Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.
According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.
In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.
“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.
I mean, this is reading like a damn Disney movie. Are we IN fern gully? Is his secret lair in a volcano surrounded by liquid hot magma?
And everyone in that meeting is a huge, stinking pile of human excrement.
I’m really disappointed in the low quality of super villain. I was told they would have evil lairs on the moon or the ocean floor, not a shabby club in Florida. I was told they would be charismatic visionaries with grandiose ambitions, not a salesman of sneakers and NFTs who just wants to abuse women unchecked.
Roger Waters - Too Much Rope
When the sleigh is heavy and the timber wolves are getting bold
You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship With your toe
They significantly edge closer to the gold
Each man has his price bub, and yours was pretty low
History is short the sun is just a minor star
The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
Que sera sera is that your new Ferrari car
Nice, but I think I’ll wait for the F50
You don’t have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder
Tears burn our eyes
Muslim or Christian Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet who was it wrote
Give any one species too much rope
And they’ll fuck it up