US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, “Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments”:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, 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.
It’s literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.
Yeah emoluments clause went out the window in trumps first term. Like week one, probably.
The Quid Pro Quo Potus
The fig leaf was that his family were running the business side, not him.
Keeping a watch and gold bar has no fig leaf.
Yeah, well, it doesn’t say anything about bribes, so checkmate, librul!
Clearly, it doesn’t mean things like airplanes, watches, and gold bars. It’s written right there, anybody can see it, it’s just that Libz can’t read because of their public school education. They don’t even make emoluments any more, that was an olden days thing, like Laudanum.
We need a brand new congress. End literally every one if their terms and vote in new people.
There’s a handful I’d keep, and a handful I’d execute. The rest can go, from both sides.
FuckEject, marry, killEject all but a handful or two of the Democrats, marry Bernie, kill the fascists.
“he didn’t accept it for himself, it’s for the presidential library”
Hahaha gotteem
Didn’t ask about the 400M jet from Qatar, so what’s the deal now? Theatrics, knowing full well youre getting nowhere but wasting time from the real issues like EPSTEIN
Bet they’re kicking themselves now. They gave him a fucking plane, and all Switzerland needed to do was give him a watch and a gold bar.
Probably didn’t even need to do that. Suck up to the guy for 10 minutes and tell him how great he is, and he’ll agree to anything.
He’ll even offer you a blowie if you’re manly enough.
Anything for Big Beautiful Bill.
Look, you don’t need to demand answers to the turd:
It’s a bribe. That’s it. Your prez took a bribe to cut tariffs to a country.
Good think our system actually predicted this and its illegal even if it WEREN’T a bribe:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, 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.
without the Consent of the Congress
I mean, he’s a sack of shit for certain, but Congress has the power to stop this and will not, so it is implicit consent.
A gold bar? A fuckin’ gold bar?
Didn’t he whine about Bob Menendez doing literally this not long ago?
“rules for thee and not for me” could be the regime’s most consistent mantra
Wilhoit keeps winning.
NOW they want answers? Quatar gave him a 400 million dollar airplane (surely bugged) but you’re drawing the line at a 20K Rolex with a gold bar?
Those Quataris really will be face palming now, seeing they could have bribed him so so much cheaper. They gave the ficker and airplane and he still fucked them over anyways
So just to help those corrupt fraudsters a little bit: BRIBING TRUMP DOESNT WORK
He will turn around tomorrow and fuck the Swiss right in the ass again anyway because of course he will, it’s trump, he will have forgotten all about his Rolex by tomorrow and wonder why he’s being so nice with the Swiss
It’s about time Congress woke the fuck up. The only option here is to impeach - this is textbook corruption that would make Senator Menendez blush.
It’s about time Congress woke the fuck up.
You think they’re not? Every member of the house of representatives, and every senator, knows what’s going on. It’s not that they’re asleep, it’s that they don’t care enough to endanger their own cozy money machine.
When it comes to things like this, all Republicans are asleep at the wheel of with their head placed firmly up their ass. Almost all the time when they’re asked about something he did or says, their answer is “I don’t know, I didn’t see/hear it”
So maybe not physically asleep - but certainly asleep at the wheel.
The answer is because nobody is going to stop him.
Ding ding ding! Tell em what he’s won, bob!
He’s won an all expenses paid trip to Alligator Alcatraz! (cue jazzy fanfare music as the camera pans over the Everglades)
Yes, you’ll be wining and dining in their overcrowded and cramped mess hall, complete with all the amenities like metal benches and concrete flooring. Your exposed skin will literally ‘sizzle’ against the metal bars of your ‘all expenses paid’ vacation to the sweltering humidity of Americas dong.
And you’ll be getting there in your BRAND. NEW. PRISON BUS, care of tax payer funding, an over-burdened police state, and CEFCU (for some reason)!
He can’t be that cheap. A rolex isn’t all that expensive, considered the money involved in geopolitics. In fact it’s spare change for diplomatic events. And neither is a single gold bar.
The conspiracy brain tells me some swiss diplomat pulled these from Trump’s own safety deposit box as a “we have the skeletons from your closet”-statement and handed them to him as a “diplomatic gift” when it actually was just a threat that he caved to.
But it looks expensive and has a reputation for being expensive. That’s what matters to him. Do you think he can handle actual money?
he likes anything that is gold, hes pretty shallow.
Global extortion racket goes brrrrrr. There will be no recovery until his and his regime are removed from power and jailed, he will not leave by any other process aside from just dying, and even then I wouldn’t put it past the administration to use his image and AI to continue their assault on America.
They play him like a fiddle.
Supreme Court has ruled that you have to explicitly shout “THIS IS A BRIBE” then wink one eye while shooting finger guns and making that clicking sound with your tongue when exchanging gifts or money to be considered a bribe.
None of us could afford to, but DAMN is it cheap to buy Diaper Don (relatively speaking). The tariff revenue that Americans would generate on Swiss imports FAR exceeds the value of a watch and a bar of gold.
“C’mon, let’s cut the crap, here’s a big hunk of gold. Deal?”
“Deal!”
MAGA Diplomacy
I mean Washington has been like that for a while but usually “campaign donations”
Most of Trump’s bullshit is just saying the quiet part out loud. He is especially brazen about it and it doesn’t make suck less.
Some people are reeeally slow in catching on…
