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"I asked for $10 billion" -- Trump demands protection payment from South Korea

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10 Billion to protect S Korea from who? N Korea? I thought Kim was his buddy who sent him love letters. Surely he wouldn't attempt to invade S Korea, an ally of ours? Besides, I'm confused, we have about 27 or so military installations around S Korea, 28k+ military, so what's the $$ for?

True. But America has been brainwashed for years to fear left wing authoritarianism (Communism) all the while the groundwork was laid to usher in an era of right wing fascism. Not exactly different IMO.

Dementia Donny doesn't care which form of economics is involved. He doesn't understand any of that. Wharton should rescind his degree. He wants to be an authoritarian ruler. With a complicit GOP and no guardrails, he just might succeed, if he lives long enough.

And he just might succeed if we all don't vote Blue in November. Dems need to take back the House and Senate and finally hold him and unqualified, cruel regime accountable and undo many of the harmful decisions they've made while he's been in office.

First they had to basically abandon the european allies facing a possible war with Russia in order focus on the Pacific. And now the Pacific allies are thrown under the bus too. The US will never recover from electing Trump as president.

He’s a full on schoolyard bully. Remind me how many Americans died in Korea. The fact that any servicemember or vet out there thinks trump gives two cents about them is deluded. He uses them as political pawns and then craps on their legacy.

I'm not quite sure i understand. We've got hundreds of billions in investments, tariffs, all the savings from all the programs that have been canceled, yet our national debt is going up faster than ever before.

Really? How many American companies have business and factories in South Korea? If worst case scenario happens, I hope all of them sue Trump personally for trillions.

A man walks into a business and tells the owner what a great business you have here. The food and service is the best in town and it would be a shame if something happened to your store. For a small envelope each week I'll protect you from unforseen accidents.

There’s a part of me that wonders if Trump just recently learned that South Koreans successfully blocked martial law, removed their wannabe dictator, and charged him with crimes. So he’s more keen on the one party state with no term limits and unlimited executive authority.

After this guy led South Korea to not negotiate further, President Biden then negotiated a five-year agreement. South Korea committed to increasing its cost-sharing for American troops by 13.9% that year & after 2021 “increase its portion annually at an average of 6.1 percent per year until 2025.”

Trump is successfully implementing the pact signed by Russia and China in February 2022 to turn the US into a "banana republic". Trump is their best agent for all the times.

So in 2025 South Korea agrees to build electric vehicle batteries in Georgia, brings in an experienced workforce from Korea to get the ball rolling then Donny sends in ICE goons to arrest the lot of them and now he wants $10bn?

He's extremely jealous of Elon's wealth and wants to have it for himself, what happened to the billions made on Venezuela oil? Or billions in tariff's paid by the consumers of America, or the daily grift of lawsuits, or money laundering - he wants it all, and he doesn't care if it's criminal or not