Sure, Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” drastically cuts government programs that benefit lower- and middle-class Americans in order to pay for a $975 billion tax break for the wealthiest 1% in the country.
During a meeting with members of the White House Faith Office, Trump explained that one of the reasons why he insisted on the controversial bill’s passage was humanitarian in nature. For ugly rich guys, that is.
Trump explained that the bill is needed to “make the economy strong” to prevent “a depression where you people, so rich, so beautiful, so nice to look at, will be totally busted.”
He then suggested that the bill would not only benefit billionaires’ bottom lines, but also their love lives.
“And let’s see how long your wife stays with you. You’re beautiful. She’ll stay with you for about three weeks, and she’ll say, ‘Darling, I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take it anymore, darling. I’m leaving you,’” Trump said.
He then explained his thinking by relating a conversation he claimed he had with an apparently ugly rich dude.
“I said to one guy, he’s a very, very unattractive man, but he’s smart and he’s rich,” Trump said. “And I said, you better hope we get this thing passed because your wife will be gone within about two minutes. He said, ‘You’re right.’”
For some strange reason, Trump’s “won’t somebody think of the unattractive billionaires” claim wasn’t exactly the rallying cry he might have expected.
And, yes, there was a lot of internet mockery.
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