The bribe is blatant. As for the scam, it was a good idea in The Producers (1967). As Gene Wilder pointed out in the film, you can make money off of a flop. Unfortunately for Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, they tried too hard.
To be fair, the last time a movie was released about a sex worker who moved to NYC, shacking up with a con artist while becoming a MAGA-esque idiot in the process, it won Best Picture.
But Dustin Hoffman is so much taller than Trump…
Also, this just came in…
Now, this won’t do at all. Cuba is too small an island, compared to Greenland, to distract from the Epstein release (mid day right before a weekend, no less!) and the inevitable findings that the DOJ has conveniently not released some of the files (no doubt they will claim they are irrelevant without any other justification) while redacting others beyond their remit (no doubt they will claim this was done in accordance with the law).
You gotta wonder why they didn’t just wait another week when most of the country would be distracted by the Super Bowl. That’s a bigger story to most Americans than Cuba
Perhaps Trump wants to rebuild the American casinos and resort hotels that were in Havana prior to the Communist revolution? Aside from that, I really don’t understand his interest in Cuba.
Will the Navy Seals be ready in time?
While up to their stomachs in water I’d guess that Trump is testing each of their ‘snorkels’ personaly.
Nobody is going to actually see “Melania” other than the brainwashed, but one Letterboxd reviewer said “even if they showed this on a plane, people would walk out.”
Holy crap, that’s funny!
And drive every one of them into bankruptcy? Sounds like a plan.
Marco Rubio wants to be president and figures he can lock down Florida with this.
Exactly what I thought. We ‘annex’ Cuba and suddenly all the Cuban illegals miraculously become legal. Hell, they’ll probably even be able to vote.
I expect that the increase in deportations of Cubans is going to shake Republican support in Florida.
I wonder if the Scottish government can find some way of seizing the golf resorts Trump owns there. The resulting tantrum would be epic.
Yeah, if they “conquer” Cuba they can just send all the Cubans back since it will be “safe” again. Miller will be on board.
Is that the old, “my family will just dust off the deeds” trope? Bad news; people have been living on, working, and raising families on that land for 50+ years.
Cuban-Americans think that they are going to ‘stomp on in’ with their big-boy boots and that the people living there will just say, “Oy Patron Let me be your Peon ! I just yearn for it…!”.
Oh, I can just see that working. Also, Cuba would have free human fertilizer for 100 years if they could only build human-sized coffee grinders.
Not that. It was the one member of the audience after “Springtime for Hitler” who started laughing that did them in.
I heard somewhere, probably The Dope, that although lots of people had a copy of Mein Kampf and it was a common wedding present, few ever actually read it.
Which wouldn’t have happened if they hadn’t tried so hard to get the ‘worst’ Hitler they could find. Instead they ended up with the one person who could make the play work.
Rotten tomatoes currently has the largest gap between audience and critic reviews that I have every seen. 98% fresh audience vs 6% critic. Interstingly of the 10 or so reviews on the site 70% of them occured between 5PM and 9PM Eastern standard time (no reviews since 9 last night.) Before most people in the US would even be out going to the movie. That suggests to me bots.
I’m not sure that invasion is in the offing.
If you read the link, after all that bellicose rambling and claims of extreme danger, the only actions being suggested are tariffs. It’s almost comical in its underwhelmingness.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency with respect to that threat.
To deal with the national emergency declared in this order, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to establish a tariff system, as described below.
It might be that he got a hint that the Supremes aren’t going to let him use emergency tariff powers without an actual emergency. So he’s trying to justify one.