And You Thought Tiffany Bowl Was An Adult Film Star and Trump Buddy
It is reported that Trump spent $107 million dollars on his poorly attended inauguration. Among the other outrageous expenses, $130 thousand of that went for Tiffany Salad Bowls given to one million dollar donors.
There’s one on Ebay from the Bush inaugural asking $200 and nobody seems interested. It’s a salad bowl. You eat salad from it. You do not make salad in it. It’s too little.
They sell at Tiffany’s for $135. Spend another $20 for the Presidential seal to be stamped on it and Voila! the cheapest piece of crap you ever spent $1 million for.
Okay, so then you have to wonder how many people gave $1 million. Let’s say 50 people, which is probably triple those who did but we’re being generous here. And then let’s pretend that everybody at their table of 8 for dinner with Trump got one. That’s $1,200. The grand total comes to $60,000. Somebody somewhere got paid a helluva commission. In fact, it’s more commission than bowls.
Now, I know I picked on one little thing. But if they will skim off the little crap, how much more are they skimming off the big crap?
I dunno about you, but when I donate a million bucks, I expect a whole place setting.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen who gave me whole Dairy Queen place setting with the purchase of a Hunger Buster.
If I gave $1MM I’d expect the person to feed me and dab the crumbs from my lips!
1Does the stamped precedential seal come in original Russian?
2EPO – where ya been, man? Missed you!
To answer your question: no, but the instructions state that only Russian dressing may be served on the salads.
3If you donated $2 million, did you get two?
Wasn’t there something like this in the 1950’s, where you could buy one dish or place setting at a time by saving coupons? You had to buy an awful lot of crap before you got the complete crap set.
4Donnie’s pet name for his acting AG’s very special bowl?
5EPO!!!
Where ya been son???? We missed your bright, shiny self!
6That article also lists some of the megabucks doled out to family friends and related grifters. I think the subpoenas for the campaign committee are going to be a lot of fun, especially when states find most of those crooks did not bother to pay taxes on their goodies.
Rick: you are revealing that you are damn near as old as me. Do you also remember the same thing with Funk and Wagnall’s (spelling?) Encyclopedia? Every week you bought x amount of groceries, and Piggly Wiggly would sell you the next volume for $1.59 or something.
7I think we should consider the possibility that Tiffany Bowl IS a porn actress.
8I have a bad feeling that the people who went home with Tiffany bowls probably got a lot more then a Bowl.
9Lime sanctions lifted, sweet deals for their businesses, more like a piece of the US economy.
If I donated a million bucks to an inaugural, even for a president I liked, that salad bowl had better come with a evening of private entertainment by Richard Gere. And it should be a nice long evening.
10You think that’s bad, I donated $1000 to the 2008 Obama campaign and all I got was a President.
11How many went to cabinet members, I presume Betsy DeVil got a complete set.
Surly professor: I do remember the encyclopedias, we had the set; father would grab a volume and bring it to the dinner table and “read” us an entry (which me made up). In addition, mother collected the full set of Will and Ariel Durant histories, they disappeared somehow, but I bought a beautiful set at a used book sale. I grew up reading them.
12Sorry, guys. I get preoccupied on other blogs with more regional problems to deal with. I check in from time to time. Thanks for the kind words.
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