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Miles Archer

(23,940 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2026, 09:04 AM Tuesday

A $400 MILLION broken promise is one big f*cking broken promise. I'm not convinced that America, at large, "gets it" [View all]

I think that if I did a poll here on how many people actually believed that Trump would build his $400 million monument to his own ego "exclusively from donations," there would be few takers.

I remember when that creepy little worm with the home perm, Zuckerberg, SCAMPERED out to Mar-a-Lago, $1 million in hand, for Trump's inauguration.

The topic of "questionable donations from foreign entities attempting to buy influence" came up.

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg & Thiel could split that $400 without breaking a sweat. Just dip into the windfall they got from their billionaire tax cuts in Trump's Big Bullshit Bill.

I know outrage on DU has been high. But in the "real world"...even among my Facebook friends who are anti-Trump, and politically aware / active, I'm, not seeing the outrage.

After dramatic and unconscionable cuts to healthcare, food assistance, veterans' benefits, education, the environment, and more. America seems to be unaware of or indifferent to REPUBLICANS ADVOCATING HANDING TRUMP $400 MILLION of our tax money when the ACTUAL amount we SHOULD be paying is ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS.

I think DU "gets it."

Outside of DU? Not so much.

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