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LaMouffette

(2,661 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 07:53 PM Feb 2023

For the thousandth time, thank God Joe Biden is our president and not you-know-who!

Can you imagine Trump's reaction to the Chinese surveillance balloon? He would have been torn!

Traitor Trump would have wanted to assist the Chinese with whatever intelligence gathering they were attempting, maybe even providing a fighter jet escort for the balloon as it floated across the US.

But Toddler Trump would have been gripped by an overwhelming urge to do something exciting and "presidential" and shoot, shoot, SHOOT the thing down, maybe even nuke it, because, after all, what good are the nukes if you can't use them?!

And of course, neither Traitor Trump NOR Toddler Trump would have listened to the top military advisers not to shoot the balloon down over populated areas. What the hell would Trump care if a few hundred or thousands of Americans got injured or killed by falling debris???

Again, thank God Joe Biden, a caring human being, a rational adult, and an actual American, is in the White House.

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rurallib

(64,833 posts)
3. there would never have been a Chinese surveillance balloon had Trump been president
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 08:15 PM
Feb 2023

He would have sent the documents they request directly to Xi

LaMouffette

(2,661 posts)
5. And maybe he already has. I can't believe more hasn't been reported on the China-Trump connection.
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 09:07 PM
Feb 2023

Here's an excerpt from a Forbes article (October 2020):

Forbes Estimates China Paid Trump At Least $5.4 Million Since He Took Office, Via Mysterious Trump Tower Lease

President Donald Trump, who declared “I don’t make money from China” in Thursday night’s presidential debate, has in fact collected millions of dollars from government-owned entities in China since he took office. Forbes estimates that at least $5.4 million has flowed into the president’s business from a lease agreement involving a state-owned bank in Trump Tower.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China signed a lease for space in 2008, years before the president took office, paying about $1.9 million in annual rent. Trump is well-aware of the deal. “I’ll show you the Industrial Bank of China,” he told three Forbes journalists touring Trump Tower in 2015. “I have the best tenants in the world in this building.”

Trump moved from the skyscraper to the White House in 2017, but he held onto ownership of the retail and office space in the building, through his 100% interest in an entity called Trump Tower Commercial LLC. That put him in an unusual position, given that government-owned entities in China hold at least 70% of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Suddenly, a routine real estate deal became a conduit for a foreign superpower to pay the president of the United States.


treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. exactly!
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 09:07 PM
Feb 2023

his incompetence would flare up as usual. The generals would be going nuts as he would refuse to listen to them!

He'd make a sharpie drawing to show how it would work.

NotASurfer

(2,371 posts)
9. Wouldn't shoot it down until it was over a state where they didn't vote for him
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 10:55 PM
Feb 2023

I think Illinois was the only state it went over that voted for Hillary in 2016, so that's where it would have come down. Toddler is petty and vengeful

LaMouffette

(2,661 posts)
11. I'm sure he would have asked his inner circle if that was possible. Anyone who wouldn't take action
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 07:52 AM
Feb 2023

against Covid right away because it was still mainly in blue states is one vindictive em-effer.

LaMouffette

(2,661 posts)
10. Well, well, well! If the news today is true, we don't have to wonder what Trump would have done.
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 07:49 AM
Feb 2023

Now they're saying that at least three Chinese surveillance balloons entered the US during the Trump administration and he kept that kind-of-important-to-our-national-security tidbit of information to himself.

Traitor Trump won out over Toddler Trump because . . . money. At least he's true to character.

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