The ACTUAL Problem for this New President
Every time I think of Cheeto Jesus as President of the United States, I throw up in my mouth a little bit. As normal people understand, this bullying, bloviating, bitchy, baboonish, banal buffoon is manifestly unqualified to occupy the oval office, and that’s a huge problem with global consequences. Hard to imagine though, and to make matters worse, is that there is a magnifier to this problem: his businesses.
Cheeto Jesus has multiple enterprises that come under the parent holding company, Cheeto Organization LLC. Within the holdings are interests in real estate and other businesses in the US, Ireland, Canada, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Scotland, Dubai, and other countries. His financial ties are tangled, but at least some of his debt is tied to the Bank of China.
The Cheeto Organization owns a stake in Cheeto Entertainment Resorts, Inc. The company, formerly known as Cheeto Hotels and Casino Resorts until 2004, is now owned by Icahn Enterprises L.P. Yes, that Icahn, Carl Icahn, who was an early endorser and supporter of Cheeto Jesus. What a shock.
The opportunities for conflict of interest between Cheeto Jesus as President (..urp) and his various business interests is legion. He has proclaimed that he will put his businesses in a blind trust, run by his children (the same ones for which he’s requested top secret security clearances). His factual problem is, however, that putting his business interests in the hands of his children is, by definition, NOT a blind trust, and doesn’t qualify as a device to separate him from his businesses. Not even close. To qualify as a blind trust, the owner of assets must place the entire management of those assets into the hands of a third party trustee and have no say in the management of those assets. For Cheeto Jesus, that is actually impossible, since virtually all of his assets are high profile and carry the Cheeto brand.
The problem is so huge that even the Rupert Murdoch controlled The Wall Street Journal has publicly advised Cheeto Jesus to divest. Divest everything. The Journal says that failing to do so would open Cheeto Jesus and his family to continuous attacks from the opposition and the press. They said it pretty well:
“The political damage to a new Administration could be extensive. If Mr. Trump doesn’t liquidate, he will be accused of a pecuniary motive any time he takes a policy position. For example, the House and Senate are eager to consider tax reform—and one sticking point will be the treatment of real estate, which will be of great interest to the Trump family business. Ditto for repealing the Dodd-Frank financial law, interest rates and so much more.”
I don’t expect Cheeto Jesus to cave on this one without a huge fight. The potential conflict of interests will provide many opportunities to skeptics like me, who will be listo to jump on every chance to highlight every single conflict for the entire time he infests the Oval Office.
The problem of Cheeto Jesus’s business interests will haunt his entire presidency, along with his yet undisclosed tax returns. There will come a time, and it won’t be long, that his exposure to public scrutiny will finally outweigh his celebrity, for which millions of Americans stupidly relied on when they pushed the button for the worst candidate for the presidency in US history. I’ll be waiting.
So there.
El Jefe, the rush is already on for favors. First in line Donnie followed by his Philippine business partner, Jose E. B. Antonio. Antonio has already been appointed Philippine trade envoy to the US. Cozy, eh?
1His Horetell near the WH is advertising for diplomats to use Drumpf’s lodgings to curry favor with the apricot colored hellbeast. Cheap of Staff Freebus sez there ain’t no pay to play shenanigans going on, like there would have been with HRC, and everyone needs to trust them.
2http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/preibus-downplays-trumps-conflict-interest
3Does Donnie know that he is not officially BLOTUS-elect, until the Electoral College meets Dec 19th? There is still time to reverse this tangled mango mess. $1000 fine per elector voting their conscience; small price to pay reject/eject Donnie and Condombrella from the White House.
Love you Massachusetts Rep Katherine Clark!
4http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/rep-katherine-clark-d-ma-introduces
In this season of surprises I was surprised when the supposed adults in charge of the nacilbupeR party allowed Hair Drumpf to “win” the nomination over other, much-better qualified and really, really nacilbupeR snacilbupeR. Then I was surprised, as in near fatal stroke bewildered when Hair Drumpf, by then known as Hellbeast, won the election in spite of losing the popular vote by 1.5+million votes (last time morbid curiosity forced me to look). So the icing on the cake with the cherry on top of surprises in this season of surprises would be for a moment of patriotic clarity to grip the Electoral College and have them vote for anyone but Hellbeast. For example the dead skunk in the middle of the road I couldn’t help but notice on the way to church this morning.
5Who is ‘Condombrella’. What’s pents doin?
6Micr, I wished I could believe in the devil. Would strike a bargain with him to breath life into that skunk and take Donnie in exchange. Maybe start a GoFundMe page for the devil to include Pence and Lyin’ Ryan in a package deal.
Who’d a thunk it? We’re cheering for the Electoral College.
7The Cheetoh-faced Ferret-wearing Shitgibbon Cocksplat has but one purpose – money, money, money. He’ll never truly divest, though he may come up with a variety of schemes to make it appear that he has. All us fine, upstanding citizens are irrelevant because it’s all about the MONEY.
8Anomalous Propagation, Condombrella is that see through umbrella Donnie carries on his arm, aka wife #3.
9I’m a ruminator. I think things through. Sometimes way longer than I should. But the result is commonly some rather profound (IMHO) conlusions. And at times people have asked my opinion on a subject and I offer my conclusion. Usually, their eyes glaze over and they tilt their head to one side which, as you know, tends to be the body language of “Huh?”. So… I have to back up and outline the logic thread that lead to my conclusion. Which usually leads to “Yeah. I get it.”
Thank you, El Jefe for this terse explanation of just one of the myriad dangers that were apparent (to thinkers like you and I and the salon patrons) with electing Trump. I fear you will be doing this many more times in the future as this Dance of the Seven Veils proceeds. Steel yourself.
And to the Trumpanzees? Buyer’s remorse is a bitch. Enjoy!
10The Stupid is strong in this one!
11PKM: OH.. you mean the Third Lady. *snicker*
12The Third String Wife. Eastern European Barbie. Poor thing doesn’t even get to move into the White House (…urp) until Barron can go too. Oh, damn it, what in blazes have we done here?! Back to the bunker to hide for a while
13Damn dems always trying to break up wealthy families. Shame on us and HRC, too. This wouldn’t happen if Hillary wasn’t such a crook and that black guy in the WH. It is his fault as well.
14Can we install a hidden camera in the White House? Maybe pipe in some laugh tracks and some Benny Hill music. You could show the highlights on C-SPAN. The station could garner some advertising revenue for the first time. Hell, hire the balladeer from the Dukes of Hazzard and you could be talking Emmy.
15Knew about the gibbon’s tangled web some time ago. Could not understand why so many millions did not. Then I got a load of their exit poll ruminations and finally understood: they are just like the gibbon – all me, me, me and oh yeah me. Even when faced with all evidence simp lied on a a silver platter,they made their choice.
16Mein Fubar divest? How long did it take the rest of you salon patrons to recover your breath from laughing so hard? Consign the “divest everything” story to the Fractured Fairy Tales shelves.
17We could talk about this disaster called Donnie. Or, we can relax with a couple of pictures that say all that needs to be said about the snacilbupeR.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jsT3P7Wo7PY/WCoNvHkbkXI/AAAAAAABhzA/bvpNeMFX2IowOma2zEo_f3zxdqiSbQfkACLcB/s640/irony.jpg
https://i.redditmedia.com/g4Ko4OID2Mngh9pqOl–bCVy6pnhOXjhiREYWhqBQmc.png?w=1024&s=79a9745cc5a9167487a91b14a97c1f88
JAKvirginia, you nailed it. “Third Lady” So now we have it, BLOTUS and TLOTUS.
18Scott, Hate to inform you but Waylon Jennings passed Feb 13th, 2002 in Chandler, Arizona. He was more than just a good ol’ boy. now onion has a sad! 🙁
19Micr, I wished I could believe in the devil.
20The devil wears Ivanka/disses Prada.
21The mangled apricot hellbeast’s real problem is he didn’t want the job to begin with and now he is forced to actually govern he is clueless. Like I said, wingnuts pick the richest, whitest and most clueless candidates they can find.
22e platypus onion, Dubya/Cheney and Donnie/Pence, there is a pattern there. It’s called fear the SOB who is ‘second’ in command.
Before the Electoral College meets Dec 19th, I seriously hope Samantha Bee does a full frontal exposure on exactly what Mike Pence represents. URL it up and send it to every EC member we can identify.
Mike Pence is for rapists’ rights. Think about that all you sons, brothers, husbands, uncles, fathers and women who thought this ‘change’ was a good idea. Seriously. Do you really want a groper and a rapist in charge?
23Please stop referring to this con man as Cheeto Jesus. I know the right wing sees him as their savior, but I don’t want Trump and Jesus to be used in the same sentence! Just as the right wing has co-opted my religion (and I kinda don’t think Christ would like the anti-everyone not like them attitude), I wish you would stop using that term.
Cheeto is fine, but shouldn’t it be spelled CHEAT-OH?
24Thank you for your editorial criticism. I find the term describes him perfectly; plus, I personally find it entertaining. I write to express and entertain myself, so will continue to use the term. Thanks for reading, but I certainly understand if you just skip over.
25El Jefe, on the days I choose to be offended which are the 8th Wednesday of every month that occurs in a leap year, I sometimes make an exception. When the snacilbupeR called President Obama the “Magic N!gra” THAT was offensive.
But the operant words are “choose to be offended.” Huckajeebus and other harmless references like Cheeto Jesus, if one chooses to believe in Jesus would probably amuse the man himself. If one doesn’t choose to believe, it’s “no harm, no foul.” Or, as you say “entertaining.”
26Impeach the shit. And as soon as he lies the oath.
27PKM, you are assuming that the electors HAVE consciences.
28Scott, I like your plan for a reality show. Let’s send all revenues to Planned Parenthood in the name of Punch.
PKM, thanks for the images. Bull’s-eye!
29The chance of impeachment by THIS congress is virtually nil. Given what the current combination, in the top levels of government, consists of, however, there’s a pretty good chance that the NEXT congress could be overwhelmingly Democratic. And then there will be investigations of possible criminal wrongdoing.
We need, though, to be very careful what we wish for. Pence will be president-in-all-but-name as of January 20. Do we REALLY want him to claim the actual title with all that that entails?
30@two crows
You’re right. That’s why when choosing which of Trumpence to attack you should indict/impeach/remove Pence first. Then go after the great and powerful Wizard of Odds hisownself. In that way you can test the Constitution and maybe have Eddie Munster as the next POTUS.
31Anybody see the Reuters story about Russia announcing it’s deploying missiles (including nuclear capable missiles) to Kaliningrad? Anyone remember Donnie talking about NATO members paying their fair share? Sure hope Lithuania and Latvia have their dues paid up. Google a map. They are squarely in Putin’s crosshairs. Yeah, I hope it’s just paranoia. But I don’t think so.
32No jokes. He’s a fascist, media duped, now getting seduced/intimidated. He is steamrolling all, look at this show, while behind the curtain Koch/Mercer, etc al get what they want.
33two crows you’d only need 30 wingnuts from the house to vote with all Dems for impeachment.
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