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Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:26 PM Apr 2025

How does Trump personally make large sums of money from the tariffs?

He does nothing that does not benefit him directly.

Bribes, extortion cash, shorting the market, etc etc?

What else?

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JBTaurus83

(872 posts)
1. All of the above?
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:27 PM
Apr 2025

People from other countries will stay at his hotels, buy Mar-A-Lardo memberships, spend at his golf course etc, in order to get his ear on various tariffs. Just one of my guesses based on his first term.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
2. Idiots who believe tariffs will make us all rich trading among ourselves, helped elect trump. That's what he got.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:31 PM
Apr 2025

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
4. Like when the Pope used to sell indulgences.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:48 PM
Apr 2025

Exemptions for sinners, promises of not going to hell for wrong doing.

Ocelot II

(129,011 posts)
5. Pretty much.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:52 PM
Apr 2025

Yesterday Cory Booker nailed his ninety-five theses to the White House door, and a Reformation is coming.

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
6. Yep the indulgences led to the protestant reformation.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:55 PM
Apr 2025

Here's hoping history repeats itself.

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
10. Ocelot was making a humorous and clever reference to Martin Luther nailing 95 theses
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:06 PM
Apr 2025

to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517.

It was a pivotal event in history, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and is a symbol of resistance against the Roman Catholic Church.

It is an allegory, a metaphor for Booker's speech, who is offering resistance to the Trump regime. Ocelot did it cleverly by incorporating my comparing Trump's cash tariff exemptions to the pope selling indulgences.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
11. Yes, I appreciate the allegory...
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:53 PM
Apr 2025

...and thought perhaps there were specific points -- sorted out from 25+ hours of oratory -- that could stand alone as a short list (not 95) of key points or indictments. Something perhaps rhetorically succinct and yet evocative of Luther's challenge to the corrupt status quo.

In any event, Bravo Senator Booker!

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