• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    He can’t be that cheap. A rolex isn’t all that expensive, considered the money involved in geopolitics. In fact it’s spare change for diplomatic events. And neither is a single gold bar.

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      But it looks expensive and has a reputation for being expensive. That’s what matters to him. Do you think he can handle actual money?

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      The conspiracy brain tells me some swiss diplomat pulled these from Trump’s own safety deposit box as a “we have the skeletons from your closet”-statement and handed them to him as a “diplomatic gift” when it actually was just a threat that he caved to.