Trump hat eine Brücke, die er Ihnen verkaufen möchte

>Hours before Trump’s post, according to The New York Times, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Matthew Moroun, the owner of a competing bridge between Michigan and Ontario. Lutnick then spoke with the president by phone.

Trump truly is the leader in the field of being a corrupt leader. He puts literally zero effort into hiding it, and doesn’t pay any political price for open corruption. Moroun family probably bought a few million USD worth of Trump’s shitcoin, and that’s all it takes. Think of how dumb all those other corrupt politicians feel who put so much effort into actually *hiding* corruption. This guys comes and shovels money from the public purse into his pockets every time he goes golfing, and openly uses the powers of the office to enrich himself personally. At this point he’s grifting money he literally won’t live long enough to spend.

Turns out, you don’t need to hide corruption. You have to train people to expect corruption which Trump has done with unprecedented success.

>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, attempting to add a sheen of rationality to the president’s ultimatum, said, “It’s also unacceptable that more of this bridge isn’t being built with more American-made materials.” This is a difficult requirement to meet unless Canada decides to tear down the bridge and rebuild it with more American-made material.

The rational interpretation here (apart from Trump openly engaging in corruption) is that this aids the US side in CUSMA negotiations by essentially manufacturing an issue out of nothing on which he now demand „negotiation“.

Of course knowing how America operates, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just sold off the road leading to the new bridge, then tolled that.