Ok, this isn't my problem anymore

By: R.A. Monaco
May18, 2011


Not more than two months ago a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found Donald Trump leading among potential contenders for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. In fact, a Newsweek poll conducted in February 2011 showed The Donald within a few points of Obama with many voters undecided about the November 2012 general election for President of the United States against Barack Obama.

Certainly, The Donald isn't shy about public opinion as each week during primetime television he tells someone, "You're fired!" Earlier this spring, after Time.com had headlined, "Donald Trump Begins Not Running For President," he made it official on May 16, 2011 that he would not run for president.

Last Friday, while being interviewed by George Stephanopoulus, Trump gave Americans some insight on his personal perspectives about bankruptcy when he said, "I've used the laws of this country to pare debt...[Y]ou know, it's like on The Apprentice: It's not personal. It's just business."

Having sought bankruptcy four times along the way, The Donald is an old hand at the leveraged use of bankruptcy and knows that, "Banks will take considerable haircuts." Rather than suffer miserably for years after, as many fear, for him bankruptcy is just a platform to his next financial scheme. In his words, "Ok, this isn't my problem anymore."

Surprisingly, Americans understand the "It's not personal. It's just business" mind set. What's puzzling, and more difficult to understand, is why so many Americans hold themselves to a different standard? In real life and on reality television you can get a fresh start and run for president too. "It's not personal It's just business."