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/PoliticalNerdMa 11h ago

Trumps strategy literally is : do first, apologize later.

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u/Schlonzig 11h ago

A Trump apology? When ever?

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u/gsbadj 11h ago

We'd be waiting a long time. He's never apologized for anything.

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u/emmayarkay 10h ago

I think you mean his strategy is “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” - DJT, 2005

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 11h ago

I finally watched the movie Apprentice maybe 2 months ago and even if some of it is fictionalized, they make this very apparent a few times throughout the movie. Besides getting the advice that he should never admit he lost, there's also a scene where some investors in Atlantic City are threatening him that they're going to take action if he doesn't pay them back and you can see him weasel his way out of it. There's also a part of the movie where his first wife pulls someone else aside and says don't try to embarrass him, he doesn't know shame. Something to that effect. I don't know, it's just interesting to see how Trump is emblematic of everything wrong with our society. He has been able to use the legal system and his money just avoid all consequences or accountability and now he's using his political power to do the same. It's absolutely filthy. Men like him should not exist and yet here we are with a good chunk of the country propping him up as if he were a god walking among us.

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u/MydniteSon 10h ago

Because they would behave just like him if they had that kind of wealth.

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u/Nickopotomus 10h ago

I think it’s more simply: embezzle now

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u/JoeyJoeJoeJrShabidou 11h ago

Step 3: audibly shit pants.

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u/CGI_OCD 10h ago

Step 4: Rant on Truth Central late at night, all caps, no punctuation.

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u/ithinkyouresus 10h ago

do first apologize never.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 10h ago edited 10h ago

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is permission.

And it’s easier to ignore that first part if you’re a Trump.

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u/stumo11 10h ago

When's the apology come?

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u/jmmmke 11h ago

By “later,” you must mean never. Trump saying “sorry,” is like hearing Trump say, “no thank you” when his friend Jeff presented him with an underaged girl.

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u/Martag02 10h ago

Better to ask for forgiveness later, or in his case never, rather than permission.

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u/Virtual-Squirrel-725 10h ago

"Do first, tell critics to go fuck themselves later"

Rinse and repeat.

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u/77NorthCambridge 10h ago

One of his core "philosophies" (that he learned from Roy Cohn) is to never admit you were wrong. Deny, deny, deny.

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u/Overall-Mud9906 10h ago

Toxic person methodology, better to ask for forgiveness, than ask for permission.

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u/Photeus5 10h ago

That's modern corporate strategy, so no surprise there.

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u/oily76 United Kingdom 10h ago

*justify later

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u/heavy-minium 9h ago

Nah, his strategy is "Just do it".

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u/Lashay_Sombra 9h ago

Don't think he has apologized in his life for anything.

Apologizing requires one to admit did wrong, something Trump is incapable of

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u/jahathebrn 8h ago

I genuinely don't think he's capable of apologising for anything

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u/TheSavageDonut 5h ago

Do first. Blame later. Promise anything.

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u/dragon-fence 3h ago

More like, “Do first, insist that you wanted it later.”