Last Monday Trump told a Colorado audience that all his business success stemmed from “a small loan” from his father. He’s a rich brat who actually pissed away his daddy’s money. Even when students hesitated to purchase the expensive programs, Trump representatives were provided stock responses to encourage purchases, including encouraging students to go into debt to pay for the “Elite programs.”Įven Trump’s claim to be a businessman is a lie. Trump University representatives were explicitly instructed to push the highest priced Elite programs. Oral Roberts couldn’t have done it better. Bait and switch was laid out in the Trump University Playbook (“Playbook”), which provided step-to-step directions to Trump University instructors on what to tell students during the seminars. . . Working Americans, raised on TV “reality” local sensationalist “news” and a make-believe prosperity gospel were groomed for Trump. The only person getting rich or being blessed is the fake leaders like Osteen/Trump. Nowhere has the prosperity gospel flourished more than among what we now think of as “Trump’s working class.” Told that wealth is a sign of God’s grace and favor, followers strive for trappings of luxury they can’t afford. According to a lawsuit filed against Trump and Trump University by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the so-called curriculum that was ultimately used was “developed by a third-party company that creates and develops materials for an array of motivational speakers and seminar and timeshare rental companies.” So much for “respected institutions.” It was a company that purported to be selling Trump’s secret insights into how to make money in real estate. It’s a Trump-type scheme.Īs was pointed out in a New Yorker article, Despite Trump University’s claim that it offered “graduate programs, post graduate programs, doctorate programs,” it wasn’t a university at all. Osteen’s church is a cash cow on which Osteen and his family (as it were) roll around while sucking up other people’s money. “God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us,” Osteen wrote in a 2005 letter to his flock. “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential,” (Osteen’s book) has sold millions of copies to the same kind of suckers who enrolled in Trump University. $55 million – Reported sales of his five best-selling books and other works… Even Trump’s steaks never did this well… Osteen takes in $30 million – Reported amount of donations mailed in each year. Trump claims he’s a businessman and Osteen claims he’s a pastor. Oral may be dead but Trump and Joel Osteen (of Lakewood Church in Houston,) live. This was a netherworld of make-believe where the family at the heart of the “ministry” were cynical unbelievers. When I spoke on his campus in the early 1980s and hung out with his son Richard, (before I quit the evangelical con-game as I describe in Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back) it was like tumbling down the proverbial rabbit hole. That old faker Oral Roberts – the television faith-healer (who in 1987 told his flock that God would call him home if he didn’t raise $8 million in a matter of weeks) didn’t even pretend to be honest.
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