Trump declares white house a Trump "property"

Viper1j

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He really has gone fucking nuts!

Why doesn't someone do something?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dona...white-house-ethics_n_5c95b983e4b057f7330b04e2

Trump Has Slapped His Brand On Images Of The White House To Sell At His Trump Store



President Donald Trump has emblazoned the “Trump” brand name on images of the White House to sell in his Trump Store and at the Trump International Hotel in the capital. The products give the bizarre impression that the White House is a Trump hotel.
Walter Shaub, who was director of the Office of Government Ethics in both the Obama and Trump administrations, sharply criticized the products as the latest move to “monetize the presidency” for private gain.
https://twitter.com/waltshaub
Our corrupt President’s hotel, in which he retains a conflicting financial interest, is selling products with the image of the White House on it. I’d say he’s monetizing the presidency again, but it’s a continuous effort so “again” wouldn’t make sense.
The products among the new “Cherry Blossom Collection” bearing the White House image include soap, mugs, a T-shirt and a long-sleeved shirt. A line on the mug, which also includes a drawing of the Trump Hotel, reads simply: “Trump Washington D.C. Building.” A line beneath the White House on the T-shirt reads: “Trump Washing

Vanity Fair quipped that the Trump Hotel is hawking “florals and potential conflicts-of-interest for spring.”

The hotel, located in a landmark building owned by taxpayers and leased by the Trump Organization, is at the center of a lawsuit arguing that the business violates the Constitutional prohibition against a federal official accepting payments or gifts from states or foreign governments — like those that book rooms and events there.

Shaub and other ethics experts say the hotel is an easy conduit for cash from anyone hoping to curry favor with the president. Now Trump appears to be underscoring the direct link between the hotel and “his” White House.
The Trump Organization last year used golf tee markers emblazoned with the presidential seal, but the seal is legally allowed only for official government business so they were removed.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the latest selling of the White House breached regulations, but Jessica Tillipman, a government ethics expert at George Washington University Law School, told the UK Independent that Trump profiting from his position was “bizarre and wrong.”
Trump, unlike other presidents, has neither divested from his businesses nor put his assets in a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest.
 
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dank69

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Well we already knew the whole reason he even ran was just for the publicity for his brand so yeah, not all that surprising.
 

dainthomas

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I think it was Mark Cuban who cited shit like this as reasons why Trump isn’t nearly as rich as he claims.

If you really are worth $10 billion why bother with hawking Trump steaks or cheap T-shirts?

We'll find out soon when the IRS hands over his tax returns to congress.
 

BoomerD

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We'll find out soon when the IRS hands over his tax returns to congress.

I, for one, ain't gonna hold my breath waiting...Trump will fight the release through the courts for years, even long after he's out of office.
 

trenchfoot

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I, for one, ain't gonna hold my breath waiting...Trump will fight the release through the courts for years, even long after he's out of office.

And his supporters will be cheering him on doing just that. Never mind that he is attempting to hide what needs to be exposed due to the real concerns of how he and his family have made themselves susceptible toward releasing kompromat to their Putin controlled Russian financiers.
 

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I, for one, ain't gonna hold my breath waiting...Trump will fight the release through the courts for years, even long after he's out of office.
I don't think such a lawsuit has a prayer of succeeding and won't take long to resolve
 
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cytg111

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Imagine the butt hurt if the Clintons or Obamas had done this.

Imagine if Obama had actually ridden out his popularity to the max with no concerns or remorse for the other side .. You could have killed of the "GOP" years ago instead of this pathetic self imposed implosion
 

HomerJS

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I, for one, ain't gonna hold my breath waiting...Trump will fight the release through the courts for years, even long after he's out of office.
We may not have to wait long. Dems demanding the records from Trump's old accounting firm. The firm said just send us a "friendly subpoena" and we will comply. That firm surely has a copy of his tax returns.
 

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We may not have to wait long. Dems demanding the records from Trump's old accounting firm. The firm said just send us a "friendly subpoena" and we will comply. That firm surely has a copy of his tax returns.


I would want to see his 2018s.. I would like to know if he is collecting anything from Mar-a-lago..

If he is then compare the rates for normal guests and rooms he is charging the SS.
 

Viper1j

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I would want to see his 2018s.. I would like to know if he is collecting anything from Mar-a-lago..

If he is then compare the rates for normal guests and rooms he is charging the SS.

You REALLY think anything in Trumpworld could be called "normal"?
 

Homerboy

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I saw this somewhere before a few weeks ago. I thought that article/show/person/thing said it was actually illegal?
Or was that the presidential seal I'm thinking of?
 

nakedfrog

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I saw this somewhere before a few weeks ago. I thought that article/show/person/thing said it was actually illegal?
Or was that the presidential seal I'm thinking of?
Maybe you're thinking of the golf tee markers, mentioned in the post. I hadn't heard about that.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/presidential-seals-for-trump-golf-course_n_5a9d75d7e4b089ec353d7ec4
I found this amusing though:
Similar plates bearing a family coat of arms are already in use at Trump golf courses. (The New York Times reported last year that the Trump family’s coat of arms actually belonged to another family ― though it has been modified, including by replacing the word “Integritas,” Latin for “integrity,” with the word “Trump.”)
 

kage69

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Image isn't meaningless, but it's paramount for small, selfish minds. After how republicans shat themselves over Obama wearing a tan suit, I don't even want to guess what they'd have done had he resorted to something as sleazy and clearly wrong as what Trump is doing here.

I had this shameless self promotion spun to me yesterday as just a love of capitalism meeting opportunity. I told that person to fuck off.

This "The Orange One Can Do No Wrong" bit is really getting tiresome.
 

senseamp

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Remember when Republicans threw a fit over Clinton hosting some donors at the Lincoln bedroom?
 

trenchfoot

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Remember when Republicans threw a fit over Clinton hosting some donors at the Lincoln bedroom?


Or Obama's way too numerous golf trips and his outrageously expensive and totally unnecessary and untimely vacations to his childhood hometown in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

But absolute silence on Trump's regularly scheduled golf safaris down south and every other excess he deems necessary to uhhh, you know, MAGA or some other shit he makes up.