Oh my God, the Donald is back at it again.

Apparently it is not enough to be reviled by millions, mocked by thousands, and sued by hundreds. Arrogance personified– thy name is Trump. The Donald is now auditioning to for the title of King Dupester.

He has entered the multi-level pyramid scheme marketing sweepstakes with something called (what else) the Trump Network. And what is the Donald hawking? The answer: vitamins, nutrients, private test kits, antioxidants, chelated minerals, and phytonutrients.

Wait - Donald, what the frack is a phytonutrient? Is that like taking out a mortgage, then defaulting and trying to claim that the stock market crash was a Force Majeure so you do not have to pay back the loan? He actually tried this.

And lastly, of course, he is selling whole vitamin complexes. When I associate complexes with Donald Trump, I think of two things– the narcissist complex and the god complex.

Trump is lending his name (how easily one sells out the birthright) to a bunch of Metabolife and Amway refugees. He is assuming that desperate unemployed people will reach for the tried and true lifeline of counting on the greater fool theory of selling something to someone who doesn’t need it or want it at a price that is 600% more than regular cost so that they can resell it to someone else who recruits another poor sap to buy it and then tries to sell it to a sap who is slightly dumber.

Actually this is brilliant. This sounds exactly like Wall Street and the synthetic CDO (collaterized debt obligations) derivatives of 2007.

If Timothy Geithner gets wind of what the Donald is up to he might just offer him a bailout and a chance to be an apprentice to Ken Lewis, Richard Fuld, Danny Pang, Jimmy Cayne, Maurice Greenberg, Vikram Pandit and Angelo Mozilo– each one of whom managed to either lose or steal in excess of $10 billion. Certainly, that’s nice work if you can get it.

The Trumpster knows no shame. What is left for him to trash? He has taken the sordid business of multi-level marketing to a new low by trying to attach his reddish blond hairpiece to its coattails. How’s that for a mixed metaphor?

But, hell, Donald, go ahead and send me some of those phytonutrients. I am feeling a little peaked.

Neil Senturia is the SDNN CEO.

Tags: Donald Trump, Neil Senturia, SDNN

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