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babylonsister

(172,547 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 06:35 AM May 2025

DNC Trolls Trump With 'Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago' Banner Over His Florida Club


DNC Trolls Trump With ‘Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago’ Banner Over His Florida Club
AERIAL DISS
The stunt comes after Trump said he would accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar.
Jasmine Venet
Breaking News Intern
Updated May 14 2025 7:44PM EDT
Published May 14 2025 5:55PM EDT


The Democratic National Committee (DNC) trolled President Donald Trump by flying a banner that read “Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago” over Mar-a-Lago Wednesday
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Prior to the plane taking off, DNC Chair Ken Martin said that Trump is “using the presidency to personally enrich himself while he bankrupts working families.”

“His corruption is a slap in the face to the millions of Americans who are struggling to get by and put food on the table,” Martin added.

Martin accused Trump of not hesitating to “sell out America’s working families to the highest bidder,” whether that be to “billionaires at home or governments abroad.”


He added: “Today, the DNC is highlighting what foreign autocracies around the world already know: Trump has no loyalty to the American people, national security, or the Constitution – his only allegiance is to his bank account and his billionaire buddies.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/dnc-trolls-trump-with-welcome-to-qatar-a-lago-banner-over-mar-a-lago/
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DNC Trolls Trump With 'Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago' Banner Over His Florida Club (Original Post) babylonsister May 2025 OP
Post removed Post removed May 2025 #1
First of all, I wouldn't post a piece of RW garbage on DU. And I wouldn't pretend outrage. marble falls May 2025 #2
You always get the 'good' ones EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #4
The ones I miss you usually get! marble falls May 2025 #5
I always give 'em the 'bum's rush' EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #7
One of the many things I like aboucha! marble falls May 2025 #8
Gotta get busy EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #10
You gotta be quick around here to catch them. Xavier Breath May 2025 #14
Sen. Ted Cruz, usually a staunch supporter of Trump, joined a number of his Republican colleagues in expressing concern riversedge May 2025 #3
I get concerned whenever Cruz gets concerned, the git. marble falls May 2025 #6
I think Rafael is smelling blood in the water. GoCubsGo May 2025 #12
He doesn't realize, his own blood is in that mix. He always seems to burn luke warm. marble falls May 2025 #13
Qatar-a-Largo is a great metonym! I will be using it. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #9
400 million plane that they considered garbage... MiHale May 2025 #11

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EYESORE 9001

(29,422 posts)
7. I always give 'em the 'bum's rush'
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:10 AM
May 2025

Rudely shown the door, oftentimes accompanied by a playful toss to the curb.

riversedge

(79,182 posts)
3. Sen. Ted Cruz, usually a staunch supporter of Trump, joined a number of his Republican colleagues in expressing concern
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:04 AM
May 2025

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dnc-trolls-trump-with-welcome-to-qatar-a-lago-banner-over-mar-a-lago/

............Yet many of Trump’s loyal supporters and members of his inner circle have also expressed concern over the gift.
Sen. Ted Cruz expressed concern over the Qatari jet.

Sen. Ted Cruz, usually a staunch supporter of Trump, joined a number of his Republican colleagues in expressing concern over the Qatari “gift.” Alex Wong/Getty Images

Sen. Ted Cruz worried about the jet being used as the new Air Force One, noting how it could pose “significant espionage and surveillance problems.”

“I’m not a fan of Qatar,” Cruz told CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday. “I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding theocratic lunatics who want to murder us, funding Hamas and Hezbollah, and that’s a real problem.”...........................

GoCubsGo

(34,634 posts)
12. I think Rafael is smelling blood in the water.
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:26 AM
May 2025

Either that, or it just dawned on him that he's Canadian-born, with a Hispanic name, making him more likely to wind up in an El Salvador gulag than most. Could just be him trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. Whatever it is, it's weak sauce.

MiHale

(12,542 posts)
11. 400 million plane that they considered garbage...
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:25 AM
May 2025

Donnie the Garbage Collector was all too eager to take it. Top Forager in America!

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