Not glib at all
How graceful our new royal family is. Don 1 goes to visit survivors of the school shooting and grins like a partying frat boy for the cameras. Don 2 goes to peddle Luxury Properties in India and rejoices at the smiling faces of The Poor.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, is in India this week to promote his family’s real estate empire and more than $1 billion worth of luxury Trump Tower projects in four cities, but he still had time to praise India’s poor for their smiles.
“I don’t mean to be glib about it, but you can see the poorest of the poor and there is still a smile on a face,” Trump said Tuesday in an interview with CNBC’s Indian affiliate. “It’s a different spirit that you don’t see in other parts of the world … and I think there’s something unique about that.”
Let there be a smile on every face! The rich man in his gold-painted penthouse and the poor woman being raped on a bus – let both of them beam a happy smile out on the world. The corrupt fraudulent millionaire and the underpaid domestic worker each can make our lives a little brighter with a happy grin.
Trump arrived on his family’s private jet Monday for a week of schmoozing and dinners with India’s top business leaders and to wine and dine buyers in the Trump Organization’s latest project. The Trumps have a licensing deal with two Indian developers for two towers outside the capital, New Delhi, where luxury apartments range in price from $780,000 to $1.6 million and have private elevators and concierge service.
Full-page glossy newspaper ads trumpeting Trump’s arrival also tempted buyers to reserve an apartment (paying a booking fee of about $38,000) by Thursday to “join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner” on Friday. The buyers’ dinner has raised conflict of interest concerns and charges by watchdog groups.
“These ads illustrate the importance of Trump divesting from his business and the danger brought by his failure to divest. Trump’s company is literally selling access to the president’s son overseas,” said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is frequently critical of the first family.
Never mind all that – just keep smiling.
Has he been reading Mother Theresa? That seemed to be one of her favorite phrases. And she was about as good for India as Donnie Jr and a new monument to glittered excess with the tacky Trump name splashed on it.
” Trump’s company is literally selling…the president’s son overseas…”
Now this I would approve. Maybe some shithole country could purchase him and install him in the Ngorongoro Crater with a porkchop tied around his neck, and invite the Big 5 to come and pay their respects.They could have selfies taken with him, returning the compliment he’s paid them on a number of occasions.
Just desserts? More an hors d’oevres, I’d think.
That’s my kind of Twitter feed.
Such a pity elephants and hippos are herbivores.
But maybe they can help prepare some stompage — just imagine the trophy value of a Trump Stump or a hornied corny on the Darket Market! What an incredible anaphrodisiac! The very thought makes my hair stand upright. No mean feet.
Rrr:
I kinda felt like I was channeling you when I wrote my writ, but I bow to the master!
Nothing like a viciously enforced caste system to insure that the poor know their place.