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Old 03-26-2017, 04:47 PM
 
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I was really astounded when Trump had the audacity to immediately double this fees for Mar-a-Lago right as he took office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/u...istration.html

And then he adds to that his frequent trips, including his dinner with Shinzo Abe, so heedless about security that Republicans would have been howling if it had been Clinton or Obama. All staged to enhance his income.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/u...rea-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/u...ite-house.html
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Old 03-26-2017, 04:52 PM
 
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I was really astounded when Trump had the audacity to immediately double this fees for Mar-a-Lago right as he took office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/u...istration.html

And then he adds to that his frequent trips, including his dinner with Shinzo Abe, so heedless about security that Republicans would have been howling if it had been Clinton or Obama. All staged to enhance his income.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/u...rea-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/u...ite-house.html
Yep. Trump saw the presidency as little more than a cash cow that he intends to milk for as much as he can get. He has no interest in governing, as his failed foray this past week has confirmed. For him and his greedy, leeching family, it is all about raking in as much $$ from this gig as possible.
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Old 03-26-2017, 04:52 PM
 
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I was really astounded when Trump had the audacity to immediately double this fees for Mar-a-Lago right as he took office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/u...istration.html

And then he adds to that his frequent trips, including his dinner with Shinzo Abe, so heedless about security that Republicans would have been howling if it had been Clinton or Obama. All staged to enhance his income.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/u...rea-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/u...ite-house.html
Someone has to pay for the damage and security against protesters. Prices are charged based on the value of the property. Why do you care?
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Old 03-26-2017, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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His Buddy Putin trying to keep the protestors quiet too, ( 700 arrests) we know about that corruption, 2 birds of a feather...
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Old 03-26-2017, 05:37 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Wasn't a problem with Obama, but it's a problem now.
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Old 03-26-2017, 07:27 PM
 
Location: USA
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Wasn't a problem with Obama, but it's a problem now.
To every right wing media outlet, and Trump himself, when Obama took vacations, it showed he was lazy, didn't care about the country, and didn't care about taxpayer money. Now the orangutan is taking 3X as many and no one cares.
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Old 03-26-2017, 07:37 PM
 
Location: north central Ohio
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Yep. Trump saw the presidency as little more than a cash cow that he intends to milk for as much as he can get. He has no interest in governing, as his failed foray this past week has confirmed. For him and his greedy, leeching family, it is all about raking in as much $$ from this gig as possible.

Exactly! He's being proved to be the loser he really is. He won't release his taxes because they will show that he is no where as rich as he pretends to be, and he also S-U-C-K-S as a businessman!

The ignorant turd, didn't even write his own books, he used a ghostwriter! He showed that when the going gets tough, he quits and runs. As Old Gringo posted, he can't manage, so he can only run a privately owned company, not be a CEO, answerable to a board and stockholders! He is just a phony rich-boy WANNABE!
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Old 03-26-2017, 08:54 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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I was really astounded when Trump had the audacity to immediately double this fees for Mar-a-Lago right as he took office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/u...istration.html

And then he adds to that his frequent trips, including his dinner with Shinzo Abe, so heedless about security that Republicans would have been howling if it had been Clinton or Obama. All staged to enhance his income.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/u...rea-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/u...ite-house.html
And Trump wants to pass tax cuts that will increase low income workers after-tax income by 0.8%, and then increase the richest 0.1% of Americans (like himself) after-tax income by 14.2%.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetno.../#3aa421a265b9

Trump also wants to abolish the Estate Tax (a tax that only effects the richest 0.2% of Americans) and this act will give Donald Trumps own family an extra $7 billion dollars.
Trump family would get $7B windfall from estate-tax plan: analyst | TheHill

Then there's Trump's policies. Like Trump's $1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan that is not even a actual infrastructure plan (rather its tax cuts for contractors and the construction sector) and the Trump family is involved in the construction sector.
Trump Infrastructure Plan Busted For Being A Tax Cut Scam That Won’t Create Jobs
4 Ways Trump’s Transportation Plan Is Ripe for Corruption – Streetsblog USA


Personally I feel this is more than audacity and a conflict of interest where Trump is using his government power to increase his personal income by 14.2% and give his family $7 billion dollars.
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