Just one more thing that should absolutely torpedo any political career, that won’t hurt him at all. His MAGAt cultists probably think that was “speaking the truth” or some stupid shit like that. Anyone who would be bothered by his comments has abandoned him ages ago.
Trump reportedly complained later in the day that these “fucking people” are “trying to rip me off.”
He thinks it’s his money.
I mean, to be fair, at least someone cares about the egregious waste that taxpayers spend their money on just to make rich people rich.
It most certainly should not cost $60k of taxpayer money to bury a soldier. Someone, odds are a small group of interconnected people, is making profit off of fleecing the American public.
The only problem I have with your statement is the implication that the only “someone” is trump.
Everyone should care about waste or excess spending.
He-s mad he’s not in the Funeral business.
Oligarchy 101.
Treat public expenses like it’s coming out your own pocket.
Treat the public purse like it’s your own personal bank account.
Latinos , take notice
they won’t
Trump cultists: “He isn’t racist.”
“You see, he meant it as in: “A mexican that fucks”, which is a totally normal thing to say.”
Yes a totally normal thing to say about a sexual assault victim who was murdered by her assaulter.
And the only thing that matters: “Trump’s little butthole gremlin crawled out of his crack to comment: Lies! Democrat Lies! He never said this!!” and all the Magoos nodded in agreement at the absolute truth provided by an unbiased cult member.
Wtf are funerals that expensive?
It should be noted that the article says it was attended by the mayor and city’s police chief. I’m assuming quite a few more less notable people also came. I would also assume this increases the cost.
The fuck? You don’t have to pay people to attend a funeral…
Especially not with taxpayer money…
You need to provide more things the more people come. Also, when the state is at fault for the death, maybe they should pay for it. However, most of this one was paid for by donations after Trump refused (which I assume would have come from his own money or his campaign money had he not, but IDK), which you’d know if you read the article.
In the US, funeral homes try to get as much money out of you as possible because they know you are emotionally vulnerable. There are exposes on funeral homes having predatory services.
Is there a Ralph’s around here?
They can be, sadly. It depends where you live, where you have someone buried, and what services and coffin and whatnot you get. But yeah, the funeral business in the US is pretty crazy greedy. $60k is definitely on the higher end. According to a quick Google, my state’s average funeral cost is around $8k, with the total cost (including mortuary services, etc) around $20k.
Yeah but it’s gotta be cheaper for Mexicans, right? (/s, obviously)
The hell. What if your wage is 10k a year. Ie. you’re on disability benefits or social security. Will my family have to bury me in the backyard?
Not allowed to do that
But cremation is cheaper
So it’s illegal to die poor
Illegal to live poor too… shitty situation to be in
Have you tried not being poor?
Have I? Yes, yes I have. I live fairly comfortably in a house that I own with a good job to pay the bills. But I volunteer with people that are not in the same situation and it’s heartbreaking. People that can’t afford to pay for unexpected expenses like a car breaking down. So they lose the job then lose their place of residence.
Vets, people with disabilities or even people that messed up early in life can struggle.
We don’t really have a couple thousand saved up to throw at a cremation either. Urgh. Capitalism sucks.
That is the average, not the median. The median looks a lot different (cheaper):
They don’t have to be.
the man is a completely amoral, psycho-sociopathic narcissist
“No, 60k is to bury a DEAD Mexican. The ones fucking generally don’t want to be buried”
How about just jacking off? I don’t want to be buried while jacking off, so you all know.
I’ve made a note in your permanent record.
No! Not my permanent record! So what does it say? Cuz my permanent record is that part from Micheal Jackson’s song …“another one bites the dust…” It just repeats permanently.
So far it just says “don’t bury while jerkin” but I’m afraid that might be interpreted to mean you shouldn’t be buried while I’m jerkin which I guess is still decent advice.
Like he’d pay any bill ever
Aw he’s trying to shout like a lil tough guy but he’s just unhinging that beta jaw for the ol “arnold palmer”, as he calls it.
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican!” Is this trump admitting to murdering mexicans? Or at least knowing how much it cost to bury them afterwards?
Another source, Rolling Stone
For the rest of us.
Thanks MVP
Fuckface 45 is a disgusting pile of burning excrement.
To be fair fuckface 45, is a disgusting, con artist, rapist, mushroom-shaped penis’ed, pile of burning excrement in some wonderful orange make-up that’s totally normal for an 80 year old man. He also loves the phantom of the Opera which is perhaps the most offensive thing about home.
This is not someone killed in battle:
Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.
Somehow knowing the circumstances of her death makes Trump’s awful remark even nastier. Especially since he is a rapist.
Guillén, a 20-year-old American of Mexican ancestry from Houston, was buried in her hometown on Aug. 15, 2020. Months later, in December, Trump reportedly asked his advisers in a meeting, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?"
When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.
Trump says vile things every day but this has to be one of the vilest.
But he definitely doesn’t think the same way about the people voting for him…
It will 100% stop her from immigrating.
That’s the main point I never understood about his voters. His political agenda and your political affiliation don’t even matter. All you have to understand is that everything he does is for his own benefit. Nobody wants an egoist in charge in a smaller setting - why the fuck elect one as president?
It’s as if they all think that they’ll be rewarded for their loyalty to him.
He talks in very “us vs them” styles and it seems like a lot of people respond to that thinking the in group is his supporters. It isn’t, but they’re so sure. And it makes sense, he clearly adores his fans. But the in group is him. Everyone else is at risk of joining the out group on his whim
He talks in very “us vs them” styles
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
Because they think that he will hurt people that they’ve been led to hate.
Damn, he was almost close to making a valid comment about how wildly overpriced funerals are today, then instead went full bore into super racism
How expensive do you think he’d want his own funeral to be?
His casket is gonna have more gold in it than king tut’s. It’ll be expensive as shit.
Can’t wait to be able to pee on that grave. It’ll be like a pilgrimage.
Gotta make sure to take the trip to Rush’s and Kissinger’s, too.
Because he starts with super racism and goes from there.
Super racism. Almost makes ya reminisce over just plain ol’ regular racism, right?
. . . but not Gary, he’s one of the good ones!
I hate this man more than words can express
And yet somehow, not as much as I hate the people who will vote for him.
Trump would be nothing without his enablers. They definitely deserve your loathing first.
I have enough loathing to go around
He followed through with the sentiment too.
The magazine reported that Trump then turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and ordered him, “Don’t pay it!” That order was apparently heeded by Meadows, as the Atlantic reported that Trump never sent a dime to help cover funeral costs for the slain woman.
Back in the '80s Trump publicly offered to pay the funeral expenses of a child killed by a bear … and then reneged, naturally.
It’s absolutely vile to invite the mother to the white house, offer to pay, and then later rescind that offer.
If he’d never offered it wouldn’t matter.
This is just so so abhorrent, even for trump.
Racism aside, if I offered someone to help pay for a funeral, I’d choke in my coffee too if I the bill said $60.000 .
This is pocket change for Trump.
Allegedly.
Sure, and all disrespect for trump but say I’m rich and crash my car into your fence and tell you “it’s fine just send me the bill”, there’s a difference when that bill turns out to be 60k
Sounds a bit like the family chose the 'Royale" because of his promise
Yes, but you wouldn’t:
- offer to pay
- without any stipulations
- while on TV
- while in the white house
- as a person that brags about their wealth
- for a funeral
- of a military person
- in a high profile murder
Any idiot could see that the funeral was going to get out of hand.
If Trump said he’d by me lunch it’d be the most expensive lunch in history.
True, but you also wouldn’t have the world’s largest economy and one of, if not the, largest governmental budget in the world like Trump does.
And he also wasn’t paying for it out of his own pocket, it’d come from whatever federal budget covers the costs of military/veteran funerals.
The entire motivation behind this is clearly racism and sexism, plus his overall disdain for veterans/our military in general. Probably stems from a jealousy he has, since veterans tend to automatically be held in higher esteem than grifters like himself, and he knows he could never have handled bootcamp, nevermind the actual military.
He actually did say he was going to pay for it personally, the military might cover some component of it, but it’s in the article saying that he couldn’t reimburse the family through the government:
Natalie Khawam, the family’s attorney, responded, “I think the military will be paying—taking care of it.” Trump replied, “Good. They’ll do a military. That’s good. If you need help, I’ll help you out.” Later, a reporter covering the meeting asked Trump, “Have you offered to do that for other families before?” Trump responded, “I have. I have. Personally. I have to do it personally. I can’t do it through government.” The reporter then asked: “So you’ve written checks to help for other families before this?” Trump turned to the family, still present, and said, “I have, I have, because some families need help … Maybe you don’t need help, from a financial standpoint. I have no idea what—I just think it’s a horrific thing that happened. And if you did need help, I’m going to—I’ll be there to help you.”
So like any other bill.
He pays hookers.
so they don’t leave bad reviews.
Lol
The fact that this election is close makes this all even worse.
Your country is fucked dude.
Bad news: if America goes under everyone goes under. You can’t rip out a backbone of the global markets and expect no fallout.
I almost wrote “and mine’s not far behind”
we’re all fucked, horray!
Oh we do expect fallout, I’ve even been collecting bottle caps.
Behold, first past the post in its natural state!
And this is an american. Republicans should be afraid he can change whatever “american” is whenever he wants.
What’s funny is his dumb brain immediately went with “What are the costs? I can blame the dems for cost” without even considering the circumstances
This is an American actively serving the country.
It’s perfectly emblematic of how Trump doesn’t just ‘other’ people for political gain, it’s built in.
You’re missing a verb but you’re probably right.
Edit: My bad, I misread.
They’re using “other” as a verb. “Othering” people, as in racism
Oh right, sorry, I missed that. Makes sense now - thanks!
I wrapped it in single quotes so it makes more sense. Thanks
At least he said Mexican.
And not…you know…something more racist.
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