(I’m going to take that comment a little more seriously than I think it’s intended, not least because I think it’s actually intended as “ha ha only serious”.)
There’s at least a credible argument that his wealth is basically inherited from his father (both by actual literal inheritance and via substantial help in the early days of Donald Trump’s own real estate business). That’s a systematic path to winning, all right, but it wouldn’t usually be called rationality.
Very rich men tend to have good-looking wives. (I realise that I don’t have actual data to back this up; is it controversial?) One possible reason is that rich people tend to be good at getting what they want, and men tend to want good-looking wives, which is basically the theory implicit in your comment; but there are a bunch of other plausible reasons that make the having-good-looking-wives a consequence of the wealth, in which case that’s not further evidence of anything beyond being rich. (Also: two divorces, at least one of which seems to have been on rather unfriendly terms. In my book that doesn’t count as winning.)
I will grant that getting elected president is a further achievement beyond getting rich.
(I’m going to take that comment a little more seriously than I think it’s intended, not least because I think it’s actually intended as “ha ha only serious”.)
There’s at least a credible argument that his wealth is basically inherited from his father (both by actual literal inheritance and via substantial help in the early days of Donald Trump’s own real estate business). That’s a systematic path to winning, all right, but it wouldn’t usually be called rationality.
Very rich men tend to have good-looking wives. (I realise that I don’t have actual data to back this up; is it controversial?) One possible reason is that rich people tend to be good at getting what they want, and men tend to want good-looking wives, which is basically the theory implicit in your comment; but there are a bunch of other plausible reasons that make the having-good-looking-wives a consequence of the wealth, in which case that’s not further evidence of anything beyond being rich. (Also: two divorces, at least one of which seems to have been on rather unfriendly terms. In my book that doesn’t count as winning.)
I will grant that getting elected president is a further achievement beyond getting rich.