This is what happens when you install a sleazy CEO in the White House:
The art of the deal, indeed. I suspect this is really the way Trump thinks.
Read the whole thing -- yes, it's pretty snarky, but that's certainly merited.
We always hear that Trump thinks of things transactionally. So he will think of the Saudi protection contract as a "new business" contract that he got for the Pentagon. He expects the Pentagon will make money off the deal, after all, "They pay cash!"
With the recent deal that let him move money from military programs to The Wall, Trump can now see the military budget as just one big pool of money--that he just added to by signing a long term protection contract with "The Kingdom"
Trump will now expect the generals and the contractors to be grateful to him. He's a good earner for them. The Wall money, from the military budget, is now rightfully his. After all, he got them the big contract. When he didn't go after MBS for the murder of Khashoggi, he was protecting a huge revenue stream to the military.
The art of the deal, indeed. I suspect this is really the way Trump thinks.
Read the whole thing -- yes, it's pretty snarky, but that's certainly merited.
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