Elon Musk's finances may crash Tesla's stock to the groundDespite Wall Street and voter reservations, the money is on a Trump vs. Biden rematch
Yet the basics of the Home Depot story don’t do justice to Marcus’ legacy. He’s a voluble billionaire and a proud conservative activist who grew up in a fourth-floor Newark, NJ, tenement apartment. “Charlie, I’m 94 years old. Unfortunately, I have a 60-year-old brain, a 94-year-old body,” he said during our wide-ranging interview, obviously concerned that he doesn’t have much time left to fight this good fight. “I’ve said this to all of my friends, anybody who would listen: if this election goes the way the last one went, this country will be a Third World country.
Good points. I bring up Trump’s noxious Twitter feed and his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots, whether he should step aside giving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or ex-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, both successful politicians, a shot. Langone advised that Marcus pursue that entrepreneurial venture he had been mulling — something called Home Depot. “Kenny said, ‘You just got hit in the ass with a golden horseshoe,’ ” and offered to “put together investors and put me in business.”Handy Dan closed its doors more than 30 years ago.
But the American public is turning against left-wing economic policies. They hate Biden’s inflation and hate corporate wokeness, which offers Marcus some hope for the future. He cited the travails of Budweiser that used trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a beer ad, no less.