Did you miss this tidbit about Allen Weisselberg, the Trump organization's CFO?

[Atticus]

In addition to his corporate duties, HE PAYS THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES of the Trump family members!

While many who are working two jobs are having trouble finding the money to pay their utility bill and their credit card bills, Jared, Ivanka, et al not only don't have to worry about having enough intheir checking account, they don't even have to receive the bills or write out the checks. All those bothersome details are "taken care of" for them.

They have no idea how much they spend on food, electricity, gas, insurance or credit cards and they don't really care because they always know how much money they have: more than enough. It has always been that way for them.

How the ignoramuses who worship this crew could possibly believe that they "understand" their pain is way beyond my ability to comprehend.

[marylandblue]

1. Life's Been Good to Me So Far

I have a mansion but forget the price
I always go there, it's really nice
I live in the White House, build out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all

They say I'm crazy but I give Putin a good time
I'm just hiding from clues at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far

My Maseratti does one-eighty-five
I lost my freedom, now I don't drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case Mueller attacks

[copperearth]

12. Wow! Perfect poem

This has got to be the perfect poem for Trump. Love it!

[Cal Carpenter]

13. Marylandblue has put a twist on a great rock n roll song:

(Disclaimer - I have no sound on the device I'm using so I hope this is a decent version of the song!)

[malaise]

14. Damn that's good

Needs its own OP.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Like herding chickens.

Round and round they go. You can not fix Stupid.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. I once read that while you and I have to choose between this or that, the rich just buy both.

Summed it all nicely, I thought.

[machoneman]

4. Funny thing about really high end real estate.

A woman who used to sell such places said it was a bitch. When I said it was about prices, she said hell no!

Turns out that even after showing gorgeous places with all the amenities, unless everything (and she meant EVERYTHING) from layout, colors, decor, etc. was 100% perfect (in the new owner's eyes) they would reject the place and not even offer a bid! Instead, after dragging her through hell and high water, they'd rather wait, buy a lot, and build a home to their exacting specifications!

What really pissed her off was that the new home incorporated themes from all the place she took them!

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Sometimes they DO offer a bid...

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$5M, $7M, whatever, and then knock it all down and rebuild on the site. The house isn't
100%, but they want the location, location, location. The price is worth it to them for the "right" address.

The rich are not like us.

[jmbar2]

5. What a strange life

So if they never drive themselves, shop, cook, clean or pay bills, they are COMPLETELY dependent on the labors of others. That makes them welfare bums...takers. What a small life.

I guess that's why they are also completely unaware that nearly all of their food comes from the labors of immigrants, from planting, harvest, processing, preparation, serving, and cleaning up afterwards.

We need to jack up the estate tax so that they don't create any more generations of lazy welfare bums. Honestly, they need to be fired. The true "makers" cannot afford to support these parasites.

[Grins]

6. Much like G.H. Bush

...back in '92 and running for re-election. He was in a grocery store and didn't know what the bar-codes were on packages, and was clueless about the cost of a Gal. of milk.

[LittleGirl]

10. Bingo! I remember that

He had no freaking clue and that's exactly how it is with these folks.
They live in another world than us.

Not that ours is worse or better, it's just different. They have no idea and we have no idea of theirs.

[Hekate]

15. Bush Senior even in senility outclasses the Trumps in every conceivable way. He was a successful ...

...businessman, for real. He fought in "his" war when it came along, and distinguished himself. He came from great wealth, not all of it gained in pretty ways, but he had an old-fashioned sense of noblesse oblige (which no one in the Trump Klan would recognize if it bit them in the ass). He was an American patriot, and believed in public service, for real.

I didn't like him or his presidency, and I sure as hell didn't like his son. But having Trump does give one a different perspective.

[Shrike47]

16. I must say in his defense that I, too, am clueless about the cost of a gallon of milk.

I never buy it. I haven’t had a milk drinker in the house in 30 years or more.

[cyclonefence]

7. This is not unusual

Trust officers at banks and other financial institutions (like Pew Trust), as well as independent financial advisors/money managers, do these chores for people a lot less rich than the Trumps. The billing address for everything is the office of the financial manager, who pays the bills out of the family's funds, for a fee. At regular meetings, the family (or another representative, like a lawyer) go over the expenditures since the last meeting.

When you order something online, notice that the "send-to" address does not have to be the same as the billing address. This isn't just so you can send someone a present.

So yes, very rich people can have no idea of what it costs to live.

[EleanorR]

8. Ivanka was paid 2 million in severance when she left the trump org to become daddy's special advisor

After joining daddy, she set up a family trust for her now defunct fashion line proceeds, administered by her in-laws, from which she was paid millions.

Previously she was on the board that administered the trust for Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng's two kids.

They live in a different world.

[smirkymonkey]

9. That is obscene.

More than anything, I want to see them all in prison and stripped of their assets. Being poor would hurt them the most.

[Gothmog]

11. From AMJOY

Link to tweet