Yes, the $110B arms deal figure is made up, cobbled together from past deals and hypothetical ones in the future.
But more importantly for him, he sees the Saudis as future Trump real estate investors
Dictators are some of my favorite people.
but it’s unclear where that number came from, nor what specifically he was referring to.
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Yeah we know. They apparently tortured him for something like 7 minutes with that bone saw but Trump doesn’t want to “rush to judgment.”
The utterings of an orange buffoon… sigh…
“President Trump takes brave stance, relying on personal moral code for guidance”
C’mon everybody, just relax! Whether a failed businessman wants something or not is a perfectly valid basis for international diplomacy.
He is sanctioning murder in the name of non existent arms sales that have half a million nonexistent jobs attached to them. What an embarrassment to humanity. He cannot stand up to the Saudis because he perceives them to be his friends.Trump is a soulless immoral coward.
it’s unclear where that number came from, nor what specifically he was referring to.
Matt has to come out of his protective bubble in the fact and logic universe if he wants his comments on Trumpisms to be taken seriously.
Dropping the pending arms sales to SA would only affect ~1000 jobs in the USA. Trump says 500,000 jobs! Not surprising. What is disgusting is that probably >50% of Americans believe what he says. The problem is American citizens who are committed to maintaining their ignorance out of greed and cowardice. Here is the real USA employment impact with regards to SA arms sales:
Those bone saws are difficult to control. It just got away from their control, so it was an accident. I feel better about Trump letting them off now.
Yeah “Bad Bone Saw! Bad bad!”
“I don’t want to walk away”
Hey, Donald! Just ask your Saudi BFFs for their “Bone Saw Daily Special”. You won’t have to worry about walking anywhere at all, since you’ll be shipped to your location in 37 separate FedEx packages.
What he doesn’t want to walk away from is the biggest influence-peddling scheme ever seen in the history of the world.
That Russia distraction was working so well. Now the lid’s off the actual mother lode. Those Saudi boys just had to go mess it up with enhanced hazing. But no collusion.
So Trump is asserting the jobs that will be created via Saudi contracts will cause a 25% increase in total defense contractor employment, and eventually represent fully 20% of all defense contractor jobs.
Yeah it might screw up your personal finances and your penchant to use your position for personal gain.
Country be damned, we get it
The Saudis are ISIS with money.
Barron’s had an interview with some predictor who pointed out that Trump insisting that NATO countries spend more on defense was a boost for US defense contractors, and making money for US defense contractors is likely a motivation for his obsession with those increases.