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$151,470.
President Trump's hotels made $151,470 in profit from doing business with foreign governments in 2017, the Trump Organization announced Friday.
Link to tweet
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We need to demand an audit!!! 
Shit.
Eric Trump said Friday that handing over profits from parties like these is reason enough to stop trying to book them.
'Knowing that all profits from foreign patronage at our hotels and clubs will be donated to the Treasury, we gain nothing as a business from them,' he explained.
And 'while we maintain strict separation of church and state from the administration, we purposely want to avoid any and all instances where anyone could claim "impropriety".'
'For these two reasons foreign government business is not business we want nor business we seek,' he said. 'In fact, to be blunt, we choose to avoid it wherever possible.'
'Knowing that all profits from foreign patronage at our hotels and clubs will be donated to the Treasury, we gain nothing as a business from them,' he explained.
And 'while we maintain strict separation of church and state from the administration, we purposely want to avoid any and all instances where anyone could claim "impropriety".'
'For these two reasons foreign government business is not business we want nor business we seek,' he said. 'In fact, to be blunt, we choose to avoid it wherever possible.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5482941/Trumps-hotel-company-writes-151-470-check-Treasury.html#ixzz59HyXIHTG
Right?
I bet Melania is eyeballin' this "report," too! 
how much money did they make from the United States staying there (you know, the weekly golf outings)?
another one-eyed jack
"The Trump Organization did not release any details about how the donation was calculated, other than to say it was in accordance with “our policy” and common accounting standards."
In other words: We cooked the books consistent with our preferred accounting practices.
"The Trump Organization did not release any details about how the donation was calculated, other than to say it was in accordance with “our policy” and common accounting standards."
In other words: We cooked the books consistent with our preferred accounting practices.
The comments are hilarious, yallerdawg.
"But her emails!"
We went from "first female president" to "the most corrupt and crooked ever."
We went from "first female president" to "the most corrupt and crooked ever."
I think I am still in shock.
