Both my wife and I have held "CEO" titles (in fact I have that now.)

Back in law school, probably around 1978, right after the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) was passed I took a course in international business transactions.

(It was a fun course - that's where I ended up having to set up an international cocoa bean exchange to deal with shiploads of cocao beans that I had to sell - fortunately it was all a highly realistic hypothetical exercise, but it was on the verge of real - for instance I did have to go the embassy in DC and negotiate with the ambassador.)

Anyway, in that class we went into "things that will (not may, will) happen to you to corrupt and influence you". Drugs, women/sex, money, etc.

I've hardly been an innocent. But I'm kinda negative about drugs. I've been handed clash - yes, fresh $10,000 wads of Benjamins ($100 bills) still in their government wrappers and once a surprise bonus check from a client. But those were all legit (although one does get the evil eye from US customs when you come into the US at Miami with $9,900 in fresh bills after a six hour trip to the Cayman Islands.) As for the women/sex part - I met my ex and also Chris in conjunction with network trade shows - but I married 'em and I don't think either was a spy. But then again, there were others, some real, some imagined by others, although there was certainly fuel for those imaginations - I'm remembering one late summer evening, racing through the streets of downtown Boston, scaring pedestrians, tunes cranked up to 11, in a red Mazda convertible, driven by a beautiful blonde who seemed to be aspiring to Formula One.)

the marriages at that level seem to be business arrangements anyway (not unlike royalty), so....

but with some of these men (Trump and Paxton come to mind), you know the women must have an ulterior motive—is it even possible for daddy issues to be that bad?

they run on hubris

that one

@Deb Zaccaro-Rojas - I have a very different take. My sense is that Melanoma set out, with clear intent, to capture trump and latch onto his money - hence my use of the term "golddigger".

BTW, Given trump's abuse of Obama, absent a "long form" birth certificate I'm not willing to automatically concede that el cheeto is the father. (Although the kid's height, looks, and tendency towards corruption are all non-biologically based indicators of paternity.)

yeah, the older he gets, the more he looks like his old man

I'm kinda glad I won't be around (in this incarnation, anyway) to see what kind of revenge havoc he wreaks