It's About to Get Hot at the Border

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So, D'ump is apparently upping the deployment to "the border" to something approaching fifteen thousand troops. I have to wonder what the comparative costs are between the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and this new war that has been declared in...well...wherever all these troops are going.
 
Next he'll order all US Navy carrier groups and nuclear submarines to sail up the Rio Grande....
 
So, D'ump is apparently upping the deployment to "the border" to something approaching fifteen thousand troops. I have to wonder what the comparative costs are between the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and this new war that has been declared in...well...wherever all these troops are going.
Just saw that headline myself. I sincerely doubt he actually sends that many troops. This is an idiot that claims he has $10 billion whe Forbes estimated him at around $250 million. He can't count, just likes big numbers.

It's a tremendous waste of resources and manpower. Stupid tiny handed, tiny membered orange dipshit.
 
Just saw that headline myself. I sincerely doubt he actually sends that many troops. This is an idiot that claims he has $10 billion whe Forbes estimated him at around $250 million. He can't count, just likes big numbers.

Are you thinking of 30 years ago when he (posing as someone else) claimed to be worth 1 billion (not 10), but was worth 200 million?
Today Forbes estimates him worth 3.1 billion, that's with a B. Say he got the money unethically or whatever floats your boat, but he's got more than 250 million.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d236f869037a

https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#6f0eca082899
https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/#2ec4bc7b47bd
 
Are you thinking of 30 years ago when he (posing as someone else) claimed to be worth 1 billion (not 10), but was worth 200 million?
Today Forbes estimates him worth 3.1 billion, that's with a B. Say he got the money unethically or whatever floats your boat, but he's got more than 250 million.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d236f869037a

https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#6f0eca082899
https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/#2ec4bc7b47bd
I'm talking about multiple occasions when he's lied about his wealth.

Didn't Forbes estimate his liquid wealth at around $100 million during his campaign, forcing him to sell a lot of stock to make money? I recall reading that at the time, but not where.
 
Ah, yes, I do see he has claimed he was worth 10 billion during the campaign trail. Fine to show he exaggerates by comparing the 10 billion claim to the truer number of 3 billion, don't need to expand the exaggeration in the opposite direction (perhaps unintentionally) and greatly reduce his true value and say it's only 250 million.
 
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Ah, yes, I do see he has claimed he was worth 10 billion during the campaign trail. Fine to show he exaggerates by comparing the 10 billion claim to the truer number of 3 billion, don't need to expand the exaggeration in the opposite direction (perhaps unintentionally) and greatly reduce his true value and say it's only 250 million.
I'm going off articles I read during the election. If they were wrong, blame The Guardian and whoever they were quoting.

He claimed at least three different numbers during his campaign. I heard him say $6 billion, then $8 billion, then finally $10 billion. I'm unsure if he was lying, or genuinely couldn't count. Either is possible with Trump.
 
most likely both!
 
I'm going off articles I read during the election. If they were wrong, blame The Guardian and whoever they were quoting.

He claimed at least three different numbers during his campaign. I heard him say $6 billion, then $8 billion, then finally $10 billion. I'm unsure if he was lying, or genuinely couldn't count. Either is possible with Trump.

Investments fluctuate in value, so numbers can change, but all of them are too high for sure. With that said he was probably lying and increasing his estimate when the value of his properties were declining.
 
Investments fluctuate in value, so numbers can change, but all of them are too high for sure. With that said he was probably lying and increasing his estimate when the value of his properties were declining.
The fact that he needed to sell assets to raise money for his campaign is definitely true; he and his son and son-in-law even admitted to selling assets during the campaign, although they didn't admit why. Whether the exact numbers The Guardian was quoting were accurate or not is another question entirely.
 
And I don't dispute he needed to convert some assets into cash. One doesn't need a specific amount of CASH to be a millionaire or a billionaire, it's based on how much ALL of their assets are worth.
 
And I don't dispute he needed to convert some assets into cash. One doesn't need a specific amount of CASH to be a millionaire or a billionaire, it's based on how much ALL of their assets are worth.
I beg to differ. Duck Tales taught me that what really matters is that your vault is full of enough gold for you to go swimming in your wealth at the end of a long day.
 
I think he's an American success story. If you can inherit hundreds of millions through dodging taxes, then you can actually eventually become a billionaire.
 
I beg to differ. Duck Tales taught me that what really matters is that your vault is full of enough gold for you to go swimming in your wealth at the end of a long day.

You knew this was coming:

 
Hey, the guy worked hard! How many of you entered the work force at three years old?
 
Ah, yes, I do see he has claimed he was worth 10 billion during the campaign trail. Fine to show he exaggerates by comparing the 10 billion claim to the truer number of 3 billion, don't need to expand the exaggeration in the opposite direction (perhaps unintentionally) and greatly reduce his true value and say it's only 250 million.
Forbes has also said he badgers them to inflate his rating, and they fault themselves for having given in to that over the years. If their estimate of 3b is very recent, then it might fall in the stage when they're trying to do a more accurate assessment, but if it's from a while ago, it might be seriously overstated.

Of course, he could just release his tax returns; then we could just know. The fact that he doesn't want to do that suggests that the actual value is lower than the lowest reported value (or he'd do it to boast).

In a deposition, he once famously said his wealth is whatever he feels it is: https://money.cnn.com/2011/04/21/news/companies/donald_trump/index.htm

Yeah, he just likes big-sounding numbers--bigly big.
 
Forbes has also said he badgers them to inflate his rating, and they fault themselves for having given in to that over the years. If their estimate of 3b is very recent, then it might fall in the stage when they're trying to do a more accurate assessment, but if it's from a while ago, it might be seriously overstated.

Of course, he could just release his tax returns; then we could just know. The fact that he doesn't want to do that suggests that the actual value is lower than the lowest reported value (or he'd do it to boast).

In a deposition, he once famously said his wealth is whatever he feels it is: https://money.cnn.com/2011/04/21/news/companies/donald_trump/index.htm

Yeah, he just likes big-sounding numbers--bigly big.
I feel I'm the world's first trillionaire, and simultaneously married to Jessica Alba and Ashley Judd. If feeling things made them true, I'd be much happier.
 
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