(Featuring the official flagship)
Look at this beauty.
This is the vessel. The pride of the fleet. The ship that will “never let you down.”
Donald Trump and Ty Masterson have apparently partnered up to launch a brand-new cruise line that will ply the mighty Kansas River. They were originally going to put a casino on it — because nothing says fiscal genius like Trump’s Atlantic City track record — but that idea sank faster than the boat itself. So now it’s just a “luxury river experience.”
And who did they put in charge of boat repair and construction?
Ty Masterson.
The same Ty Masterson whose home-building company, Masterbuilt Homes, collapsed in 2006. The same guy who blamed a former employee for the unauthorized charges and mismanaged projects. The same guy who later filed Chapter 7 with roughly $300,000 in assets against $1.13 million in debts and left creditors with pennies. The same guy who in 2008 told voters he would never declare bankruptcy out of “personal responsibility”… then did exactly that two years later.
Of course they put him in charge of the boat. Look at the holes in the hull. Look at the rust. Look at the way it’s sitting high and dry on the sand like it gave up halfway through the voyage. That’s not a cruise ship. That’s a floating metaphor for Masterson’s business career — and now, apparently, for the economic vision Trump just endorsed for the entire state of Kansas.
Trump once built a television career yelling “You’re fired” at people who failed less spectacularly than this. Now he’s out here co-signing the guy who should have been the first one shown the door, calling him a “fantastic Candidate” who will never let Kansans down.
Never let you down. While the boat is already on the beach. With holes in it. And the repair guy is the one who previously bankrupted a construction company.
Kansans have every right to be angry. This isn’t leadership. This is a punchline with a campaign logo on it.
The flagship has already run aground. The captain has a bankruptcy on his record. And the owner is the same man who keeps insisting this is the best possible choice.
You’re not launching a cruise line. You’re launching another failure. And you’re asking the rest of us to buy tickets.
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