Trump cluelessly (or on purpose?) responds to a question about people who will be put up at his “Alligator Alcatraz”
In Florida?
I’m going to spend a lot.
Look,
This is my home state.
I love it,
I love your government,
I love all the people around.
These are all friends of mine.
They know very well.
I mean,
I’m not surprised that they do so well.
They’re great people.
Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time.
I feel very comfortable in the state.
I’ll spend a lot of time here.
I want to,
You know,
For four years,
I’ve got to be in Washington,
And I’m okay with it
Because I love the White House.
I even fixed up the little Oval Office,
I make it—
It’s like a diamond,
It’s beautiful.
It’s so beautiful.
It wasn’t maintained properly,
I will tell you that.
But even when it wasn’t,
It was still the Oval Office,
So it meant a lot.
But I’ll spend as much time
As I can here.
You know,
My vacation is generally here,
Because it’s convenient.
I live in Palm Beach.
It’s my home.
And I have a very nice little place,
Nice little cottage to stay at,
Right?
But we have a lot of fun,
And I’m a big contributor to Florida,
You know,
Pay a lot of tax,
And a lot of people
Moved from New York,
And I don’t know what
New York is going to do.
A lot of people moved
To Florida
From New York,
And it was for a lot of reasons,
But one of them was taxes.
The taxes are so high in New York,
They’re leaving.
I don’t know what New York’s going to do about that,
Because some of the biggest, wealthiest people,
And some of the people that pay the most taxes
Of any people anywhere in the world,
For that matter,
They’re moving to Florida
And other places.
So we’re going to have to help some of these states out,
I think.
But thank you very much.
I’ll be here as much as I can.
Very nice question.
At least he didn’t say “Two Weeks”
I absolutely hate how he thinks he “beautified” the Oval Office. It’s a tacky horror show now.
Agreed. Unless you have an inordinate love of gold, like Trump or Auric Goldfinger, his changes have definitely degraded the room.
And now, the Ninety Deals in 90 Days edition:
Asked about the status of his claim to produce ninety deals in the first 90 days of his presidency, Trump responded in top form:
Oh,
We’ve spoken to everybody.
We know every.
It’s all done.
I told you.
I told you
We’ll make some deals,
But for the most part
We’re gonna send a letter.
We’re gonna say,
‘Welcome to the United States.
If you’d like to participate in the greatest,
most successful country ever.’
I mean,
We’re doing better than ever.
We have.
I don’t think.
And
You’re gonna see these numbers soon.
We’ve never had numbers like this.
We’ve never had investment like this.
Uh,
We have more than 90.
We’re gonna have much more than 90.
But most of those are gonna be sent a letter.
This is exactly what I said.
Now,
We’ve made a deal with United Kingdom.
We’ve made a deal with China.
We’ve made a deal.
We’re close to making a deal with India.
Others,
We’ve met with,
and we don’t think we’re gonna be able to make a deal.
So,
We just send them a letter.
‘Do you wanna,
Do you wanna play ball?
This is what you have to pay.’
So, we’re,
As far as I’m concerned,
We’re done.
We’re sending out letters to various countries,
Telling them how much tariffs they have to pay.
Some will maybe adjust a little bit
Depending if they have a,
You know,
Cause.
We’re not gonna be unfair about it.
And actually,
It’s a small fraction
Compared to what
We should be getting.
We should be.
We could be asking for much more.
But for the sake of relationships that
We’ve had with a lot of really good countries,
We’re doing the way I do it.
But we could be getting a lot more.
We could ask for a lot more than what we’re asking for.
Only slightly more coherent than the last words of Dutch Schultz.