re: Qatar slashes its overseas aid spending by roughly 85%

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I generally like his policies, but oh boy, does he steal.

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He doesn't steal. It's just that he and his family are willing to leverage the presidency for financial gain in a way "like nobody has ever seen before!"

In 2025, Trump's reported business and investment income was more than $2 billion (over a billion in crypto). That's more than the presidential salaries paid to ALL of his predecessors, COMBINED. All those salaries added up and adjusted for inflation come to only about 250 million.

2025 was Donald Trump's most financially lucrative year...EVER. He made about three times his 2024 income. What changed???

President Trump in his first term actually lost money. He is changing that this time around BIGLY.

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Show us your source.

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Responding to you with facts is akin to casting pearls before swine. You certainly will never say "hey thanks for taking the time to respond and document your assertion, I really appreciate that...usually I just grunt mindless insults at you."

BUT...here goes...

I originally saw it in Forbes, but it's easier to summarize with ChatGPT. You will bitch about that and insult me...as always. The one thing you will NEVER do is contradict me with facts.


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I calculated it using the actual presidential service period from George Washington's inauguration on April 30, 1789, through Joe Biden's departure on January 20, 2025, rather than simply multiplying each salary by whole four-year terms. The National Archives provides the service dates.

For inflation, I used the long-run U.S. CPI series from MeasuringWorth, which extends the BLS CPI backward to 1774. That's necessary because the official BLS CPI begins in 1913.

The results:
-Presidential salary Period
-Nominal salaries paid
-2025 purchasing-power equivalent

$25,000
1789–1873
$2.10 million
$64.65 million

$50,000
1873–1909
$1.80 million
$63.41 million

$75,000
1909–1949
$2.99 million
$63.88 million

$100,000
1949–1969
$2.00 million
$22.28 million

$200,000
1969–2001
$6.40 million
$20.11 million

$400,000
2001–Jan. 20, 2025
$9.60 million
$13.10 million

TOTAL
Washington–Biden
$24.89 million
˜ $247.4 million

The salary increases occurred in 1873, 1909, 1949, 1969 and 2001; the current $400,000 salary took effect January 20, 2001. That's confirmed by the U.S. Code.

So the best number is:
All presidential salaries paid from Washington through Biden:
Nominal dollars: approximately $24.9 million
Inflation-adjusted to 2025 dollars: approximately $247 million

And this makes the Trump comparison striking.
Using the approximately $2.2 billion of reported 2025 income we discussed:
$2.2 billion ÷ $247 million ˜ 8.9
So Trump's reported 2025 income was approximately 9 times the inflation-adjusted presidential salaries earned by every president from George Washington through Joe Biden combined.

And in nominal dollars:
$2.2 billion ÷ $24.9 million ˜ 88

So Trump's reported 2025 income was about 88 times the actual dollar amount paid in presidential salaries to all his predecessors combined.

Ivorysenstivematt good morning!

Slashing 85% is how you afford Tucker.


It’s like buying a Super Bowl ad.

Oh my God, he got some free grass for the White House in exchange for an ad.

swing and a miss

Does anyone else find it quaint that this thread has not a single aggy taking a position one way or another?

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Qatar has provided over $890 million in funding to Texas A&M University, primarily through its branch campus in Doha, raising concerns about transparency and potential influence on academic integrity. The partnership has faced scrutiny for compromising American interests and national security due to the nature of the funded research

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"QF1 isn't going to Trump's library, it's going to stay in the AF inventory. [Assumes President Trump is lying about the future of QF1]

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It isn't per your post.

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"Why do you care that QF1 is going to Trump's library? Reagan has an AF1, Dumbass!"

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There are currently 3 AF-1 aircraft in the inventory. Two with the baby blue, one you are fixated over.

All three are going to retire!

Well now we finally got down to the brass tacks, it's about your feels.

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Well now we finally got down to the brass tacks, it's about your feels.

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Lol. Of course that's a lie. I can back up everything I have said with objective facts. It just gets tedious...for everybody.

I don't have any feelings about this one way or another.