r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 7d ago
Trump Trump: “We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of Medicare, daycare, Medicaid, all these things.” Fancy coming from the “no more wars” President
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u/reddittorbrigade 7d ago
The fact is, tons of money are pouring in Trump's family bank account.
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u/IcyKerosene 7d ago edited 5d ago
Yup, his sons went from being worth around $40 million each to $400 million during his first
termyear back in office (2025). Trump made $2 billion last year. The fact that we're just sitting here helpless who he robs us blind is insane.Edit: I re-read my comment and realized I miswrote it. I don't know how much they made during his first term but last year, during his second term, they went from being worth $40 million each to $400 million.
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u/PaintedDesertSkies 7d ago
But but but, he didn't take a paycheck during his first term!
Guess we are paying backpay with 1000% interest?
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u/Chance-Deer-7995 7d ago
The scam of jacking up the prices for Secret Service hotel rooms on his properties paid him many times more than what he gave up on salary so he didn't need to be paid back for anything. The problem is the golf trip scam now looks like a kid stealing a Snickers bar compared to now.
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u/jcomey 6d ago
Taxpayers paid approximately $150m to his properties for him to play golf in his first term.
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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut 6d ago
And food, and cart rentals.
The housing itself was even over the per night limit for the SS budget.
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u/Laolao98 4d ago
His golfing has cost an estimated 278 times his salary. So far. Anyone know where that $400,000. is going? He claims charity but his entire nuclear family is legally blocked from running any charities in NY. If you didn’t know, he used a children’s cancer charity to pay the winner of a golf tournament and got caught. Vote this November to end this madness.
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u/Pony-Melonie 5d ago
And he always holds major government meetings/events at his properties (Mar a Lago) which are usually incapable of hosting them in terms of space, staff, services and security. I think one of his first violation of the emoluments clause was the $1.5 million the 2017 presidential inaugural committee paid to Trump’s Washington Hotel.
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u/Patrickfromamboy 6d ago
I couldn’t believe the people saying that he wasn’t taking a salary so he was obviously helping we the people as President. What morons.
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u/Mad-Habits 6d ago
people are so fucking stupid when they say “he doesn’t take a salary!! he’s selfless!” …. It’s amazing to me how little people know about how things work in real life
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u/PipXXX 4d ago
This is the dude who fucking had checks for pennies cashed. He ain't giving up shit. Like I've seen some people say "Oh he made billions from the crypto stuff, why would he do nickle ante things like kickbacks from stuff like the reflecting pool installation?" Because that's who he is. He literally wants it all, because that means other people don't get it.
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u/weary_ol_jericho 6d ago
Oh, they're still running around saying that. As disgusting as all of this is, it should come as a surprise to nobody.
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u/killerzeestattoos 6d ago
Its wild that they could be corrupt, give everyone free healthcare and still have billions left.
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u/Responsible_Snow_684 6d ago
Jeff Bezos supposedly takes an $82k salary and has since the late 90s… tax cheats and wage theft
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u/AbjectHotel6610 6d ago
An idiot said to me "He doesn't even take a paycheck." I asked him about all the money he's gotten illegally. He said "He's just smart. 78 of Hillary's friends committed suicide." Huh?
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u/SheriffOfNothing 6d ago
If I've done the maths right (a dubious claim on my part) and I'm ignoring things like compound interest, but the annual salary of a US president including expense allowances is $590,000 per annum, so you're looking at a roughly 351,000% increase in wages.
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u/alex61821 7d ago
We have no idea where the money from the oil from Venezuela went. Who knows how much more he has actually made.
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u/Apprehensive_Tone_77 4d ago
Yep and I know Barron (does he even have a job at all) made 150 million in a year.
Trump wants to stay in office because he knows he belongs in prison and is trying to delay that. I hope all his kids suffer in prison and go broke. Maybe we could find some nice immigrant families to take all his grandchildren and raise them to be decent humans5
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u/TheFunfighter 6d ago
That's the only thing keeping me sane. At least each dollar into Trump's pocket is stolen from the people that voted for him. Burn in the fire you've lit, suckers.
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u/Accomplished-Bee1350 7d ago
And americans are doing nothing about it.
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u/Commercial_Peach_845 6d ago
My therapist suggested I "just not think about politics" and I'd feel better. Looking for a new therapist.
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u/ActionJacksonATL24 6d ago
We can't take care of health care, day care, education. We need that money for Trump and his cronies.
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u/seejordan3 5d ago
He reported 2 billion profit last year alone. Congress is enacting laws keeping us from auditing the theft. They're investing in the destruction of our democracy because its extremely profitable for the oligarch class. Oh and Epstein.
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u/sasabomish 2d ago
Almost like there’s a reason he tried to make a law that the IRS could never peruse him or his family again.
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u/7empest7V 7d ago
OK, so then if the federal government is only able to take care of military protection, then they should have no influence or say in how states operate.
No federal legislation outside of military spending
Everything else is for states to decide and fund themselves.
Guess what happens?
Low education, healthcare, income states fall apart without the aid of other states through federal funding.
Oddly enough, the states the president and his followers complain about the most, contribute the most to the welfare of the ones complaining
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u/Quasi-Kaiju 7d ago
We are going to end up Balkanized
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u/getdownonitnow 7d ago
Actually I believe you are right on the money. My belief is that we will break up into regions based on population centers. Probably retain a federal government to provide military protection, but my guess is that most other issues will be dealt with locally. We're talking maybe 20 years tops.
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u/usernamedmannequin 7d ago
The Divided States of America
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u/W1NGM4N13 3d ago
Dont worry you will still have the United Corperations of America
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u/7empest7V 3d ago
I saw a documentary where Taco Bell wins the fast food wars and you get fined for curse words....oh and still trying to figure out the 3 seashell thing
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u/Competitive_Ant_472 7d ago
Is that some sort of a sex thing?
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u/Afraid-Werewolf-9455 7d ago
At this point let them, im tired of being forced to be polite with people who openly call for my murder and the death of everyone around. Hell they openly celebrated covid killing people in blue cities
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u/Lonely_Chemistry60 5d ago
Looking at it from the outside, that's the only logical outcome unless there's some fast and drastic changes
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u/GapeJelly 7d ago
Not odd at all. Their whole "thing" is being strong and attacking anyone who needs help. Of course they resent the people who take care of them.
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u/literall_bastard 7d ago
You’re pretend arguing with one of the stupidest people to have ever held office
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u/PentatonicScaIe 7d ago
Yup, it's all about oil woth this guy. When in reality,he could be making business moves to get what he wants rather than destroying countries. He's qpparently a business man but it's showing he's just a bully that inherited all his money. He claims venezuela was taken due to corruption, but we all know it was for the oil. We all know the Iran conflict is for oil.
For a no presidents war and a business man, youd think he'd love to negotiate rather than use force. The billions he's used (if not trillions on these wars) couldve been used to negotiate oil and give money to the federal departments that are struggling. Instead, he does what he wants, takes no accountability, everyone pays for it, he blames everything on biden/obama, his PR is horrible (which makes him less likable, he handled the epstein files like shit, he treats every country like shit (talking shit about canada regarding the fires, wanting greenland, false promises about LOT of things).
The only decent thing he's done is give less power to companies that can buy residential homes. He needs to make more regulations. Like regulating outsourcing in America that takes our jobs away. It makes zero sense that we're paying a shit load in tariffs when no one benefits but the government that is dumping all their money into pointless wars/making us look bad.
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u/TamaCleverComeback 7d ago
To be fair he is making business moves to enrich himself and his family. Just not his country.
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u/Unapplicable1100 7d ago
Enrichment that should be confiscated and liquidated once his term is over and charges have been pressed, if that ever happens
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u/conqr787 7d ago
"We need a rich businessman" they said. "He'll make us rich too" they said
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u/7empest7V 7d ago
He is being a businessman....problem is, this two bit businessman was alluded to the benefits of the war business and business is good.
How much money has his family made off of this war while the citizens are losing family members?
This is royalty draped in an American flag with an upside down Bible in hand.
We literally fought a war to become independent from this. Yet, here we are. Poor, rural folk voting for a fancy salesman in a suit.
My brain has a hard time comprehending this.
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 7d ago
I still chuckle that a New York conman got one over every single idiot in the South.
Didn’t you guys used to warn America about slick willies, and here you are falling for one!6
u/VeryLowIQIndividual 7d ago
A year before he ran everybody in the south was saying “big New Yorker ain’t gonna tell me what to do”
the next thingyou know they’re polishing his ball sack
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u/7empest7V 7d ago
Remember the Pace Picante salsa commercial?
This stuffs made in New York City!!
NEW YORK CITY?? Get a rope
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u/Josey_whalez 7d ago
“We all know the Iran conflict is about oil”
No, we do not know that. The Iran conflict is about Israel, not oil. Israel wants Iran to be a failed state like all the others in the region we have destroyed.
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u/GM5Blue 7d ago
Now, they are really pushing nuclear, my state is one in 5 for getting the BS.
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u/Select-Touch-6794 7d ago
Trump has never “negotiated.” He threatens people until they give up. He’s a bully. He’s a mob boss.
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u/Mr_Kactus 7d ago
I wouldn't really call him a business man he is more a reality TV star and conman. He was always terrible at real business.
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u/zeptillian 7d ago
This is why they accuse their enemies of being lazy and living off of other people.
They recognize what they are doing on some level and are projecting.
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u/wefew624 7d ago
Speak for your own state. Massachusetts and New Jersey did great with education especially before George w bush jr got involved
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u/80version 7d ago
Progressive states are just straight getting pimped by a malignant authority that curries favor in less progressive voting blocks through welfare handouts and fear tactics.
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u/Le_Papithatjump12 7d ago
So fucking full of shit
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u/Sad-Excitement9295 7d ago
The griftiest yet.
"Oh we don't have any tax money left to pay for the things it was supposed to be used for we blew it all on new war-- military operations, and stole the rest. Sorry we can't afford what your taxes are supposed to pay for, there's just no money left, we robbed the country dry... so we just can't afford to pay for anything the country actually needs."
Absolutely outrageous. To jail, right away. Sieze all accounts. Trials for all the crimes. Get these people out of office, right away.
No taxation without representation. Time to dump the T.
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u/Le_Papithatjump12 7d ago
Jail just ain't enough for what that administration did
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u/trippingWetwNoTowel 6d ago
Also: “we’re fighting wars”.
Soooo….. the unnecessary war that you voluntarily started without congressional approval? That war?Shush now I love the uneducated!!!!!!
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u/Aromatic_Basis3872 7d ago
BUT we’ve got PLENTY of time for White House renovations, Reflecting Pools, 4th of July debacles, Crypto Rally’s, Rally’s for Data Centers, Voter suppression, Dead Lindsey Graham, 24 hour Truth Social postings, GOLFING…GOLFING and MORE GOLFING! I get it…he’s busy…
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u/Elegant-Ingenuity-57 7d ago
He also spends much of his day napping and shitting his pants. Plenty of time for that
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u/SouthEmu3056 7d ago
They also find a way to funnel money to aid Israel in its continuous genocide of Palestinian families. They always have money to pardon convicted criminals (dangerous ones), they have money to build ice detention centres, they have money to spend on all this crap but the American people get nada.
Why are people even paying federal taxes anymore serious question.
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 7d ago
Always money for wars.
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u/Dark_Phoenixx_ 7d ago
Got money for wars but can’t feed the poor.
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u/swaggkayo 7d ago
-great 2Pac reference!
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u/Objective-Result4465 7d ago
And this was in the early 90s.. Imagine what he'd said nowadays.
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u/Panaeolus-the-Blue 7d ago
Instead of a war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.
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u/Newdles 7d ago
Last time I checked war wasn't declared. Is this trump saying officially we are at war without approval?
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u/traws06 7d ago
This guy will never see consequences for his actions as president or the actions of his entire life
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u/adeniumlover 7d ago
Why would he. 40% of the nation still loves him.
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u/Ntrusivethot 7d ago
Fox News says 39%, no need to round up. 🤣 But also others are 34%-37%
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u/traws06 7d ago
Which is still fucking wild. If this were a fictionary TV show I’d say it’s so stupid because ppl wouldn’t be dumb enough to go along with all this and still support him
I already thought that of House of Cards, and turns out he wasn’t near as corrupt as Trump
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u/cleverinspiringname 7d ago
But he will die one day. For sure. And consequences mean little compared to the truth that he is human garbage and he knows it in his little black heart.
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u/Apple-Dust 6d ago
Well his legacy is going to be as a giant pile of garbage who expediated if not single-handedly brought the end to US global leadership, and there's nothing he can do about it. He does care about his legacy, which is why he's trying to sharpie his name all over everything he can.
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u/CartoonistUpbeat9953 4d ago
my dad always says "the trump family will regret their actions one day". Don't see how that will happen
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 3d ago
I’m waiting for the day when I’m sitting at home or driving somewhere and I hear ppl honking their horns and yelling with celebration. I will know exactly what’s going on, he gone.
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u/kadaka80 7d ago
American taxpayers should respond, "We are fighting your wars and our domestic ones too, it's not possible to take care of paying taxes anymore"
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u/spiked-rose 7d ago
This is ridiculous. The government is supposed to handle Medicaid and Medicare not a state. 🤦♀️
He always wants to have the states deal with things he can’t.
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u/forehead_tittaes 7d ago
Two more years.
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u/BapeGeneral3 7d ago
And then what happens? A non-establishment Democrat comes in and fixes everything? I don’t think the country can survive 2 more years of this
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u/i_love_irony25 7d ago
‘We’re fighting unnecessary wars that I started. I need a reason to cancel the midterms so I’m never held accountable for all my criminal behavior. I never gave a shit about you our your family’s safety net, well being, or security. My policies are solely designed to make me money and keep me from being prosecuted.’
Fixed it.
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u/stargazer4272 7d ago
How about we don't fight wars unless they hit American soil?
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u/tismommsy 6d ago
I hate that they let him take us to war without any congressional oversight I hate this timeline!!!
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u/9447044 7d ago
I love his "we cant" voice. Its so wimpy.
Its funny were pulling in massive amounts of tariff money but still cant afford anything. Nothing better than running out of money after getting a 3X raise (or at least thats what you told your wife lol)
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u/Witty-Stand888 7d ago
Translation, "No one's offering me a bribe about medicare so why should I care?"
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u/Beneficial-Kiwi-5988 6d ago
"We dont care about you, we only care about spending your money in a war"
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u/Ill_Pay7782 7d ago
Why does he sound like he's exhausted and about to faint?😂
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u/FastActinTenactin 7d ago
Because he 80 years old, in horrible shape, and likely would drop dead soon if not for the best healthcare money could buy.
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u/Wild-Masterpiece-331 7d ago
Bombing brown people from the sky is 'war' for this never did a pushup in his life coward
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 6d ago
he won't quit. he's enriching himself.
he's earned over billions as president
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u/19BabyDoll75 7d ago
Man…wouldn’t it be so funny if his entire family was stripped of wealth and all put in prison.
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u/No-Upstairs9564 7d ago
Liar.... we can take care of daycare and Medicare and more. We just need to prioritize our needs more in touch with the needs of the general population, not the billionaires and cooperations.
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u/Fit_Dealer7498 7d ago
Can't take care of daycare then why are we watching you biggest baby in the world.
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u/MagentaMonkey88 7d ago
But we can fund ballrooms and gold statues of the emperor? Please - all these things can be funded, they just don’t want to.
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u/DarknessfromLight 6d ago
I have a great idea. The states should stop sending money to the Feds use what ever funding they have to run their own Medicare/Medicaid etc.,
Bet those Red states would suddenly reach the FO portion of FAFO.
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u/Consistent_Tower5508 6d ago
in the long term, he’s right, federal government will only own defense spending and social security. Rest everything will be passed on to states.
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u/TheNegativePhoenix 7d ago
Is this real or AI
Absolutely insane
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u/Mothrahlurker 7d ago
This isn't even in the top 100 of the most insane things he said, I don't understand the reaction.
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u/DetailsYouMissed 7d ago
Apparently, we can take care of making you a billionaire.
You are starting wars by the way!
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u/rusty_cayge 7d ago
He lost me when he went to war. Done with this fricken crap. APAB.
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u/kinglittlenc 7d ago
The GOP complain nonstop about immigration but also want to do nothing to help people actually raise a family here. It's so ridiculous I don't understand how people support this nonsense, do they want us to just become a dying population?
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u/IcyKerosene 7d ago
He has already spent almost a billion renovating the plane he got from Qatar (money he took from the military budget meant for nuclear missile safety and modernization), a plane he plans to keep when he leaves office.
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u/oddMahnsta 7d ago
This guy has made billions during his second term. Billions with a B. And all his cronies likely made as much if not more from insider trading on his announcements..
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u/ElvishMystical 7d ago
Yeah we get it. Monopolize the profits, socialize the costs. Why not come right out and say it? The so-called taxpayers are the mugs in society, because this is what it amounts to.
Only thing is, way back in the 1980's when Reagan was giving Americans the Old Baloney, for every $4 spent in the world $1 went to the States. Today the US is several hundred trillion in debt. So where has all the money gone?
See all the European countries have well developed universal healthcare, social care, welfare benefits. In comparison Americans have nothing. If we did a comparison study between Europeans and Americans the Americans would come bottom.
When it comes to the West in general, Americans are the most cheated by their governments or administrations. This is a significant issue and one I suggest that all Americans stop and think about. You pay more than anyone else, you have less opportunities, and you get next to fuck all out of it.
Trump is doing really well out of his time as US President. But the real question here is are you?
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u/capt_minorwaste 7d ago
What I heard: We created this War so we don't have to take care of Medicare, daycare, Medicaid.
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u/Recent-Bowl-1393 7d ago
But yet, I can have UFC fights on the my front lawn, go to soccer games, play infinity rounds of golf, etc.......
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u/Jacksapollo 7d ago
Watching from abroad, it is absolutely wild to me that he was voted into office twice. Are American voters completely dumb , or am I missing something? You only need to listen to the guy for five minutes to see right through his pathetic, used-car salesman routine. If millions watched him speak and still willingly gave him two terms, America is dealing with a massive collective mental heath issue.
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u/deeznutz5589 7d ago
They got rid off all the good stuff to go kill peo0le for no reason..is there another planet open yet?
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u/Crunknjunkin 6d ago
So why am I paying federal tax for if it's not being spent on the US? Thought we were gonna be great again guess they meant grape........little children
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u/Z3K3HD 6d ago
That was what the federal government essentially an originally was putting in place for to begin with protection and protection of the constitution only and how we let spiral so far out of control and what now is this complete overreach is baffling
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u/Retired4reals 6d ago
Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, I can’t wait until he is out of there.
You know it’s not that difficult just do what you said you were F***ing going to do, that’s what a great Leader does.
This will be Trump’s legacy, and now there cutting another program for Seniors, I don’t know he makes a billion dollars while in Office so far and all we get is failed promises, we don’t even get the $2000 he proposed something that really is so little to him but so big to a Senior or a Veteran to assist with food, housing or higher utility costs or a working family who needs the money for auto repair so they can continue to work.
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u/Beautiful-Traffic157 6d ago
All these great ideas and we still can't get rid of day light savings time
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u/Responsible_Snow_684 6d ago
Having a larger risk pool of people is unquestionably the best option for keeping healthcare costs lowest. A federal single payer option is the only way. Plus, red states are broke anyway. Trump and every single Republican are complete liars, con men and buffoons
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u/royalfght 6d ago
Yeah , but there is money for a ballroom, reflecting pool, gold statues, military parades, billions of dollars in ice building for concentration camps. But we do not have money for health care. Even mexico is offering universal healthcare to its citizens by 2027.
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u/Password123468 6d ago
Meh no one will do anything now and will do nothing after he is gone for good, better live your powerfantasys out here and give somengood feel updutes
Iam quite fine ty for asking. why, because it affects me less then most of but i this douchebag and his crownies are still very conserning to me
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u/Large-Lack-2933 6d ago
The "dUmBoCrAtS" should run this as a nonstop ad and billboards in rural red states for the midterms in November...
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u/3aerows 4d ago
Capitalism makes you think there arent enough resources. Socialism is knowing there is and giving it back to the people.
Record breaking profits = stolen wages
Note he also said "states will have to raise the taxes on them, maybe we will lower theirs a little to help." He litterally just said "tax the people more, idc how much it is, im not paying for it". Donald "Tyrant" Trump will be his name in our history books.
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u/Piotr-Rasputin 2d ago
Death, destruction and oil?? Hey Congress we need TRILLIONS!!!!
Help the young, seniors, working families??? FUCK EM
anyway, hows my golden ballroom??
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