NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

April 09, 2026 - 00:04 UTC

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America First indeed. Grifter-in-Chief strikes again.
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If you just read the headline and lead you really get the impression he did a good thing and saved the tax payers money. Funny how that works.
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So he's negotiating donated materials and pocketing the cash donations. It truly never ends.
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Oh hey, I recognize that name. theecologist.org/2025/may/14/nerves-steel
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Belgium First!!!!
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Of course he did.

Meanwhile, he rails about foreign steel and that American steel should be used in projects.
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Too much hair. Need to make it waaay thinner.
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Lock him up.
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Oh, quelle surprise.
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accepting bribes is clearly an impeachable offense.
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You are missing the other key point, and because the press does so little investigative journalism anymore.

Someone VERY close to lumpy is financially benefiting from every one of these tariff concessions. Memecoin (has lost 96% of its value), Drone Companies - Gums and Jr, Real estate deals...
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He. Runs. A. Crime. Syndicate.
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Jabba the Trump
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Would a crime syndicate construct a ballroom?
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💯
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"White House Secures Foreign Steel"

Whoever wrote that headline about blatant corruption needs to resign.

From life, preferably, but at least they need to quit journalism, because they don't understand what it is.
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Why isn't that the headline? Have you asked any they chose to use a headline that doesn't convey the most newsworthy part of the story?
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Back in the days before republicans were traitors that was called quid pro quo.
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As I was saying...

This corruption is out of control.
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Dishonest Donald, King of Corruption.
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DontheCon
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America First?
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“Buy American” my ass.

How much skin did the Nucor guys have in the game, especially with their guy as an actual trade adviser to the President?
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I think he meant “Buy! American.”
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Trump's tariffs have NEVER been about trade or protecting American industry. His tariffs have ALWAYS been about kickbacks to make Trump and Co. very very rich. At the expense of everyone else. Weakening the American economy. And the 'free market' GOP went along with it 100%.
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He learned well.
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Why would GOPers resist? They are getting cuts and percentages as well.
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Motherfuckers.
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I thought he said EVERYTHING is supposed to be made and bought in America!?!?
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Society can’t function like this
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Fucking criminals
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It's spelled b-r-i-b-e. Trump can't spell corruption, though he excels at it and smells of it.
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Is this a modern-day equivalent of NY accepting the Statue Of Liberty from France?
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That Hitler bunker ain’t gonna build itself
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Pay to play…, it’s part of his game.
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Smells like a bribe
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Ha! Buy American be damned.

Trump is MAGA’s golden calf. They will dance around and praise him for lies and grifting.
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And the actual nyt headline is so “nyt kisses trump’s ass” instead of anything about the truth. An nyt big beautiful chef’s ass kiss. #nytbbcak
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The nyt essentially sponsored & endorsed the Iraq war (WMD anyone?) which killed 100s of thousands of innocent civilians & destroyed millions more lives for sport and billionaires.
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So has everyone just forgotten that the emoluments clause exists?!?
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Sadly no, but it has as much enforcement as the Hatch Act. :(
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Schrödinger’s emoluments clause
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It was ignored from literally day 1 of his first term. It being completely ignored is one of the things that made me realize we weren’t really living under a Constitutional order any more.
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Doesn't apply to a King
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If no one enforces it, does it really exist?
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I have come to the conclusion that none of our laws, institutions or any other guard rails were actually real. It was all a mirage. If they were real and viable, then they would be helping us right now. No one is using them. They’re not using them because apparently they’re not real.
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#AmericaFirst
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And congress will not call America first, what’s wrong with our Steel, he couldn’t get a kickback 🤔
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Looking at you #LeaderJohnThune #SpeakerMikeJohnson Whatcha gonna do??
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And the grift goes on…
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the FCPA will still be enforceable in the next administration...
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I hope the courts stop this since it doesn't have congressional approval. Then the next admin can just replace what was torn down, along with the Rose Garden.
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So corrupt you could scream 🙀
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What else is Orange Mussolini taking or giving away for favors that we will never hear of ? From foreign governments to those who tRump just likes and those because he can. I am sure it’s extensive. And illegal.
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🤷
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America First amirite
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Corrupt
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What a joke.
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Just shows us how much trump cares about the country and the people.
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What happened to buy American?
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Just a note that Arcelor USED to have plants in the USA but closed them all. The closest plants they have are in Mexico and Canada. If I worked for US Steel or Cleveland Cliffs I'd be mad as hell!
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If you Americans use Trump's crimes as a basis for writing new anti corruption laws once he's out of office, those laws would cover every crime imaginable.
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It’s all grift.
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Blatant corruption right out in the open.
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trump is a crook
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He does what he’s always done with his businesses….siphoning off all he can, leaving his workers (taxpayers) holding the bag and leaving a mess for others to clean up.
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Another day another corruption scandal... You have become such a ridiculous country. Can only begin to take you seriously again when proper action is taken and people see jail cells
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The Trump crime family grifting continues.
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I guess the Buy America Act doesn’t apply if you get it for free
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That’s why Tariffs are his favorite word.
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Yep!
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He’s such a freaking prick! And ket me guess, the steel workers will still support him.
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The protest in chi today had the header if the steelworkers union ín attendance (not in his official capacity)
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Unless there is a notarized quid pro quo, it doesn't count.
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"Tariffs for thee, but not for me!"

If DJT wants foreign steel, he should proudly and transparently pay the full tariff like everyone else and explain why it is a superior choice for the WH Ballroom over an American, non-tariffed alternative steel.
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Wow nice non- headline NYT
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If this aberration of an addition is built should it not be built with American steel?
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Huh. What a crazy random happenstance...
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AMERICA FIRST*!

*built with Luxembourg steel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Can we be certain that the donated steel is for the WH or is there a side deal for other trump projects.
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Huh, utterly shocked...
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Lakshmi Mittal's ArcelorMittal.
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I mean, he’s not even trying to hide the bribes. Why should he? After his first term he pretty much realized he’s untouchable.
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Donated steal.
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Wonder what the Coosa Steel guy thinks about this. He didn't make US steel cheaper, he made foreign steel more expensive. Then lowered the price and still used foreign steel when it was convenient to him. It must be so nice to have the WH made out of foreign parts.

www.youtube.com/live/1gbSkwSDsdc?si=NWP16SviBUO2DIyC
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Such a demoralizing announcement after they voted for the MAGA guy in a special election to replace MTG… just ‘yesterday.’

Hometown of my parents and grandparents. I recognized “Coosa” immediately.

There is no breaking point.
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Good question! some enterprising journalist needs to track him down and ask him.
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Formerly known as an "emolument" or "bribe".
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Non American steel. Hope the USW union is aware.
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That’s blatant corruption right?

Impeachable offense #666
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The art of the deal.😟
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Interesting timing… $37M in steel donations followed by tariff adjustments that benefit the donor. Coincidence or not?
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Makes me physically ill to be an American.
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America First !!
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So much for the 'golden share' FOTUS insisted on getting to approve Nippon Steel's purchase of US Steel. And a big F. U. To American USW workers.
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And somehow that wasn’t headline worthy
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There will be corporate branding on the ballroom.
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The dishonor, destruction, cruelty & failure of DJT & GOP has no bottom. Remember January 6, 2021💔 This Nov, 2026 #WeThePeople🇺🇸 will vote to oust DJT’s GOP enablers. They & #PutinsPuppet have destroyed our monuments🇺🇸, alliances, institutions, honor🇺🇸 & Rule of Law🇺🇸 Vote to keep our Republic🇺🇸 #NoKings
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grifting!!
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The word “bribe” is sitting right there for you.
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Will FOX News be covering this? Lol we have fun here on bluesky.
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You could call it the corruption that it is right there in the headline you cowards.
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Pay to play The Trump way
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Congrats Congress. You have finally given away any reason for existing.
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Grifters gonna grift
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Of course -- it's pay to play.
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It's not his house, though, that he busted up. The trump criminal enterprise should have to reimburse taxpayers.
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Jfc
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So much for made in the USA??
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All 'Americans' are complicit. #sorry
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@schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

or someone of power should notify Luxembourg to let them know this will eventually be investigated and they should instruct ArcelorMittal to retain all communications with the Trump admins.

AND IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP!
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All crime, all the time.
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The steel needs to be confiscated, the company fined and Trump impeached. This is clearly a bribe.
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And nobody does a thing.
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Imagine if committing crimes had consequences. Ah well, nice to dream sometimes.
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Surprise surprise surprises , said no one ever 🍊🐷
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Ken, they’re called emoluments
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I think, THINK, that a few American companies produce good steel too.
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Bribery. It is all bribery.
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Is that illegal? It sounds illegal...
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America first?
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FOREIGN STEAL: Trump at America's Final Ball
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ArcelorMittal owned the Weirton Steel Mill until 2020, when they sold in their properties in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, citing lack of demand. Trump just rewarded them by having them build his ballroom.
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@wvdemocrats.bsky.social
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But it’s me wanting affordable healthcare that’s the real fraud…
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That steel is foreign only in the US! Here, we made it and its domestic :) Seen from our side, its a good investment, no?
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So no American steel? Got it
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Wtf
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It’s almost like the headline and the framing is misleading and misses the real story completely, and the work is sorta worthless. WTF. I thought you were real.
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Nothing exists where it is not enforced.
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I scratch your back,
then you scratch mine
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Wait—hold up:

We are not using American steel for this American ballroom?
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Remember all those years Vogel spent trying to prove Joe Biden was corrupt because of Hunter’s fuck ups? Good times.
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The collective yawns from congressional rethuglicans and the press are deafening.

We will emerge from this presidency enslaved, bankrupt and smoldering. The New America.
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His ‘pay to play’ presidency. Anyone involved with this corrupt BS needs a date with the chair… and not one of those fancy, gold-spray-painted monstrosities in the current Oval Orifice.
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He has always been "pay to play." His presidency is no different. He is a con man, plain and simple and always has been. "The Art of the Deal" showed everyone what sort of person he was but too many people thought it was great to be like that so here we F-ing are.
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Steel columns with bugs embedded, a la the "Bughouse" US embassy in Moscow?
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Stop the steel.
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We should really stop calling it a ballroom project. It's clearly a bunker project. The architectural abomination that conceals it is a Potemkin ballroom.
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No wonder his buddy Homan took the bag of cash without a second thought.
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Gomer Pyle voice:

"Well surprise, surprise, surprise!!"

🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤡🫏🖕🖕💩💩
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Could that possibly have been a bribe?
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I think he is trying to put the Onion out of business.
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I thought he wasn't supposed to have any more tariffs?
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Thank you Supreme Court for enabling this thief!
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See #2
bsky.app/profile/donjorizzy.bsky.social/post/3lloxuv4m322o
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White House being rebuild with European steel. So MAGA. So America First.
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Color me shocked
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I'm shocked I tell you!
Shocked!
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Did Pennsylvania run out of steel, or…?
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I hope that shit gets obliterated the second he's out of office and replaced with something worthwhile
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Fascinating that these companies think the chickens won’t come home to roost some day.
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Corruption. If only there were two other bodies of government and some forms of checks and or balances.
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Well, there are some checks. But mostly cash.
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How many impeachable things is he going to do before congress does something?

Like, where is the moral line for Americans?
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Money hungry and quid pro quo master bastard!
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If it's not from the emoluments region of Germany it's only sparkling gifting

- per curiam opinion
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Quid. Pro. And quo.
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Maybe an image of the wreckage should be on the back of all our dollar bills as it’s a perfect metaphor reminder of their corruption
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He's always been what the Roman's called a quid man.
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#10000000000000000 impeachable offense. Be great if Congress could do their job.
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maybe headlinee could be: WH accept bribe for ballroom project
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WH accepts bribe from foreign country for ballroom project that has no congressional appropriation funds - to the American people’s house.
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Banana republic. The USA is a farce.
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Nothing says “America First” better than using foreign-made steel in the White House via a sleazy back-room deal that reeks of corruption.
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Well put
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The grift continues
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Secures?
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So, the fun thing about building your secret bunker underneath the ballroom is building it in full view of anyone who would like to know its features.
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Bribery and total corruption.
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At this point, the only surprise would be if things like that weren't happening.
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Hmmm...made in Luxembourg. Don't trust it.

"The Bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow"

wspartners.bbc.com/episode/b083qvxh
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It may be headquartered in Luxenbourg, but most of its factories aren't there.
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Seriously. What a dick. Fine AcelorMittal.
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Between France’s Total Energies caving on wind energy, and now this story, I’m beginning to think there are companies out there that have no real conviction to do the right thing.
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Let’s get a refund.
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Also, isn’t Trump the made in America First president?
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Recalling the US purchased steel once from the Russians, to build its USSR embassy...it all had to be torn down after bugs were found embedded in it. Naughty of the commies, US had paid for the steel, whereas here....well, they deserve it.
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Oh, a wee bit of corruption? Who'd have thought.
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Mob boss uses foreign steel to build shithole.

Got it
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OH MY GOD NO WAYYYYYYY
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I wonder what happened. He's always been such a level-headed guy
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Seriously, why would he think we've been begging for a friggin ballroom??? I haven't read anything about the white house needing a ballroom anywhere in the history books at school,ever. He needs a look at the year, we're not in the 1700s
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I laughed so hard at your comment. 😂😂😂
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HOW MUCH STEEL CAN ONE BALLROOM NEED
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So he isn’t using US Steel.
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Sometimes you just have to let people learn their lessons....
www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-secures-major-endorsement-pennsylvania-steelworkers-saved-jobs
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Aka bribery
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Thank you for the gift link!
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Next administration, the special bribery unit should investigate.
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Uhhhh wasn’t the purported aim of the tariffs to restart American manufacturing?

(I know, I know, hence the word ‘purported’)
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What happened to using American made steel?
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Creating jobs? Wasn’t that a promise
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The US should sue his estate for all the grift when he's dead. The family should pay because it looks like he won't.
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A lots of ass-kissing 💩💩💩
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I wonder how the European union is going to respond with its anti-bribery laws?
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One thing is obvious, he is not planning to leave that place.
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In the Trump regime, absolutely everything and everyone is for sale, including pardons
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So, America not first?
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The arrogant, in-your-face corruption of Donald Trump is galling. He revels in showing us what he can get away with.
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This is also in violation of Buy America
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Only applies to dot funded projects I think lol.
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I’m shocked at the suggestion that this is anything but addressing the horrific imbalance in trade with Luxembourg. They’ve been taking advantage of us for years!!! /s
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Lots of magic insider trading going on netting them millions too!!
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Steel workers are you listening? He's NOT PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST!!!
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piggydick rumper the pedo, Grifter in Chief and a master shitifier. Fuck you rumper!
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What happened to buy American?
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Admittedly I know nothing about construction. That said, 37 MILLION DOLLARS woth of steel seems like A LOT of steel for one building (unless it is actually that Trump is "stealing" $37 million from the building which actually sounds a bit low for Trump)
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This is the US admin now: pure grift and intimidation
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“correlation does not necessarily imply causation” 🤣🤣
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Just another paragraph for the Bill of Impeachment. Fun fact: foreign persons cannot contribute to US campaigns, so this is a fortunate alternative for those seeking to bribe Trump.
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On a scale of 1-10 please rank:

1) This here corruption

2) Hunter Biden's laptop

Thanks
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FFS … smh 🤦🏻‍♂️ … G.R.I.F.T. … these mfers. 🍊💩🤡
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America first!
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POTUS lacks legal authority to accept anything from anyone to perform work in an official capacity and/or with regard to federal assets absent appropriations authority passed by Congress to accept payments or in-kind value. But the Republican led Congress doesn’t care so there’s that.
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Send kickback to DJ Trump, c/o "Greasy Palms", 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500.
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It’s a long story between France and ArcelorMittal. Everything that could have been illegal, they did it!

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcelorMittal?wprov=sfti1 href="/search?t=posts&q=Controverses">#Controverses
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Pay to play, baby!
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He can’t leave this earth fast enough.
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Sounds super illegal to me
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He can do WHATEVER HE FEELS LIKE and he's going to get away with EVERYTHING!
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Hasn't the ballroom construction been put on hold ?
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The steel can be repurposed…
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Are the maga blowing a gasket over the fact that 'murican steel isn't being used?
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This is a rhetorical question, right?
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Of course.
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Nothing that a few knife missiles can’t solve in 2029
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