While we save to buy 3 dolls and 5 pencils,
Trump spends your money on a $400 million
gilded flying throne
May 9
Donald Trump has always wanted to be
a king. In fact, he thinks he is one.
As proof, he’s already remade the Oval
Office into a gold-trimmed royal
fantasy. He has claimed “total
authority” over the states, among
other power-hungry proclamations.
At a time when economists are waving
red flags about a looming recession,
families are preparing for skyrocketing
prices, and store shelves may be barren
at Christmas thanks to a 145 percent
tariff tsunami on China, Trump is
having the federal government buy him
the most expensive, opulent private
aircraft in the world, a plane owned
by the bastion of democracy (joke)
and grotesque wealth Qatar.
Why? Because he’s tired of waiting for
the official Air Force One upgrades.
Because his royal patience ran out.
Because ruling-class tantrums must
be soothed with gold-plated extravagance.
The new jet, a converted Qatar Airways
Boeing 747-8i, was once billed as a
“flying palace” for global royalty. It
boasts a bedroom suite, lounges,
boardrooms, marble-clad bathrooms, and
a grand staircase. It's now being
retrofitted by U.S. defense contractor
L3Harris, under Trump’s watchful eye,
to become his personal command center.
Never mind that taxpayers are footing
the bill. Never mind that Americans
are bracing for tariffs that could
jack up the price of toys, clothes,
electronics, and food looking ahead
to the holidays. In “let them eat
cake” moments, Trump said in the span
of a week that this holiday season kids
will “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls”
and “They don’t need to have 250 pencils.
They can have five.”
But for Trump, he doesn’t need one
jumbo jet, he needs two.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/trumps-gilded-new-jet
While we save to buy 3 dolls and 5 pencils,
Trump spends your money on a $400 million
gilded flying throne
May 9
Donald Trump has always wanted to be
a king. In fact, he thinks he is one.
As proof, he'’s already remade the Oval
Office into a gold-trimmed royal
fantasy.
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