I knew it would be expensive but I didn’t think it’d cost a billion USD. I might have guessed half that or something. It’s always going to be extremely costly isn’t it, you’re talking about the most coveted, important political role in the world.
It's incredibly cheap compared to the consequences if Trump is elected.
Trump promises to immediately deport 5% of Americans workers, who contribute tens of billions of dollars in taxes, and whose deportation will disrupt the American economy for a decade. In a 20 trillion dollar economy, the resulting loss of GDP will be in the trillions, not billions.
And on the flip side, Trump and his cronies stand to make hundreds of billions for themselves personally if Trump is elected.
Trump would be the first convicted criminal US president, and the first completely lawless presidency we've ever had (even Nixon was not given a specially lawless mandate from voters). Trump could, for instance, create his own crypto and then
outlaw Bitcoin in order to pump his own coin, yielding himself hundreds of billions if not trillions.
I'm surprised how
little spending we have...