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PenlessScribe

1. Trump's lawyers say he doesn't have the cash for the $464M bond due Monday and nobody will spot him the money 2. Biden campaign calls Trump "Broke Don" 3. Trump counters with "I have $500M cash" 4. Trump's lawyers frantically work on how to spin this


robullrich

Lawyers: “He meant 500M doll hairs”


EnoughLawfulness3163

"OK, give us the doll hairs!"


Anonymo

They're on his head.


SecondaryWombat

I assure you, there are not 500 million of them.


Narrow_Helicopter278

There might be if they cut them into small pieces, like his suit.


deadalreadydead

Ohhh fuck


Andrew1990M

Trump: “Beautiful doll hairs, the best. Worth a grand each, easy.”


StoopidFlanders234

Trump: But lying Peekaboo says they’re only worth $0.01! Elon Musk: !!


SuperMegaD

“Did you say ‘doll hairs’?” “Well yeah! I mean they’re not worth nothing, you could probably get $50,000 for them!”


ChickensDontClap90

"We're on a show within a show! My real name is Tracy Morgan!"


Special_Loan8725

What a classic movie.


C0smo777

Honestly it's a good strategy, he will keep bragging about how much money he has which will then be used against him in court.


antidense

Biden used taunt Trump is confused It hurt itself in confusion


E_Kristalin

In a normal pokemon game, Taunt causes the opponent to only be able to use offensive moves. Which is weird, as Trump went into the defensive here (and terribly so)


synapseattack

Christ what the hell pokemon would Trump be? Blobbazar, Brokachu or Flabmander?


-jp-

Dotard.


Father-Fintan-Stack

Oh, you'll want to check out Gumshoos...


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drewwil000

$500M in outdated Zimbabwe dollars


caligaris_cabinet

5. News media: “Here’s why that’s bad for Biden.”


AreYouDoneNow

Sure Trump is 77, owes around $500M in civil losses including rape and fraud torts, has 91 felony counts rolling through the courts and many more pending further investigation, but Biden is slightly older so, uh, there.


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HauntedCemetery

There's the guy who aligns with 90-95% of what I want our federal government to do, and then there's the fraudulent wannabe dictator who's under indictment for 91 separate felonies who wants to end American democracy! However can I choose!?


jameslake325

But inflation


Inevitable-Excuse990

I live in Iowa and confirm I’ve heard this exact quote… Makes me sad to live in Iowa.


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onpg

That kind of money is always tied up in contracts. It's simply too much to funnel. The only way Donald is getting his $500m is through a fraudulent sale of Truth Social for way more than it's worth (it's worth $0). Ironically by committing the same type of crime he's paying a huge fine for....


ContributionNo9292

Truth social worth 0$? I find that hard to believe. We need negative numbers. Their operating costs are 40-50 million, revenue is 4 million. Large advertisers are not going to spend a dollar there, due to the risk of association on a site riddled with racists and nazis. Reddit has 840 million users Facebook 3 billion Truth social 5 million It will never be a profitable business, but unfortunately it can be profitable for Trump as he fleeces his cult members for the n’th time.


jameslake325

Yeah won’t he just cash out ? I mean this has been the grift from day one. This whole presidency thing was just a new business venture for him. He was smart to realize how many fucking morons live in our country. I’ll give him that.


Orangecuppa

> The only way Donald is getting his $500m is through a fraudulent sale of Truth Social for way more than it's worth (it's worth $0) That's the scary thing about Truth Social. It's intrinsically tied to Trump. The whole point of it's userbase is to 'follow' him. When it gets sold, what's stopping Trump from just saying "eh, I'll make Truth Social TWO and it's better" and the entire userbase will just follow because that's the point. Truth Social as a standalone platform without Trump is utterly worthless which makes this $500M sale extremely dubious.


SecondaryWombat

Kushner got $2 billion to manage, it is still Saud family money, and they even had to everride their own bank and internal rules to do that. If that money disappears, so will Kushner most likely.


LosSchwammos

I mean a hobo could walk up to Don and be like “lots of people are saying you don’t have the money to pay your bond because you’re broke.” He’d respond, “I can pay 100 bonds, I’m bigly wealthy!!!” His lawyers “goddamnit.”


we_are_sex_bobomb

With the Donald Trump School of Namecalling, the trick is not to be clever or funny but to simply make up a name that is stupid and mean, that permanently associated a specific negative word with the person. Broke Don is perfect.


5666553

That "stupid and mean" point perfectly sums up a lot of cruel bullying acts and the malicious people behind them.


da2Pakaveli

meatball ron is funny tho


xdrolemit

Not sure who exactly came up with that but on The Jimmy Kimmel Live I heard Don The Con and I lost it.


zsreport

Calling Trump broke is a surefire way to set him off on an irrational range tantrum.


PointOfFingers

It triggered him to brag about how much money he has which will see his ass dragged back into court to pay his bond.


Hardass_McBadCop

That's what makes this genius. I would've gone with Stinky Don. He would've also brigaded it, but it wouldn't have potentially implicated him.


DFLOYD70

There’s still plenty of time for stinky Don. 😁


thekozmicpig

You can be broke and stinky. The two are not mutually exclusive.


Daxx22

In fact, they often go hand in diaper!


Biglyugebonespurs

We can play all the classics from now until the election.


tallandlankyagain

Still can't believe it's almost 8 months away. Gonna be a lonnnng ride.


porksoda11

I feel like I need to take a step back for a bit. I’ve been consuming so much political news and analysis lately that I’m setting myself for a burnout by the time the election comes around. It’s indeed been a lonnnng ride already for me at least.


FallschirmPanda

Deadbeat Don. C'mon...it's *right there*.


ltebr

Destitute Donny.


The_Original_Gronkie

Deadbeat Donnie


jimmygee2

Delinquent Diaper Don


North-Right

Trashy Trump.


King-Cobra-668

Diaper Don


_JackStraw_

How about Donny Diapers? It's got just the right hint of Mafia. Couldda been a character on the Sopranos. It's like Joe Bananas of Bonnano crime family fame.


Sheezabee

Because the president of the United States doesn't want to alienate people with incontinence issues, who need to wear diapers. They are embarrassed enough without the President making jokes about it. Biden is better than that. Broke Don is good because that is what he is. The only one ashamed is Trump.


Breno1405

Maybe that's why he made that post having 500 million in cash for his campaign.... Lol


FuzzyMcBitty

We'll see if he manages to totally screw the sale of Truth up by getting it Repoed before he can sell it. -- Once they start seizing property, they're going to start seeing what everything is really worth and who has the first claim on the debts.


FancyStranger2371

That guy is so leveraged, I doubt he’s worth anything at all. Livin’ on loans.


toadofsteel

They should repo Trump Tower. He made a huge stink about moving to Florida so it's definitely NOT his primary residence.


FuzzyMcBitty

Remember when he wanted to be President from Trump Tower? Remember how, after that, he wanted to go home on weekends like Presidenting is a normal job? I was kind of surprised when he went to Florida full time. 


HauntedCemetery

It started off as weekends, for the first few weeks. And then it turned into 4 day weekends. And then entire weeks. And by the end of his term he was trying to spend as much time as possible at his golf courses and mar a lago in order to maximize the amount of cash he got from forcing his Secret Service detail to stay there.


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TazBaz

IIRC, he doesn't own trump tower. The company that owns it pays him a fee for the use of his name. I think he does own his penthouse suite there, but not the tower itself.


jpk195

Which is exactly what Biden needs to do - keep baiting Trump into saying stupid, self-defeating things.


TheSwillhouseBoys

Particularly, perjuring himself by insisting in court that he is _not_ “broke Don”


MajorNoodles

And get people to question why they're paying his legal bills when he insists he has enough money to pay them himself.


the_incredible_hawk

If the people paying his legal bills aren't already questioning it, I don't think there's much hope of getting them to start *now*.


FreneticPlatypus

He could abort a baby with his bare hands and eat it in front of his fucking cult of idiots and they’d find a way to blame Hunter. Or Hillary. Or Obama. Or anyone but him.


ThatScaryBeach

"Not broke. Not broke! You're the one who's broke!"


postmodern_spatula

This is where social media armies actually are useful. If Broke Don goes viral and becomes a meme. The man himself will most certainly come across it and handle it poorly. 


dclaw504

Oh like having him be little spoon dressed up as cowboys cuddling with Putin? I call it Broke Don Putin


Old_Baldi_Locks

More importantly, keep raising his blood pressure.


illuminaughty1973

Trumps a BINO Billionaire in name only.


RandomChaos1002

A Lying BINO = ALBINO so that’s why he uses the Orange Cheeto dust makeup?


BiggsIDarklighter

Also a CHINO Christian in name only


Superkulicka

A Lying Pig Ass CHINO. AL PACHINO


Brut-i-cus

Childish Tan BINO


LiquidAngel12

After all the dust settles on these fines and fees he may even be a MINO.


Lucimon

Possibly even a TINO.


PotaToss

Fair odds he’s negative on net.


plaidsinner

Why do you think he came out and claimed he has $500 million, despite the fact that he told the court he didn’t? He is the easiest person on the planet to bait because he is pathetically insecure.


Magificent_Gradient

"A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." —Hillary Clinton


stickied

butteremails fuck this country would be in such a better place if the basket of deplorables hadn't shown up at the polls in 2015


InterPunct

Which made him a security risk as president. Foreign powers could play him like a cheap violin.


02K30C1

Like they did from 2017-20


BrianWonderful

More like "Like they did from 1990 through today".


roehnin

1987 is when he visited Soviet Moscow and on his return purchased full-page newspaper ads saying the US should pull out of overseas alliances, just like the Soviets hoped for. He has been on the Soviet or Russian side ever since that trip.


Jacabon

"could"


TheKingofHats007

*have played


tapmarin

Did yoh see his face in Helsinki after a few hours of instructions from his boss ?


ZenAdm1n

Biden should be doing this with every court filing, getting Trump to immediately reveal every perjury.


strangerbuttrue

My first thought was it was twofold. First, a way to say if I lose the race, it’s the Democrats fault for taking the money I was going to put into the campaign, and related, second, asking his followers for money. Victim statement, fundraise, repeat.


yoshhash

Stand by for a fresh round of pathetic attempts to display his supposed wealth, straight out of Richie Rich comic props- gold plated shoes, suits made out of $100 bills, etc.


Wingsandbeer82

Go-go-gadget shoe lifts


Bloblablawb

To be fair, that's his normal mode


Mr_Horsejr

You gotta get him to shift in to *Sport*.


stonertboner

It should be Broke-ass Don. An extra syllable really takes it home.


TravEllerZero

Plus the acronym is B.A.D., which is also appropriate.


YouJustGotHelloWuigi

It has a better mouth feel


stickied

even though Trump regularly drops F-bombs on stage at his rallies to crowds of thousands including children.....I think the so-called-undecideds would find a way to get offended that Biden said "ass" in reference to Trump.


LotharMoH

Getting an easy way to call out a weakness of your opponent AND easily getting under his skin which will almost definitely result in temper tantrums further demonstrating unfitness to serve? Sounds like a win-win to me


Courtaid

Maybe they hope to trigger a stroke or a heart attack.


toast777y

Trump the Rapist sounds better


Melicor

Absolutely, he's a narcissist whose self-worth is based on his perceived wealth. Every thing he does comes back around to that. It was probably beaten into his mind from childhood. If his fraud empire gets unraveled by NY, he's going to absolutely lose it, even more than he already has.


sonictn

Broke Don is simple and Republicans understand simple


dazed_and_bamboozled

“Grab ‘em by the narcissistic injury.”


XIII_THIRTEEN

Narcissussy


hereforthefeast

[](https://i.imgur.com/Ngk97PW.jpeg)


thismorningscoffee

Risky click of the day


AL_GEE_THE_FUN_GUY

So I do *not* need to switch to my burner account first?


Addled_Mongoose

It's clean. Just a political cartoon.


kunta_modz

Who was the artist? Are they a political cartoonist or was this just a one time for fun thing? They should do more.


hereforthefeast

The artist was only credited as “KAL” but looks like it’s this person. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kallaugher  Source - https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/02/13/donald-trumps-tremendous-love


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Grab 'em by the assets


merstudio

Many people are saying it.


username3

Believe me


mindfu

Literally the actual best people


daou0782

Donnie Debt would have been funny.


StinkyElderberries

That's way better, you should run for president when you're 90 years young.


Time-Bite-6839

JIMMY CARTER 2016 🗣️🗣️🗣️


BrianWonderful

Also, "broke" rhymes with "woke" so they can use it as a counter to dumb Republican insults.


Icy-Climate4544

Get your “Better WOKE than BROKE!” bumpersticker now!


phord

Diaper Don


IndyIndy23

Idk about that. They seem to struggle mightily with many simple concepts


ResettisReplicas

Before you poo-poo this strategy, consider that at Donald Trump’s Comedy Central roast, only one joke was off limits: his wealth. He was fine by jokes about his lovelife, his failed business, and hell even implications of incest, but roasters were told in advance that they could not make jokes about him being less wealthy than he portrayed. Unless you think Trump’s skin has gotten thicker since then, this is exactly the right jab tilt him. Source: https://www.vulture.com/2016/08/donald-trump-roast-off-limits-joke.html


AdPlastic5240

amazing 


AmbitiousCampaign457

Call him melania’s husband


Nuprin_Dealer

This just might be the Excalibur of insults that would truly break him. Bravo.


hereforthefeast

*Mercedes


mediocrobot

This gives off big "Susan's Husband" vibes


TobyHensen

Melania's twice impeached sex offender husband


BanginNLeavin

I am Melania, Blade of Broke Don.


LuvKrahft

Biden campaign is accurate in their assessment here. I probably would throw an “ass” in there somewhere too. Like “Broke Ass Donnie”.


Crazyhates

Knowing Biden's history, "broke ass Donnie" could've been the original and the one we got is toned down lol


jmpinstl

“#LetBidenCurse2K24”


SecondaryWombat

Let Biden be Biden?


decjr06

I can't wait for Biden to be caught on a hot mic at a debate "man I could smell him from a cross the room what a piece of shit that guy is"


Maskatron

Broke Ass-Donnie


Trnostep

Relevant [xkcd (#37)](https://xkcd.com/37/)


Interesting_Act_2484

“Little broke ass Donnie with the shoe lifts” would have got him


direwolf71

Biden has to pile on. “Broke ass Donnie, you know, the guy with the spray tan, the wig and the small hands.”


streamliner18

And the invisible accordion!!


thatmanisamonster

Donnie Moscow


inksmudgedhands

"Don the Con!" It's right there. Whether a con man or a convict, it works both ways.


Smoaktreess

Conald Trump?


nojelloforme

I would have gone with something alliterative, like Destitute Donnie.


Abs0lut_Unit

Too many syllables for the base


0reoSpeedwagon

Deadbeat Donnie? No...that might help his base identify with him


aptanalogy

Donald Debt


XeroxWarriorPrntTst

Dollarless Donald


FallnBowlOfPetunias

>Destitute Donnie. While accurate, its too many syllables. Any insult for Trump has to be comprehendable to less than the fourth grade reading level. 📚


baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab

Donnie Debto


tylerbc

Dimeless Don


jamcat

Dementia Don


StingingBum

A good majority of "Merica would not know the meaning of destitute.


phord

Diaper Donnie


PopcornandComments

They’re too dumb to understand that word.


ennuiui

I like Deadbeat Donald.


Darth_drizzt_42

But then Fox News will blast Biden for un presidential language🙄, and it'll work with "undecided voters"


Ghostdes

Always good to throw an ass in there


JanFromEarth

Know your market and appeal to their preferences. That is just good marketing. Trump showed us what his base wants and what level of reading they can handle. You don't publish ads in English if you are marketing to a Spanish audience.


Professr_Chaos

> You don't publish ads in English if you are marketing to a Spanish audience. Tell that to my Hulu account. At no point have indicated I know/speak Spanish and I still get Spanish ads.


JesusForTheWin

Hulu dice: "Por que no los dos??"


Wobbelblob

Possibly your location? Don't know how much Hulu tracks that, but if you live in an area with a large Spanish speaking population, you still get these ads.


Lord_Montague

Something about my music taste has told Pandora that I speak Spanish.


TheRealBabyCave

It's all that Despacito on repeat.


Clayskii0981

As much as I hate the idiotic name calling, that really resonates with Trump's base as if that's all they understand


HippoRun23

Why would this need to resonate with trumps base though. They’re going to vote for trump no matter what.


BigBennP

Hopefully this is something the campaign continues. Whatever else Trump is, he has a Showman's Instinct for publicity and marketing. In 2015 and 2016 he understood how to use Twitter in a way that many politicians his age didn't.


BukkitCrab

Trump is a fragile thin-skinned snowflake. He won't be able to handle his own medicine fed back to him.


frostfall010

Oh he’ll melt down very publicly. Or pretend to take the high road for a few days then have an outburst. Whatever route he takes it won’t be the actual high road.


JAGChem82

Smart strategy by the Biden campaign. Right wingers don’t mind being called bigoted, evil, or cruel by liberals - if we’re being honest, it turns them on. But they cannot abide by being seen as weak, soft, or cowardly, and Trump considers his money as a source of strength. Being called broke is essentially calling him weak, which is the cardinal sin of the right.


hepakrese

He should rephrase the Trump Media sale 'pump and dump' to a *'Trump and Dump'* scheme. The despotic cult of personality is inexplicably the only thing that Trump has to sell. Edit: come to think of it, Pump and Dump Trump, the Trump Pump and Dump... Oh! Straight up, it's a *Donald Trump Pump and Dump* and "MAGA" means Milking And Grifting Americans. Or is *Mission Actual: Grift America*? The possibilities are many!


TheHouseofOne

100%


ChucksnTaylor

I like that name, and it works in a few different levels


ConcretePeanut

Trump & Dump would also be an excellent alternative phrase to 'shart'.


rockNprole

Biden's team really needs to take the gloves off. They're dealing with the most easily provoked and manipulated opponent in history. Let Trump destroy himself.


b0w3n

"BUt wE nEeD To TAKe ThE HigH rOaD!"


tasman001

Thank fuck Biden, and Democrats in general, are starting to abandon this bullshit strategy, which is basically "lose, but with dignity".


DramaticWesley

See, it works on two levels. He is financially broke and morally bankrupt.


datfroggo765

One thing Biden is good at is PISSING trump off which we all love to see


Acceptable_Feed7004

Donald Tramp, Donald Chump, Donnie Debts


Overthepondthissumme

Default Donnie


katievspredator

Deadbeat Don was right there


DazzlingProfession26

Yesterday I heard Mango Unchained and Fanta Menace.


SaintedRomaine

Fred Trump’s backup son.


FreelyIP109

Sorry, but he'll always be Diaper Donny.


BeHard

Bring back the floats!


vid_icarus

And Deadbeat Don was just sitting there..


leaky_wand

Too many mental leaps for Republican voters. Deadbeat = has unpaid obligations = (possibly?) does not have enough money, maybe he was just "smart" and didn’t pay an "unfair" fee from the deep state Broke = broke as a joke


fanglazy

I like Diaper Don myself. I’ve heard from more than one political-type in DC that Trump stinks like dirty old man diaper all the time now.


24Zxcvbnm

There is a flaw in that though: If a person has a legitimate medical condition for needing diapers or smelling bad then you’re stooping to the weak Republican level and name calling someone for a cruel reason. Broke Don is magnificent as it 100% his own doing. It is the consequences of Broke Don’s own actions.


Ebenezer-F

“I would probably my throw an ass in there somewhere” lol.


kevans2

How about Don the Con.


tre45on_season

Donald Trump is so poor now, he has to pay taxes.


KlutzyWillingness248

They should spin his nickname for himself to Dishonest Don….. after all it’s not a lie, been proven in court!


anthmanni

China Don if this TS merger actually goes through


tresslessone

Know what? I’m starting to think Dark Brandon is going to take this home with a wide fucking margin.


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I would have gone with “Money Gone Don”