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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President
Seriously, it was just a few fields and a warehouse, and you idiots still appointed a special prosecutor and spent six months investigating it.
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Maybe Im just a sucker. Apparently, all I needed to do was hand off control of the farm to my family. If Id staged an elaborate song and dance about distancing myselfwhatever that meansfrom all the day-to-day planting, picking, and salting, maybe I could have kept my peanut farm with the full blessing of you, the American people.
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Emphasis mine.
It is a couple of years old but just as relevant today.
It may be satire, but he did have a peanut farm, and he did have to give it up... now the President gets to host the G7 in his own property for the enrichment of himself and his family, alongside all the other grift.... how times have changed.
Cha
(297,532 posts)than Ever!
Mahalo, Soph
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)1. Jimmy Carter is a DEMOCRAT!
2. Jimmy Carter is a Christian that has actually READ the Bible!
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)it's disgusting that half of America allowed these grifters to turn the presidency into a pay for play emoluments scheme.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)We will be kicked out, and he will host Putin at Doral and declare it the new "G2 by Trump"...
usaf-vet
(6,196 posts)..... the major percentage of the world market.
Then you would be able to control the peanut oil futures market and make a financial killing by manipulating how many peanuts you picked to control the amount of oil extraction from the raw peanuts you allowed.
We are talking thousands of dollars a year in revenue.
This would allow you to live a lavish lifestyle. Buying a new car every 3 years. Not to mention the new jon boat and trailer every 5 years to park in your two stall detached garage.
There are limits to the wealth a president should control. A two-week vacation every year to go fishing is pushing the limits of acceptable leisure time.
Of course, you had to give up your peanut farm.
FakeNoose
(32,723 posts)1) He would have made the peanut (and peanut butter) the national patriotic food of America
2) He would be selling bags of "Trump Nuts" in every grocery and convenience store in the US
3) His kids would be shilling for Trump Nuts all over Europe and Asia
4) Peanut butter & jelly would be a required food in every US school cafeteria
Anybody else want to add to this list?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Hehe
FakeNoose
(32,723 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)sandwiches and boiled peanuts to Sadat and Begin!
Is it still the Onion when it is true?
dlk
(11,575 posts)Especially when it favors them.
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)I have been waiting for this issue to get more exposure -- one of the biggest examples of GOP hypocrisy anyone with half a brain could understand (MAGATs excluded)