In the winter of 1996, the first ever United States Poker Championship took place at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The prize for winning: $500,000. Perhaps no one more excited about the event than its nominal host, Donald Trump. “You’ve got every major television station down here,” he told Michael Konik, a columnist for. “I think we can become the most important poker tournament in the world.
Trump is a man largely set in his ways, but he’s also a former casino owner who relishes winning. As he faces one of the most trying periods of his presidency—not just an uphill reelection campaign, but a global pandemic, economic uncertainty and a national reckoning on race—poker might actually give him some tools to do his job better.
Tilt renders you vulnerable. The good poker player learns to identify tilt in others, and the triggers that cause specific responses, and he takes advantage of that. If you’re the one acting rationally, pressing someone else’s buttons, while they are the ones being emotional and impulsive, you will eventually take their money, at the table or otherwise. The good poker player also learns to identify tilt in herself, to determine what events get under her own skin—or make her jubilant.
Trump, of course, has already lasted longer than that, but even still, his bravado has often met with failure in the past. For one thing, he managed to bankrupt the same Taj Mahal that he boasted would one day run the biggest poker series in the world. His aggressive business tactics often didn’t lead to real-world payoffs.
It’s no coincidence, I think, that some of the best thinkers and leaders in the world, including American presidents, have chosen to spend their precious time playing poker, seemingly absorbing its lessons. George Washington had a permanent card table at his home in Mount Vernon. Statesmen Daniel Webster and Henry Clay were avid poker players.
For Lyndon B. Johnson, poker was even more of a strategic asset. He would often play games that lasted all night with the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen. According to Robert Parker, LBJ’s aide for many years, two of the president’s key pieces of legislation were able to pass at least in part because of the wheeling and dealing that took place during those nights: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The man became a billionaire real estate developer and is a fan of Sun Tzu .. how do you know he doesn't play? Seems to me he (and his team) know how to handle China and Russia
Might learn that this is a picture of a blackjack table. So....
Good lord, that's a freaking blackjack table. Fix your damn photo. Makes the author look ridiculous.
The Truman Whitehouse has his poker table; I asked the tour guide which game Truman played, ‘7 card draw’
As Mary Trump said so!
You are contradicting yourself, Hillary also thought she was going to win, but she lost.
Did Susan Collins write this?
'What Donald Trump could learn' 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂
True story: in Brebeuf I was playing poker when a guy said I will pay you back by stealing a camera. Went to the director with same family name as me. Not related... Never played again, never saw those guys but I am sure they had a ride with the director.
he is too dumb to play go fish let alone poker.
Is this a fucking joke? After 3.5 years of this regime and you’re using “Donald Trump” and “learn” in the same sentence? You know what Trump would “learn” from poker? He’d steal the money from pot and call the cops on the other players claiming they stole his money. FFS.
He wont play poker cause no one would play with him given the rules on the door. Rule 1 trump always wins. Rule 2 if you dont like rule tell donald. Rule 3 if you didnt like rule 1 and you told donald please wait 5 to 7 business days to be sued thank. Rule 4 no more rules.
He doesn't learn.
Poker? Dude couldn't play Go Fish without cheating.
Maybe, if he were competent to learn. He hasn’t displayed that ability in recent years.
He is an amazing liar - he would probably be good
Maybe he'd even learn how to run a casino without bankrupting it
Silliness
Teach him to read first.
The guy who's owned multiple casinos & partied for 40 years has never played poker?That's at best naive. Trump doesn't play poker because it becomes very obvious, very quickly he's not that smart, then he LO$E$. Losing contradicts his malignant narcissistic fable about himself.
Poker has rules. Poker players follow the rules. Poker wisdom is meaningless to Trump because Trump does not play by anyone's rules but his own. Furthermore Trump's rules are fluid; others must obey, always, no exception, but he is free to change the rules without notice.
The Traitor is definitely not someone who can learn anything about decision making. He is a bull in a china shop. Charging head on, heedless of any destruction.
Wtf
How about just have good ideas and actually execute on them?
Maybe you could analyze a Skydiving or Scuba diving book and let us know about what Trump could learn from that? Or what about needlepointing? Fox hunting? No, no do bike racing! Yes! That'd be good, right? thisisallsoinformative
A whole lot of things could teach trump a whole lot
Really!? Teaching realDonaldTrump decision making? 😂😂😂! The man just got here, and he did in 3 yrs more than all of the idiots before him for the pass 30 yrs, in spite of hoaxes against him 24/7 for 4 years and talking about teaching him!? I suggest f—cked off!
Please stop! He bankrupted casino's! As in plural! just let he be gone!
He's a Shark bitches, Bought into the game some 5 yrs ago...
You have to know how to count first.
The article photo is a blackjack table, not a poker table. So I’m sure this take is on point...
I would love to play him heads up.
Oh sure. Let him ruin that too. 🙄
Fuck marriage fuck poker
I would be willing to bet he has played.
This picture is of people playing blackjack!
Trump would be so easy to read “I’ve got the best hand ever, five aces and a royal flush” Wonder if his cult would still lose to him if their money was in immediate danger? Would their eyes suddenly be opened?
I think he bluffs all the time. Can he really learn good strategy? At least you can play online, eh? =
The only play Trump knows is threatening to take his cards away when he’s losing.
UR SO SMART!
The guy has been winning his whole life 🤷♂️🤔🤦♂️
Trump cannot learn, he only cheats
He would learn how to cheat, sue everyone, then go bankrupt.
The fuck is this take
You assume he learns
Hey his own casino went broke!
He’d learn how to cheat. Jesus, do better media.
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