A lot of things on Amazon for sale with the Presidential Seal.
Thanks Trump.
Trump claims the cost of a new US embassy in Jeruslalem is going to be $250,000.
How is anybody supposed to believe that?
Unless he really is going to get his good friend Sheldon Adelson to pay for it.
IANAL, but apparently this law includes a provision allowing such use if it is “authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register.” I don’t know what the mechanism for that would be, since none of the 44 people who’ve occupied the Oval Office so far have wanted to test it.
I took a quick look, and it seems like most of the things for sale are coffee mugs and such. My guess is that the feds just don’t really care about people selling little crap like that when it’s fairly obvious that the POTUS isn’t really endorsing the product. (Although the Bush Administration did issue a cease and desist to the Onion in 2005 for using the seal in its articles).
I think having the Presidential seal on a golf course owned by the President is more significant than the person selling Presidential seal bath mats on CafePress.
An embassy is just like a big house, right? Your real estate dollar goes a lot farther in Jerusalem. My wife and I paid over $300K for our house, but it’s in a nice neighborhood with terrific schools. It’s also over 3000 square feet. The ambassador won’t need so much space as long as they’re not bringing their whole family. We just passed a tax cut. The State Department will just have to tighten its belt a little like everyone else.
I’d like to see Loser Donnie in the Big House.
Trump’s “president for life” remarks have been well-reported, but there was an additional line that I hadn’t heard until today.
Like the best Trump comments, it combines the utterly horrifying with the hilariously stupid.
Sure…if you just skip over Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and Chairman Mao…
He means the next 100 years…
In all fairness, it’s best to have the utterly horrifying punctuated by the hilariously stupid. Otherwise, none of this would be in any way distinguishable from hell.
Like the Republicans did when they cut the security at Benghazi, right?
It will be just a big tent (The Tabernacle of Moses) like the Israelites hung around in before Solomon built the first Temple. Real cheap. All the specs are in Exodus 25:1-40:38. The Evangelicals will love it. Very authentic.
The current embassy in Tel Aviv is a six story building about a block square. There are a lot of employees - USAID, the FBI, U.S. customs, the military, and other federal agencies have offices there. And as you can imagine, a significant security detail is required.
That said, Trump isn’t planning to build a new embassy. The plan is to take over the U.S. consulate building in Jerusalem. Whether it’s big enough or has the right infrastructure, I don’t know. But if Trump says the move will cost $250,000, that would just mean the cost to move everything between two existing facilities. My guess is that it will ultimately cost quite a bit more, but even if it costs $5 million that’s pretty much a rounding error when it comes to U.S spending in the middle east.
EPA appointee gets approval to consult for outside clients
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What the fucking fuck? How is this allowed? WHY is this allowed?
Because Republicans believe the business of government is business, and the closer they can get to this ideal, the better.
Sheldon Adelson is most likely willing to spend his personal tax cut not only building the Jerusalem embassy, but also funding the nuclear annihilation of Iran.
And I’m sure the land will be dirt cheap too… “free,” in fact, if they build on one of the “settlements” that’ll be springing up in East Jerusalem now that the White House has given the green light to the Israeli government to take the whole city.
And it’s not just applause to make noise. A poll last summer showed that over half of Republicans would be fine with postponing the 2020 elections if Trump and his pals wanted to:
To be fair, they would only postpone them until the millions of illegals who voted in 2016 were rounded up and dealt with.
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Has it been posited yet that he was “just joking”?