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Trump aides concerned president keeps pitching foreign leaders on his resorts and real estate deals: report
Following Donald Trump folding on holding next years G7 summit at his Doral golf resort, that has the president whining, Politico reports that the president spends a great deal of his time talking about his real estate deals and properties when he speaks with foreign leaders which is setting off alarms with some of his close aides.
According to the report, Trump constantly brags about his properties around the globe when he speaks with foreign leaders in person or by phone, even more than the public instances witnessed out in the open, according to three people familiar with Trumps conversations with foreign officials. The remarks are permeating every membrane of his presidency so much that theyve left aides and allies mastering verbal jiu-jitsu to defend his unprecedented approach to fusing personal business interests with his position in high office.
The report notes that those conversations like his Ukraine phone call where he mixed government business with seeking personal gain in the form of dirt on a political opponent could lead to more charges of self-dealing as the president faces impeachment.
He talks up his properties every chance he gets with anyone with staff, with members of Congress, with the press, with the public, with foreign leaders, with anyone, explained a former White House official. Thats what he has done. Hes been a salesman. Hes been a PR person for his properties for the last 50 years, so almost out of force of habit, thats what he does.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)He still thinks of his business as hospitality.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)or if he can't help it because the behavior is so rampant.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)is trying to profit off the office. No one else clearly deserves successful impeachment more than he, being grossly unfit for office and not performing duties as he should be...
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)Well at least after he loses or is impeached his "followers" can still go stay in one of his crappy hotels. If they can afford it.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)To the point that it may be a national security risk.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)He couldn't care less.
TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)What is he going to do with foreign leaders, talk policy?
He knows nothing about everything.