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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (85953)	7/26/2018 10:14:05 AM
From: epicure	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 368677

You can say he's not an idiot, but he sure looks like an idiot, and he acts like an idiot, and he lies like an idiot. I don't think you can prove he's not an idiot. Ergo, that's an opinion, not a fact. However, if you believe Trump's filings, they say he's getting rich off the presidency- so he might not need to screw the country for money, but he's doing it anyway- so maybe he's just a criminal grifter, who takes the US rubes for idiots. He's right about the Trump humpers: theatlantic.com Properties that Trump frequently visited as president saw the largest boost in income. Trump claimed more than $37 million in income from Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach County resort in Florida he described as his “Winter White House,” as well as $20 million in income from the nearby golf club he owns in Jupiter, Florida. His claimed Mar-a-Lago income rose rapidly since his last two financial disclosures with the FEC: Trump reported more than $15 million in income from the resort in the 2015 report, followed by $29 million in the 2016 version. Golfing and vacationing are bipartisan presidential traditions, as are the partisan critiques of the presidents who partake in them. But Trump has taken his leisure time to new levels both in volume and location. A May 5 analysis by The Washington Post found that Trump visited at least one of the properties he owned in 36 of his first 108 days in office, or one-third of his presidency to that time. The trips include almost weekly visits to Mar-a-Lago and his Florida properties, where he mingles with guests and club members as well as hosts foreign dignitaries. Properties that saw fewer or no visits from the president produced no such boost in income for him. His golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which he only visited for the first time as president in May, brought in $19.7 million in income for him—about the same amount as in his 2016 filing. Other courses throughout the U.S. stayed flat or saw slight declines, while Trump-branded golf courses in Turnberry, Scotland, and Doonbeg, Ireland reported $14 million and $12 million in income, respectively.