Success Quote by Donald Trump

It lands like a punchline, but it’s really a power flex wearing a smirk. Trump’s line turns office life into a dirty joke: the “first thing” a secretary “types” is not a memo but the boss himself. The gag relies on a crude double meaning - “type” as clerical labor, “type” as sexual conquest - and the collision is the point. Work becomes innuendo; hierarchy becomes entitlement.

The specific intent is less comedy than calibration. It signals to an audience that the speaker is the kind of man who doesn’t just run the room; he runs the bodies in it. By choosing “secretary,” the quote leans on a familiar, gendered workplace stereotype: a role historically coded as female, subordinate, and expected to manage a man’s life while being treated as part of the office decor. “Boss” completes the circuitry of dominance. It’s not two adults; it’s a chain of command.

Subtextually, it’s an old-school Manhattan mogul worldview: charisma as license, money as immunity, boundaries as something other people negotiate. The line also turns harassment into banter, a rhetorical trick that dares you to object without seeming humorless. If you laugh, you’re complicit; if you don’t, you “don’t get it.”

Context matters: Trump’s public persona was forged in an era when boardroom braggadocio and tabloid masculinity were marketed as success. The quote is that culture distilled - not just sexism, but a theory of power where the workplace is another venue for possession.