1/ Trump has indeed lost a fortune as president. One of the great ironies is that if he& #39;d just divested at the start, then plowed the proceeds into the S&P 500, Trump would have avoided all these ethics complications--and he would be hundreds of millions of dollars richer today. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1315280931977146368">https://twitter.com/ABC/statu...

2/ That& #39;s what the ethics experts suggested that he do at the time. Trump, however, insisted on hanging onto his properties. At the time, it wasn& #39;t heard to tell that this was a risky political decision, which could mire his presidency in ethical controversies.

3/ But at the start of the presidency, it was difficult to tell whether this would be a good or bad *business* decision.

Would Trump make money on the presidency? Or would politics damage his companies? We didn& #39;t know, because no one had really done something like this before.

4/ But now, the results of the experiment are in.

Make no mistake, Trump has tried to make money on politics. In some cases, he has succeeded, like at Mar-a-Lago. Trump said so himself, in this 2016 deposition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqE9Ns-RJM&t=842s">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

5/ But business is complicated. Just because you try to profit off of something doesn& #39;t mean you actually do. Trump& #39;s tax representative later explained, in sworn testimony, how politics crippled business at Doral. See more detail on that in this thread. https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1313509201008787459">https://twitter.com/DanAlexan...