he alone can fix the world, and that foreign leaders admire and fear him cannot (1) hire a campaign competent with the simplest contingencies, (2) cannot stick through any interview that asks him about things he did, let alone a hostile interview, (3) cannot find and maintain staffers nor cabinet members who won’t betray him for being ignorant and unhinged.

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      I guess these are those “the best people” that we’ve heard mentioned so many times.

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      Finally, after nearly 20 minutes, an aide brought Trump a replacement microphone that worked.

      “I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

      Might be the only truthful thing trump said during the event

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    Then this dipshit said he wasn’t paying the bill, I mean tell me something we don’t already know…

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    “I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

    He already wasn’t gonna pay.

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    I too want to give my business to Trump Media And TECHNOLOGY company. Only the best