"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States] shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Maybe some parts of the Constitution are fuzzy or ambiguous. This isn't one of them. https://mas.to/@gleick/114489803866392093

James Gleick (@gleick@mas.to)

This is self-evidently illegal: a $400 million gift to Trump rather than to the United States. Apparently laws no longer apply here. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511

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@gleick @inthehands don't worry, congress agrees. they're just as corrupt as he is