Trump says he’s forgiving 50 million in personal loans he made to his campaign. He’s been buying no ads, paying for no airtime but he only has 1.3 million left.
It’s claimed he has a very small staff(70?). He sells his hats and gear and there’s a donate button of his website.
Where did he spend 50 million?
ETA:added link
On stylists and speechwriters, obviously 
In all honesty I still haven’t heard a better idea than Voyager’s Scamilton proposal. Maybe he could sell ‘get-out-of-a-Trump-defamation-suit’ vouchers; available in books of 100.
Seems to me it doesn’t even make much sense as a scam. OK, he didn’t actually hand 50 godzillabucks to his “campaign”. He wasn’t going to get it back, apparently, didn’t even try to raise it so he could have, but then he wouldn’t need to loan it that much anyway! So, what was there to steal?
Don’t suppose he wrote a receipt? Or even a thank-you note?
To diverge a bit, I’m interested in his talk about turning to small donors to fill his whore chest. Potential good news/bad news there. Good news would be info that small donors are becoming a serious force in political financing. Bad news would be the number of ordinary people willing to give Trump their money. Three would be too many…
But dollars to dogshit he doesn’t raise as much as Bernie.
Brothers and sisters, pals and gals, this “small donor” stuff might just be a Big Hairy Ass Deal. Of the good variety, that rarest of rare birds. Bee-yoot-iful plumage!
Am I the only one who misread the thread title as “Let’s Help Trump Raise Some Monkey”?
I wouldn’t raise funds for the campaign. I might kick into a Kickstarter for building, say, a representative 50 feet of the wall, as an art installation in homage. It might be tough to build a wall that’s 30 ft, 50 ft, 35 ft, 41 ft, 45 ft, and 55 ft tall. Maybe make it like a ziggurat, although that would introduce climbing ledges.
OK, he keeps talking about precast wall panels, so I googled precast wall panels to get a beginning price. Now I’m wondering if he’s thinking of the precast panels that are used for buildings. Yes, they are load bearing, but they can’t stand alone. They need the rest of the building, especially the overhead trusses, to keep them up. Without a load and other support, they flop over. Also the first ones I found are only 8 to 10 inches thick, and half of that is insulation. The concrete sandwiching the insulation was only 2 inches thick in places. Can you say sledge hammer?
Now part of me really wants to do a fake/satire “Quickstarter”, where every week the goal price goes up as the Artists learn more about what kind of a wall it needs to be. Pity I know myself well enough to know that I’ll never put in the work in to do it.
I can picture it, though. The site wouldn’t collect bank or paypal data, because everyone on the internet is trustworthy. Supporters pledge in tenths of a percent of the total costs. Then at every update they get emails telling them how much more they’ll owe. Sigh. It could be a thing of beauty.
It wouldn’t just be “some” monkey, it would be the best, most amazing monkey that you wouldn’t believe.
Fact-checking article in Washington Post with estimates for the cost of Trump’s Wall.
ETA: TL;DR: Trump claimed $8 billion, later upped that to $10-12 billion. WaPo says, more like $25 billion. Four Pinocchios.
I don’t think he has any plans to suspend his management of his companies. I don’t think he cares about conflict of interest.
What do you think Executive Orders are for?
We need a “half joking” smiley.
Maybe he could sell “The Trump Brand”? Some people on the internet already have some great ideas…
The Trump Exerciser… for a good cardio vascular work out as well as stress relief.
The Trump Pen/Pencil Set. - When it sharpens, it says, “I Told Ya So…!”
And… for the Trump Faithful interested in a True Meeting Of The Minds…
spoiler#1
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The Donald Trump Butt Plug - You could spend the day like the REAL Donald. I’m sure that “It’ll be Yuuuuge…!”
No sign yet of red foam hands for sale… ones with one very tiny finger proclaiming, “We’re Number One!”. It would have been fun to wave at rallys…
Thanks. I’ve used up my views per month without subscribing, though. So I’ll have to read it later.
