Promotion
It’s entirely understandable that Trump is doing such a terrible job as president – he’s so busy promoting all his golf clubs. What’s he supposed to do, stop promoting them? That’s crazy talk. Now the Senior P.G.A. Championship is happening at one of his clubs. Big bucks for President Pig!
Over the past decade, the Trump Organization has stockpiled golf courses, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy, remake and upgrade a dozen different clubs and resorts from the Hudson Valley to Doonbeg, Ireland. Golf resorts and clubs have accounted for roughly half of Mr. Trump’s revenue, according to his personal financial disclosure last year.
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Just four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has visited his family-owned golf clubs 25 times, giving them the kind of media exposure that advertising could never buy. Six of those visits have been to the Virginia course while the P.G.A. marketed tickets to the event. And this week, Mr. Trump courted the senior P.G.A. club professionals in town by arranging a private tour of the White House, despite promising in his ethics plan that “the Office of the Presidency is isolated from the Trump Organization.”
He’s multitasking. He does an hour of ranting about Mooslims and shoving heads of state out of his way, and then an hour of showing golf pros around the White House. Win-win; everybody’s happy.
Just clearing the swamp…..
More from the Trump School of Diplomacy: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/05/26/trump-pledges-trade-war-german-cars/
Christ on a bike! He calls Germans evil because they make decent cars that Americans like to buy. Could this be Trump projecting? He must be aware that he is of German stock. In fact, I found out earlier that his grandfather came from the same German village as the founder of the Heinz company that makes the ketchup Trump smothers his food in. Now that is evil and an insult to every chef that has to cook for him – McD’s excepted, of course. That needs smothering in gunk just to make it barely palatable.
He actually said “The Germans are bad” – which was translated as “böse” – then translated back as evil.
Not quite as drastic, then, but if the Germans are bad for selling millions of cars in the US, what does that make the millions of Americans that buy them? Traitors?
I suppose so many fuel-efficient cars must play havoc with the profits of Trump’s oil buddies. He must be hoping for a return of the 1950’s-1970’s 20ft. 2.5 ton American land yachts returning 8mpg sat on every driveway, ‘cos that gas ain’t gonna burn itself.
I guess he’s planning to shutter the VW plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala., and the BMW plant in Spartanburg, S.C. Add in the parts suppliers and you’re looking at over 100,000 American jobs in red states that went overwhelmingly for the shitgibbon. I wonder when they’ll get tired of all the winning.
In a word, yes. I have had many people consider me a traitor for buying a Honda. (Which was about 80% made in America, by the way).
Sam Day: And those plants don’t just build for the US market, but for export too. So those bad Germans help our balance of trade.
Just a late Psst: Trump’s onetime advisor Elon Musk has (among his other enterprise pastimes) a nice little American electric car business, Tesla, that is simply dusting the tennis court with German luxury cars from BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi etc, consistently out-competing their high-end models. In about two months Tesla will start producing its smaller, Medium class car Model 3 for 5-10 times the market and eat the rest of the Germans’ lunch bag, as well as a lot of Asians’, with an estimated 500-600k paid deposits, mostly unseen (more than 100k made before anyone had even seen pictures of the car)!
Around Sept 28 Tesla will reveal its all-electric Semi-truck which may disrupt another line of business.
Tesla is the youngest of the two (2) remaining American car makers and just passed Ford on market capitalization. (GM went bust ten years ago, remember? Bailed out by taxpayers. And Chrysler is now Fiat.)
Reusable rockets and solar PV + battery power storage for home and grid are the other big parts for Elon.
I’m just back from a lovely tour to Norway in my Model S. Slartibartfast can be proud of his work on the fjords!