Dana Milbank, regular columnist for the Washington Post, has some fundraising tips for the Trump campaign.
Well, this is embarrassing.
Seems President Trump has run his reelection campaign into financial distress, a status that will not surprise those familiar with the Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
The New York Times’s Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman report that Trump and the Republican National Committee squandered their $200 million cash advantage, spent $800 million of the $1.1 billion raised and now face the possibility of a “cash crunch.” The culprit: “profligate habits” such as a car and driver for the now-former campaign manager, payments to Trump businesses, and a “vanity splurge” on Super Bowl ads.
Now, the cash-strapped campaign has had to abandon a $3 million plan to put the Trump name on a NASCAR race car. Sad!
Bloomberg News reports that Trump might pump $100 million of his own money into his campaign. But this raises another disturbing matter: Does he have any money? The president is still fighting to keep his tax returns hidden, and he has been using his official powers to direct commerce and tax breaks to his struggling properties.
Happily, there is a solution at hand to save the billionaire’s campaign from financial ruin! TMZ reports that a Bible signed by Trump is being sold through a memorabilia company, Moments In Time, for $37,500. In the photo on the merchant’s website, Trump’s Sharpie signature is scrawled generously across the title page, where the author’s name might go, right below “HOLY BIBLE/KING JAMES VERSION.”
TMZ reports that the Bible was signed at the White House during the first week of June, “just a couple of days after he’d ordered federal law enforcement to fire pepper spray and rubber bullets at peaceful George Floyd protesters” for his Bible photo op at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The photo-op Bible is not the one for sale.
But what if it were?
If an ordinary Trump-signed Bible can fetch $40k, surely the photo-op Bible would bring in a cool six figures for Trump’s struggling campaign from a wealthy Trump sucker supporter. (I’m looking at you, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and MyPillow guy Mike Lindell.)
Heck, Scott Pruitt, then-head of the Environmental Protection Agency, once sent an aide to buy a used Trump Hotel mattress to curry favor with the boss.
And if Trump is good at anything, it is getting people to pay money for his name — whether it’s on their condos or, in one failed-to-launch scheme, Trump-branded urine tests. In 2016, people paid $49 each just to be listed on a wall in Trump Tower.
There was also that time Trump got a “fake bidder” to pay $60,000 in a 2013 auction for a life-size portrait of Trump. According to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump’s charitable foundation then reimbursed the fake bidder, a pharmaceutical billionaire.
Imagine the millions Trump could raise for his campaign by selling articles from historic moments of his presidency. It wouldn’t be legal, strictly speaking, but when has that mattered?
Trump could autograph rolls of the “beautiful, soft” paper towels he tossed at Puerto Ricans struggling to recover from a hurricane.
He could inscribe chunks of the border wall, built by a group affiliated with Steve Bannon (who is now under indictment for improperly profiting from the scheme). The shoddily built wall is at risk of crumbling into the Rio Grande.
He could sign the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather map he doctored with a Sharpie to show a hurricane heading toward Alabama.
He could auction off autographed pill bottles with the 63 million surplus doses of hydroxychloroquine the federal government ordered.
He could even sell, with autographed plaques affixed, the cages he used to detain migrant children after separating them from their parents.
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When that unmentionable leaves the wh with his gangsters, I hope there is a huge cleansing of that place to rid it of all the evil that dumpster brought there.
trump is a big, fat FRAUD.
The Bible shouldn’t have Trump’s or anyone’s signature. ☹️
If anyone would like to purchase one of my Bibles signed by Moses and Ivanka Trump, just let me know. They are every bit as genuine as Trump is.
Sorry, all out of splinters of the true cross.
What, no one thought of selling slivers from a Trump cross for his faithful followers?
Trump could dress up as a white Jesus all dressed in a white wool robe and drag a full-size, light balsa wood cross through the White House Rose Garden he had his wife turn green for money and white for racism. Instead of a crown of thorns, Trump could wear a crown of small sharp swastikas.
Then he could have that cross shredded by a tree chipper and sell each sliver for $1,000 each.
And, he could sell the crown of swastikas for a hot million. Since the sharp ends of the crown would prick his skin, each drop of Trump’s blood could be sold in a vial vile for $10,000 each.
After all, how many of Trump’s faux Christians think he is the second coming of Jesus Christ?
I am so tired of cursing Trump. I so wish this election were over.
I understand your sentiments, Bob.
that dump is worse than Epstein.
Any arm patches of the air bases the Revolutionary War soldiers defeated? Commemorative coins?
You have to go to the Trump 2020 website for those.
Trump 20202: 20 for money laundering. 20 for sexual assault.
I’ll just take the one signed by Moses, thank you very much.
Would you like one of the sticks turned into serpents with that? Only a couple hundred extra!
You are in luck, Retired! We just received a new shipment from China of Splinters of the True Cross. Call for pricing while they last!
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There’s lots of Karma implied in Trump’s financial woes. Trump is skilled at wasting and squandering. I am surprised that Trump hasn’t considered renting out the Lincoln bedroom to one his oligarch or billionaire friends, but that has already been done before.
BTW, Trump, always with one eye on Obama’s legacy, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for the recent accord in the Middle East. Here’s the information to send a message to the Nobel committee asking them to reject this absurd nomination.
Contact the Nobel Foundation
Postal address: The Nobel Foundation
P.O. Box 5232, SE-102 45 Stockholm, Sweden
Street address: Sturegatan 14, Stockholm
Tel: +46 (0)8 663 09 20
Fax: +46 (0)8 660 38 47
Email: library@nobel.no
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Tybring-Gjedde had previously submitted a nomination for Trump in 2018, following the President’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the award that year was bestowed upon Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad.
Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Norway’s parliament had in 2006 nominated Islam-critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali for the peace prize and has previously courted controversy for comparing Muslim women in hijab to the Ku Klux Klan.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.
As per the Nobel Peace Prize’s website, nominations may be submitted by any person who fits the criteria laid out by the award committee which includes politicians, academics, previous award winners among others.
The letters of nominations and list of nominees for a given year are not disclosed until 50 years have elapsed but the website mentions that 318 candidates have been nominated for the 2020 award.
“asking them to reject this absurd nomination.”
The committee that chooses the peace Prize us known for absurd choices.
After all, they selected a fellow who was directly responsible for the death of over a million civilians in SE Asia (Henry Kissinger).
How was Arafat’s?
Henry “Power is the Great Aphrodisiac” Kissinger.
Any woman who would let Henry even touch her would have to be out of her mind.
Henry was right. He was ugly as a toad but a very stately society woman married him.
He was grotesque back then and has only grown more grotesque with age.
I don’t think he was talking about marriage when he said that.
I am Barack.
I am an island.
🙂
What about selling a clip of his hair…which originally comes from either a dyed dead rat or a dog’s anus.
I’m sure some loyal follower would love to collect that and showcase it. 🤑
Naw, there’s an unlimited supply of this stuff on Troll dolls.
I’d prefer the Trump toilet bowl cleaners. Dirty toilet bowls put Trump where he belongs.
These are in big demand. Perhaps Trump could start selling them to raise money for his re-election.
Several of my friends already gave me of this
https://trumptoiletpaper.com/
Máté Wierdl: What great stuff. Maybe I could use Trump toilet paper right after I’ve enrolled in an online ethics course at Liberty University.
I expect the best when I sit down on the throne. Look at all the happy faces who know just where to put Trump’s face.
A couple of weeks ago, one could not avoid being bombarded with Idiot ads on YouTube. I’ve noticed they’ve disappeared in recent days.
Well, this is embarrassing.
Half the United States, on the Trump presidency.
Hawking Bibles to the base…
There’s no reason to be concerned about theocracy just because
twenty GOP senators wrote to the head of the FDA on Sept. 1, asking for a ban on the abortion pill. Conservative religious leaders will draw the line there. They won’t, next, target pharmaceutical birth control. And, if they did the conservative SCOTUS would protect women’s rights.
Dark Money will find its way to Trumpkin.
Dark Money will find its way to Trumpkin.
Mate: I received a gift of it45 t.p. It has been sitting in my cabinet.
Like it45, the t.p. is thin & rough.
It is not worthy of my tushy.
I wish more people would pay attention to Robert Reich, especially Trump supporters who believe he can do no wrong. [Nothing will get through because this is ‘fake news’.]
Labor Day 2020: The Power Shift
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
08 September 20
On Labor Day, just eight weeks before one of the most consequential elections in American history, it’s useful to consider the economic reality that fueled Donald Trump’s victory four years ago.
No other developed nation has nearly the inequalities of income and wealth found in the U.S., even though all have been exposed to the same forces of globalization and technological change. The three richest people in America have as much wealth as the bottom half of all Americans combined, even as 30 million Americans reported their households didn’t have enough food.
American capitalism is off the rails.
The main reason is that large corporations, Wall Street banks and a relative handful of exceedingly rich individuals have gained enough political power to game the system.
Chief executives have done everything possible to prevent the wages of most workers rising in tandem with productivity gains, so most gains go instead into the pockets of top executives and major investors.
They’ve outsourced abroad, installed labor-replacing technologies and switched to part-time and contract work. They’ve busted unions, whose membership shrank from 35% of the private-sector workforce 40 years ago to 6.2% today. They’ve defanged antitrust enforcement, allowing their monopolies free rein.
The so-called free market has been taken over by crony capitalism, corporate bailouts and corporate welfare.
This massive power shift laid the groundwork for Trump. In 1964, almost two thirds of Americans believed government was run for the benefit of all the people. By 2013 almost 80% believed government was run by a few big interests.
Much of the political establishment wants to attribute Trump’s rise solely to racism. Racism did play a part, to be sure, but racism’s sordid history in American politics long predates Trump.
What has given Trump’s racism – as well as his hateful xenophobia and misogyny – particular virulence has been his capacity to channel the intensifying anger of the white working class. It is hardly the first time a demagogue has used scapegoats to deflect public attention from the real causes of its distress.
Trump speaks the language of authoritarian populism but acts in the interests of America’s emerging oligarchy. His deal with the moneyed interests was simple: he’d stoke divisiveness so Americans wouldn’t see how the oligarchy has taken over the reins, twisted government to its benefit, and siphoned off the economic rewards.
He’d make Americans so angry at each other that they wouldn’t pay attention to CEOs getting exorbitant pay while slicing the pay of average workers, won’t notice the giant tax cut that went to big corporations and the wealthy, and won’t be outraged by a boardroom culture that tolerates financial conflicts of interest, insider trading and the outright bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign donations.
This way, the moneyed interests can rig the system while Trump complains that the system is rigged by a “deep state.”
Notwithstanding all this, Trump’s inexcusable failure to contain the coronavirus is having a larger impact on swing voters than the divisiveness he foments. Death has a way of concentrating the mind.
But if Joe Biden is elected, he would be well advised to remember the forces Trump exploited to gain power, and begin the task of remedying them. The solution is not found in mere redistribution of income. It is found in redistributing power.
If wealth continues to concentrate at the top, no one will be able to contain the corrupting influence of big money on the American system and the anger it unleashes. As Justice Louis D Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
The IDIOT never quits.
Election 2020
President Trump held a rally in North Carolina last night and urged supporters to act as poll watchers during the presidential election to prevent suspicious voting behavior. It’s a new variation on the President’s baseless theme of rampant voter fraud. While record numbers of people are expected to vote by mail this election season, election officials are also preparing for high turnout in person. Large venues like Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and State Farm Arena in Atlanta will serve as voting “supercenters” this fall.
Everything has to be an estimate since Trump won’t show his tax returns.
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Trump’s Net Worth Drops By $600M Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
09/08/20 AT 10:37 PM
President Donald Trump’s net worth has dropped to $2.5 billion as the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession wreaked havoc on the family business, Forbes reported.
On Tuesday, the business magazine released its latest list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, which saw Trump tumble 64 spots from the 2019 report. The 20% drop in his net worth makes him the nation’s 339th richest person.
The decline comes after the COVID-19 outbreak decimated the values of office buildings, hotels, and other real estate properties, which represent some of Trump’s largest holdings.
The president’s most significant losses stemmed from office and retail space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York. The properties’ net value, in which he has a 30% stake, plummeted by $109 million since 2019. Collectively, the various real estate holdings he has in the state dropped $326 million since last September…
https://www.ibtimes.com/trumps-net-worth-drops-600m-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-3042399
To raise money (and Covid cases) Trump should hold a massive biker rally like the one in South Dakota.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/08/worst-case-scenario-report-finds-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-superspreader-event
In today’s news, Donald Trump’s private defense firm, formerly the Department of Justice, intervenes to keep Trump from having to submit a DNA sample in a rape case. If this would exonerate him, why is he working so hard to prevent it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jean-carroll-trump-justice-department/2020/09/08/37faa380-f22a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
Trumps hair stylist undoubtedly already has a DNA sample.
They would find that that DNA is a pumpkin DNA.
Ha ha ha!
Trumpkin DNA
Donald is a Trumpkin
With Trumpkin DNA
Orange as a pumpkin
The jack-o’-lantern way
White House is a Trumpkin patch
Trumpkins all around
Trumpkins on the porch, and natch
Trumpkins on the ground
Trumpkins here
and Trumpkins there
Trumpkins Trumpkins
everywhere!
We need music go with this, SDP. Pls suggest one.
Trumpkins big and Trumpkins small
Trumpkins sitting on The Wall
Tumpkin patch is here to stay
Halloween is every day
Trumpkin Jared
Trumpkin Ivanka
Trumpkin hair with
Trumpkin vodka
🎃
I’m curious about the Jesus talk here. He never mistreated anyone (here). Yet, He’s somehow intertwined with Trump, with The Cross, crown of thorns and swastikas. I’m just curious (not offended) how Jesus is somehow a part of Trump, when there’s no official statement from Jesus saying so. 😐
Even if one doesn’t believe in Jesus (which is your choice and right), He was about peace, justice, helping the poor and anti-discrimination. Aren’t Joe and Kamala about those ideals too? 😐
Eddie,
You won’t hear Jesus talk from me. As you said, Jesus was about peace, Justice, and helping the poor.
Trump is not.
I want to share my ‘good news’. I can’t think of anything I’d like more than to go to Liberty University on a $30,000 scholarship. Maybe I could take some courses in ethics or morality? [Didn’t Jerry Falwell like to watch his wife ‘playing with the pool guy’?]
Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned from his leadership post at evangelical Liberty University amid allegations related to his wife’s sexual encounters with a much younger business partner.
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Laying, not playing
Jerry Falwell Sr. and Jr. are nothing like Jesus. They use Jesus’ name to enrich themselves. ☹️
Liberty University: where you take liberties with monogamy.
& with students’ money, SDP!
Which is the saddest & the worst.
The GOP’s distortion of “religious freedom/liberty” which they use to justify right wing coercion, has proponents like N.C. Senator Tom Tillis. Reports identify Tillis as the beneficiary of Louis DeJoy’s straw donor scheme. Tillis who shares a religious faith with DeJoy (not evangelical) signed an amicus brief in support of Arlene’s Flowers in the case about businesses refusing service to gay people.
Usually, Christian businesses have the words “Christian” or a Christian Denominational Name on them. 😐
If I walked past Arlene’s Flowers, it’s just another floral shop. I wouldn’t know it’s extensively into weddings. 😐
Tillis promotes school choice and he’s been “slammed for comments attacking the Latinx community”. His comments were in the same vein as the racist comments of Ohio state senator Steve Huffman. Tillis votes 93% of the time with Trump and he’s been called Trump’s new best friend.