To be fair, Trump may have lied on his taxes to save money. Twain admitted doing so - or at least suggested it. Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Matt-- > > Now I get it. DJT is 269 x the bad business man that Sam Clemens was! And given that _Art of the Deal_ was entirely ghosted, Trump was zero times the writer that Mark Twain was. > > --LH > > Larry Howe > Professor of English & Film Studies > Department of Literature and Languages > Roosevelt University > Editor, Studies in American Humor > President, Mark Twain Circle of America > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 2:18:06 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: The Art of The Deal > > [Sent by an External User] > > I feel compelled to convert yesterday’s NYT expose about the President’s tax returns into terms which Twain scholars will comprehend: Over the course of a single decade Donald Trump lost, after adjusting for inflation, 269 Paige Typesetters. > > *************** > Matt Seybold > Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies > Elmira College > Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org > MattSeybold.com