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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 month ago (3 children)

69 years later, Trump is finally going to Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

I hope his bone spurs don't kick in!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, just his organization. He already had what he claimed was his personal Vietnam. It was surviving the 1970s without an STD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s not counting or can’t remember the syphilis that’s been rotting his brain since?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just checked and the US does NOT have an extradition treaty with Vietnam.

[–] whyNotSquirrel 19 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll send this one back regardless.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Honestly I'd hope they'd deal with trump's business scams on their own. 😏

Great country, I hope the USA learns a thing or two from Vietnam like this: https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trial-death-sentence-anticorruption-campaign-943b7ab86e88905ebc7334c13cf123ff

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hope they get their money upfront before they build anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That would be a smart move, given who they deal with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

there are few things more terrifying than owing money to the Vietnamese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No fucking hope. He'll milk all the hopeful sycophants as long as he can and take his nonexistent money somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Someone checked the extradition agreement with Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

The irony of a guy who's literal slogan is to make America great, slapping tariffs to "protect" American businesses, etc... Who is now investing billions in a country on the other side of the world instead of America. Hmmm

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

...while he uses 'communist' as an insult against his opponent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/golf-courses-environmental-impact

The environmental impact on golf courses is huge. This is such a waste, especially now when we are "trying" to fight global warming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where else are wealthy supposed to conduct their highly illegal and immoral dealings far from the public eye?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Why didn't he just divert funds from the hurricane relief for this? /s

Seriously though, as much as he is screaming about it, he already or is planning on using those funds for his own personal gain. I understand that he is sowing discourse to shut these organizations and agencies down, but there has to be more to it. He has to personally benefit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, as long as the Vietnamese firm gets their money up-front, I'm 100% in support of countries taking as much money from the moronic grifter as they can.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My dad worked on forest preservation in Northern Vietnam and conservation of critically endangered species and this kind of project is just going to make things a lot worse.

If you fuck up nature, atleast make the masses reap the short lived benefits, not the wealthy few.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe if we're lucky, they'll forget to bribe the Vietnamese government and get the death penalty and their assets seized, like that one Vietnamese billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh holy shit, I need to get my head checked. My tired brain read North Korea and it made some "sense" in a trumpy way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A place where Chinese and Russian governements can 'invest' in possibly the next president of the USA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~This was his personal Vietnam 2.0~~ This is like 'Nam all over again for his weary soul

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

People watching Bat21 in the future are going to be so confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would suggest to get some references from Tijuana Mexico where they took the money and ran.

Fuckers! You Trumps are just fuckers! Get the fuck out! Go live in the ocean on a boat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Here's a reference:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-baja-snap-story.html

Maybe try trump stakes again fuckers!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vietnam can certainly use the money with China beating up their fishermen. Maybe a few more guns aimed north or boats on patrol.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

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