And this folks is how libruls/democrats/normal intelligent people respond when shown that their news-story might lack some degree of veracity. Instead of doubling down, screaming FAKE NEWS, they acknowledge that their news-breaking post was wrong, and move on.
Some on this board might like to take notes of how it’s done.
Ok, the source here is alternet via raw story, so consider the bias and take it with as much skepticism as you feel is warranted,
Ok, the national debt is around $15T, right? So, yeah, we should raise $36B to help pay it down?
:dubious:
Oh, wait, the line before that helps make more sense of it
America is for sale. And it might not even end up being sold to Americans.
Melania’s jacket that she wore at the NATO leaders meeting is a Dolce & Gabbana that costs $51,500.
For some reason, this doesn’t bother me. If I had a billion dollars or more, I am certain my wife would own some $50,000 garments.
So… you know Trump has a billion dollars? You must’ve seen his tax returns! And it never occurred to you to mention that to the American people?
I bet the Times or the Post would buy you a Dulce Banana jacket if you clued them in…
Same. Considering Presidents and their families still pay for things like clothing and such, I can’t come up with any outrage. You might be able to make a case for being tonedeaf or some such, but she was a model - this is the kind of thing they wear.
The travesty is that something so ugly costs 50 grand.
So what ? Whatever else he may be, Trump is (allegedly) rich as fuck. Unless this was paid for on public dime, I don’t see the issue.
If nothing else, Trump will definitely clarify the whole Area 51 thing. If the American government has indeed been hiding extraterrestrials, there’s no way he can avoid blabbing about it, especially the closer he gets to impeachment.
Putin already knows.
That’d make the new X-Files seasons pretty boring though.
“I’m telling you Scully, this time…”
“Oh yes. I believe you . Trump’s just sent 10 Gigs of files about it to Wikileaks”
“… they want to shut us down, Scully !”
“You sure ? I just got a mail from @realDonaldTrump that says “Keep up the good work ! Don’t leak ! You’re just great !” and there’s seventeen alien autopsies attached to it. Oh, and the cure for my cancer apparently. I’d totally forgotten I’d had that !”
When the wife of the President of the United States is buying items of clothing that cost one year’s income of an average citizen, especially when he ran as the defender of the little guy …
German news magazine Der Spiegel just came out with an editorial harshly critical of Trump and calling for his removal from office.
They have correctly assessed the situation:
Nobody believed that. They knew he was going to screw the little guy to give the millionaires tax breaks. They just assume they are going to be millionaires any day now…
The price tag doesn’t bother me. The aesthetics of the coat bother me. But more importantly, Melania’s tastes in outerwear have nothing to do with the administration.
Unfortunately, lots of people believed that Trump was fighting for the little guy. We didn’t believe that, but there are lots of his supporters who never though that Trump would ever screw them. He was going to blow up the establishment. Be a force for change. Winning! All the winning! So much winning.
Not to nitpick, but a year’s income of an average citizen is $29,930.13.
He outfit is closer to two years, more if you include the taxes that they had to pay on their incomes.
Who was it that said the reason Americans vote against their own self-interest is because “there are no poor people in America, just temporarily-embarrassed millionaires”?
Although it seemed to bother people of the right who objected to Michelle showing her arms.
Actually, much like global warming, they just assumed he would only be screwing the *other *little guys.