Wait...I get to be President, AND the RNC is paying me to have their Christmas party at my hotel?

[Miles Archer]

"I got your conflict of interest right HERE! HA HA HA HA HA! (uses tiny fingers to point to tiny penis)...Keep making America great again, boys and girls. One day you could grow up to be just like me. Well, not just like me. Only I could be that great. But you could be maybe half like me, so keep shooting for the stars."

The Republican National Committee will host its Christmas Party this year at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the newest property of its newfound leader.

The event, which two GOP sources confirmed to The Huffington Post, is said to be a more exclusive and celebratory affair this year owing to the unexpected election victories enjoyed by the party this November. But in moving the proceedings to Donald Trump’s downtown D.C. hotel, which only opened this past fall, the committee risks furthering the perception that the president-elect is leveraging his newfound political power for private gains.

Trump has yet to announce his plans for handling or transferring his vast business empire once he takes office. But the New York Times reported on Wednesday night that Trump plans to step down from his post while still maintaining a stake in the company.

Such a move will likely leave critics and concerned politicians and observers unsatisfied about potential conflicts of interest. Already, there have been complaints that Trump has carelessly ― if not unethically ― intermingled his business and political affairs. Those first surfaced during the campaign, when he spent millions on his own plane and property, and extended to the first weeks of the transition as he made various calls to foreign officials who resided in countries where the Trump Organization does business.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rnc-donald-trump-party_us_5848cf6ee4b0f9723d003c70

[lonestarnot]

1. The sucking begins.

[Ilsa]

2. Crony Capitalism.

Wow, Half-term-Gov. Sarah Palin got it right.

But no one could have foreseen this, right?

[Miles Archer]

4. On the L-O-N-G list of things about this "Presidency" that's making my head explode...

...would be things like Palin calling Trump out over the Carrier deal, and the George W Bush "miss me yet?" meme coming home to roost.

Didn't we expect Palin to toss up a word salad praising him for bringin' them thar jobs back to freedom-lovin' America? What the hell happened with THAT?



Part of me wants to believe the next four years can't possibly be as bad as they're looking right now.

And that belief would be about as clueless as the voters who believed that Trump is going to "make America great again."

[TheBlackAdder]

9. How does she resolve the sudden love of Putin and his KGB/GRU operatives in the Rep. party?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. The art of the deal, indeed. He's cashing in on this bigly.

[2naSalit]

5. Suddenly, after the election

there seems to be a whole lot more business going on at that place... it was being boycotted prior to that. He's also having us foot the tab for all these f'ing meetings and parties. Screw them, I sure hope instant karma comes to party with them.

[Cha]

6. Yes, I 2nd your hope..

it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of sociopathic perverted thieves.

There were/are regular citizens boycotting anything with the trump name.. these guys are his lackies and will be only to glad to yuck it up with hair fuhrer.

2nasalit~

[2naSalit]

7. yukking it up

at OUR expense, of course.

Ugh, I need to get back to horizontal. I had to get up and walk around and decided to see what's going on, now I think I don't want to know until I have a cup of coffee to help ease the misery.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. He'll give them a Trump discount. The $30 shrimp cocktails are only $65 now. Tap water is $1 a glass