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Consider the $3 glass of water. Trump will never give up grasping for more we simply have to stop him
LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
OCTOBER 31, 2020 12:00PM (UTC)
Remember this number: $3.
That's how much Trump charged the federal government for a glass of water in April of 2018 when he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to the Washington Post, Trump's company also charged the government "$13,700 for guest rooms, $16,500 for food and wine and $6,000 for the roses and other floral arrangements," over the two days he held meetings with Abe at the resort. But one day, Trump was scheduled to meet with Abe without aides and advisers, with no meal service or cocktails or any other celebratory nonsense. Just the two leaders, alone in a room, talking. According to the Post, the bill for that day contained a line item reading, "Bilateral meeting. Water. $3.00 each."
Donald Trump has been paid "at least $2.5 million by the U.S. government," since taking office, according to official documents obtained by the Post. Trump has made more than 280 visits to his own hotels and golf clubs over the last four years, and the payments covered costs for "hotel rooms, ballrooms, cottages, rental houses, golf carts, votive candles, floating candles, candelabras, furniture moving, resort fees, decorative palm trees, strip steak, chocolate cake, breakfast buffets, $88 bottles of wine and $1,000 worth of liquor for White House aides." according to the Post.
And water. A total of six bucks for water, no charge being too small to make it onto a bill to the government for a payment going straight into the pocket of the man who owns the Trump Organization and everything it comprises, including his resort in Palm Beach.
It's apparently a good part of what the Trump base likes about him his appetites, his pure, unadulterated, money-grubbing-right-down-to-$3-for-water greed. Trump has wanted more his entire life. He wants more money, of course. He has spent a lifetime in pursuit of more money, and then some more, and more and more. He borrowed so much money in pursuit of even more money that it drove him into bankruptcy, several bankruptcies in fact. Today, as president, he is said to be in debt for nearly $1 billion to banks and other lenders, a debt that will come due within the next few years, according to the New York Times and other reports.
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/31/donald-trumps-insatiable-hunger-for-more-more-power-more-money-more-golf-more-women/
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Fuck tRump
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)Is that what it was? Tap Water from a pitcher poured into a glass and a charge of $3.OO. That would be criminal.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Democratic, early voting in PA! Sign of the times?
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)And guess what we the taxpayers paid for it, when he goes down to that rat infested dive.............
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)His grandfather...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Truscott
A man about whom further reading is worthwhile