Table talk
President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, “You all just got a lot richer,” referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier. Mr. Trump directed those comments to friends dining nearby at the exclusive club — including to two friends at a table near the president’s who described the remark to CBS News — as he began his final days of his first year in office in what has become known as the “Winter White House.”
No, it hasn’t “become known” as that. Trump calls it that. Trump also spends our money to go there and profits further by attracting more paying customers there; it’s win-win for him and lose-lose for us. That doesn’t make it “the Winter White House.”
The president has spent many weekends of his presidency so far at the “Winter White House,” where initiation fees cost $200,000, annual dues cost $14,000, and some of the most affluent members of society have the opportunity to interact with the president in a setting while many Americans cannot.
Well that’s what makes it so much fun. “We can and you can’t.”
Funny how frequently Trump’s friends or staff spill private, personal details to the press that are embarrassing to him. Not what most “friends” or trusted insiders would do. At least vultures have the courtesy to wait until their meals are safely dead before they tuck in. But the trust and loyalty usually work both ways, not just unidirectionally.
I’m almost hoping the worthless piece of shit comes to visit us in the UK sometime. He should find the welcome very warm indeed. I for one will be one of many in the crowd the security forces are going to have to waste their attention on. The more decoys the better.
Happy boxing day.
He really should get his international travelling wrapped up before he’s wanted for war crimes, anyway. Booing and protests are one thing – arrest and trial are another. Plus, he can do it on our dime now, and even charge us when he stays at his own properties.
I miss not living in a banana republic.