When you pay your next utility bill, try to say, "Woo hoo! World's hottest economy!"
When you hand over your debit card for your groceries, try to say, "Woo hoo! World's hottest economy!"
There is no MAGA, rubes. There never was.
MAGA is a vain elderly geezer wearing a ball cap to hide his baldness in case of a breeze.
Donald Trump is a liar, a thief, an adulterer, a predator, and a con man. When he told you he was one of you, why weren't you offended?!?
When the BILLIONAIRE told you rubes he was going after "the elites", and you cheered. What he didn't tell you was he was going after "the elites" for their cash for his personal gain!
Donald Trump has been able to take you so far off the reservation because in your ignorance you don't know protectionism is a far left policy.
Donald Trump has your head so full of bullshit, your eyes have been blinded to the fact he is busy seizing the means of production of some of our most critical corporations, and is setting up more.
The graft is now out in the wide open. Trump created a crypto coin to accept bribes from foreign nationals. And he pardoned the ISIS/Hamas/Al Qaeda money launderer who helped him set up his crypto scheme.
You are being deliberately distracted by flash and smoke.
MBS wasn't here to promise investments. He was here to enrich your king.
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ince Mr. Trump’s election a year ago, Dar Global, a business partner of the Trump Organization that has close ties to the Saudi government, has announced at least four Trump-branded developments in Saudi Arabia.
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Among the Trump family’s business ties in the kingdom are:
- Diriyah: The Trump Organization is in negotiations that could bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s largest government-owned real estate developments. “Nothing announced yet, but soon to be,” Jerry Inzerillo, the chief executive of the Saudi company leading the $63 billion project — and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump — said in an interview. The chairman of Diriyah’s board is Prince Mohammed himself.
- Trump-branded projects: A Trump tower is planned for the coastal city of Jeddah, and two projects have been disclosed in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. In September, Dar Global announced that it would also build a “Trump Plaza” development in Jeddah, describing it as a $1 billion project with “premium residences,” office space and a “Central Park-inspired green spine.”
- Golf: LIV Golf, a professional league backed by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, has hosted tournaments at the Trump National Doral Golf Club near Miami.
- Jared Kushner: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has contributed $2 billion to an investment fund run by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, who cultivated close ties to Prince Mohammed during the president’s first term. In September, Mr. Kushner’s firm and the Saudi sovereign fund teamed up with another investor in an agreement to take the video game publisher Electronic Arts private. That deal is valued at around $55 billion. If completed, it would be the largest leveraged buyout ever.
Dar Global and the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment.
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Each Trump-branded real estate venture that Dar Global undertakes generates licensing fees for using the Trump name. Dar Global paid the Trump Organization $21.9 million in such fees last year, according to Mr. Trump’s financial disclosure. Some of that money goes to the president himself.
“Branding and licensing deals are a way for the Saudi government to make direct payments to the Trump family in exchange for no work or services provided,” said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, a government ethics watchdog group that has been highly critical of the Trump administration. “These arrangements are not just ethically bankrupt — they fundamentally compromise U.S. foreign policy.”