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Guests reportedly spent $1,000 per ticket for a New Year's Eve party held at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where President Trump was originally expected to attend but skipped due to the ongoing partial government shutdown.
When the event was announced, Trump was scheduled to be one of the event's featured attractions, but he instead remained in Washington because of the shutdown.
Tickets to the event went for $1,000, according to the Huffington Post.
The president initially planned to spend 16 days at the resort with his family for the holidays, as he did last year, but last month said he would remain in the nation's capital if Congress could not reach an agreement to avert the shutdown.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/guests-paid-dollar1k-per-ticket-for-mar-a-lago-new-years-eve-party-trump-missed-due-to-shutdown/ar-BBRG0LF?li=BBnb7Kz
You know what they say about a fool and his money.
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 1, 2019, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)
He'd knock his own grandmother into the street to pick up a dime.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)big stories that were missed this year, that he NEVER really built an empire at all. He took millions and millions from his father. He bilked municipalities because he didn't pay taxes (through abatement or just out-lawyering). He fooled NBC into hiring him for the Apprentice. He didn't pay contractors and workers. He was never ever a business man - he was a business broker. Really, a lot like Romney, but to the nth degree
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)was created by Donnie's paternal grandmother. A woman.
A widow when she started out on it, her husband had been renting out a couple of houses, she grew a business in real estate, and made her son, Fred, work with her.
Trump was savvy enough to learn the bankruptcy game.
You'll notice
"bankruptcy" is portrayed as bad when we peons do it, and in fact Congress has added laws to make it even more difficult.
but business bankruptcy is wayyy different, you can actually make money on it.
Trump brags he never puts his own money into a deal. He is very good at getting people to give him money, then he stiffs them if he can.
One story: he borrowed few million from CitiBank, when the time to repay drew near, he got them to give him MORE loans.
when eventually the whole thing was due, he sued them, saying " you knew I couldn't pay it back, you should have never loaned it to me"
I knew a woman once who tried that line on a real estate company, no money, not much credit, and less sense. they charged her with fraud.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)On Trump on Netflix? I bet you would love it although love it's not the right word.
I think it was his ghost writer that said he was the best self-promoter that ever existed. He created an image that everyone believed sounds like even the bankers. But what is appalling in the documentary is how easily he got tax abatements. Mayor beame was against it but somehow someway he talked NYC officials into it. His first foray into construction on his own was on a hotel and he got a 40 year abatement!! Surely he paid people off.
There used to be a trump family ancestry website and I think it's gone. Do you remember the lady who had no past but helped malaria with her plagiarized speech? The name they gave was the same last name as one of his ancestors. But I don't think it's Fred's mother, I think it was one generation back.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 2, 2019, 02:52 PM - Edit history (1)
The latest is Michael Lews's The Fifth Risk . Fascinating from the first paragraph.
What's the name of the Netflix doc??? I've got streaming now.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Now I am wondering what title I was confusing it with.
Thanks for the heads up of the error.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)what?? he ain't funny, he ain't attractive, he ain't personable, he ain't inspirational... what is the attraction??
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,167 posts)But that's a mighty expensive geek show.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)yes... this film was hot when in college years ago... but we didn't pay... only for the weed we smoked before going
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)He was attractive and mild mannered at the beginning of his career. You can see the progression into megalomaniac. To the point he disgustingly said he didn't want to have sex with a women who had children. (Ivana) And, the reporter said, "but they are YOUR children!"
On Netflix
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They deserve to be conned. On the other hand, it make me sick that the Trump family is making a profit off his presidency. Mueller and the other investigators can't bring down the hammer soon enough.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)There was hardly any food, and the pics showed a paltry small bowl of caviar and a couple bottles of champagne on melted ice.
So far beyond tacky it was embarrassing to even look at the pics.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Is that the one?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It was so bad I felt sorry for the guests who got ripped off.
Interesting thought...wonder how many showed up this time.......
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)to "featured attraction"? I guess a thousand bucks buys a helluvalotta Sno-Caps and Twizzlers.
blogslut
(38,009 posts)irisblue
(33,019 posts)doc03
(35,363 posts)taxpayers paid for??????
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)$94,000 for tents; lighting and miscellaneous bill backs for rented Mar Lago equipment...
Regardless if youd EVER consider attending a Trump-sponsored soirée; youre still paying for it!
spanone
(135,861 posts)fuck him
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)if they ever need any favors from the Grifter-in-Chief, his little Grifties, or his pay-to-play administration
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Mar-a-Lugie has been gigged by health inspectors several times.
Raine
(30,540 posts)then that, very suprising.
PJMcK
(22,047 posts)Yup!
PJMcK
(22,047 posts)To the members of Mar-A-Lago, $1,000 is chump change. These are very rich people who live in the 1% bubble. I'm familiar with many of this type and their political awareness is restricted to taxes and bigotry.
In the end, the money didn't really matter at all.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)due to drumpf's tariff war!
lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)What on earth could one party offer that would be worth that much money? I'm serious???
Probably bunch of old, creepy angry republicans.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)He'll schedule another party, this time at $2000 per person, but this time he'll promise to show up - maybe.
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)rest have us have been getting fucked for some time now