President Donald Trump was in a jolly mood at dinner on Friday night, with CBS News reporting that the Commander-in-Chief spent part of his evening extolling the benefits of the new tax bill to friends at Mar-a-Lago.
‘You all just got a lot richer,’ President Trump told a group of diners at a nearby table according to two people at the Palm Beach club that night.
It is unclear if the diners were members or guests at the club, which charges a $200,000 initiation fee and $14,000 in annual dues.
President Trump made that statement despite his repeated insistence that the new $1.5 trillion tax overhaul was created to benefit middle class Americans.
Under the new bill, almost all Americans will see their taxes go down next year, but many critics feel that the wealthiest citizens benefit the most and at a disproportionate rate.
President Trump has claimed the tax bill is ‘not good’ for him personally, but his refusal to release his past tax returns makes that statement impossible to confirm or deny.
The New York Times estimated that President Trump would have saved $11 million o his 2005 tax bill based on this plan, the one year for which one of his returns was leaked earlier this year.
He would also have saved an additional $4.4 million on his estate tax bill.
Back in September he said: ‘The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan. We are looking for the middle class and we are looking for jobs — jobs being the economy.’
And earlier in the day on Friday President Trump had told reporters: ‘I consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs.’
The passage of the bill is President Trump’s biggest accomplishment as he wraps up his first year in the Oval Office.
The news of his boasting managed to anger Democrats, with Senator Chuck Schumer tweeting: ‘@realDonaldTrump’s Christmas Eve pronouncement from Mar-a-Lago: Santa to the Rich, Scrooge to the poor.’
And Senator Bernie Sanders wrote: ‘At least Trump is finally telling the truth about his tax bill.’
President Trump has yet to respond to the CBS News report, though he has been active on Twitter this Christmas Eve.
He is spending the holiday at Mar-a-Lago with his wife Melania and at least four of his five children.
Donald Jr., Eric, Tiffany and Barron have all been spotted at the club over the weekend.
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contex?
more fake news.
After reading these, ask yourself if you still think there is any possibility that this is fake news. Surely you have become aware that nothing is to benefit the American Nationals ,only the wealthy, right, & Trump is one of them. How do you think Trump did draining the swamp and keeping his campaign promise, “There will be no amnesty,” and “they are all going?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-congress-passes-tax-windfall-for-corporations-and-the-rich/5623496
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/gop-plan-destroy-social-justice-america/213527
spot on……when I look at Trump I think to myself this pres was a game show host ……dang
Here is some context, go fk yourself. We keep you around because you amuse my pet goldfish.
Support chump and betray the US. He vows to support itsnotreal and has proven it. He supports violating our Bill of Rights and if you support that, there’s nothing here for you, you commie zio-joo supporting pos. See you in my crosshairs. He’s said and done MORE than enough to prove he shilled for shekels and if you don’t get it by now, you’re completely useless. And ubeteda joos got you to sucka their shmekels.
cheez doods,
just commenting on the fact that the media is in a competition to out do each other on fake attacks on trump.
i don’t really care about the guy. he’s just another one. but with a better sense of humor.
in fact, i don’t support anybody. especially the mainstream media….i really don’t like bernie though and he seems to think trump said it.
so…….
Trumps a Jew loving conman, he uses humor to feed trolls and shills. That hemroid stuck in his ass bleeds mammon, graft and fake diamonds, followed by ear bobbed fags waiting to lick his ass.
You credit or favor this scum bag around here, your going “cheez doods” yourself as an enemy of the site.
just pointing out how corrupt the media is. and don’t forget who they are.
trump supposedly said that all haitians have aids and all sorts of other things.
i’m on a crusade to get everybody to look at the media closer.
i’m not crediting or favoring anybody. if anything i’m disfavoring a group of individuals in this country who are far worse than the politicians or actors or everyday people they mis-report on.
and the media is 95% liberal democrat and made up of a large percentage of an “accepted” race.
don’t shoot the messenger.
Don’t kiss trumps ass, your preaching to the choir about the corrupt media.
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