His end-game is hotels in NK

[Equinox Moon]

I heard a clip on the radio from our fake president talking about how nice the sand beaches are in NK. He talked about how nice it would be to have hotels there. He said it would be nice since you have China and S. Korea on either side to use the hotels.

Wake up America! Greed and self-enrichment is his addiction and the presidency is being exploited. America is being exploited. I realize DUers know this. I'm just saying.

[CrispyQ]

1. The for-profit presidency.

[Equinox Moon]

5. Yes. Yep.

I concur.

[thegoose]

28. Right

And hasn't it been said many times that key players in that corrupt party also have their pockets lined with Russian cash? Hence the silence as Dump cozies up to dictators and secures massive loans for his corrupt family. Look at Lyin' Ryan and Nurtle the Turtle. Crickets.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. It just never ends with this Dotard?! How is this legal?!

[underpants]

2. Yeah. Who wouldn't want to visit?

I'm sure there's plenty of money laundering opportunities plus for the regular touristee types

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. Holiday in Cambodia...

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

[madaboutharry]

3. The Czarina

is probably picking out the tile for the next "Spa Ivanka."

These people are clueless. They are ignorant grifters.

[malaise]

6. Duh! n/t

[Freethinker65]

7. Endgame? Nah. For Trump properties and branding this is just the beginning

[lame54]

8. For all the tourism

[lapislzi]

9. KJU desperate for hard currency

It's a win-win, except if you're...you know...a person "living" in NK.

Round and round the money goes.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Because NK's such a great vacation destination

Seriously. If that's his goal he's dumber than we thought.

[Aristus]

11. If Trump wants a hotel in North Korea, why doesn't he just brand this one?

The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. It's big, ugly, empty, and worthless. So a more apt symbol of Trump and his business 'empire' can scarcely be imagined.

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. It's my understanding that Trump's team put together a slide show or video

to entice Lil Kim, that he could have a wonderful modern country with hotels and condos along the shoreline if he gave up his nukes. The presentation supposedly showed hotels and people frolicing on the beach.

[0rganism]

13. today i'm less concerned about Trump's end-game and more concerned about Putin's

it really looks like he's out for revenge on the USA, and his end-game appears to be a complete hostile balkanization of the entire country. we're ripe for it.

i feel pretty hopeless about the coming elections -- much too close already, and the Russians haven't really begun to put their thumb on the scale yet. unless Putin sees some value in having Democrats in congress investigating the president (which he might, for various reasons), our blue wave is going to become a blue puddle.

[dawnie51]

14. That was made clear yesterday.....

makes perfect sense, since NK is such a destination vacation spot

[lark]

15. I knew there was a way he planned to profit from this.

He does zero, zilch, nada without personal profit for himself and his tiny parts.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. I have no doubt that privately Trump tried to tempt him

with the idea of both of them enriching themselves personally over any other benefits to their own people.

[bdamomma]

17. like how trump was going to put a hotel

in Moscow that stands vacant and not completed, go ahead try to screw around with NK they will get the dotard out.

[zentrum]

18. Yup, That's what he

…..really means by $aying "I've been thinking about NK all my life".

$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Honeycombe8]

19. Yeah...so patrons can end up in prison for taking the soap in the hotel rooms. nt

[cutroot]

20. trump wants to take advantage of all of the slave labor that kim will provide him with.

[GetRidOfThem]

21. Don't know how a large hotel can be profitable in NK

People are not allowed to travel. Period. And foreign influence is not allowed either, so there is no tourism industry. So frankly I don't know how a hotel property investment there would work...

[tinrobot]

22. It can be when it is a money-laundering machine.

Look at his "hotel" in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is still not built. He pulled tons of money out of that deal.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

...and even if a hotel gets built, Russian oligarchs can launder money by booking hotel rooms at super high prices. Money is placed in western bank accounts, laundering accomplished.

[OldHippieChick]

24. You probably read that somewhere right?

You are forgetting that our dear leader Cheeto does not read. He cannot be expected to know these things. He does not know why we have military exercises in S. Korea. He thinks Canada is our enemy. He thinks everyone wants a gold toilet and cannot comprehend someone valuing anything more than money. He is greedy and amoral.

[GetRidOfThem]

32. Yup... I read the UN Report on Human Rights Abuses in North Korea

It is only about 35 pages long. Interesting read.

But you are right, 35 pages is way beyond the attention span of Agent Orange...

[oberliner]

23. Hence the little video

I totally agree.

Trump Tower NK breaks ground within five years.

[DownriverDem]

25. Yep

When trump commented on the beautiful beaches, I had a feeling it was about him making money.

[C_U_L8R]

27. And if they buy that...

I gotta Trump University to sell em.

How about some vintage Trump Steaks??

[Johnny2X2X]

29. Human trafficking

Trump has a line of massage parlors and escort services already licensed in China. Yes, that is a fact, the President of the United States runs Massage Parlors and Escort Services. In the Far East this is human trafficking, heck in the US often it means human trafficking is going on. Very few women/girls in China are working at massage parlors or working as escorts of their own free will. Trump wants to spread his businesses into South and North Korea, I'm sure he sees the impoverished young women of North Korea as being easy targets for his slave trade.

People do not fully understand the level of evil we are dealing with in Trump. This is a man who's been involved in the sex trade for decades. This is a man whose boss, Vladimir Putin, is also deeply involved in the human trafficking of young girls and boys.

"I own a chain of massage parlors and escort services in Asia" means that you are making money by buying and selling women to be used as sex slaves. That is exactly what we are dealing with.

[Equinox Moon]

30. Shocking and horrific!

I believe you. He has the lack of character for it.

[Retrograde]

31. Is water still wet?

I've been off-line most of today: has there been any other earth-shattering news, like the sun being expected to rise in the east tomorrow morning?

Trump has no history of altruism, or of putting anything else- even the country he swore to protect and serve - ahead of a chance to line his pockets. Of course that's his end game, and if it means selling out South Korea and Japan - well, what have they done for HIM lately?

[Flaleftist]

33. Will there be cruise ports too?

And will we be able to take a tour bus around the death camps while on vacation?