24 May 20
Private citizen Donald Trump's golf courses are open for business again, even as many other businesses remain closed; see the following article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/trump-golf-clubs-reopen-coronavirus/index.html
Does this not constitute an abuse of the power of the office of the president, unfairly financially rewarding him compared to others whose businesses remain closed?
I won't ask whether this might constitute an impeachable office, since it is obvious that the Republican-controlled Senate would not convict him even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue.
24 May 20
@moonbus saidWow. You could go on and on with this issue, moon.
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Yes but why golf and not tennis, or any of hundreds of other sports venues in which Trump has no personal stake?
Why is it that churches were closed in some states while you could buy alcohol and lottery tickets?
These are not federal guidelines.
@earl-of-trumps saidThings essential
Wow. You could go on and on with this issue, moon.
Why is it that churches were closed in some states while you could buy alcohol and lottery tickets?
These are not federal guidelines.
1. Abortion clinics, the only elective surgeries allowed
2. Liquor stores
3. Pot houses
4. Wal Mart
5. Golf courses (depending where and who you are)
Things not essential
1. Churches
2. Small business owned stores
3. And pretty much everything else.
And Moon can't see what the real scandal here is in terms of favoritism, all according to the Progressive playbook.
But as they said in the book Animal farm, "All animals are equal, but there are some of them that are more equal than others."
Moon baby, are you essential?
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24 May 20
@moonbus saidLMFAO!...you poor fool.
Private citizen Donald Trump's golf courses are open for business again, even as many other businesses remain closed; see the following article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/trump-golf-clubs-reopen-coronavirus/index.html
Does this not constitute an abuse of the power of the office of the president, unfairly financially rewarding him compared to others who ...[text shortened]... s that the Republican-controlled Senate would not convict him even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue.
@moonbus saidAs I understand it, the clubs that have reopened to the public are in compliance with local regulations.
Private citizen Donald Trump's golf courses are open for business again, even as many other businesses remain closed; see the following article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/trump-golf-clubs-reopen-coronavirus/index.html
Does this not constitute an abuse of the power of the office of the president, unfairly financially rewarding him compared to others who ...[text shortened]... s that the Republican-controlled Senate would not convict him even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue.
But for sheer chutzpah:
President Donald Trump, who in 2014 attacked Barack Obama for golfing during an Ebola outbreak that ultimately took the lives of two Americans, hit the links on Saturday as the number America deaths attributed to coronavirus neared 100,000.
Trump traveled Saturday by motorcade from Washington, DC, to Sterling, Virginia, locales in which stay-at-home orders leave golf off limits to regular residents. It was his first golf outing since March 8, but also his 250th as president. As he often does, Trump played at one of his own courses, a practice that helps promote his floundering hospitality business and forces the Secret Service to spend taxpayer funds at Trump properties.
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/05/record-deaths-trump-golfing-bush-obama/
Apparently the taxpayers have to rent golf carts for the Secret Service agents at these Trump golf courses.
https://twitter.com/JamesGleick/status/1264362597433913345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1264362597433913345%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fgod.dailydot.com%2Ftrump-golf-100k-death-toll%2F
Remember all this income goes directly to a business Trump owns. Just for laughs, here's what the US Constitution says:
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Article II, Section 7
Trump: an impeachable offense every day.
24 May 20
@averagejoe1 saidSure, it's just another day when he publicly and explicitly violated a provision of the US Constitution.
Let's second-guess the President once again!!! We can spar for months!
Nothing to see here.
24 May 20
@whodey saidIn your list of things not allowed you have "Small business owned stores", in your list of essential things you have "liquor stores" and "pot houses" both of which might be small businesses. As might the Golf course. You've also missed out small grocery stores and, as I understand it those "oh so essential" gun shops, which might also be small businesses. So I think your point is internally inconsistent.
Things essential
1. Abortion clinics, the only elective surgeries allowed
2. Liquor stores
3. Pot houses
4. Wal Mart
5. Golf courses (depending where and who you are)
Things not essential
1. Churches
2. Small business owned stores
3. And pretty much everything else.
And Moon can't see what the real scandal here is in terms of favoritism, all according to ...[text shortened]... equal, but there are some of them that are more equal than others."
Moon baby, are you essential?
24 May 20
@no1marauder saidObama? I asked you to not write about Obama!! Barr is apparently letting him go, so why rap about him?
Sure, it's just another day when he publicly and explicitly violated a provision of the US Constitution.
Nothing to see here.
24 May 20
@deepthought saidI say lets second-guess all of it, I have all day. Hmmm, what is Flynn thinking right now.......
In your list of things not allowed you have "Small business owned stores", in your list of essential things you have "liquor stores" and "pot houses" both of which might be small businesses. As might the Golf course. You've also missed out small grocery stores and, as I understand it those "oh so essential" gun shops, which might also be small businesses. So I think your point is internally inconsistent.
25 May 20
@averagejoe1 saidDo you think it is right that private citizen Trump profits from public servant Trump’s office?
Let's second-guess the President once again!!! We can spar for months!