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CousinIT

(9,244 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 09:09 AM Jun 2020

Trump running gov't like Trump org: small, tight criminal family enterprise w/ no one else involved.

Trump is running this like the Trump organization, a small, tight, criminal, family enterprise with as few people involved as possible.

https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/06/melania-trump-leads-fema-briefing-on-hurricane-preparedness-and-people-have-questions/

The first spouse, whether woman or man, has no official duties nor title in the United States. There are a million good policy reasons to keep it that way. If one absolutely must put a family member in government, make it official and appoint a spouse to a specific position for specific purposes. The spouse is not supposed to simply take on duties that belong to the presidency under any circumstances.

This tweet below should leave us all breathless and afraid.

Trump wants a government where his daughter is a senior adviser who speaks in official meetings, his son-in-law is perhaps the second most powerful person in the White House and runs programs, his kids work as campaign officials, with their wives and girlfriends getting paid, and now Trump’s idiot, spoiled brat, unsmiling, miserable, “wife,” is being “briefed” by FEMA on hurricane preparedness. In other words, Trump is running this like the Trump organization, a small, tight, criminal, family enterprise with as few people involved as possible.

Like everything “Trump,” the event didn’t happen until she advertised it with self-satisfied tweets.



At yesterday’s @fema briefing w/ @FEMA_Pete & @RedCross I was updated on #hurricane preparedness resources & tools vital to the safety of the American people. Emergency preparedness can best be achieved when every level of gov't is engaged, along w/ communities & families.
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Trump running gov't like Trump org: small, tight criminal family enterprise w/ no one else involved. (Original Post) CousinIT Jun 2020 OP
We Knew Coming Into This That Trump Would Run Things Like He Does His Corporation...... global1 Jun 2020 #1
Yep, bankrupting everything soothsayer Jun 2020 #4
Another photo-op. theaocp Jun 2020 #2
He is trying to create a kingdom where his family replaces him. Evergreen Emerald Jun 2020 #3
+1 2naSalit Jun 2020 #5
Mob. fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #6
I see it as he's running out of friends/allies tinrobot Jun 2020 #7
What the flying fuck samplegirl Jun 2020 #8
Ignore The Virus Deaths... ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #9

global1

(25,247 posts)
1. We Knew Coming Into This That Trump Would Run Things Like He Does His Corporation......
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 09:13 AM
Jun 2020

We were told that right from the beginning.

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)
3. He is trying to create a kingdom where his family replaces him.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 09:16 AM
Jun 2020

This is about his attempt, with the help of Putin, to destroy our democracy and put his family in power.

tinrobot

(10,899 posts)
7. I see it as he's running out of friends/allies
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 09:45 AM
Jun 2020

So many people have blown the whistle on him, he no longer trusts outsiders. Nearly everyone is getting shut out.

It's a double edged sword, because, with no close allies in government, he's easier to take down.

ProfessorGAC

(65,034 posts)
9. Ignore The Virus Deaths...
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 12:21 PM
Jun 2020

...110k & counting, the out of control cops, the riots caused by agitators...
Ignore the lack of preparedness for the pandemic.
This time, we're really, really ready!
No wonder she married into the family of dolts.

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