For weeks, #Trump was in talks with the bargain #airline on the possibility of a $500 million #bailout package. The proposal would effectively give Trump control of the overwhelming majority of #SpiritAirlines’ shares.

Trump publicly suggested that he would be on board “if we can get it at the right price.”

“They have some good aircrafts, some good assets, & when the price of #oil goes down, we’d sell it for a profit,” he told reporters last month.

#kleptocracy #TrumpIsALoser #loser

watching the world’s greatest golfers navigate a course he commissioned, as “fans” consume #Trump branded drinks at the #TrumpVodka Bar & marvel at a new #golden #statue memorializing Trump’s defiant “salute” after his 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, PA. Throngs of cheering people greeted Trump as he arrived Saturday night, ahead of today’s final round.

#kleptocracy #TrumpIsALoser #loser #billionaire #StolenValor #PurchasedValor

The October “ceasefire” between #Israel & #Hamas opened the door to #Kushner’s aspiration to build a shiny special economic zone where there are now 60 million tons of rubble — with human remains & unexploded ordnance trapped inside.

#Trump #kleptocracy

Their near-universal presence at high-stakes negotiations suggests that #Kushner & #Witkoff, [freaking] NY real estate developers…, have been almost single-handedly tasked with realizing Trump’s desire to be remembered as the “president of peace.”

But these are businessmen…. Their approach to peacemaking is abundantly evident in the settlements they have brokered thus far.

#Trump #kleptocracy

There is a long history of moguls & financiers meddling in matters of state, but #Trump has taken the intermingling of private interests & public affairs to a new extreme.

Over the past year, #Kushner & #Witkoff have crisscrossed the globe as White House emissaries: They have met with #Hamas & with Vladimir #Putin, with Volodymyr #Zelensky & with #Iran negotiators.

#kleptocracy

That 2 two businessmen were merely boarding a plane seemed to calm the addled market.

Less than 24 hours later, #Trump told the media that #Kushner & #Witkoff’s trip was off. “Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there,” he said he told the 2 men as they were preparing to leave. He referred to Kushner & Witkoff — his son-in-law and his longtime business associate — as “my people,” a nod to the strange role they have taken on as civilian proxies for the president.

#kleptocracy