Bill Gates Is No Mister Rogers
The billionaire philanthropist can't dress up a bad association. He is now hopelessly tied to the Epstein class.
This Week In Blunders – May 31-June 6
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett
The Wall Street Journal had quite a field day with Bill Gates’ reputation this week, running with this headline: Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking.
The publication reported allegations of more than 20 affairs during his 27 years of marriage to Melinda French Gates, who divorced him as his name emerged in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
When you’re a legendary tech founder and a billionaire philanthropist, you have a lot of eyes on your life. It must take quite a staff to hide more than 20 affairs in 27 years.
Epstein knew about the trysts and may have used this information to blackmail Gates, the WSJ reports.
One of the ickiest revelations in the WSJ story, though, was its lead focus on a mannequin, which is sized to Gates’ precise proportions and used to test his apparel.
You know how they say billionaires are no different? That they put their pants on one leg at a time? Not Bill Gates.
The WSJ reports that he has a whole crew to choose his outfits for public appearances. The team has to come up with three options and submit them for approval by senior staff, the WSJ reports.
The objective is to make him look like Mister Rogers. Not some billionaire tech monopolist who hooked up with Russian women and ran with the world’s most notorious sex offender. Mister Fred Rogers, and a beautiful day in the neighborhood to you, too.
For the record, the Epstein files include more than 1,000 emails connecting the dead creep to Gates, his foundation, or people who worked for Gates.
