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volstork

(5,597 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:51 PM Jan 2017

The MOST brilliant thing I've read about trump

From an article on DailyKos about trump's desperate appeal on Facebook to give away Inauguration tickets:

"Just consider, he’ll be the first billionaire to live in subsidized government housing previously occupied by a more popular black family."

SO perfect!

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The MOST brilliant thing I've read about trump (Original Post) volstork Jan 2017 OP
billionare should be in quotes...I think he's flat broke. nt LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #1
Most likely true volstork Jan 2017 #2
WAS Broke. He has already achieved a goal Alice11111 Jan 2017 #3
Don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't stay in a trump hotel. They're terrorist targets now. brush Jan 2017 #4
Except he won't. The White House is not nearly ostentatious enough enough for him. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #5
It looks like a Victorian whorehouse. volstork Jan 2017 #6
Don't be silly! In all Donnie's framed photos of Putin Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #10
THAT DK504 Jan 2017 #7
I doubt it. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #12
Disgustingly poor taste Alice11111 Jan 2017 #9
Aren't you being unfair to the Mrs. Baby-man? Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #11
Brilliant and Trump in the same sentence is difficult to do. liberal N proud Jan 2017 #8
Not for him it's not. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #13
poor BLOTUS.. can't give it away. Cha Jan 2017 #14

volstork

(5,597 posts)
2. Most likely true
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:06 PM
Jan 2017

I was just quoting the comment.

I think trump's penury is the axle on which this whole mess turns. He was multiply bankrupt and was bailed out by the Russian mob. Now he's in over his head, and providing the keys to the back door of the US is his only means of paying back what he owes.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
3. WAS Broke. He has already achieved a goal
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:14 PM
Jan 2017

His Trump Enterprises and hotels around the world have gone way up since the election. Countries that had stalled projects out with permits and regulations have pushed them through.
What started for him as a publicity stunt has exceeded his wildest dreams. However, there may be a nightmare yet to come, not just for the rest of us, but even for him. His popularity has already started to drop as reality sets in.

brush

(57,948 posts)
4. Don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't stay in a trump hotel. They're terrorist targets now.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:19 PM
Jan 2017

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,041 posts)
5. Except he won't. The White House is not nearly ostentatious enough enough for him.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:20 PM
Jan 2017

He require far more gilding in his decor.




But for the little time he does spend at the White House, he still might do this:

volstork

(5,597 posts)
6. It looks like a Victorian whorehouse.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:23 PM
Jan 2017

Also--- is that a framed photo of Putin on the coffee table?!

DK504

(3,847 posts)
7. THAT
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:33 PM
Jan 2017

is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.

Will he have Melanoma pee on the bedroom in the East Wing?

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,041 posts)
12. I doubt it.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:23 AM
Jan 2017

She's far too old for him to enjoy it. Putin will send him some 11 year-old sex slaves to do the job.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
9. Disgustingly poor taste
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:33 AM
Jan 2017

...I know billionaires who live pretty ordinary lives. Look at Warren Buffet too. Billionaire or not, no one except someone intent on compensating, would live like that. It doesn't show his wealth, just his ignorance and need to draw attention to his superficial success. What kind of little boy wears a suit or sits on stuffed lions among guilded columns and walls? What sort of parents, including Ms.DT (who wants to make her signature program children ), would raise a child like that, no matter how much money they have?
It looks very uncomfortable, like no one is intended to really sit in those chairs. I guess if you have a 2 minute attention span, it could work for a conversation.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,041 posts)
11. Aren't you being unfair to the Mrs. Baby-man?
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:12 AM
Jan 2017

She just wants to teach America's children how to dress for their Wall Street jobs and prepare them for riding lions. Things every child needs to know.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,041 posts)
13. Not for him it's not.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:37 AM
Jan 2017

Wait a minute, though, I don't think he does brilliant. It's always terrific, right. Fitting, since that word's got so much in common with terrible.

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