YEAH NO SHIT: IT'S A BRIBE
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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No. It's a tip. Now you know why they want to make tips non-taxable.
Trump is just everyone's whore which is in reality just the mindset of any entrepreneur. Flattering, almost amorous to those who enrich them, feisty and hateful towards those who don't.
Now for the gifted few, come claim your goldstar of smartass nuance and accuse of me of hating sex-workers or some other shit you make up in your head.
Guy might actually end up getting himself killed by trading out the aircraft equivalent of a tank for a Rolls Royce.
If there's another president after him, they should just seize the plane since it belongs to the American people anyways. I think the value of a gift that is automatically seized is ludicrously low. I recall nintendo gifting a switch and it was made property of the American People, which usually means it goes to the Smithsonian.
Nobody bribes a politician without certain expectations.
This is such classic narcissism.
The most transactional man in the world sees no problem with people giving him gifts. He would never gift anything to anyone because he's a narcissist but sees it as necessary for people to give him gifts.
I love how they say it's not a bribe, but a gift for the US military. Meanwhile, literally everything for the military is mandated to be manufactured in the United States.
Whats a $400m military-grade jet between friends?
Does anyone else not feel the humiliation of a foreign country trying to gift us a new command center? Corruption aside, this is incredibly humiliating
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