The Price of Trump's Bottomless Greed: Only America’s Decency, Dignity & National Security
Qatar "Gives" a Plane and Gets a Puppet
The stench of corruption is so thick, I’m surprised King Con Man Trump isn’t trying to bottle it to sell to his cult of MAGAt dupes. While the rest of America sweats through the ever-rising cost of living and scrambles to pay rent, Donny 2 Dolls is busy counting the bribes rolling in from Qatar. The same Qatar that shelters Hamas leaders, ignores U.S. counterterrorism demands, and funds extremism across the Middle East.
Now, they’re “gifting” Trump a private jet and green lighting another garish Trump-branded hotel. And the Republican-led Congress? “Concerned” and complicit, as usual. Let’s unpack yet another rancid Trump feast of corruption.
A Plane Fit for a Con Man
The White House confirmed this week that Qatar has “offered” Trump the a luxury jet, let’s be clear. This is a down payment on an American president. Qatar, a nation that has long funneled money to Hamas (designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. since 1997) and hosted its leadership in Doha, isn’t known for altruism. They want something. And Trump, whose entire career is a monument to grift, is happy to oblige.
America’s first convicted felon president spent years railing against “terrorist sympathizers,” now is poised to accept multimillion-dollar gift from a government that even his own cowed Republicans accuse of failing to combat extremism. Along with all the other threats to national security running rampant through our government thanks to this maladministration, security experts warn the aircraft could be riddled with surveillance tech—a flying listening device for a foreign power that harbors terrorists. But Trump doesn’t care. Neither do his Republican lickspittles who have already put this nation at risk in incalculable ways.
Here’s the worst president in American history claiming he’d be “stupid” not to take this obvious bribe masquerading as a “gift.”
The Trump-Qatar Money Pipeline Isn’t New
Rewind to Trump’s first term. In 2017, as Qatar faced a blockade by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, Trump publicly sided with the Saudis, accusing Qatar of funding terrorism at a “very high level”. During this period, officials linked to the Qatari government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel, including a reservation under the Qatari royal family’s name. Around the same time, the Qatari mission to the United Nations purchased a $6.5 million unit in Trump World Tower in New York. Please, tell me these aren’t bribes.
Now, with Trump back in the office he ran for to escape the consequences for his life of crime, alongside the plane, the Trump Organization is finalizing permits for a new golf resort in Doha—a gaudy monument the complete commodification of the presidency by a lifelong grifter who is unfit to lead a drunken conga line, much less a modern nation.
Republican-Controlled Congress Could Stop This. Let’s See if They Do
The Foreign Emoluments Clause exists for this exact scenario. The Constitution explicitly bars federal officials from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional approval. But Republicans, who spent years hyperventilating over Hunter Biden’s laptop (a saga that produced exactly zero evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden), now shrug as Trump openly colludes with terrorist sympathizers.
Where’s James Comer? Where’s Jacket-Off Jim Jordan? Too busy still going on about Joe Biden’s age on Fox News, I gather.
The Founders Are Rolling in Their Graves
Ben Franklin had to receive congressional approval to keep a diamond-encrusted snuff box from France’s King Louis XVI. Alexander Hamilton warned that foreign favors would “taint the purity” of leadership. President Martin Van Buren received lavish gifts-including lions, horses, pearls, and other valuables-from the Sultan of Morocco and the Imam of Muscat, but was not allowed to keep them. Following the Foreign Emoluments Clause, he notified Congress who directed him to hand them over to the State Department to be sold to benefit the United States.
These men built a nation wary of exactly the kind of swamp Trump is happily cultivating and swimming in.
We all know that Qatar isn’t investing in Trump’s failing hotel empire because they admire his aesthetic for picking out swatches. They’re buying a puppet and every Republican knows it.
Trump, ever the desperate to fill that gaping black hole of greed he calls a personality, is happily obliging—with America’s dignity and national security as the price tag.
The Real Terrorist Sponsors Are in Mar-a-Lago
Let’s be clear: Qatar is a U.S. “ally” that has repeatedly undermined American interests. They’ve harbored Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, and funneled billions into Gaza—funds that critics argue indirectly bankroll terrorism. The State Department has condemned Qatar’s lax counterterrorism policies for years.
Yet, not only are there are different rules for Republicans, there’s a whole different rule-book for Trump. The “gifts” this serial bankrupt, tax-cheating, draft-dodging, wannabe-dictator con man is receiving will be “transferred” to his poor excuse for a “library” when the grifter-in-chief slithers out of office (assuming, he will leave when his disastrous term is over.)
The Biden Contrast: Fake Scandals vs. Real Corruption
Let’s not forget that Republicans wasted millions of dollars and countless hours chasing the bullsh*t non-scandals of the so-called “Biden Crime Family”—a moniker anyone who isn’t a Fox News viewer/victim knows was created by Republicans in their never-ending mission to distract from the actual crimes of their pathological greed-centered god/king.
Despite James Comer’s breathless promises, the “bombshells” never materialized. The charges never filed. The only thing Republicans succeeded in was debasing themselves and dragging the institution they pretend to serve even further down into the sewer where they’re comfortable. Yet when Trump’s blatant grifts and graft are staring at them, they look away.
Who wants to bet they’re crafting another bill targeting trans people?
Once again, all I can ask is, how much longer are we going to take it, people? How much longer?
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