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.
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.