Trump: I told Kim he could have 'the best hotels in the world'

[workinclasszero]

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/12/18 07:34 AM

President Trump said Tuesday he floated the prospect of beachfront hotels and other real estate developments in North Korea during his meeting with the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.

Speaking to reporters after the historic summit, Trump said he told Kim that instead of testing ballistic missiles, the cash-strapped country "could have the best hotels in the world."

Link to tweet

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391773-trump-i-told-kim-he-could-have-the-best-hotels-in-the-world

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Is everyone clear now on why Trump is doing this FFS? His crime family SCORES AGAIN!!!! MAGA baby!

[Zoonart]

1. Let's test that memory with a little sit down with Robert Mueller.

[sunonmars]

3. Trump was bragging today he had the greatest memory in the world, so lets see it then.....

[Botany]

2. This has to be from the Onion. "Think of it from a real estate perspective"

Is it too early to start drinking?

[smirkymonkey]

6. Not at all. Have one for me too.

I can't believe this shit.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Trump pushing real estate - so pesidential

Kim must have felt like a happy fisherman,
reeling in a big sucker.

[procon]

5. First, they would need an international airport and that means an

operational electric grid and all the other infrastructure facilities found in any other modern city. Trump offhand remark is just another indication that he didn't bother reading any briefing materials or listening to his staff before the meeting. He's a grifter, so his first thought was to try to score some bonus bucks for himself, and to hell with what the US or So Korea needs.

[smirkymonkey]

7. And who in their right mind would willing stay in a Trump hotel in NK?

The people there can't afford it, and it's risky for outsiders to travel to that country. I can't really see a huge tourism boom even if restrictions do lighten up.

[workinclasszero]

10. Same was said about China in my lifetime

His damn kids would profit off it mightily in the future I bet.

[Botany]

8. Having food for the people is a good thing too

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39349726

North Korea hunger: Two in five undernourished, says UN

[snowybirdie]

9. Absolutely!

Nothing drives tourism like the sight of gaunt, starving natives.

[workinclasszero]

11. You build compounds and wall up or move away the starving

See: Potemkin village

In politics and economics, a Potemkin village also Potyomkin village, is any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

[Botany]

12. I don't know how good Sky News is but this video is shocking

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Has he violated the emouloments clause yet?

I thought that he didn't have any ongoing business interest in Trumpco?

[oberliner]

14. Trump Tower Pyongyang opening in 2020?

[workinclasszero]

15. On the way

no doubt.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Of course. The way to persuade the most anti-capitalist authoritarian in the world

is to tell him he could have developers buying up the most beautiful bits of his country so they can make a profit.

How could it possibly not work?

(I'd love to have seen the translator at that moment. How do you put a proposal to overthrow the system to the murderous dictator whose family has based 70 years of power on opposing? Say "umm, you understand some English - did you get all that without me?)

[workinclasszero]

18. Because Kim will make a profit too undoubtedly

I mean China is officially an anti capitalist communist workers paradise right?

In reality its a fascist dictatorship that puts nets up around high rise Apple factories to catch the despairing workers as they try to jump to their deaths.

[lpbk2713]

17. Trump already told us about shit hole countries.

Who the F would want to spend vacation dollars in North Korea?

[Orsino]

19. Trump may be the lightest of lightweights...

...but his only strategy--promoting his own business--might tempt a dictator wanting emoluments of his own.