10/17/19: If the Kurds were getting massacred by the Turks, that was fine with Mr. Trump because he still had good news. The U.S. government had determined that the best spot in all the fifty states to hold next year’s G-7 summit would be Trump National Doral golf club, just outside of Miami.
What a surprise!
In a boffo performance before an audience of admiring reporters, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney explained how Doral wasn’t the “only place” the meeting could have been held, “just the best place.” He promised the president wouldn’t profit during the G-7 summit. Trump would never do such a thing.
According to ProPublica, however, when government officials stay at Mar-a-Lago they can be charged as much as $546 per night for a single room. In one case, members of Team Trump sent taxpayers a bill for 54 drinks in a Trump-owned resort bar, at a total cost, with tip, of $1,076.
That’s $18.62 per.
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All this for only $546 per night. Drinks extra. |
POSTSCRIPT: Speaking at a white tie dinner that evening, Gen. Mattis introduced himself as a man who had “achieved greatness.” “I mean, I’m not just an overrated general, I am the greatest, the world’s most overrated general,” he laughed. He said he was “honored to be so considered by Donald Trump, because the president also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals.” (See: 10/10-14/19.)
Did it bother him to be insulted by the president, Mattis said he had been asked? He made it clear it did not. “I earned my spurs on the battlefield. Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor.”
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