Wtf are funerals that expensive?
They can be, sadly. It depends where you live, where you have someone buried, and what services and coffin and whatnot you get. But yeah, the funeral business in the US is pretty crazy greedy. $60k is definitely on the higher end. According to a quick Google, my state's average funeral cost is around $8k, with the total cost (including mortuary services, etc) around $20k.
The hell. What if your wage is 10k a year. Ie. you’re on disability benefits or social security. Will my family have to bury me in the backyard?
Not allowed to do that
But cremation is cheaper
So it's illegal to die poor
the man is a completely amoral, psycho-sociopathic narcissist
"No, 60k is to bury a DEAD Mexican. The ones fucking generally don't want to be buried"
Like he'd pay any bill ever
Aw he's trying to shout like a lil tough guy but he's just unhinging that beta jaw for the ol "arnold palmer", as he calls it.
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican!” Is this trump admitting to murdering mexicans? Or at least knowing how much it cost to bury them afterwards?
Fuckface 45 is a disgusting pile of burning excrement.
Don is a nasty POS, fuck him and all his supporters.
This is not someone killed in battle:
Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.
Somehow knowing the circumstances of her death makes Trump's awful remark even nastier. Especially since he is a rapist.
Guillén, a 20-year-old American of Mexican ancestry from Houston, was buried in her hometown on Aug. 15, 2020. Months later, in December, Trump reportedly asked his advisers in a meeting, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?"
When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.
Trump says vile things every day but this has to be one of the vilest.
But he definitely doesn’t think the same way about the people voting for him…
That's the main point I never understood about his voters. His political agenda and your political affiliation don't even matter. All you have to understand is that everything he does is for his own benefit. Nobody wants an egoist in charge in a smaller setting - why the fuck elect one as president?
It's as if they all think that they'll be rewarded for their loyalty to him.
Because they think that he will hurt people that they've been led to hate.
Damn, he was almost close to making a valid comment about how wildly overpriced funerals are today, then instead went full bore into super racism
How expensive do you think he'd want his own funeral to be?
Can’t wait to be able to pee on that grave. It’ll be like a pilgrimage.
Because he starts with super racism and goes from there.
Super racism. Almost makes ya reminisce over just plain ol' regular racism, right?
He followed through with the sentiment too.
The magazine reported that Trump then turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and ordered him, “Don’t pay it!” That order was apparently heeded by Meadows, as the Atlantic reported that Trump never sent a dime to help cover funeral costs for the slain woman.
Back in the '80s Trump publicly offered to pay the funeral expenses of a child killed by a bear ... and then reneged, naturally.
It's absolutely vile to invite the mother to the white house, offer to pay, and then later rescind that offer.
If he'd never offered it wouldn't matter.
This is just so so abhorrent, even for trump.
Racism aside, if I offered someone to help pay for a funeral, I'd choke in my coffee too if I the bill said $60.000 .
True, but you also wouldn't have the world's largest economy and one of, if not the, largest governmental budget in the world like Trump does.
And he also wasn't paying for it out of his own pocket, it'd come from whatever federal budget covers the costs of military/veteran funerals.
The entire motivation behind this is clearly racism and sexism, plus his overall disdain for veterans/our military in general. Probably stems from a jealousy he has, since veterans tend to automatically be held in higher esteem than grifters like himself, and he knows he could never have handled bootcamp, nevermind the actual military.
The fact that this election is close makes this all even worse.
Your country is fucked dude.
Bad news: if America goes under everyone goes under. You can't rip out a backbone of the global markets and expect no fallout.
I almost wrote "and mine's not far behind"
we're all fucked, horray!
Oh we do expect fallout, I've even been collecting bottle caps.
And the family he said it about continues to kiss his ass. What the fuck is wrong with people?
We are grateful for everything he has done and continues to do to support our troops.
Says the sister of the soldier who was sexually abused and slain at Fort Hood, TX.
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