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Trump Likes Chances In $230 Million Settlement Claim Against Himself
Donald Trump's allegedly demanding the Justice Department he now controls write him a check -- a per
Maybe they can pay him with his dollar coins. Just have the DOJ show up with a giant jar of them.
Personal military, personal DOJ and know he’s on to his personal bank, the good ole gullible American taxpayer. If it was a sitcom it would be a lot of laughs.
It really would. I’ve conceded over and over that he makes me laugh at least once a day, and usually several times. Part of it is that while he’s obviously apprised of the extent to which stuff like this is egregious, there’s a certain genuineness to it when his wheels are turning, and sometimes he turns them out loud. Like, “Hmm, I have these claims against the DoJ for $230 million, and I basically now run the DoJ, so how bad does it look on a scale of 1-10 if I just make them write me a check? Anybody’s welcome to weigh in here. You over there in the corner, what do you think?”
It’s the same sort of deal when he dials up The Kremlin to ask Putin’s opinion on Ukraine. Sure, he knows it’s ridiculous, but even there there’s this kernel of genuineness which I imagine is disarming even for someone like Putin: “Wait, he actually wants my opinion on whether he should send Tomahawks to Kyiv? I’m supposed to treat this as a real question and give him a reasoned analysis of why we don’t want that, no wink-winks? He wants me to take this question seriously?”
Andy Kaufman isn’t dead – he’s Trump in disguise. That’s the only logical explanation.
There was a great cartoon from Trump’s first term. First panel, Trump announces, “I’m retiring.” Second panel, a reporter asks, “From politics?” Third panel, he declares, “From acting!” and rips off the Trump mask to reveal Daniel Day Lewis.
I guess it’s a bit late to mention a “Constitutional Crisis”, isn’t it?
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Doesn’t the taxpayer pay for anything, everything, the government spends?
Trump crypto and foreigners putting $2B into it seemed pretty bad.
The Qataris giving him a jet seemed pretty bad.
The Supreme Court giving him absolute immunity seemed pretty bad.
The voters electing a convicted felon seemed pretty bad.
Trump pardoning 1500 other convicted felons seemed pretty bad.
Trump parking nuclear secrets in his bathroom seemed pretty bad.
Trump tearing down the Greek-inspired architecture at the Whitehouse, and the 200 year old trees surrounding it, to make way for a hideous monument to himself, seems pretty bad.
What the hell. What’s one more thing?
He has pushed the envelope so far that it is surreal. Beyond parody. History will someday look back at these years and educated Americans will not believe all of it !
I hope that you are right about “educated Americans will not believe all of it!” – because that implies that in the future, this situation has been fixed such that we no longer have a president who oversteps his authority; nor do we have a congress who isn’t living up to its constitutional responsibilities.
Why settle for $230 million?
He’ll “settle” for $100M and claim he did all of us a favor.
A question my children’s cohort coined comes to mind.
W. T. actual F?!! Did Trump decide on the spur of the moment this morning to demolish the wing of the White House rather than just the facade? Did the Building Department weigh in? Aren’t there guidelines around tearing down historical structures?
Where I live in anarchist California converting a carport to a garage on a 20 year old tract home requires jumping through ridiculous Planning Department hoops. Much money and time required. No guarantee of success.
Baseball bat or not, Jeffries will f it up. Trump must have only raised $20 million for his ballroom