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I went over there, you remember that? It was a very historic moment. Went over there and I said to Kim Jong-Un, you know being a real estate guy it’s just sort of natural, I said, “You have the most beautiful shoreline. Think of it, you’re between China, Russia, and South Korea. Look at the beautiful shore, you could have the most beautiful condos that you’ve ever seen and become rich as hell. You don’t have to live like you’re living.

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But he’s a tough guy, he’s a smart guy, and he just loves collecting nuclear weapons. That’s what he does. He collects nuclear weapons and we got along incredibly well.

If anyone can explain what the fuck he's talking about, they're smarter than me. Or maybe stupider?

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[–] chulo_sinhatche 157 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Republicans decimated the public school funding for decades so that they could have a population full of rubes who think this guy was a genius. That's not counting the smart ones who are just trying to buy there way into policy-making that favors whatever scheme they pull in their respective industry.

Otherwise I don't see how any person with half a brain could hear this guy speak and say yeah, this guy should run things.

[–] Saprophyte 159 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, a stupid man's idea of a smart man, and a loser's idea of a playboy.

He is a caricatute and nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck. That needs to be a bumper sticker.

Probably would end up with dumbasses putting rocks through your windows every other day, but it might just be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

People reading that bumper sticker:

[–] Specific_Skunk 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s probably the most apt description I’ve heard yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It’s been floating around since at least 2016. But that doesn’t make it any less apt.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Damn that’s good!

You know the world is doomed when trump is jealous of a dictator, because he’s a dictator and he can dictate. That’s the power trump wants.

[–] PRUSSIA_x86 1 points 1 year ago
[–] doublejay1999 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also one of the reasons a degree will cost you 100 grand.

Nobody in power is served by an informed and educated electorate, so you get loaded up with debt before you even start work. This makes sure you don’t get any funny ideas about changing the world for the better - because you gotta service the debt before you make any other plans.

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The question is: how did all of this change? People reminisce about when it was like $700 and you could easily finance that with an average summer job. When and why did it take such an insane turn?

[–] Sanctus 2 points 1 year ago

When government subsidies allowed greedy universities to jack up their tuition. If we wanted accessibility we would have been first to actually subsidize it through taxation instead of whatever the fuck is going on right now. Like idk who thought "I can borrow it all now and pay it back with interest later? Lets make this the norm".

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump can't comprehend how owning a country is more valuable than owning some condo blocks and looked like an idiot in front of the ruler of North Korea.

[–] FlyingSquid 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Telling someone who lives in the lap of luxury that they could become rich as hell is a strange move.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Not just living in the lap of luxury, but surrounded by an entire population that see his entire family as almost some sort of Godhead.

It's what Trump envisions for himself here, but the MAGA idiots are only 30% instead of 98%.

[–] Delusional 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh hey look another time where trump opens his mouth and spews out the dumbest shit imaginable. He actually brags about this? What a fucking moron. If he wasn't born into wealth, he would've been taking the short bus to school. To call his inane blabbering "advice" is putting it way too nicely.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I picture him selling used cars in a bad neighborhood with a cheap suit and threadbare comb-over.

[–] momtheregoesthatman 5 points 1 year ago

You're a poet. I can see your description and it's spot on.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn’t The Onion? I want to undo the fact that I now know this happened.

[–] Orbituary 33 points 1 year ago

The Onion found this too incredible.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The impression is that Trump has a vague sense nuclear weapons are important but he isn't sure why.

[–] HWK_290 9 points 1 year ago

Gotta catch em all!

[–] eran_morad 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the cunt that the republican traitor filth want to install as dictator. Go on and marinate on that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What do you think I've been doing for the last eight years? Slap me on the grill already, ain't getting any more marinated than this.

[–] Gandalf1701D 37 points 1 year ago

Not a loving this Arrested Development clone tbh, waiting for it to be canceled

[–] NatakuNox 33 points 1 year ago

Does he not know what dictator is?

Kim already owns every house in North Korea

[–] Sanctus 32 points 1 year ago

His people see him as a god-king and this dude is telling him he'll be rich off some condos.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Only Trump would try to give wealth tips to a dictator which already owns everything in their country.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what the actual fuck is this?

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 1 year ago

Good question.

[–] kescusay 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just another day of the news paying far too much attention to the ravings of a demented orange clown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, the man was elected President and could be elected again. Even if we don't pay attention, for some dumb reason millions of other people are.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Whatever. Trump is real-life Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.

[–] FuglyDuck 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You know…. I kinda hope Kim took his advice, there. I think the world would be a lot better if he started collecting condos instead of nukes, for one, and for two, I can’t imagine trump giving good advice…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Kim had a thing for building massive tourism areas, actually. A bit before COVID, he had wild dreams of creating a booming tourism industry for North Korea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masikryong_Ski_Resort

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wonsan-kalma-beach-resort-north-korea/index.html

This summarizes everything in a more recent state: https://www.38north.org/2023/01/north-koreas-tourism-industry-a-grand-initiative-in-limbo/

NK doesn't talk about this anymore: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's no secret that putler/trump were trying to convince Kim into converting N Korea into a money laundering organized crime haven for the rich and infamous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, I get it. He's trying to sell capitalism to a dictator from the perspective of and you still get to be a dictator!

He could just be the pissed little weapons hoarder he is, or maybe introduce some tourism and try to change the worldwide opinion of North Korea.

Now, I don't personally think he can do both and the international community just be cool with flying tourists to NK. I didn't say it was a good idea.

[–] Copernican 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

He's regurgitating his same dictator crush at his ~~grift~~campaign rallies. This was from Friday.

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