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Trump Raged at Slain Soldier’s Funeral Bill: ‘$60K to Bury a F***ing Mexican’
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Well, I don't care at all if you think I'm sad, but you may have missed your point.
If my neighbour offered to buy me lunch I would politely insist on contributing in my own way. I don't really want people to buy things for me. That said, I dislike Trump immensely, he brags about his wealth, and if he offered to pay for something for me because the optics look good, I would absolutely abuse that offer. If it were for my daughters funeral presumably that would occupy my thoughts and I wouldn't politicise it by using my daughters funeral as a way to steal from trump, but there would be no fucks given about the cost.
My point is, "someone" offering to buy me lunch is not at all the same as Trump offering to buy me lunch while interviewing me on TV in the whitehouse because it makes him look good.
Sure, I can understand trying to find ways to 'get' Trump, but seeing something that is still somewhat of an act of generosity as an opportunity to scam someone...
Anyway a) he was probably never going to pay this out of his own personal pocket and b) this just resulted in this family to have to pay for their absurdly lavish funeral themselves
My point is that it wasnt an act of generosity.
He did it because it made him look good.