re: $236B wall or 188 IQ?

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The wall will be built by the POTUS that has an IQ higher than balls on a giraffe and will be under budget and ahead of schedule. Stop doubting this man.

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It will be built but it won't be under budget and ahead of schedule.....bleeeeeve me....and if Trump is involved in any manner ALL contractors and material-men had better lawyer up from the beginning....


I knew PM once who told me about a contractor that he worked for doing the Taj in AC. When Trump took the doomed project over he renegotiated all sub contracts except one...this dude's employer had $5 Million worth of material sitting on the job site that he had been carrying and he told Trump that there would NO renegotiating of anything and that his contract had clauses in it that required payment of any carrying costs incurred due to forces not under the contractors control. Of course Trump balked and the contractor held his ground....all or nothing...no in between....and Trump finally gave in. I always thought this story was bullshite but then about June or so last year it was actually widely reported to have happened almost exactly that way. Trump has a reputation as a dead beat amongst a group of world class dead beats...almost all developers in that market are slow to pay...it is well understood in the trades that if you are working on Trump project you have to get paid more and do so up front because chances are you ain't going to get everything he agrees to in the beginning. Thus all of his projects cost more than needed because contractors at that level are not idiots....they ain't rolling the dice like a guy with a ladder and a truck...so they manage risk...the money is there and all of that bullshite costs Trump projects EVERYTIME...and the wall will be no different....