Jesus wept. These people are the fucking worst. Just despicable.https://t.co/ZDBe79KPD5 pic.twitter.com/zyf1rk3pcS
— Michael Arnovitz (@MichaelArnovitz) May 1, 2017
He’s so frugal! — with his own money, at least.
^^ Toldja
TODAY – Trumps Commerce Secretary: Syrian missile attack was 'after-dinner entertainment' at Mar-a-Lago.https://t.co/niJGbk6z7f
— J?ST?R ? ?CTU?L³³º¹ (@th3j35t3r) May 2, 2017
… Even if the strikes were the “entertainment,” they certainly did cost the president something.
The cost of a Tomahawk missile, per the Navy budget for fiscal year 2017, is $1.355 million. Given that the strike used 59 missiles, that comes out to roughly $79.9 million for just the missiles alone.
Ross’s remarks to the conference were just the latest in unusual public remarks from the Commerce secretary on the Syria strike.
Ross was in the secured conference room at Mar-a-Lago where Trump and other administration officials huddled during the strike, though he’s not necessarily charged with national security interests as head of the Commerce Department…
Nah, not the “president”‘s money! He doesn’t even pay taxes, cuz he’s SMART!
You put Ross’ mug up on a storyboard for an evil plutocrat on Saturday Night Live, and the producers would say ‘Too broad’…
Ladies and gentlemen: Wilbur Ross. https://t.co/uYw5J14OPS
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 2, 2017
… Ross, a billionaire financier, is new to government service. In the lunchtime conversation with David Rubenstein, co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, Ross reflected on his first impressions of public service.
“I’ve been heartened,” he said. “I thought the quality of people in the government was not as high as it has turned out to be. There are actually quite a lot of very good, very serious, very intelligent people wanting to do their best. It’s just they’ve been trapped in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.”
The president’s tax cut proposal has been a hot topic among the business community at this year’s conference. Rubenstein asked Ross whether it was realistic to expect a tax plan to pass this year.
“I certainly hope so,” he said. “God knows Congress has debated the issue enough times. It’s really a question of, ‘Is there the willpower to do it?’ If the Republican side can get itself unified, then it will work, even if the Democrats remain as determined as they seem to be to block any kind of progress.”
As if we needed more of an impetus to ‘block any kind of progress’ that would make these fekkers happy.
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