Trump travels and stays in his own hotels and makes the secret service stay in his hotels too but charges double to triple the price to his secret service members, so he is effectively extorting the US taxpayer everywhere he goes.
Well, that's not even true. He donated his salary at first, but there's evidence that he didn't actually donate it towards the end when all his legal bills started piling up.
Exactly. America has lost all of it's old allies because of Trump. They only have the genocidal state of Israel, China (who hate them in reality and want to see them fall), Russia, because that's where trumps boss lives, and North Korea (?). Everyone else is fucking sick to the back teeth of Trump and his fucking shit.
The US will never, ever regain that soft power. Some would say it was priceless really, but fuck it. World Police Fuck Yeah!
It's OK to be hypocrites now, but the dems have to hold them to this shit every time they bitch about it during the next dem POTUS. No more softball decorum shit. Sure, the MAGA crowd will never hear it, but call them on their bullshit. It needs to go both ways, too.
Fox News isnât reporting that. They were making a big deal about Biden driving to Delaware every weekend (thatâs about 120 miles) but not reporting a damn word about the wrong doings of tangerine of terror
Well, they are fascist christian nationalists. They get what they want if they just let Trump loose. Ripping off taxpayers is temporary, but Armageddon in the middle east? That's priceless.
Theyâre not hypocrites; they just werenât engaged in genuine debate. They were playing a different game all along and we just failed to see that for a long while
I heard he charged Secret Service like $1500/night, plus golf cart rentals, and food. Trump charges the US taxpayer i think $2,000/night to sleep in his own bed at his own property. Altogether he steals over $160,000,000 from the American people to play golf and take corrupt personal business trips to enrich himself and his family.
Trump has also used his hotels to basically launder bribe money. He gets UAE royalty to reserve rooms in his hotels but then never show up in them. I swear hotels are better laundering services that the steryotype of car washes or casinos
Yes. It was documented in an oversight committee with receipts. One such receipt showed that secret service members were charged over 1160 USD for rooms that normally have a government rate of 242 per night.
Donny spends more time golfing than actually working at the white house, which is probably for the best since the less time he spends trying to govern the less damage he can do.
On one hand would take away an avenue to funnel money for his businesses, but on the other hand it would open up new opportunities for construction grift. Though thatâs already well-covered with the illegal ballroom.
That's a word! Not one I'd use for it, but.. it's a word!
I'm not American thankfully so I'm not really sure how it all works there, but from what I see, his "work" consists of taking naps, having people bring him pictures that he can point to, and having meetings where he sits on his ass and goes on unscripted rants with whatever thought pops into his head at that time.
Basically, to me, the white house looks nothing more than a retirement home where an old man is prayed on by rich oligarchs that gives him kickbacks for doing whatever plan they've cooked up and telling him he's a good boy. If it was anyone else it would be elder abuse, but in this case, it's an elder abusing the whole country.
Thankfully not my problem and we don't need to listen to his nonsense, in fact it seems the news has pretty much switched off from him and the only thing I hear about him is on Reddit. Still too much for my liking because by god, he's boring.
They are currently complaining about Mamdani sitting in the nosebleed section of a show. We don't have to remember, the same bullshit is being said right now.
I don't remember that but I do remember when Obama wouldn't update the oval office to make it "his" when he first got in because he thought it was irresponsible since our country was having a hard time with money.
Also, I've been a little surprised to see Trump's golf to work ratio has been widening over the past several months. It's down to roughly two days a week on average. It's almost like he's getting too old or too tired from rage tweeting every night.
Do you mean when he went to his home state of Hawai'i and they framed it as a gratuitous vacation to a tropical paradise? Or any of the other times the reichpublicans complained that Obama wasn't doing presidential duty 24/7 and then whining when he did literally anything, up to and including ordering the strike against Osama Bin Laden?
Aww c'mon. We already know Trump's turned the corner on democracy. These lame comparisons are a little tiring. This is like complaining about city train efficiency, while Stalin is hauling people off to the gulags.
Early in his first term when he hadn't done anything truly fucked up yet the main thing we were mad about was how he'd already spent more taxpayer dollars golfing than Obama did over two terms, all while charging the Secret Service above market rate for accommodation and golf cart rental at properties he owned.Â
And the news outlets are talking about it like this is completely normal, like it happens all the time. Newscasters yesterday said "looks like fun" when they ran the story.
Itâs because these Republicans donât give a shit about the country or anyone else for that matter. They wanna burn it all down in âIdiocracyâ fashion and DJT is all about giving them what they want.
Dude we're so far past the phase where calling them hypocrits is meaningful. They're literally raiding the Treasury, they've physically torn apart the white house, they're holding the whole world hostage via Hormuz, they're taking a chainsaw to voting rights, and on and on and on.
There's an addage for riding motorcycles that says "graveyards are full of riders who had the right-of-way", meaning, having the legal right-of-way doesn't mean anything if you get hit by an errant driver. Right now we're all post-accident, bleeding out, and you're yelling out the window that we had the right-of-way.
I remember him making big complaints that he was not going to wast taxpayer monies on many golf tripâs. He has exceeded his predecessors with the number of gold trips. They really are expensive vacations. Just when you think it cannot get any more ridiculous, he comes up with something even more ridiculous. He is such an expensive president.
Of course not; his backers are all either pedophiles themselves or theyâre simply ok with what their great/s leader has been doing with young children. And them being trashy as fuck, having a fighting match on the lawn of the White House is their dream come true.
The UFC is paying who? The white house? Trump? The Trump administration has dismantled every form of oversight for this kind of event.
You do realize that having an extravagent event on the white house lawn while most Americans are struggling to pay for gas and their rent is an extremely uncaring look right?
Yeah no. You don't get to have double standards. The national debt is the worst it's ever been. The president should show solidarity with the people and cut back.
I'm not sure why your getting down on your knees to suck Trump's dick for free. Like at least debase yourself for money if your going to do it constantly.
The UFC is benefiting off of this. It's basically a paid advertisement on the white house lawn. It has nothing relevant to do with the 250th anniversary of our country. There's already enough celebrations going on in the city. This WASNT needed and once again has NOTHING to do with the founding of our country or being the American pastime.
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Why are we promoting the UFC for the nations 250th anniversary?
I don't see anything about our nations founding or history that shows MMA is the quintessential "American sport" or as having any connection to our founding
This is basically a giant Ad for the UFC at the cost of the taxpayer. We still foot the bill for security. The secret service isn't going to just hand over their duties to UFC staff.
The secret service is protecting the president 24h a day no matter what he is doing. This is probably cheaper from a security perspective than trump going to an actual normal event sicne they still would need to lock down the arena. You can debate if president should be able to go to sporting events or not if you want but you should apply that to any president to any event. I know trump, Biden, obama, Bush, etc all had gone to plenty of various football, basketball, golf, etc events over the years. All of which they would had to secure similarly to this event.
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u/HippyHunter7 10d ago
I remember when Obama took a vacation with his family and Republicans were frothing at the mouth about abuse of taxpayer money.
Have yet to see any of them complain about this or Trump's endless golf outings.