• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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    11 hours ago

    It’s absolutely vile to invite the mother to the white house, offer to pay, and then later rescind that offer.

    If he’d never offered it wouldn’t matter.

    This is just so so abhorrent, even for trump.

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      6 hours ago

      Racism aside, if I offered someone to help pay for a funeral, I’d choke in my coffee too if I the bill said $60.000 .

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          Sure, and all disrespect for trump but say I’m rich and crash my car into your fence and tell you “it’s fine just send me the bill”, there’s a difference when that bill turns out to be 60k

          Sounds a bit like the family chose the 'Royale" because of his promise

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        5 hours ago

        Yes, but you wouldn’t:

        • offer to pay
        • without any stipulations
        • while on TV
        • while in the white house
        • as a person that brags about their wealth
        • for a funeral
        • of a military person
        • in a high profile murder

        Any idiot could see that the funeral was going to get out of hand.

        If Trump said he’d by me lunch it’d be the most expensive lunch in history.

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        True, but you also wouldn’t have the world’s largest economy and one of, if not the, largest governmental budget in the world like Trump does.

        And he also wasn’t paying for it out of his own pocket, it’d come from whatever federal budget covers the costs of military/veteran funerals.

        The entire motivation behind this is clearly racism and sexism, plus his overall disdain for veterans/our military in general. Probably stems from a jealousy he has, since veterans tend to automatically be held in higher esteem than grifters like himself, and he knows he could never have handled bootcamp, nevermind the actual military.

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          He actually did say he was going to pay for it personally, the military might cover some component of it, but it’s in the article saying that he couldn’t reimburse the family through the government:

          Natalie Khawam, the family’s attorney, responded, “I think the military will be paying—taking care of it.” Trump replied, “Good. They’ll do a military. That’s good. If you need help, I’ll help you out.” Later, a reporter covering the meeting asked Trump, “Have you offered to do that for other families before?” Trump responded, “I have. I have. Personally. I have to do it personally. I can’t do it through government.” The reporter then asked: “So you’ve written checks to help for other families before this?” Trump turned to the family, still present, and said, “I have, I have, because some families need help … Maybe you don’t need help, from a financial standpoint. I have no idea what—I just think it’s a horrific thing that happened. And if you did need help, I’m going to—I’ll be there to help you.”