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The Velveteen Ocelot

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4. Somehow I can't imagine Il Douche just strolling into Fort Knox

Reply to bagelsforbreakfast (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:22 PM

Jul 2017

and helping himself to a bunch of gold ingots. Even a president isn't going to get away with something like that, any more than he could get away with robbing a bank or knocking off a convenience store. It now appears that a sitting president can be indicted after all for crimes committed while president, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/politics/can-president-be-indicted-kenneth-starr-memo.html , and anyhow who needs Fort Knox gold when you have laundered Russian money?

And there's also the fact that gold is very heavy, and he wouldn't be able to carry much of it out with his tiny hands or in his little golf cart.

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Could Trump become the new GOLDFINGER if he wanted to? [View all] bagelsforbreakfast Jul 2017 OP

He's too fucking stupid to be a Bond Villain! Chasstev365 Jul 2017 #1

Maybe. But he would have to call himself Goldshower instead. hueymahl Jul 2017 #2

Thanks for the big laugh, I needed that. k&r emulatorloo Jul 2017 #3

Somehow I can't imagine Il Douche just strolling into Fort Knox The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #4

Both Goldfinger and Trump cheat at golf... Brother Buzz Jul 2017 #5