What has Trump done now?

[red750]

Guess who's in the Middle East with Trump. It isn't Melania.

 

[Marty_d]

Well, there's money in the middle east. 

Despite having more than enough wealth to buy 300,000 families a $1m house each, he wants more.

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:39 PM by Marty_d

[Jerry_Atrick]

Money (or more accurately, monetary valuation) is the medium humanity has accepted as the measure of economic resources that are controlled and the more one has of it, the more economic resource one can control. In normal times, this provides security of being able to meet the needs of life without being dependent on anyone else. The more control of economic resources one has compared to the rest of the population, the more power one has. And of course, it satisfies human's insatiable desires of wealth and all the trappings that comes with it.

 

Most people would want economic independence; others want control of economic resources for other reasons.. nominally security and/or power. And to preserve the tribe.. as well as, and let's face it, attracting, or in many cases, more accurately, acquiring the services of  the fairer sex. Just look at Chump, Bernie Ecclestone, and many others.. I think even Dr. Eddlestone managed to "attract" those of the fairer sex/gender..  Ecclestone, Eddlestone, let's call the whole thing off.

 

The other thing, is when you have money (or more accurately, when people think you have money), they suck up to you, and they seek advice from you regardless. Would anyone here go to Chump for business advice? Maybe some would, but to earn a small fortune, you would have to start with a big one taking his advice. Although, for con-artistry, he is the consummate. Yet, when he acquired power through the presidency, a sort of default control of economic resources, look at those who previously despised him fawned over him. That adulation, too, is a great motivator. But generally, these people want the control of economic resources and the resultant power because you can drive the agenda  - and also provide for your future generations.

 

I think I have mentioned this before. .In my extended family, there are some fabulously wealthy people.. in the BRW top 200 on the odd occasion.. No sadly, that Midas touch didn't rub off on my family.. All their relationships are driven by whats in it for them.. When the patriarch of the branch of the family died, the surviving limb/branch of that family tree imploded.. all driven by money.

 

I haven't spoken to any of them for, well, 20 years.. But when I last bumped into two  of them - I think second cousins - in a park in Melbourne, I asked if they had been in contact with their cousin.. when we were kids,. they were extremely close.  These two looked right through me as if I wasn't there.. point taken.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:30 PM by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Well, there's money in the middle east. 

There sure is.

But now 90 billion of it is going to USA via Boeing sales.

And another 140 billion is going to USA weapons sales.

 

And these deals were 'negotiated' by Trumpy totally reliant on the Saudi's own interpreter. Personally I wouldn't buy a used car from a foreigner without having my own interpreter present.

 

Money talks!

 

[pmccarthy]

A few times in my life I came into some money, through a grannie dying or a lucky investment. I was stupid enough to tell friends, and there was always a friend who had a great investment idea for me and I always got sucked in, not once did I see my money again.

[red750]

This ad has been doing the rounds on FB. The comment is mine.

 

This is spam AI deepfake bullshit. More warning bells than an air raid warning. This is the sort of crap that cost a woman her life savings. Any comments hidden so you can't see what people are saying.

[red750]

Guess who:

 

"When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people," Trump said during a press conference in Doha, Qatar. "You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way."

"It's so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like..." he continued. "Like they're being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like... Like... You know who? Sean... Duffy."

"Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work," said Trump.

"He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He's head— He's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he's going to run for president, I don't see it." Trump went on. "Who knows right? But I don't see it."

"But, uh, when I look at what they've done uh, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars," Trump went on. "They tried to hook up air systems to... To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper and..."

"Uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working and we're going to be giving out a brand new system," said Trump. 

"It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding," he went on. 

"But we want one check," he continued. "We want a unified system. We don't have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We're going to be giving that out pretty soon."

"But what people don't know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn't know this that uh — I'm not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not... This is a different Sean," Trump said.

"Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He's a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion!" Trump said, struggling to string together his thoughts. "So that's what you call a serious a lumberjack."

"And he's doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody's the champion — he's the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid... He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You... You miss... You miss a shot and you're coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip."

 

And HE has no cognative problems???

[old man emu]

Huh???????

What was that all about?

[facthunter]

Sean, the sheep is my favourite name. Nev

[rgmwa]

Only the best sheep are named Sean.

[old man emu]

No. They are Shaun.

[ClintonB]

I’m pretty sure Red has done a transcript of a trump rambling. It’s even worse written down than listening to it.

[red750]

This quote from the Australian Financial Review:

 

Qatar orders 210 Boeing jets during red carpet Trump visit

 

 The White House says President Donald Trump has secured deals totaling more than $US243.5 billion ($378 billion) with Qatar, laying the groundwork for a bigger $US1.2 trillion economic pledge with the tiny Gulf country.

 

This is just the teaser, but you have to log in to see more.

[red750]

Trump Implementing Self-Deportation Plan For Illegal Migrants

 

https://conservativebrief.com/trump-plan-2-91481/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=573

[nomadpete]

8 hours ago, red750 said:

Trump Implementing Self-Deportation Plan For Illegal Migrants

 

https://conservativebrief.com/trump-plan-2-91481/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=573

He could have saved a whole lot of angst and expense if he implemented this at the beginning.

 

(Assuming it is true news)

[onetrack]

Yeah, right. I can see this becoming a roaring success - Not. The illegal immigrants are in America simply because they're fleeing a crap life where they came from.

 

Imagine, you're a Haitian? - you fled Haiti because the murder rates and gang crime is abominable, there was no work, little hope of long-term survival, or any chance of life improvement (unless you joined a gang, and became a random murder merchant) - and after a long and arduous struggle, you finally made it to the Land of the Brave and Free - and life improved out of sight for you - even though you had no American documentation and no American SSN.

 

Now, the Trumpian cultists have offered you a free airline trip out of the country, and are giving you a $1000 goodbye gift. Where are you going to go? Haiti? Fat chance. You never want to see the place again. So you choose Australia! - Land of the Free and Democratic Way of Life! Glorious opportunities abound in Australia, it's everyones dream, to go to safe and happy and rich Australia, to live!

 

You land in Australia, Border Force starts grilling you about how you got here, why you're here, have you any support in Australia, do you have any skills to offer Australia?

You've seen the Border Force shows on TV, they're pretty ruthless. Any previous criminality records? Do you have access to adequate funds to enable you to stay in Australia without you becoming a burden to Australia - or start to indulge in criminality? Why did you leave the country you came from?

 

Oh dear, we're sorry, we can't admit you to Australia, you fail to meet most of our immigration requirements - we're deporting you straight back to Haiti, which is listed as your birth country!

[rgmwa]

15 hours ago, red750 said:

This quote from the Australian Financial Review:

 

Qatar orders 210 Boeing jets during red carpet Trump visit

 

 The White House says President Donald Trump has secured deals totaling more than $US243.5 billion ($378 billion) with Qatar, laying the groundwork for a bigger $US1.2 trillion economic pledge with the tiny Gulf country.

 

This is just the teaser, but you have to log in to see more.

What he's bragging about as `deals' are mostly memoranda of understanding, which are a long way from hard currency contracts.

[red750]

[red750]

I post this from Facebook. Read it or ignore it as you choose.

 

The $400 million jet from Qatar and the late night Taylor Swift posts are designed to distract you from what happened on the first overseas trip of Trump's second term. 
I am not referring to the highly choreographed, censored, Hollywood version of his Middle East tour. I am not talking about the tepid and inaccurate reporting from failed legacy media outlets, who only repeated his claim of 'hundreds of billions in deals'. 
I'm talking about what really happened between the Trump family, the US oligarchs, and the Sunni dynasties which control the Gulf states. 

Let's provide some proper grounding. Before departing on Air Force One, the White House informed the most reliable global news agencies, often referred to as 'the wire',  that they would not be joining the administration. This marks the first time in history that journalists from the wire services (like Reuters, Associated Press, UPI, etc) would not accompany the US president on an overseas trip, especially one of this magnitude. 

Upon landing, Trump and his family, top aides, and the CEOs of at least 20 major companies scurried to make deals as fast as they could. 

Trump's large adult sons wrangled a few billion out of Qatar and Saudi Arabia for golf course resorts. They also landed major crypto deals where cartel members, terrorists, and other illicit offshore wealth will be funneled into their own crypto coins. There's nearly one crypto coin for each member of the Trump family. 

The biggest single item of the deal was Saudi Arabia's pledge to purchase 500,000 semiconductor chips from Nvdia, for purposes that remain unclear. Saudi Arabia has zero computer talent as their ruling families are accustomed to not working for anything or providing any value whatsoever. Saudi Arabia is apparently going to buy 500,000 AI chips, at a cost of $50,000 per chip, to put them in the desert where server rooms need to to remain a temperature of 65 degrees, all without any local talent to do anything of value. 

China's President Xi must be laughing in DeepSeek. 

No one groveled more than Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. Bezos bowed before Mohammad bin Salman, a man who kidnapped, sexually tortured, and dismembered one of Bezos' journalists, Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi, employed at the Washington Post. The few remaining talented reporters still employed by Washington Post must rest easy at night knowing in the event someone murders them because they dislike their reporting, the boss will kiss their killer's hand. Not exactly a fantastic workplace vibe for a newspaper, but I digress.

To be honest, there isn't enough space in this post, or any post, to describe the torrent of deals that happened. We are talking about the 60 most powerful companies on earth, mingling with 20 or so members of the Saudi and Qatari ruling families, all pitching deals to channel oil money into their pockets. 

Elon Musk landed a significant deal with Saudi Arabia to use his Starlink system for aviation and nautical systems. The military industrial complex, the tech CEOs, and the crypto creeps emerged from the summit with ear to ear smiles. It was a spectacle for the ages as the ruling elites of Saudi Arabia sought to greenwash, tech wash, and generally launder their oil wealth into the coffers of America's tech titans. 

To be clear, Saudi Arabia is a backward nation of women-hating oil thieves and slavers who have nothing but contempt for our democracy and values. They have financed terrorist atrocities across the world, including 9/11. The Saudi sultans and sheiks attempt to spin their countries as reformed and modern by investing in goofy golf tournaments, but every single strip, brick, and building of the 'new Middle East' was built on the backs of chattel slaves from South Asia. 

These Sunni sultans and sheiks, like the Trump family and the Silicon Valley tech bros, are the takers of the world. They contribute nothing. They live solely to extract as much wealth and amass as much power as they can. 

And the takers of the world, like the Sunni elite and the wannabe dictators like Trump, share a similar model: that vision rests on holding the workers and makers of society in total contempt. The people who build our cities, teach our kids, manage our National Parks, research cancer cures, staff our hospital and hotels, farm our food, and generally provide the entire structure and foundation of modern life are deserving of nothing more than squalor, poverty, terror, cruelty, and denied even the basic recognition of citizenship. This is the model of Dubai. This is the vision of Trump's America. 

Trump and his dopey sons aren't the captains of this ill-fated journey. Not by any stretch...
Peep🧐 Trump's little hands holding onto King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's hand. At first glance, it appears Trump is gently supporting an old and enfeebled man. Which is weird, because he doesn't even hold his own wife's hand. But upon closer examination, it's the King who has stuck his middle finger right through Trump's palm as he grips his wrists with the other fingers. He is guiding him around like a donkey.
Trump is being groomed. 

The Saudis played the President of the United States like Pinocchio at Pleasure Island. They rolled out their silly lavender carpet. They bussed in a McDonald's trailer so bozo could enjoy a Big Mac in the sweltering 110 degree heat while he canoodled with the people who funded 9/11. They adorned him a Toys R' Us gold chain. They even pawned off a rusted jet they were unsuccessfully trying to offload for years. 
The only thing the Saudis wanted was the ability to launder their money into America's leading semiconductor technologies and boatloads of our latest weapon systems. 
In the end, hundreds of billions of dollars changed hands. The number of hands numbered no more than two dozen. The 77 million MAGA muppets who voted for this traitor were not part of any deal.

 

People are asking for sources, which is totally reasonable. This is a highly editorialized version of events, distilled from a dozen or so reports from media. I stitched together from here and there. I'll provide a few here, but it's important to know this is editorialized, which means I authored it. I didn't use AI, so if you steal this, I will legally pursue you. I'll post some sources here but this is original work.

 

https://apnews.com/article/trump-business-interests-family-middle-east-cryptocurrency-cbb7d2354304ce0308800819944cf3f8

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-so-many-ceos-crossed-paths-with-trump-in-the-middle-east-from-sam-altman-to-jensen-huang-080000141.html

 

 

[red750]

It is interesting that Chump has been busy kissing the a** of jihadist supporters, while signing an executive order directing the immediate deporting of foreign nationals including students who support pro Palestinian and jihadist protests.

[nomadpete]

5 hours ago, red750 said:

It is interesting that Chump has been busy kissing the a** of jihadist supporters, while signing an executive order directing the immediate deporting of foreign nationals including students who support pro Palestinian and jihadist protests.

Dictators are more likely to respond favorably to wealth, above all else.