I hate this line. So many times I've seen it happen where it was revealed that Trump avoided paying taxes for many years, or screwed over a small businesses owner, or duped people into attending his fake online university, and the standard response is:

It's called being a smart businessman

Using that logic, you know what else would be considered being a smart business man... conning blue collar people into believing a billionaire has their interests at heart; being elected president; lowering taxes on the wealthy; holding huge personal business interests while in office; engaging in crony capitalism; defunding all safety net programs meant to help blue collar people; etc. etc. etc.

That's called being a smart business man.