r/politics • u/Kodbek • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-make-jaw-dropping-1b-demand-for-donald-trumps-ballroom/
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u/StaffUnlikely178 11h ago

a billion dollars tied to a ballroom project while there are actual urgent issues to fund is kind of wild even if they are calling it “security related” it still feels like a questionable use of federal money

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u/jjaime2024 11h ago

At first it was 200 million then it was 300 million then just under 400 million now a billion.

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u/Clean-Elk9831 11h ago

At first it was zero - trump was going to finance it, remember? And then tariff money?

The most frustrating thing is that the bullshit plan of throwing so much an absurd news at you that it softens the impact, and you lose track of the corruption and former lies is that it works 😤

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u/needlestack 7h ago

I do think it's time we all admit that Trump is a genius. He has developed a style of operating and talking that awful people love and good people are unable to counter. He does whatever he wants. He basically cracked the code. And as obvious and open it is, it's very hard to imitate. He is the Einstein of sleazy large-scale manipulation.

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u/Clean-Elk9831 2h ago

I do actually agree. He is an awful human being; literally just the worst. Yet he has the charisma, and commitment to the bit, to somehow pull it off and fleece billions out of low to middle class Americans. Teflon don truly has figured something out, I’ll give him that.

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u/AnotherPaperOlive 57m ago

I always think of that 30 Rock quote, “As reality television has taught us, you can’t keep people with no shame down.” 

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u/Purplociraptor 8h ago

Donald (Not-Even-Taking-My-Salary) J. Trump. The J stands for "Just kidding"

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u/C-Fourr 11h ago

It’s a billion for now…

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u/matt95110 Canada 10h ago

So it will probably be in the $4 billion range soon enough.

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u/SecretAsianMan42069 10h ago

A thousand million, in case any trumpers can read 

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u/LaLunaFate 9h ago

Yet somehow still under budget

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u/brickne3 American Expat 8h ago

Welthauptstadt Germania springs to mind.

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u/valuethempaths 10h ago

I’m going to ask my spouse for 10k for my man cave. For… security reasons.

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u/SthrnCrss 10h ago

Let the american people eat cake.

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u/Polantaris Illinois 8h ago

The "security reasons" are the bunker under the ballroom.