They both can't be Fredo, can they? Junior and Eric

[GrumpyGran]

15 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Eric Trump told The Washington Post last year that “the company and policy and government are completely separated. We have built an unbelievable wall in between the two.”

OMG, this apple didn't fall far from the tree.

15 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Don’t worry, said Eric, shortly before the Inauguration: “There is kind of a clear separation of church and state that we maintain, and I am deadly serious about that exercise.” Two minutes later, he admitted that, actually, he would be reporting the company’s financials to his father quarterly. (“I talk to him a lot. We’re pretty inseparable.”)

Sad, pathetic and unbelievably stupid.

[GreyhoundFan]

Another "you couldn't make this up" article: "Donald Trump Jr. says he likes India’s poor people because they ‘smile’"

Spoiler

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, is in India this week to promote his family’s real estate empire and more than $1 billion worth of luxury Trump Tower projects in four cities, but he still had time to praise India’s poor for their smiles.

“I don't want to be glib but you can see the poorest of the poor and there is still a smile on a face,” Trump said Tuesday in an interview with CNBC’s Indian affiliate. For the interview, the Trump scion slicked back his hair and donned a dark suit and light blue silk tie. “It is a different spirit than that which you see in other parts of the world, and I think there is something unique about that.”

Trump added, “I know some of the most successful businessmen in the world, and some of them are the most miserable people in the world.”

... < video of the oily one >

Although India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, a rising number of millionaires and a growing market for luxury goods and services, many of its 1.3 billion people still live in grinding poverty. The country had a per capita income of $1,670 in 2016.

Trump, 40, was born and raised in Manhattan and attended prep schools before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, joining his father’s real estate business and appearing on his television program “The Apprentice.” After the election, the elder Trump did not divest himself from the business but turned day-to-day operations of his company to Don Jr. and his middle son, Eric, which has raised concerns about conflicts of interest.

Trump Jr.'s meeting with a group of Russians in 2016 is under scrutiny by investigators looking into Russian influence over the 2016 presidential election.

Trump arrived on his family’s private jet  Monday for a week of schmoozing and dinners with India’s leading business leaders and to wine and dine buyers in the Trump Organization's latest project. The Trumps have a licensing deal with two Indian developers for two towers outside the capital of New Delhi, where flats range in price from $780,000 to $1.6 million and have private elevators and concierge service.

Full-page glossy newspaper ads trumpeting Trump’s arrival also tempted buyers to reserve a flat (paying a booking fee of about $38,000) by Thursday to “join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner” Friday. The buyers' dinner has raised conflict of interest concerns and charges by watchdog  groups.

“These ads illustrate the importance of Trump divesting from his business and the danger brought by his failure to divest. Trump's company is literally selling access to the president’s son overseas,” said Jordan Libowitz, the communications director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is frequently critical of the first family.

Trump Jr. has dismissed charges of conflicts of interest as nonsense and said he hoped to continue expanding the brand’s footprint in India after his father was out of office.

“Few years ago, I said [India] would become our largest [market] because I really believed in the market ... I think it will continue to be the same when I am able to get back in the market and focus on the business side, on new deals again in the future, once my father is out of office,” Trump Jr. said in the CNBC interview.

In fact, he maintained that the family was not being given enough credit for the business they have lost because of the self-imposed restrictions to avoid such perceptions of conflicts of interest.

“It’s sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that," he said in the interview. “For doing the right thing,” he added.

Trump will also give a foreign policy speech titled “Reshaping Indo-Pacific Ties: The New Era of Cooperation” on Friday at a global business summit co-sponsored by the Economic Times newspaper, along with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A State Department spokesman said Tuesday that Trump’s speech was not coordinated with the State Department and that she was not familiar with its contents.

What a douchecanoe.

[onekidanddone]

42 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Trump added, “I know some of the most successful businessmen in the world, and some of them are the most miserable people in the world.”

Does he mean Daddy?

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

“It’s sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that," he said in the interview. “For doing the right thing,” he added.

WHAT? Now they want praise for not cheating? Did these little shits get trophies for showing up at the breakfast table? Or getting dressed in the morning? Brushing their teeth?

If we're going to start rewarding people for doing the legal thing, you'll be way back at the end of the line, Donny Dumbo.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

"U.S. senator probes if embassy officials helped Trump Jr. on speech for India trip"

Spoiler

NEW DELHI — In response to a query by a U.S. senator, the embassy in New Delhi said Thursday that its staff did not advise or assist Donald Trump Jr. on a foreign policy address he is set to give Friday while on a private business trip to India.

The embassy was responding to questions about a letter released Wednesday by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to the U.S. ambassador in India raising concerns about the embassy’s engagement with Trump Jr., who is in India for the week to promote various Trump real estate projects around the country — a trip that has already netted $15 million in sales on Monday alone, according to one of his local partners.

The embassy only provided routine support to his Secret Service detail, it said.

The president’s eldest son is set to give a foreign policy speech at a global business summit in New Delhi on Friday titled “Reshaping Indo-Pacific Ties: The New Era of Cooperation” alongside India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and other high-ranking Indian government officials.

“I am concerned that Mr. Trump’s speech will send the mistaken message that he is speaking on behalf of the president, the administration or the United States government, not as a private individual, or that he is communicating official American policy,” Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote.

“Given the potential to confuse Mr. Trump’s private business visit with having an official governmental purpose, I write to ensure that the U.S. Embassy presence in India will have no role in supporting Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization during his time in India, other than that necessary to provide any security support for the U.S. Secret Service,” Menendez wrote.

A spokesman for U.S. Ambassador Kenneth I. Juster said that Trump is visiting the country as a “private citizen” and that the embassy had only provided routine support for his Secret Service detail, such as booking hotel rooms.

Juster is in the process of replying to the letter from Menendez, who had asked a series of questions including whether embassy staff had briefed or assisted Trump, what steps the embassy had taken to make it clear that Trump is not speaking on behalf of the government and whether the State Department or Bureau of Diplomatic Security had spent any funds on Trump’s trip.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday that Trump was in India as a “private citizen” and that she was not familiar with what was going to be in the speech or how it was put together.

The president’s eldest son, 40, is executive vice president of the Trump Organization, the global family real estate business that President Trump still controls. The company has licensed its name to five real estate projects in India, including residential towers in Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Kolkata and a proposed office tower also in Gurgaon, a suburb of India’s capital also known as Gurugram. Some of the Trump Organization’s local business partners have ties to prominent politicians and have been involved in tax and other investigations.

Unlike his sister and brother-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump Jr. has no official role in the administration, although he attended a meeting with a group of Russians at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign that is the subject of law enforcement and congressional scrutiny.

He has been spending the week in a variety of private lunches and dinners with potential buyers and local business leaders as well as enticing buyers to purchase residences in the latest Trump Towers project in Gurgaon, where luxury flats sell for as much as $1.6 million. Full-page glossy advertisements urged buyers paying a booking fee of about $38,000 by Thursday to “join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner” on Friday. Kalpesh Mehta, one of the local developers, told reporters that they had already sold over $100 million worth of real estate in the towers — $15 million alone on Monday, after the Trump Jr. dinner offer appeared in newspapers.

The buyers’ dinner has raised conflict-of-interest concerns and charges by watchdog groups. Menendez asked whether the embassy will have any role in this event.

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to emails and calls requesting comment, but Trump said in a televised interview at the CNBC affiliate in India that his family had not been given enough credit for the business they have lost because of self-imposed restrictions to avoid such perceptions of conflicts of interest.

“It’s sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that,” Trump said in the interview. “For doing the right thing,” he added.

Critics on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have pointed out that Secret Service agents assigned to protect the Trump sons accompany them on these private business trips to promote the family’s brand name, racking up costly hotel bills and draining the agency’s budget.

In 2017, for example, Eric Trump’s business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $97,830 for hotel stays for the Secret Service plus embassy staff that supported the agents during the “VIP visit,” according to purchasing orders reviewed by The Washington Post.

Catherine Milhoan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said in an email: “As a matter of practice, the U.S. Secret Service does not comment on the specifics of protectees’ trips.”

Published U.S. government rates for hotel rooms in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Kolkata, the cities Trump is visiting, range from a maximum of $273 per night in Pune to $309 in Mumbai.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[onekidanddone]

17 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Because, Obama.

ETA: Okay ew.. she looks like Dump Jr's mom. Seriously what is it with the "look" all these Trump women have to have? And not just their wives, but all the FoxSpews bobble heads as well.

Edited March 14, 2018 by onekidanddone

[fraurosena]

27 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

How reliable is the 'friends say' rumor? Is it really confirmed they've split, or is this just gossip? 

If this is true though, I pity their five kids.

[onekidanddone]

2 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

How reliable is the 'friends say' rumor? Is it really confirmed they've split, or is this just gossip? 

If this is true though, I pity their five kids.

I pity their kids divorce or no divorce. Must be like Lord of the Flies in a Trump household. 

[Audrey2]

We'll, his wife is forty. In Trump years, she's due to trade in for Mrs. Sweet Young Thing Trump 2.0.

[GreyhoundFan]

These aren't very kind, but they made me laugh:

[catlady]

the sad thing is, for all their money and obsession with appearance, neither dress seems particularly flattering.  i have no doubt that both women were (and still are) rail-thin, but the fabric is pulling awkwardly and isn't draping nicely.  if they wanted clingy, they probably could have done a lot better than what they got.  sorry for the BEC, but these people prove that money can't buy taste.  

and is it me and my bad eyesight, or is DJ's boutonniere in the shape of a T? 

 

[candygirl200413]

you are so right @catlady, like how self-absorb do you have to be to have a T shaped boutonniere?! 

[AmazonGrace]

This is a sitcom.

[IrishCarrie]

I love a good conspiracy theory and here's my ten cents worth on this:

Don Jr is going to make an ENORMOUS settlement on his wife during their "divorce". Except it's not really a divorce; it's a way of safeguarding assets by putting them in her name before Mueller brings the whole house of cards crashing down!

 

[Howl]

1 hour ago, IrishCarrie said:

I love a good conspiracy theory and here's my ten cents worth on this:

Don Jr is going to make an ENORMOUS settlement on his wife during their "divorce". Except it's not really a divorce; it's a way of safeguarding assets by putting them in her name before Mueller brings the whole house of cards crashing down!

 

It crossed my mind, but another report said that Junior's life was spiraling out of control.  But that could be planted to make things totally "real" not "fake"...I do feel sad for any children caught up in divorce.  That said, the fear that Mueller has found a live bomb or a smoking gun may be preying on Junior's mind and he's seeing Manafort's life flashing before his eyes.  Sure hope Mueller is generous in sharing Trump financials with the NY AG's office. 

[GreyhoundFan]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

This is a sitcom.

One that would get cancelled after the first two episodes.

[faraway]

That wedding photo has me rolling. 

Color me not surprised about the news. Pretty sure TT and Melania would be divorced by now had he not won. My guess is they'll divorce after he loses in 2020. Ivanka and Jared I don't see lasting either, not even sure why. Oddly enough I think Eric's marriage has the best odds at lasting, his wife seems really crazy and calculating so seems like a good fit for a Trump. So is Jared I guess but I can see Ivanka walking away at some point.

Edited March 15, 2018 by faraway

[Howl]

It's looking official. Vanessa Trump has filed for an uncontested divorce.  

Report: Vanessa Trump Files For Divorce From Trump Jr.

 

[candygirl200413]

I'm surprised he hasn't posted how he wants privacy during this time cause he doesn't deserve it. The only people that do are his children who shouldn't be talked about at all, however their dad is fair game cause he's a POS.

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Rachel333]

 

 

[IrishCarrie]

I was just on Twitter and there's a load of MAGA heads complaining that people shouldn't take the piss out of Don Jr because divorce is awful and he's the president child and deserves our respect etc etc.

The exact same people who called a teenage Chelsea Clinton ugly and called the Obama girls names I'm not even going to repeat.

[AmazonGrace]

Reasons you need a criminal defense lawyer for an amicable uncontested divorce include....

...

...

I can't come up with anything. Please help.

 

[onekidanddone]

17 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Reasons you need a criminal defense lawyer for an amicable uncontested divorce include....

...

...

I can't come up with anything. Please help.

 

Oh geez!  I was trying to come up with a Faux Spews answer and all I could come up with was ....Obama's birth certificate, Jimmy Carter, or ...BENGAZI! 

Seriously, this is some one fucked up family.

Edited March 16, 2018 by onekidanddone