QUINCY, MASS. – As the 2012 presidential campaign gears up, New York real estate magnate and host of the NBC show “The Apprentice” has been making noise that he’s weighing a run for the White House, presumably as a Republican candidate. While there is much media speculation that it’s just a publicity ploy by one of the world’s great self-promoters, it’s impossible to discount Trump’s seriousness in the matter. In his many business pursuits including a well-documented and impressive recent run as high-end golf club owner and designer, he knows how to get things done and, of course, keep his name in lights.
But does Trump relish a shot at the presidency as much as he loves to play and promote golf?
In a new essay at www.fairwaysandgreens.com, Fairways + Greens Magazine Senior Editor and Creative Director Darin Bunch makes the case that while a Trump candidacy would be a long shot, he has the business and leadership skills to be successful as “CEO in Chief.” From a golf perspective, says Bunch, he has the game to succeed.
Bunch and his Fairways + Greens cohort, Executive Editor Vic Williams, first met Trump while researching a cover story on the Donald’s then-new Trump National Los Angeles course in 2004. There he saw the man manage his many guises and managerial talents over the course of a few hours, from micromanaging his redesigned layout’s details down to the last blade of grass to showing his perfectionist bigwig’s impatience with employees – all the while making sure to get his points across fully and, in the end, get the outcome he wanted.
“Since that day, I’ve been fascinated by the man – quite possibly the best self-promoter in the long, storied history of America’s No. 1 industry: self promotion,” Bunch writes. “He’s put his name on just about everything fit for a sign or label: golf courses, hotels, casinos, beauty pageants, bottled water (Trump Ice, anyone?), even mattresses. And now he wants to put his name on the White House.”
Could happen. In America, anything’s possible.
Visit fairwaysandgreens.com to get the whole scoop.
http://fairwaysandgreens.com/articles/405-will-donald-trump-be-president
Published bi-monthly by Quincy-Mass.-based Madavor Media, Fairways + Greens Magazine is dedicated to golf travel and the lifestyle surrounding it, from personalities to fashion, gear, food and more.
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