Trump Brand Getting Hit By Prez Race

We've reached Friday, Friends,

A report got scant mention this morning on MSNBC that will have a huge impact on this presidential race.

As the only pundit who correctly predicted that Hillary Clinton would get at least a 15-point convention bounce (based on yesterday's McClatchy/Marist poll), I now make another prediction, which I proffer with the utmost confidence.

Donald Trump will drop out of the presidential race before the November 8th election.

I premise this on the above-mentioned report, from Foursquare, which was comprised of cell phone data that tracked where the phones had traveled. Based on where phones had been in the last year, the report showed that traffic at all Trump properties was down 14%...and dropping.

This is happening at Trump resorts not only in the United States, but worldwide, and it's hitting The Donald in his only vulnerable spot--his wallet.

Unfortunately for Donald, his constituency is mainly non-college educated middle class, middle-aged white men.

His customers are upper-middle-class-to-wealthy, highly educated and sophisticated. They look at his constituents and his vulgar campaign with disdain.

If YOU build it, they won't come.

So they're starting to stay away from his properties in droves. And that impacts the largest part of Trump's bottom line.

Now, I suspect Trump got into the presidential race perhaps to be commander-in-chief, but definitely to improve his brand, and thus, his fortune.

That plan has gone south because of the nominee's uncontrollable mouth.

And if his business, which obviously supercedes his country in importance to him, continues to suffer, he'll walk away from what's quickly becoming a bad deal.

What may tip the scales in favor of his exit is a brewing Trump family scandal broken by Politico yesterday.

Wife Melania may have worked in the United States as a nude girl-on-girl model illegally in 1995, while on a tourist visa. The photos from this session were re-published in the New York Post earlier in the week.

So much for Trump's tough stance on illegal aliens coming here taking our jobs and "raping our women."

Working while on a tourist visa generally bars violators from even applying for re-entry into the U.S. for 10 years. And though she's now a U.S. citizen, the penalties may still apply.

This is exactly what happened to the Israeli wife of an American colleague of mine. As a student on holiday, she was caught illegally working part-time in the U.S. to fund her travel.

She was barred from re-entering the country for a decade.

The couple met abroad, fell in love and got engaged, She then filled him in on her problem
with U.S. immigration.

Bottom line; the two of them decided to stay together and live abroad for another four years. That's when she can re-apply for entry.  He's had to travel alone to visit family in his native Maryland.

Scandal on top of flagging business is a bad deal for Trump. And he has shown little patience for bad deals.

The Donald's candidacy has turned out to be a bad deal for all parties involved and has taken the American political discourse to its lowest level in modern history. The country would be better off with Trump out of the race.

For the GOP's sake, he needs to move sooner than later. They need to draft a real candidate.