"... Mr. Trump told his advisers that he wanted to announce deals that would be worth more than $1 trillion. As a branding exercise it makes perfect sense. Surrounded by resource-rich royals and American business executives, Mr. Trump, who likes to brag about his deal-making skills, will scrawl his Sharpie over term sheets, and lots of them. He will visit palaces, walk on red carpets and be treated like a king in a region that is increasingly vital to the Trump family’s financial interests. Yet as a strategic exercise, the trip’s purpose remains foggy...."
From "Trump Heads to the Middle East With a Single Goal: Deals, Deals, Deals/President Trump has always viewed the presidency as a worldwide hunt for deals. And there is no better place for that than the Gulf, where a few men wield absolute authority over vast wealth" (NYT).
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91 comments:
The Monday morning shit-on. Quelle suprise…meanwhile, using last month’s metric of equity market reaction…oh never mind. That is sooo last month…
If they all join the Abraham Accords and make peace with Israel, the NYTs will find a way to tell us what a bad man Abraham was, I suppose.
No matter how much you despise the NYT there's always cause for more.
"Trump Heads to the Middle East With a Single Goal: Deals, Deals, Deals." The NYT makes that sound like a bad thing. Deals, agreements, whatever.
in a region that is increasingly vital to the Trump family’s financial interests
Ah yes, few outside Trump's family even care about the Middle East and South Asia! Nothing happens there. Ever. There's no geopolitical significance to any countries located in the region. It's simply a personal curiosity of President Trump that he wanders over to the region to see about new locations on which to slap the golden TRUMP name. Just like he spent his first term doing nothing but working tirelessly on behalf of Trump Inc.
NOT!
There may never be enough contempt in me to give the NYT the level of hatred they deserve. Good luck in your framing, "foggy" as it is, Times.
If your constituents primary goals are strengthening the global power of euro bond villains in zip-up onsesies, pervs in women’s locker rooms and the guys diddling little boys as a lifestyle choice I suppose middle east deals are anathema to your kind…
Making deals is the job.
"If they all join the Abraham Accords and make peace with Israel, the NYTs will find a way to tell us what a bad man Abraham was, I suppose."
And if Trump accepts a free 747 for his "library" all the Trumpers will tell me what a great negotiator he is. For fuck sake: we replaced the Biden crime family for THIS?!?!
And none of your retards care because retards.
Several major Trump supporting influencers are turning against Israel. On the trip to the middle east, Trump is not visiting Israel. Apparently the Trump administration is not happy with Benjamin Netanyahu.
remember the HUGE stock crash back in April?
that was The RUIN of both the USA, and the Trump Presidency?
what EVER happened to that HUGE stock crash?
anyone? anyone want to enlighten me on that stock crash?
it ALMOST Seems, like it never ever existed, and was just fake news?
The spin is getting pretty desperate.
D.D. Driver said...
And none of your retards care because retards.
We've simply learned to mistrust the media's characterizations of Trump's actions. It took me some time to get here, but now I largely dismiss all negative news about the administration. The man has many flaws, but the news stories about him nearly always turn out to be fabricated dishonest bullshit.
And he's selling Bibles on Fox News ffs ...
Whatever Trump does is wrong according to the MSM, so Trump is free all over again.
The purpose is to make America great again.
Please tell NYT Thomas Friedman that every Palestinian leader, including Hajj Amin Husseini, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Khaled Mashal, and Yahya Sinwar, has rejected a two-state solution. He doesn't seem to live in the real world.
What are they talking about - "Yet as a strategic exercise, the trip’s purpose remains foggy"? Did they forget that we're isolating Iran and trying to solve the intractable problem of the belligerent Palestinians and the Israeli response thereto? Did they forget that the Abraham Accords have held throughout the current crisis and perhaps could use some ongoing encouragement?
Oh dear…
Trump and his team created the Abraham Accords out of thin air, while the previous 6+ administrations were still wondering how to speak to Arab/Muslim nations. He should have received a Nobel Prize for it (unlike Obama who got one for showing up). They would have extended the Accords through Saudi Arabia had the powers that be not arranged for key precincts in key cities of key states to 'close' or lose power on election eve, 2019 so that a cabbage brained man could be inserted as President.
So now, the next phase continues. And while the NYT tries to figure things out, the Trump team is working on further isolating Iran by consolidating those with money and power around them.
I'm sure they'll find his blue suit to be off-putting on this trip.
And yet they still try to cover their asses re:Biden and the illegal immigrant invasion.
Death to the NYT!
Dow implied open up 1,000.
The laser dot is still out there! It hasn't been caught! It's faster and trickier than ever! And none of you retards care because retards!
Shorter NYT:
“If Trump’s doing it it must be wrong”
The New York Times writers like to act as if they're above it all - above the filthy lucre and sordid business transactions. But how many of them are writing for free? And I can assure you that their CFO isn't "above it all", and therefore neither are they from a NYT corporation perspective. The great irony is (as I have heard asserted) that the NYT puzzle and word games application is the revenue stream that is keeping the corporation afloat and the CFO in a job. Their own writing isn't covering the costs, appearantly.
It is instructive that the naysayers are always telling us which dictators and/or oligarchs Trump is going to be doing the bidding of.
If there is one thing that is clear about Trump, he can't be trusted to "do the bidding of" anyone. No matter what they think he owes them.
I had no idea that Trump was accepting the gift of a 747 from Qatar as a personal gift for his own personal enrichment. I suppose that also means that the improvements are being done at the expense of the taxpayers. The details remain elusive, but we're assured they are all 'bad', so there's no need to go into them. It has absolutely nothing to do with Boeing's complete and utter ineptitude as evidenced by their various, industry-wide institutional and engineering failures over the past Woke-O-Matic decade.
Say: Let's compare a list of Trump administration 'deals' in the past 4 months against a list of Biden administration 'deals' in 4 years. We can measure our levels of impressed !
"I had no idea that Trump was accepting the gift of a 747 from Qatar as a personal gift for his own personal enrichment. "
How do we know it is a personal gift and not a gift to the USA treasury? The press is so bad at laying out the facts, it's almost impossible to trust anything.
He's just showing off.
Trump could turn water into wine and the MSM would call it a magic trick.
So Trump is going to the mid-east to sign Trade deals and NYT's snarks about it and says he's going to "Scrawl his sharpie" over paper and "Brag about his deal-making". Is the writer a 16 y/o girl? This shows how the NYT's has stopped being a serious newspaper.
Let's see...he brokered a peace deal between India and Pakistan last week, got China to come to the table over the weekend, has Putin and Zelensky negotiating directly this week, just signed an order to lower pharmaceutical cost by up to 80% to align them with non-US pricing...and all the NYT can whine about is his trip to the Middle East?
This is the most eventful, substantive, America-serving, entertaining, and truly schadenfreudelicious period in American history. It is to laugh at the Lilliputians who tried/try to tie him up with their impeachments, lawsuits, assasination attempts, and dipshitty little $450,000,000 fines when he now gets multi-billion dollar planes as a tip for creating the Golden Age. I hope they give him another one too as a spare.
If Biden had gone to Middle=east to sign trade deals you can be sure the MSM would be full of praise and tellng how the trade deals will improve the US Economy. Instead, because the POTUS is Trump, we get snark and blather about a 747. And a "the purpose of the trip is mysterious". Again, every article in the MSM must attack Trump and be negative - 365/24/7.
"I had no idea that Trump was accepting the gift of a 747 from Qatar as a personal gift for his own personal enrichment."
POTUS accept gifts from foreigners all the time. They just cant keep them when they leave office. Understand?
Democrat Party dying a death by a thousand deals.
If showing off results in successes, I'll take it.
Pretty sure AF1 is an asset of the Air Force and designated as the plane for any present and future POTUS, even after Trump, but that just my MAGA-influenced spin on the facts at hand. How is this a bad thing given the other key fact that after six years Boeing has no fixed delivery date in mind for the two 747s Trump ordered in 2019?
Aggie: "I had no idea that Trump was accepting the gift of a 747 from Qatar as a personal gift for his own personal enrichment."
You will need to indicate you have your sarcasm meter turned all the wsy up lest the mindless lefty drones like Abacus Boy LLR-democraticals Rich and lonejustice, Soy Boy gadfly The Hopeless, Field Marshall Freder, Dumb Lefty Mark, pro-incestuous showers for adolescent girls victoria of pasadena et al take you too seriously.
“He's just showing off.“
What makes Trump feel seen?
Does the Art of the Deal still work if the other side knows you are eager to make the deal?
Boy, wait until he fist bumps the Crown Prince of that pariah nation... The Times will gut him like a fish.
"Yet as a strategic exercise, the trip’s purpose remains foggy...."
President Trump apparently neglected to file a flight plan with the NYT. Hey, guys, just make something up, OK?
Donald Trump defends gift of 747 jet from Qatar as new Air Force One ~ Forbes
‘Gulf state’s offer to replace aging presidential plane raises ethics concerns’
Donald Trump:
How it started: "I could "shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters."
How's it going: "I can take a $400 million bribe in broad daylight, and I won't lose any voters ."
Re: Air force One
Well, to start with, you'd need to take apart every single rivet and bolt to check for bugs. But, more importantly, it's not a lack of a hull that has caused delays with a new Air Force One. It's the avionics and control systems. And that can't simply be sped up because there is a new hull. And also, this isn't a new hull! This is an old hull. So using this frame to make a new Air Force One is only going to take more time and money than a new built frame would cost.
Not only bolts and rivets, it’s the software that would need checking, and there is no way they can go over every single line of code and all other hidden payload.
Although an administration that uses Signal and personal mobile phones to discuss attack plans may simply not care.
This will never fly as Air Force One but, as the article suggests, it will pass to the Trump ‘Presidential Library’ after his term of office. Basically, it’ll replace his aging private 757.
Mike (MJB Wolf): "Pretty sure AF1 is an asset of the Air Force and designated as the plane for any present and future POTUS, even after Trump, but that just my MAGA-influenced spin on the facts at hand."
- Its a gift to the Dept Of Defense/Air Force. Legal.
- Will be refurbished by L3Harris, 6th largest defense contractor and experts at communications. Appropriate.
- Will be used instead of the current "ancient" 747's that moron DD Drivers pals at Boeing cant deliver without a decade of delay and billions in cost over runs.
- Safer and more effective for POTUS, no doubt that drives retard DD Driver insane.
- After being used it will be transferred to the Trump library (legal and precedented: see AF1 707 transferred to Reagan library)
- Aircraft will be "owned" and controlled by NARA, not Trump, as every non-retard knows (which excludes DD Driver, naturally).
- If the aicraft is ever de-mothballed it will be for the use by whomever is President at that time, not Trump nor his family.
But I credit Trump for once again cutting thru DD Driver's beloved incompetent bureaucracy and delivering a good deal for the American people while adhering to well established law and existing precedents.
Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich: "This will never fly as Air Force One but, as the article suggests, it will pass to the Trump ‘Presidential Library’ after his term of office. Basically, it’ll replace his aging private 757."
LOL
The complete and utter collapse of months worth of lies by the Harry Sisson of Althouse blog simply accelerates his downward spiral into permanent gadfly-ness.
We remain in the remarkable, seemingly purposeful situation where not a single, solitary, prediction/analysis/assessment by LLR-democratical Rich has ever proven correct or materialized.
Not a single one.
For years.
How can this be you might ask? (You might not!) It does at times seem like an "op" possibly run by an anti-woke/anti-pro-ChiCom/anti-leftist posting as Abacus Boy to make the lefties look bad...but given the degree to which Li'l Rich clearly revels in the hilariously transparent "Wrongness Muck", I am forced to fully discount that theory.
We mustn't forget that our Althouse blog Usual Suspects were also the ones flashing their Tim Walz-like Jazzy Spirit Fingers during the rescue by SpaceX of the stranded (by Boeing, quelle surprise) astronauts in desperate hope of a mishap which could kill the astronauts. After the safe splashdown the dashed hopes and dreams of these America Lasters was palpable.
"...not a single, solitary, prediction/analysis/assessment by LLR-democratical Rich has ever proven correct or materialized."
That's the result when every prediction or forecast that one makes is nothing more than an ill-informed 'wishcast'.
Trump is doing just what I voted for him to do. MAGA and F*ck the NYT.
Boris: "That's the result when every prediction or forecast that one makes is nothing more than an ill-informed 'wishcast'."
Quite so. Yet more interesting is that Rich's Maelstrom of a Million Moronic Missives have failed to deliver even one "luck of the draw" / "laws of probability" inadvertent "wins".
That's what is truly remarkable, Trump has avoided those outcomes across the board with consistency.
"what EVER happened to that HUGE stock crash?
anyone? anyone want to enlighten me on that stock crash?"
Some of us bought up every stock we could afford that week. I must thank the TDS infected for making these incredible gains possible again. Couldn't do it without ya.
Not directly related to the NYT article, but Trumps EO on Pharmaceutical pricing is fascinating/terrifying/exciting. Let me explain, as I know pharma some.
U.S. Drug Pricing is make believe. It's not rooted in reality, and it makes no sense. To understand where it is today, you need to first realize that the system is setup so that the U.S. MUST have the highest drug pricing. Further, that drug pricing MUST have rebates/kickbacks/heavy discounting room built into it for Insurance companies, PBMs, Pharmacies, Government, and more. That way, each of those can declare "wins" when they get something.
Then most other countries negotiate DOWN from the lowest prices the U.S. is paying.
This is not a single company driving this, this is a broken system that has grown into place over the course of generations.
Now, the terrifying part is what Trump is doing which will break things. It will break Pharma investment, at which the U.S. is the best in the world at innovating. Our broken system actually yields the fastest and best new drug developments than any other country/region (albeit at enormous cost).
At the same time, Pharma/Drug pricing is BROKEN and has been for years. And if you view Trump's moves as an opening gambit to renegotiate a status quo through force, then this is a good first move.
"what EVER happened to that HUGE stock crash?"
It went the way of every Abacus Boy prediction.
If you want a really good laugh at this faux self-described finance whizkid (Li'l Richie...who has been in those rooms where big big BIG corporate decisions have been made (wink wink)), go back a bit and reread his idiotic predictions about the Treasury rates and Bessent's ability to get the rolled over April debt refinanced!
Li'L Richie's next new handle: "Ill-Informed Wishcast."
When Boeing was run by engineers, they took an order for two 747 based AF1s in '87, built them in '88 and delivered to service with GWHBush in '89. Trump got a bargain for two 747-800s that were left over in Seattle when the purchaser went bankrupt in 2017. Boeings addiction to cost plus government contracts and their money-guy management have proven failures time and time again. They do not appear to actually know what it costs to do these projects.
Royal Family 747s are supe swank, with every luxury known to man. LH2Harris is keen to take their place as a top-level government supplier. This is their big opportunity.
Li'L Richie's next new handle: "Ill-Informed Wishcast."
He is the king of wishcasting. It's a very common rhetorical ploy used by commenters on blogs/social media in order to sound insightful to the casual reader. But nobody that I've ever observed does it better.
A deal is a manifestation of assent to a series of events that each side perceives as beneficial. That SOB Trump wants people to agree to things that they think will benefit them, and that Trump thinks will benefit the US. I'm on the way to the hardware store and the pet store to stock up on tar and feathers.
Bagoh @ 10:07
Hehehehehe
the earth shattering kaboom, yes not so much
Mr. Trump told his advisers that he wanted to announce deals that would be worth more than $1 trillion.
I remember Biden's trip to the Middle East.
His objective was a fist bump in lieu of a handshake.
Howard said...
Several major Trump supporting influencers are turning against Israel. On the trip to the middle east, Trump is not visiting Israel. Apparently the Trump administration is not happy with Benjamin Netanyahu.
This change is going to remove another chunk of the globalist cancer from the Republican Party.
Israel is the best and most free country in the Middle East.
It is also a perennial wedge and stalking horse to involve the US in unnecessary wars and keep the ME chaotic and at war.
The United States needs to stop giving Israel a blank check and start demanding Israel makes some real changes. Israel owns many of the DC traitor GOPe party members. This needs to be sorted and Israel needs to be put in it’s place.
Most regimes in the ME actually have leaders with some amount of wisdom. They understand the importance of controlling Islam and they know they are not getting rid of Israel without their country being turned to glass.
We keep finding out that the Islamic extremists are CIA operations. My hunch is that Mossad is so successful because the CIA is working with them and they are both using the Islamic extremists to keep wars going. I don’t think Israel wants peace any more than the Deep State wants peace.
If you look at October 7th from space there are no real good explanations for how a bunch of cretins in hang gliders got over one of the most guarded border walls in the world and had 12 hours of time inside Israel to act like the most ridiculous barbarians in the world broadcasting rapes and burning babies to the world that do not involve some form of Mossad/CIA collusion and organization.
Based on the headline, it seems the NYT is in awe of Trump, but they have to insinuate it's a personal grifting exercise.
Trump is clearly the most consequential person on the planet. He does more deals around the world last week than Biden did in 4 years. Under Biden nothing good ever got done, because doing whatever, the process, was the real goal. Why is it taking so long to finish AF1? Because the Biden Admin was running the contract, and Boeing was in on the graft. Then Trump comes back, and Bam!
The Dems are continuing to melt down, because Trump isn’t playing their game - which is to get very rich via the process of governing. Trump really believes in MAGA. Internationally, he is doing three important things. First, he is taking the money away from China that they have been using to build modern weapons that they are using to threaten their neighbors, and us. They have an export economy, the tariffs would kill that. And domestically, they can’t afford the unrest that is starting to cause. Working with China, is Iran, which is the driver for almost all of the violence in the Middle East. They are rapidly being isolated and put under financial pressure, for similar reasons - they too face mass internal violence if they don’t back off. And, finally, the Russian/Ukrainian war is idiotic. Both countries are bankrupting themselves, and killing hundreds of thousands of their peoples, for what? So the Dems and leftist leaders in Europe, can continue to benefit financially from the war. With all three of these issues, Biden and the Dems were happy to keep taking the bribe money, and let them fester. That they aren’t intractable problems is evidenced by what Trump has done in less than four months.
Hey Drago: replace all of that bullshit with the "Biden Presidential Library" then go fuck yourself, Retard.
It's different when the Trump Crime Family are running grift. Totally different. Retard.
“Trump got a bargain for two 747-800s that were left over in Seattle when the purchaser went bankrupt in 2017. Boeings addiction to cost plus government contracts and their money-guy management have proven failures time and time again. They do not appear to actually know what it costs to do these projects.”
As I see it, you have it partially right. As I said above, for the Dems, the process is the goal, because that is where they make their money. And Boeing was in on the graft. The longer they strung out the reconfiguration of the 747s, the more money they, and the Dems, would make. The real goal, under Biden, was not to get new AF1s, but to make money off the process. Biden himself didn’t care - he mostly just used the planes to fly back and forth between Andrews, outside DC, and Delaware. Trump does care, because he is always in motion. My thoughts are that they should just keep all three AF1s, throughout his term, just because of the mileage and landings he is putting them through.
they trained in beirut and probably iran, denied areas, the Israeli deep state was laser focused on amassing an insurrection against Netanyahu, I suspect the Arab parties that were the base of the Blue and White coalition were tacitly in support of what would become October 7th,
“It's different when the Trump Crime Family are running grift. Totally different. Retard”
Except there really isn’t any. While Hunter and Jim Biden made their family money by shaking down foreign governments and pushing wars, the rest of the Trump family makes their money the old fashioned way - by running the family’s businesses. Jr and Eric run the Trump companies, and do it well. Eric appears to be running the hotels. According to hotel Security, he is through LV and in their hotel there weekly, with his older brother there maybe monthly. He’s very hands on. If you need something done, you get it to him. It may be harder now, with him now having a full USSS detail, instead of a bodyguard or two, but it’s still happening.
Bruce 😉 You are precious!
"Free jets from the Muslim oligarchs" is 100% in the same basket as Hunter's "artwork" and Nancy's investments. The Trumps are as big or bigger crooks than even the Bidens. You guys are such shameless retards.
D.D. Driver: "Hey Drago: replace all of that bullshit with the "Biden Presidential Library" then go fuck yourself, Retard.
It's different when the Trump Crime Family are running grift. Totally different. Retard."
Your moronic response was absolutely "perfect"...for you. You couldn't and can't address a single actual fact. And everyone can see it clearly for what it is.
Now why dont you go and bang pots together in the kitchen. Thats about your speed. But if you have the wherewithal (doubtful), go and take a look at the AF1 707 pics at the Reagan library.
You might learn something....but then again, you are you for a reason, aren't you?
they can't be this stupid can they, rhetorical
This is one of those cases of Trump taking public corruption to new lows.
If Trump was actually able to broker an enduring peace in the region that respected human rights, saved lives, and hobbled Israel's expansionist aims permanently (along with its influence in the U.S.), I would find it much easier for Trump to take a "commission/percentage" for his trouble.
Unfortunately, as with most things Trump does, there are ample reasons to be skeptical about just how substantive and beneficial his agreements are likely to be. Is Trump negotiating a deal that represents some broader public interest, or is this another one of those cases of Trump acting for himself and his cronies in a way that only benefits himself and his cronies?
In 2017, it seems highly likely that Trump allowed Jared Kushner to shake down the Qatari's to bail them out of a bad real estate investment (666 5th Ave, NYC) in a deal that was worth hundreds of millions. This is how Trump and his people operate. Some of this is probably just a matter of "carrots" and "sticks". There are things Trump can do to reward and hurt the Qataris as president.
In fairness to the Qataris this issue isn't exclusive to them. This is pretty much how Trump operates across the board. Trump has done a lot of shady stuff domestically, with Israelis, Saudis, Emiratis, Turks, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
kaKAW! kaKAW!! kaKAWWWwwwwww!!!
Nothing else has worked with these thugs. Maybe this will.
Aggie and DD: why don't you guys go adopt a turtle or something? Better yet, educate yourselves on the money wasted on the not-yet-built Obama library debacle, or anything else real.
Thank goodness for Bruce Hayden.
Achilles: "If you look at October 7th from space there are no real good explanations"
Come on mate, it's the oldest explanation for military failure: perfect preparation...for the last war.
The Israelis knew there wasn't going to be a conventional attack from that direction, since they are at peace with egypt, and Hamas has no tanks. So they were geared up for missile attacks and terrorist infiltration. They use Iron Dome and shelters for the missiles, and TSA on steroids to inspect every Pali coming in to work. Then they added unarmed female draftees watching remote cameras as an economy of force measure. No reaction force, because what reaction force do you need for one dude who smuggled a knife or bomb thru the checkpoint? You can do like Hitler and send a policeman to arrest him.
So Hamas figured out that they could do a low tech conventional attack: bulldozers to breach the fence, hang gliders for air assault, dirt bikes for cavalry, and missiles to make sure everyone was in their bunkers instead of out looking for G's.
Kind of like how the Egyptians figured out they could just use Cairo Fire Department boats to breach the Suez Canal berms with their hoses.
True, the IDF high command ignored the border girls' reports of military age males amassing in Gaza, but it takes a lot to get a general to realize he's in a new war. Malice is unnecessary to explain it.
RLTW
JSM
""Free jets from the Muslim oligarchs" is 100% in the same basket as Hunter's "artwork" and Nancy's investments. The Trumps are as big or bigger crooks than even the Bidens."
You may not know that Trump will not own the jet. So 1) your sources are suspect, your TDS outweighs the truth , or there's always that IQ thing.
JSM@2:29, that seems spot-on: readiness for the last war. And also perhaps - to the extent they, we, or anyone believes she* is ready, technologically, for the next war, ISTM that that feeling of readiness can translate into training and planning that takes full advantage of the state-of-the-art tech, rather than remembering that lower-tech attacks are still possible. In Vietnam, weren't caltrops carved out of wood and, if memory serves, dipped in something poisonous used to good effect against American soldiers in the jungle?
(Even if I'm making that up, it still sounds like a plausible strategy to use against soldiers who primarily fear land mines.)
* This is my conceit: I support the use of the speaker's or writer's gendered pronouns when discussing a generic person, instead of automatically going with he/him/his. Think of it along the same lines as Dave's screenplay: a little tedious (sorry, Dave) but harmless.
Re: wooden caltrops in Vietnam.
Punji stakes/sticks in camouflaged pits. Smeared with 'something poisonous' like human feces.
Goddam LBJ to hell.
"the trips purpose remains foggy."
Foogy? Only to those who fail to acknowledge the investment desires of the mideast states, the potential expansion of the Abraham Accords, the destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthis and ISIS, and the possibility of a settlement for the Palestinian issue that recognizes (and punishes) that they start wars, lose them, and demand a reward for their efforts.
And if Trump accepts a free 747 for his "library" all the Trumpers will tell me what a great negotiator he is. For fuck sake: we replaced the Biden crime family for THIS?!?!
And none of your retards care because retards.
If you believe that bullshit story from ABC - as opposed to the ACTUAL story from the WSJ from May 1 - the only retard here is you.
At 11:13 am Howard said "Israel is the best and most free country in the Middle East."
[Therefore] "The United States needs to . . . start demanding Israel makes some real changes."
I disagree.
The liberal/left never cares about ethics or corruption with the Democrats are in power only when its Trump or a Republican. That's why I don't care about their dull "party line" bullshit. Its too bad I can't have a program that put them on "ignore" along with all the dullards who respond to them and think they're acting in good faith. "Why look here, you're wrong..." zzzzzz.
@TinaTrent, ah, come on. You didn't read the whole post, did you? It appears my sarcasm is over-subtle :)
The $400 million Qatar is spending to bribe Trump with a luxury plane is $400 million they can’t use to fund Hamas. Trump may have just wrapped up the Nobel Peace Prize. 🏆
D.D. Driver said...
"Free jets from the Muslim oligarchs" is 100% in the same basket as Hunter's "artwork" and Nancy's investments. The Trumps are as big or bigger crooks than even the Bidens. You guys are such shameless retards.
Do you really think that jet is a personal gift to Trump?
Are there people this stupid?
I'm not sure why Trump awarded Boeing the contract to build the F47 fighter jet. The development costs are expected to be $20 billion with final build costs in the hundreds of billions. If Boeing can't build 2 air force 1 planes. why would they complete a multi-aircraft contract on time and up to the high quality standards of the military.
When I was working, we did business with Boeing, St. Louis which was the Defense arm of Boeing. Maybe they will be responsible for building the F47s. Maybe they have their stuff together.
D.D. Driver said...
"Free jets from the Muslim oligarchs" is 100% in the same basket as Hunter's "artwork" and Nancy's investments."
Shhhhh. Hush, now. The airplane is being transferred to the United States military. They are going to contract to have it converted to AF1.
Now go and search the web for something else to be outraged about.
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