Bill Thompson: Trump once rose from the ashes. Not this time.

0
1870
Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Back in the early 1990s, Donald Trump’s real estate empire was collapsing, his casino investments were imploding, his reputation as a titan of business was going up in smoke. His enemies – they were legion, even then – were celebrating his demise. Some were surely conjuring up images of Trump panhandling on the sidewalks of New […]

Want to Read More?

TBP Insiders get unlimited access to all Insider content and much more.

Become an Insider

View this article for Free

Previous articleCOMMENTARY: Ray Perryman on minimum wage
Next articleWhy GameStop shares stopped trading: 5 questions answered
Thompson is a native of East St. Louis, Ill., where he developed a lifelong love of the St. Louis Cardinals (all-time favorite player, Stan Musial; runner-up, Lou Brock). He’s been editor of daily newspapers in Illinois, New Jersey and Maine, where he spent four teeth-chattering winters in-between two of his three stints with the Fort Worth Business Press. But Thompson’s favorite job over the years has been riling up readers with opinion columns and editorials on topics ranging from politics to sports to curious shenanigans at City Hall. A newspaper in Pennsylvania once marketed him as “the man you love to hate.” He wrote columns for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1987 to 2001, when he left in the first wave of buyouts and layoffs perpetrated by a now-defunct company called Knight Ridder. He still misses that job. He doesn’t miss Knight Ridder.