Originally Posted by BlueScholar

You're right about the $20 limit, but how does that work with foreign governments spending $13,600,000 at his properties? What happens then?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/re...is-presidency/

How does it work when a country grants trademarks to the president after denying 130 straight applications before he entered office?
https://www.americanprogress.org/art...nterest-china/

How much money did the president make off his crypto schemes? Where did that money come from? Who "donated" it? What are they getting in return?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...flict-interest

Why isn't that "gift", which surely won't have any listening devices or bugs installed on it, staying in the US inventory? Why is the American taxpayer going to spend 1 BILLION DOLLARS turning this 747 into a VC-25A and then it's going to be mothballed at a Trump's library? Is Trump going to be buried with it like a pharaoh?

It's funny because when I had a GPC we were audited over a "suspicious", but completely legit $500 purchase. But apparently the rules have changed?

Originally Posted by Gooselives

A report from Tourism Economics predicts that international travel to the U.S. will fall by 15.2% by end of 2025. Jetstar and Qantas announced they are stopping flights to Hawaii. Jetstar is pulling out of USA completely. As more countries boycott the USA do you see us canceling our 787 orders? Our country that I served for becomes more unrecognizable by the day. Moreover, shelves are starting to look bare. We are losing the trade war of this self inflicted economic crisis.

Originally Posted by BlueScholar

The fact that you're saying and believing that exposes how uninformed you are, so I would recommend increasing your media diet with better sources and cross checking stories with verifiable facts.

Inflation is not down. You see, inflation is like a pool. More inflation = bigger pool. So even if the rate of inflation decreases from month to month, you're still left with the previous size pool plus whatever change happened this month. In fact, under this administration inflation has continued to accrue. Even though the monthly changes have dropped every so slightly from the last 6 months of 2024 (average of 2.7% per month) to 2025 (2.63% per month), you're still looking at inflation INCREASING by 10.5 points over that oh so awful last administration's economy. So if you were complaining about prices and inflation with the blue guy in office, why do you think things are better when your guy is in office? I realize the president is saying gas is below $2 a gallon and egg prices are down 93-94%. Do you believe that? Are you seeing that? Are you aware that nobody can come up with numbers to substantiate these claims? What are your thoughts on that?

Trade deals are being struck. Neat. Are these good trade deals or bad trade deals? Because if you look at the stock market, the investors sure don't seem impressed. By the way, those "new trade deals" also include tearing up the trade deals Trump made, called USMCA to replace NAFTA, which he described as "The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced, and modern trade agreement ever achieved. There’s never been anything like it." But it turns out it was a bad deal that needed to be replaced. So do you believe that this is a good deal too? Also, are we talking about the trade deals he enacted, then suspended. Why did that happen? What did we get from the stop and go strategy?


The last thing we need is for voters to be less informed. Burying your head in the sand won't help.

Originally Posted by Nucflash

I just want him to Make ATC Great Again. What I am hearing (from reliable sources) is the United States ATC system has sucked for about 30 years—EXCEPT for the period from January 20th, 2017 until January 20th, 2021, during which it was absolutely perfect, beautiful, and downright yuge. It continued to be absolutely perfect, beautiful, and downright yuge until exactly 11:59:59 EST on 1/20/21. Then at precisely 12:00:00 EST it immediately became the worst ATC system on earth, worse than the likes of South Sudan or Yemen. Again, just what I’m hearing from reliable sources. MATCGA!!

Originally Posted by Nucflash

I just want him to Make ATC Great Again. What I am hearing (from reliable sources) is the United States ATC system has sucked for about 30 years—EXCEPT for the period from January 20th, 2017 until January 20th, 2021, during which it was absolutely perfect, beautiful, and downright yuge. It continued to be absolutely perfect, beautiful, and downright yuge until exactly 11:59:59 EST on 1/20/21. Then at precisely 12:00:00 EST it immediately became the worst ATC system on earth, worse than the likes of South Sudan or Yemen. Again, just what I’m hearing from reliable sources. MATCGA!!

Originally Posted by BlueScholar

You're right about the $20 limit, but how does that work with foreign governments spending $13,600,000 at his properties? What happens then?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/re...is-presidency/

How does it work when a country grants trademarks to the president after denying 130 straight applications before he entered office?
https://www.americanprogress.org/art...nterest-china/

How much money did the president make off his crypto schemes? Where did that money come from? Who "donated" it? What are they getting in return?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...flict-interest

Why isn't that "gift", which surely won't have any listening devices or bugs installed on it, staying in the US inventory? Why is the American taxpayer going to spend 1 BILLION DOLLARS turning this 747 into a VC-25A and then it's going to be mothballed at a Trump's library? Is Trump going to be buried with it like a pharaoh?

It's funny because when I had a GPC we were audited over a "suspicious", but completely legit $500 purchase. But apparently the rules have changed?

Originally Posted by ThumbsUp

Now do Biden.

Originally Posted by hummingbear

..... running a hotel across the street from the White House,

Originally Posted by Buck Rogers

Well, I guess you could start with selling nights in the White Houses' Lincoln bedroom for $100,000+ like someone did in 1995 and 1996. Sub-letting over-night stays of my house kinda miffed me.