It’s not clear if there are any precedents, nor whether [self-respecting] government lawyers would give the green light to accept Adelson’s or anyone else’s donations for the embassy.
There still working out the details on the names.
Trump & Adelson MAGA Building
or
Adelson & Trump Jerusalem Building
Could go either way.
Other People’s Money - military parades, embassies, what’s next?
@bluinmaine How about: Toad Hall?
This is how pathetic America has become. No matter what your thoughts about America opening an embassy in Jerusalem, the idea of some billionaire paying for it is an insult to a once rich and proud superpower.
The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem
In further news:
*It will be called the Trump-Adleson complex. The signage will dominate the local skyline, and there will be slot machines on the main floor. There will be a new subway stop at the location named in honor of Addleson.*
What a spectacularly bad idea. Just when you think he’s reached the bottom of the barrel, he punches through and goes even lower.
Maybe he should think about covering Bibi’s legal bills for his corruption trial instead.
Diplomacy For Sale. Politics For Sale. The Presidency For Sale. The Government For Sale.
How many more years can the decrepit Adelson use his shitty ill-gotten Chinese casino billions to screw up our country? I can’t wait to dance on his grave, what a destructive and despicable character!
Not grandiose enough. I’m thinking more along the lines of:
Adelson & Trump Diplomatic Tower International - Jerusalem
This is great! The casino floor alone is going to be spectacular, and don’t get me started on the “Gentlemen’s Club” out near the chancery building…
O my what goodies the super rich can buy. Boats.
Real Estate.
Influence.
As a Jew, I’d like to:
- Apologize for Sheldon Adelson; and
- Respectfully request that you direct all pogroms directly at him.
How about The Sheldon & Miriam Adelson Lets Conduct a Preemptive Nuclear Strike Against Iran to Strong Arm the Entire World to Accept the Likud’s Land Grabbing Poilcies I Have Lavishly Funded Building?
I hereby add Sheldon Adelson to the list consisting of Chuck Grassley, Donald Trump, Orrin Hatch, Wayne LaPierre, Oliver North, Elliot Abrams, Roger Stone, Both Koch Brothers and Benjamin Netanyahu.
And (raising my right hand) Pledge to get shit faced drunk the moment I hear of their respective demises, no matter the hour of the day, night, or early morn (channeling the Pony Express and US Postal Service pledges).
I have been a moderate, social drinker my entire life (well, except for a couple of occasions in late high school…and that time in college when we added grain alcohol to our already overproof rum infused punch) so I feel my sixty year old liver is well prepared to perform under this Pledge.
Sure, why not take Sheldon Adelson’s Chinese Casino Mob Money and use it to destabilize the entire Middle East?
I’m sure that somewhere in there is a promise from Adelson to intervene with the Chinese Mob to convince them to allow Trump to build his “Trump Casino and Hotel” in Macau like he has been trying to do for over 20 years. That way he can just PRINT MONEY like Adelson does with his Macau properties. Adelson was BANKRUPT before he partnered with the Chinese Mob to build and run his Macau properties, which now generate $$$ Billions per year for him in profits, which he re-invests in buying up Politicians in the US to do his hard-core Zionist bidding. US Reich-Wing Politicians flock to his Vegas Casino to kiss his ring every election cycle and Hoover up his campaign cash so this makes perfect sense.
In Israel his FREE daily hebrew-language newspaper “Israel hayom” has demolished all other media and shamelessly supported Netanyahu in all things (as long as he continues to support Adelson’s prefered apartheid policies and unfettered expansion of the “Settlers” into Palestinian areas.)
Just when you thought that wanting to arm teachers was the lowest he could go. This whole plan is so effing stupid and dangerous it’s almost beyond belief. (I say dangerous because embassies are a different kind of target from consular offices. Clearly no one has considered the details of the additional security that would be required to just add offices for the ambassador and a few staffers, and, thanks to the destruction of the state department senior roster, no one will.)
I have been a moderate, social drinker my entire life (well, except for a couple of occasions in late high school…and that time in college when we added grain alcohol to our already overproof rum infused punch) so I feel my sixty year old liver is well prepared to perform under this Pledge.
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I’ll pony up the cremation urn. 