Grab and Go.

All that is gilded does not shine.

You can't make this stuff up. Something so fitting about the grabbing of fakes and spiriting them away. When you created a world utterly composed of fakeness, would it be the first thing you choose? There before you lies an entire french palace of pleasure treasures...

It's good to be king.

Trump Ended 2018 France Trip Having Art Loaded on Air Force One

“The President brought these beautiful, historical pieces, which belong to the American people, back to the United States to be prominently displayed in the People’s House,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said in response to questions from Bloomberg News.

Trump’s move prompted some hair-pulling and a furious exchange of emails back home between the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations and White House officials who organized the art transfer. Ultimately, because the art is U.S. government property, the move was deemed legal.

... The figurines that caught Trump’s eye found a new home on the fireplace mantel in the Oval Office. Depicting Greek gods, they date to the early 20th century and were made by Neapolitan artist Luigi Avolio, who was trying to pass them off as sculptures from the 16th or 17th centuries, according to London-based art dealer Patricia Wengraf.

Portrait Gallery
In an “Antiques Roadshow” moment, Wengraf described the figurines as “20th century fakes of wannabe 17th century sculptures,” and of little value.

The French art-collection episode comes with a curious footnote. After White House art curators examined the pieces Trump brought home, the president was told that the Franklin bust was a replica. He joked that he liked the fake better than the original, two people familiar with the episode said.

The Franklin portrait snagged from Paris was also a copy -- of the one Joseph Siffred Duplessis painted in France in 1785, which was then held by the National Portrait Gallery a mile from the White House.

The curators removed a different portrait of the founding father from the Oval Office and borrowed the original Duplessis from the gallery. That one now hangs in the Oval, not the replica Trump ferried out of France.

Choose your poision.

Fled wrote:

The stupidity of drawing such false equivalence is obvious.

Even the "stupid" see through bullshite --->Read:  Progressives (misnomer4sure) FOMENTED, PROMOTED & OWN the unrest.




In case it conflicted w/your Shareblue Zoomfest/Critical Race Theory indoc.
Agent Orange:  Naming names & handing it out like a boss.

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Baywolfe wrote:

Well, this should help gun sales, by everybody but his insane cult.

But he "Misspoke".  There ya go, pouring gasoline on the fire, one more time.

I’d love to see coup plotters doing hard time. 



“We all went and purchased professional liability insurance,” one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

“Holy crap,” an agent responded. “All the analysts too?”

“Yep,” the first agent said. “All the folks at the Agency as well.”

“Can I ask who are the most likely litigators?” an agent responded. “As far as potentially suing y’all?”

“Haha, who knows….I think the concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going to do a piece,” the first agent said.

word

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cruelery may already have the copyright.

Last edited by JetRx (2020-09-25 03:00:24)

And they were probably all voters.

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For all of you that don't want to sift through the news, here's the CNN breakdown of 9 takeaways about Trump Inc. from the New York Times.

Trump paid no or little federal income taxes for years
According to the Times, he paid no federal income taxes in 11 out of 18 years the newspaper examined. He also managed to pay federal income taxes of just $750 in each of the first two years of his presidency, 2016 and 2017. The report shed some light on how this was able to happen, namely by the way his businesses reported their earnings.  "Throughout his career, Mr. Trump's business losses have often accumulated in sums larger than could be used to reduce taxes on other income in a single year," the Times reported. "But the tax code offers a workaround: With some restrictions, business owners can carry forward leftover losses to reduce taxes in future years."

Many of his businesses are burning huge piles of cash
According to the investigation, some of Trump's companies are doing well and profitable; others, not so much. Some of his best-known ventures "report losing millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars year after year," according to the Times. That includes his famous golf courses — which have reportedly racked up at least $315 million in losses over the past two decades.  For example, Trump's golf resorts at Turnberry and Aberdeen in Scotland lost over £11.8 million ($15.2 million) in 2018, company records show, and lost money the previous year too. British labor union RMT said Friday that Trump now plans to lay off up to 80 workers at Turnberry, or roughly 17% of its workforce, and cut salaries and working hours despite receiving UK government wage subsidies during the pandemic.  Trump Turnberry did not respond to a request for comment on RMT's claims.

Trump Tower in New York is a major moneymaker
The storied skyscraper, which sits on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, has "reliably delivered more than $20 million a year in profits, a total of $336.3 million since 2000," according to the Times. Trump's stake in two office towers in New York and San Francisco has also worked out well, delivering $176.5 million as of the end of 2018, the publication reported.

Trump's D.C. hotel is not
The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C., which reportedly asked for relief on rent payments earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, has lost more than $55 million since opening four years ago, the Times reported. The property has come under intense scrutiny in recent years amid allegations that Trump was unfairly profiting from his presidency.

Selling his name has paid off enormously
Trump is known as a master of branding and licensing — his merchandise has famously included Trump steaks and water bottles, among other items. The Times found his personal brand strategy to be "the most successful part of the Trump business," earning $427.4 million in aggregate between 2004 and 2018.

That's in large part thanks to 'The Apprentice'
A significant chunk of that money came from "The Apprentice." Before entering politics, Trump hosted 14 seasons of the hit NBC reality show, where contestants duked it out for a position working for Trump. The series boosted Trump's profile, while also bolstering his net income by $197.3 million, according to the Times.

He made money from foreign deals after becoming president
"When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president," the Times reported. "Even so, in his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million."  Trump had extensive foreign business interests before he became president, leading to questions about potential conflicts of interest. As of 2016, for example, his financial disclosures listed more than 140 companies that had dealings in at least 25 countries around the world, according to a CNN review.

Part of his income stems from ambiguous 'consulting fees'
The Times' examination of financial records revealed a pattern of how the president was paid on various projects. "Between 2010 and 2018, Mr. Trump wrote off some $26 million in unexplained 'consulting fees' as a business expense across nearly all of his projects," according to the outlet. It said that the president's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, had also previously appeared to "have received" fees under this designation, despite working as an employee of the Trump Organization.
"Ms. Trump had been an executive officer of the Trump companies that received profits from and paid the consulting fees for both projects — meaning she appears to have been treated as a consultant on the same hotel deals that she helped manage as part of her job at her father's business," the Times reported.

The Trump Organization spans 'more than 500 entities'
The investigation revealed the scope of the family business, which includes hundreds of ventures that are reportedly nearly entirely controlled by the president. Although some of these businesses weren't lucrative, they "still served a financial purpose: reducing his tax bill," according to the Times. For example, "the reported losses from the operating businesses were so large that they often fully erased the licensing income, leaving the organization to claim that it earns no money and thus owes no taxes," the newspaper reported.

JetRx wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Trump paid no or little federal income taxes for years

Rock on El Presidente!!

His Excellency indeed!

So, TDS-afflicted-Never Trumpers are unhappy Agent Orange took advantage of tax laws written by CONgress? Maaahvelous.

Boring. Politics is boring wankers.

Could it be? That would be better.

Posted unironically by a conservative on my feed ...

JetRx wrote:

BTW

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Love the Getty Images tag...   

... your trolling is usually so much more professionally done than that.  You haven't caught the Trump-Virus also have you?

Baywolfe wrote:

SpacePuppy wrote:

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It's because they're all Fags and, as we've been repeatedly told, God Hates Fags.

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Figs either - but I'm not sure I can roll with the "christian-desperate-for-daddy" approach of "Any port in a storm" either...

Progressives Outraged Because There’s Actually Nothing To Be Outraged About - Demand Action

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Someone did a really terrible job trying to hide Matt Gaetz's name.