The credulity with which people are greeting these "deals" is absurd. These countries just say "We'll invest eleventy trillion dollars in the US!" to give Trump something he can claim as a victory. If 1/100th of it ever happens it'll be a shock. It's all fake.
another day another maga circle jerk
Reality TV. Tfg's Art of the Steal.
Trump loves lies whether he’s telling them or others, as long as it plays to his ego!
“Eleventy trillion dollars” brought a smile to my face. I need that with all the truly absurd, unethical, illegal, anti-Constitutional behavior being accepted as “normal.”
“Deals”? Deals for what? Deals to line Trump’s pockets? Deals to steal more US farmland?
No. To eliminate Israel, but in a way that still saves Mecca!
Who is stealing it?
Saudis were buying up grain acres and water rights in the west. It’s ended. But with Trump? www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/u...
Middle East business culture w/o a doubt differs in many ways as unidentifiable to us. (Example: Why did they do that?) They have their own "art of the deal". As to Trump: Maybe not done to expose careless greed, but whose to say?
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Hello? Folks? Its sll money going to trump, his avaricious wife, greedy sons, vacuous daughters, and these folks are not stupid. They just decoded the world was theirs and they need us to raise their kids, clean their toilets, mine their coal. Sad,sad times
I'm sure Trump wouldn't just lie. 😉
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If America is truly "first", why is he selling our land and investments to non Americans. Obviously it is not America first but $$$ first..
White House announces Gilligan's Island has pledged 3 trillion dollar investment in infrastructure.
Exactly, the purchases China promised during Trump45 never materialized. All a scam to fool short-attention-span reporters and voters.
The old razzmatazz!
Narcissism 101. Take credit for the promise, but never deliver.
That's why they call it the "art" of the deal. It's meant to free our minds from crass and ugly reality.
Of course he has lined his pockets. It’s money grab for him and he loves the performative actions of the Arabs et Al who can never be trusted.
Pay to play is not democracy. Especially w the payoffs to one man
Exactly
Fake deals, fake president, real asshole.
For proof of this argument, see the first Trump Administration.
Building planes that are high quality and stay airborne may be a superior strategy compared to bribing nations into buying them.
It's Trump doing wat Trump does...Looking out 4 himself n NOT a national interest.🤑🤨
The US economy has become the dt pay to play economy w/ the oligarchs trying to out bid each other just like dt's meme crypto to have dinner w/ him w/ the main entre on the menu is the purchase of the full backing of the US government to the detriment of our democracy.
Remind all of us of the current GDP of Qatar in relationship to their promised $1.2?? How about Apple moving back into US to manufacture their phones? What would happen if aUS company made such misrepresentations of their stock? Would they be fined by SEC (under the Biden SEC I mean)? Dt is lying!
It would be nice to have someone to announce his jail time for the rest of his life.
Lifting sanctions on Syria may make sense but no strings attached makes sense. As I type this David Ignatius is on MSNBC sanewashing what Trump is doing in the Middle East. No critical thinking. Says a nuke deal with Iran would good with no mention of the fact that Trump destroyed the previous deal.
Ignatius is framing Trump’s actions as questioning the status quo as a good thing not as him kowtowing to the Saudis, Qataris, etc. who flatter and enrich him with planes and golf course deals.
We all know it's made for TV it will never come to fruition never
Agree! Why wouldn't they be investing in their own country?
What's forgotten is that Saudi Arabia was supposed to invest $50 billion back in 2016. This new "deal" will go as that one did. It's all bullshit. english.alarabiya.net/business/eco...
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A hallmark of the right wing seems to be extreme gullability.
Trump should sell them the Brooklyn Bridge. That scam is on brand for him and his troglodyte followers…
Trump is like all grifters sounding like a bullshit salesman with a mouth full of samples 🤡
No deals for American people. Just deals to enrich Big Business Corporations. Just deal to keep advancing wars against poor nations. Just another grift to enrich Trump and his family personally.
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That is something I have noticed about Krasnov. He loves doing things to attract headlines to claim a win. Even if a couple of years later, the reality of the situation is something completely different.
They'll invest... In buying our assets, like real estate, t-bills, energy & infrastructure development. And folks worried about Chinese investment in America 🤣🤣🤣🤣
With Trump and his acolytes it is all smoke and mirrors with very little substance except what he is giving away that we don’t know about!!
MAGA will cheer it on. Ask any of them—they’ll tell you Trump is the greatest dealmaker, bringing money to the U.S. like no one else.
hehe then ask MAGA how much they will se of it?
That’s not the point. The point is, they’ll keep the faith—do whatever he tells them, and vote for whoever he endorses.
Speaking of big money from this region, it would be interesting to look into and report on how well the NEOM project is going. www.wsj.com/finance/saud...
what if everybody gave trump a plane? Would he get to keep them all? If not, why not? why can he keep a plane from Qatar but not from Saudi arabia or uae? can he accept a yacht from kim or a villa from putin on behalf of the US and assume ownership when (if) he retires? what’s the difference?
Just more smoke and mirrors designed to make him look like a master negotiator when he's just the clown in a three-ring circus.
I'll give Trump a trillion if I can get a ride on the Sky Palace.
Shows how easily Trump is bought and they all know it fawning him with lavish gifts and cash. The U.S. President is for sale and the world knows it.
Fake win for a fake president. He’s been a fake all his life. What is America’s excuse? 40% still approve. Is a fake good enough for America? A fake house, a fake car, a fake job… wake up?
Deals for what? It’s important to report what the deal is for ($1.2T in exchange for what?), but most ppl ever actually report that part in the headline.
They are confusing the public rhetoric with the bitcoin movement.
As fake as the “gold” necklace and medal they gave him…
And whatever they do eventually invest will go to Trump, not to the nation.
Trump’s Foxconn “deal” he made in Wisconsin (under a GOP Governor) was a complete disaster. Nothing was accomplished (no jobs and empty commercial buildings) except the village condemned houses and forced people to move.
Yes. The whole point is the announcement and the publicity. From first to last he’s a man of image over substance.
Vapid.
See also: Foxconn
Does Qatar have even half that kind of money? Do today's establishment journalists/propagandists ever bother to fact check this kind of thing? www.worldeconomics.com/Country-Size...
Qatar's "Deal" is $1.2T. Qatar's GDP is $213B. So I don't think so.
It will happen around the time Brad Bondi does another 100,000 hours of pro bono legal work.
Are you questioning this administration's math skills? Who am I to doubt numbers from this administration. After all, according to Pam Bondi, our president saved 258 million lives from all of his Fentanyl busts. He is an amazing man.
Her brother claimed that he gave 100,000 hours of pro bono work as a lawyer. Over a 25 year career that would amount to about 11 hours per day 7 days a week. Not sure how the dude got so wealthy working for free, but hey…
He is clearly a workaholic who never slept.
I, for one, am grateful that 3/4 of the US population was saved from certain death by Trump. That was a close one! 😮
I am also grateful that he has already negotiated 200 trade deals. I can't wait to see what concessions he got from the penguins, who have been ripping us off for decades.
The art of the fucking grift
Well, it certainly won't go to the US. Maybe into Trump coffers tho.
The middle east know that their return on investment will be profitable. The first investment they are making is stroking Don's ego. After that they won't have to use money to get a profitable ROI. Don is too lazy to make sure we get the investment money promised.
Yes, but only trump and his MAGA enablers seem to be forgetting, conveniently, about 9/11. I fully agree this is a Saudi Trojan horse and those weapons, 142 BILLION worth, are going to start the war trump always thinks he needs.
They should pull a Trump on him: Agree to all that, then not pay up.
How true.
Given that the UAE's entire GDP is only $500 billion. They are not giving 2 1/2 of the GDP to the U.S. in investment. Its all bullshit, non-binding deals with zero detail nor a monitoring process.
Its all garbage.
I pledge $37,451,942,000 if I never have to hear that man’s voice again.
Such bullshit
And the crook personally profits.
Don't the Saudis own a refinery in the US?
What are the details of these so called deals?
... and I'm still waiting for Amazon's behind the scenes documentary on Melania ...
Pledged, vowed. The photo op tour
Worst part is, trump thinks they’re serious!
Sure he did. All in either the future (will never happen) or directly into his very deep pocket.
Forgotten 9-11.
Qatar has been trying to sell its ‘luxury jet’ for years. No buyers, too expensive to fly and maintain. They off loaded one on Turkey now on Trump!!
And not a single legacy media outlet drill down or ask any questions about details. Easy stuff, when, in what increments, what will the investment look like? We've become a punch line to a bad joke.
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I'm not holding my breath.
Iran GDP = $405B, so "opportunity" is 250% of annual GDP UAE GDP = $514B, so "opportunity" is 272% of GDP Saudi GDP = $1068B, so "opportunity is 94% of GDP Qatar GDP = $223B, so "opportunity" is 538% of GDP!! The US would have to pledge $149T to match Qatar's "generosity".
Facts and basic math, the greatest enemy of Trump and his universe of lies and propaganda.
Autocrats thrive where there is ignorance. David Souter made that argument in 2012 about the Constitution. Sadly, American ignorance of the importance of checks, balances, and rights remains.
Yes. Why would anybody trust anything any of these people say!
They know how to please the little orange boy. You Americans must be so......?
Great cartoon! But it should be Mega-yachts(made overseas) as that’s what the billionaires buy with their tax cuts. The last huge tax cut did nothing for our economic growth…
His summit vindication of "success" as prescribed by his mentors. This is what our forefathers strove to protect US from.
All the pomp and circumstance just for King Cheeto. This is what a narcissist wants and needs to survive. He is too stupid to realize he is being played while his hosts are laughing at him right in front of his face. Pathetic PoS! This is so embarrassing to be an American.
All performative, and it’s a bloody boring show.
Trumpers want and need to believe Trump. They put him in office knowing how much of a liar he’s always been and they would rather jump off the cliff than acknowledge his corruption. And they’re too stubborn to admit this even to themselves!
Increased foreign investment would be an increase in the trade deficit, which Trump says he wants to reduce
Why are taxpayers paying for this obvious grift trip?
America First! Amirite?! 🤔
Who cares about money when you’re dead? Cuts in medical research, Medicaid, food allowances. Kicking certain people out of the military, threatening other countries, lack of sensible gun laws, deporting citizens, not giving a crap about women as humans. The list goes on…
B-B-B-BULLSHIT!!!
So if it's so unbelievably good and they ate investing trillions, why can't we can't continue to feed the poor and have health care ?
Who do these "deals" benefit?
He did the same in 2020. China to buy over $200B “more” stuff. They bought less than before he started tariff war. No enforcement. Congress makes trade deals, not the host of The Apprentice.
I think what you mean is that Congress ratifies trade deals, such as the USMCA. Treaties, including trade agreements, are negotiated by the executive branch, and then ratified by Congress.
The Trump Administration and Presidency is not just corrupt but openly for sale. Every warning about Trump were woefully inadequate, it has become far worst. $Billions of grift. Dismantling of checks and balances. No over site. Targeting of political rivals. Ending alliances and trade agreements!
He's too stupid to realize he's being played like a fiddle. They know how to stroke his fragile ego and make him giggle with joy.
He's not being played, he will be getting his bribe money. It's the US citizens who are getting screwed. bsky.app/profile/angr...
All a game - give Trump the opportunity to boast about a big win, you get something now. They have his number.
if only the press called it what it is scripted bullshit
Many question: What do these pledges and vows even mean?Pledged trillions for what exactly? Is it all for new Trump golf courses in our national parks? Is this Middle East AID for the US, the way we used to have USAID to help underdeveloped nations?
He belongs in jail and maybe he can take up his father’s old cell.
Concepts of an agreement. This is no different than the big beautiful Foxconn deal in Wisconsin that was a bust from trump 1.
Has everyone forgotten Foxconn?
The Art of the Deal… …the abstract edition.
What are the deals? Besides Qatar ordering 160 planes over 10 years from Boeing. Which Boeing can't even handle their current orders now. Selling more secrets to the Saudis?
He reminds me of Billy Crystal’s Fernando on SNL. “It’s better to look good than to feel good”.
I take this time to announce i'll be giving 1 trillion dollars.
Why are all these deals coming from Monarchy's... Seems pretty shady when your major investors are all authoritarian regimes.
eleventy trillion, that's a lot. yuge.
Do you mean to say Qatar isn’t actually investing 6 times their annual GDP?
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Just like the Foxconn deal in his first term. We should have known by the name alone Fox”con”! www.reuters.com/business/fox....
I don’t need an investigation, just announce you are opening one…
Where are the contracts or treaties? That's like calling the prayer line and pledging a million bucks.
And not for nothing but...enriching HIM isn't the same as enriching us.
like the trash plane, or the fake tiger fur he got from the saudis in his first term. they’re just beclowning him and he sops it up.
Sounds like a Jerry Lewis telethon of pledges
Glad there were NO STRINGS attached to that “FREE” plane! Right?
Deals with the ARCHITECTS of 9/11! WTF?
America! Fully sponsored by the Middle East- “Need help controlling your women? Just call the Saudi’s for tips!” I wonder if the billboard has been ordered for the Whitehouse lawn yet?
does nobody remember the $10 billion FoxConn plant trump said would bring thousands of jobs to Wisconsin? don't believe him or the people he's gotten to announce deals it's all fiction (unless it was a plan in place before he took office)
I live inWI. The site is the best $10B parking lot to be had. Lots of guilt lies on ex- gov Scott Walker as well as trump. Scott also destroyed the wonderful UW college system. Shameful.
...while Americans still wait for Democrats to emerge from their comatose stupor. Of 10 years.
All these so called "deals" exceed these countries GDP. Imagine the US pledging to invest 2 or 3 times our GDP in other countries. Everything about Trump is lies, everything.
