Having lived for a couple decades in Sonoma wine country, I’m familiar with the old riddle:
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business?
You start with a large fortune.
I’ve since learned that a version of this joke is also passed around among farmers and ranchers in Texas.
The failing New York Times took a deep dive into how the current occupant of the White House made his fortune. John Cassidy summarized the report in The New Yorker magazine and concluded:
He is a shameless flim-flam man with practically no regard for the truth or the quaint notion that wealthy people like him have a civic duty to pay their fair share of taxes.
