Didn’t ask about the 400M jet from Qatar, so what’s the deal now? Theatrics, knowing full well youre getting nowhere but wasting time from the real issues like EPSTEIN
Bet they’re kicking themselves now. They gave him a fucking plane, and all Switzerland needed to do was give him a watch and a gold bar.
Probably didn’t even need to do that. Suck up to the guy for 10 minutes and tell him how great he is, and he’ll agree to anything.
He’ll even offer you a blowie if you’re manly enough.
Anything for Big Beautiful Bill.
Global extortion racket goes brrrrrr. There will be no recovery until his and his regime are removed from power and jailed, he will not leave by any other process aside from just dying, and even then I wouldn’t put it past the administration to use his image and AI to continue their assault on America.
In old country, is called ‘bribe’.
Hey look more naked corruption
Trump likes bribes. There’s your answer.
Trump’s love of lavish
giftsbribes is well known and many are displayed in the Oval OfficeIs it so hard to call out blatant corruption in front of your face?
Forget it, Jake. It’s Fascist America.
He can’t be that cheap. A rolex isn’t all that expensive, considered the money involved in geopolitics. In fact it’s spare change for diplomatic events. And neither is a single gold bar.
There was a picture of Ted Cruz flying coach to escape the recent weather. These people sell out Americans for a shockingly low amount of money. It’s kind of insulting.
The conspiracy brain tells me some swiss diplomat pulled these from Trump’s own safety deposit box as a “we have the skeletons from your closet”-statement and handed them to him as a “diplomatic gift” when it actually was just a threat that he caved to.
Surprisingly ‘watch diplomacy’ is as old mechanical artefacts are…some famous examples include the Breguet ‘king Farouk’, some beautiful sets of pocket watches made for the emperor of China, pre revolution of course. Other arteafcts include Faberge’s ‘eggs’ and jewelry that belonged to the Romanov family… All swiss and european gifts of course.
You can now buy the ‘king Farouk’ breguet model, but both faberge’s eggs and the Chinese emperor’s collections are in museums.
But it looks expensive and has a reputation for being expensive. That’s what matters to him. Do you think he can handle actual money?
There are many sizes of gold bar though. A 12.4 kg bar is fairly pricey.
The overall value is estimated in the article, which is pretty expensive yes, but given the reduction of the tarriffs might as well be an investiment
That’s roughly the price of a 1 kg bar.
only one senator though
They play him like a fiddle.
… Like a ---- DAAAAMMN FIDDLEEEE!!!
I think the world is starting to find out that co-operation is the preferred way forward for the earthly citizens, rather than the current destructive dying beast that is capitalism.
Senators can get fkd! This is capitalism baby
It is corruption. We had capitalism without it.
Did we? When was that?
This open corruption is new. From the post war years to the 70s were the golden years, not perfect, slow regression since then with sudden drop offs, like citizens united, scotus allowing corruption unless absolutely explicit, then electing the gangster king here.
I mean, you know the US actively helped to overthrow democratically elected governments to aid US businesses already back then, right?
It’s about time Congress woke the fuck up. The only option here is to impeach - this is textbook corruption that would make Senator Menendez blush.
It’s about time Congress woke the fuck up.
You think they’re not? Every member of the house of representatives, and every senator, knows what’s going on. It’s not that they’re asleep, it’s that they don’t care enough to endanger their own cozy money machine.
Oh i’m sure this time they are gonna SLAM him.
US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, “Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments”:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
It’s literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.
They’ve proven the Constitution is just toilet paper to them. He’s a felon who will never see prison. That act alone stripped him from any future accountability. He’s untouchable, and he knows it.
Yeah emoluments clause went out the window in trumps first term. Like week one, probably.
The Quid Pro Quo Potus
The fig leaf was that his family were running the business side, not him.
Keeping a watch and gold bar has no fig leaf.
Clearly, it doesn’t mean things like airplanes, watches, and gold bars. It’s written right there, anybody can see it, it’s just that Libz can’t read because of their public school education. They don’t even make emoluments any more, that was an olden days thing, like Laudanum.
I have made laudenum.
Congress and functioning while the republicans have the majority is an oxymoron.
The US senate has been severely broken since at least 1972/75 when filibuster reforms allow senators to block legislation with no debate and no physical filibuster requirement because other business can continue instead of blocking all floor activity. If I’m getting kickbacks from a developer or foreign country to prevent protection of say a natural springs & wildlife area in South Dakota I can block the debate and vote unless 2/3 (60 senators) can overrule me and I don’t have to say one word to justify my position. Neither party will fix this because aside from insider trading it’s how they all become millionaires from legal bribes via PACs and billionaire funded lobbyists.
At least we have SCOTUS as a check on his powers!
Yup, they’re working on a blank check…
That is after they figure out how to make CA’s new maps illegal after saying TX’s maps were just fine.
Yeah right? Should be reason enough to burn this place down
They already signed that one.
“he didn’t accept it for himself, it’s for the presidential library”
Hahaha gotteem
“It’s a PERFECT deal.”
We need a brand new congress. End literally every one if their terms and vote in new people.
There’s a handful I’d keep, and a handful I’d execute. The rest can go, from both sides.
FuckEject, marry, killEject all but a handful or two of the Democrats, marry Bernie, kill the fascists.
Yeah, well, it doesn’t say anything about bribes, so checkmate, librul!
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None of us could afford to, but DAMN is it cheap to buy Diaper Don (relatively speaking). The tariff revenue that Americans would generate on Swiss imports FAR exceeds the value of a watch and a bar of gold.
Because he doesn’t give a flying hoot about the American people. Or to be honest really his party. This is all just a grift for him.
Europe strategy seems to be more to just threaten him, it’s unclear with what but he seems to have backed off tariffs in the EU, but I guess Switzerland felt that they needed to go the bride route. I don’t know why because I guarantee Trump thinks Switzerland is in the EU
Bribing politicians is cheap, it’s generally millions for billions and more like 100k to billion for small politicians.
