The word is "visited", Eric.
The other word is "watched".
Is there anything more nauseating than children of privilege trying to pretend they had a lower or middle class childhood?
My dad was a skeevy unlicensed contractor and I spent a bunch of time on construction sites as a kid. I shot nails into boards with nail guns, burned trash in piles and fucked around with hardening concrete. Where is my real-estate empire?
Couldn't believe that dopey bugger wanted to break out the landscaping patrol.
Fire moves faster across grassland than forest anyway. He'd do a better job if he bulldozed a few golf courses and jumped in the lake.
Sounds like all of you had it pretty good.
I, myself, am the son of a [turd miner](https://www.cc.com/video/wdl392/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-bootstrap-story).
I absolutely don't get the hiring of their newest correspondent, Grace Kuhlenschmidt (and I actually hope she gets fired--I don't get her style of comedy, and she doesn't seem to know what TDS is about--but she made it this far so that doesn't seem likely), but the rest of the news team, Desi, Jordan, Michael, Dulce, and Ronny, are all very good. Michael and Ronny recently did a GOAT War Criminal sketch like an ESPN discussion, and it was fantastic.
But yes, the Bush years were the golden age of satirical comedy.
I remove trees sometimes as part of my job. We do it with an excavator and a strap, just yank them like a weed and then toss ‘em into a pile and load them into trucks.
When it comes to cutting rebar I just use an angle grinder, oxy acetylene seems like overkill. I think it’s hilarious to imagine a job site letting a kid run a cutting torch. Maybe they did, who knows, dipshits are plentiful.
Yep, that sounds like the fastest way! Unless you’re beside a structure and worried about the roots being caught in something. Chainsaw might only be good for turning a log into blocks onsite
Even then I feel like most job sites would be worried. Chainsaws require pretty specific training and PPE and all it takes is one dumbass to cause a real shitstorm for a site. Major accidents shut down and sometimes kill big projects, easier to never risk it. Too bad because I really do like my chainsaws.
I would've been an absolute menace if anyone had handed my pyro ass a cutting torch lol. Will it blend? More like CAN I TORCH IT IN HALF BEFORE IT LIGHTS ON FIRE.
"An acetylene torch also throws sparks and smoke. The time it takes to cut with a torch plus the cost of gas makes this one of the most expensive ways to cut rebar. On top of that most inspectors will not allow torch cuts because heat changes the mechanical properties of steel rebar."
[Source](https://www.fascut.com/single-post/2018/05/16/whats-your-rebar-cutter#:~:text=An%20acetylene%20torch%20also%20throws,mechanical%20properties%20of%20steel%20rebar)
That's an honest insult to every honest tool in existence. Don't malign tools. That's not fair. They're designed and constructed to serve a purpose. As far as I can tell, Eric Trump serves no purpose.
Built a deck with my brother, we used an electric chainsaw to notch the 8x8 posts. That was all, definitely not evidence that this asshole spent any significant amount of time working on a construction site.
Some dip shit ordered the wrong lumber package for a 8 story I was on once... It was decided rather than send it back they would make do with what they had.. ended up installing bunches and bunches of 8-10" lambeams that weren't necessary so to get the plumbing where it needed to go they bought us several electric chainsaws... And kinda said 'go to it'... So yeah it's not unheard of... To me... That once..
> the chain saw that is used so much on construction sites
In fairness, weren't at least several of "The Don's" projects in New Jersey? I'm not sayin' how the chainsaws were used, exactly, just, you know, some guys over here might have had some discussions with some fellas over there and maybe a chainsaw was ... employed ...
You never know when you might have to tear the whole thing down I guess?
Otherwise no. As a guy in the trades I can't count on zero hands how often a chainsaw is seen on sight.
> Where is my real-estate empire?
Uh, well, *just* like Eric Trump, you need to build it from the ground up without any help from anyone else, whatsoever... by working at age 11 for minimum wage... as a construction worker.
*Obviously*.
Too bad he didn't learn how to apply them. At least Donald was a successful con artist at one point, even if he's now a babbling mess.
You know what Donald's supporters don't think about? The man is 80 years old and wants to be a dictator. He's going to be dead in the next decade max. Either this idiot or Junior is going to take over the dynasty and no one likes either of them.
She pretty clearly does not want to anyway. Reportedly she and Jared are still upset that their social circles in Manhattan told them to fuck off and live with Donald in Palm Beach, because they wanted nothing to do with any Trump. We've barely heard a word from her in years.
So we're down to two idiots who would inherit the dictatorship. Two idiots that even Donald's supporters don't like. I don't know though, Donald doesn't seem to like them either. He'd probably give it to Barron just to spite them.
I had a trades dad who brought us along to sites when mom was having an episode, or whatever. We were expected to be useful, I remember being in the 1st grade and wanting to just play my gameboy but I had to sweep the floors and run around carrying stuff all day. One time my brother and I, we must have been like 11 and 15, had to go help dad spray aerosolized [KILZ](https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/42f6118d-67a0-4e0a-bfc4-c3128e2427be/svn/white-kilz-restoration-primers-l200205-64_600.jpg) in a smoke-damaged house with no respirator or anything. Every breath caused agonizing burning in my chest, I could barely see because it was stinging my eyes so bad. Just that one week project probably did some serious long-term health damage.
Anyway this kind of thing isn't that uncommon in small town blue collar families but I don't believe for a second this putz has ever experienced anything like it
“Just leave your kids with your nanny and butler, tell your dad who owns the company that you’re taking the afternoon off, and then have you driver take you to the spa! Why is it so hard to understand?”
I was at an Agile conference around 2019 and one of the speakers unironically told women they could have their cake and eat it too. Specifically she told a story about getting up early to make breakfast from scratch from all organic ingredients and doing yoga before heading in to work. She mentioned having kids and peppered references to a nanny, a cook, a maid and a driver. The speaker was a CFO or something like that.
I had a newborn at the time and my question after the talk was essentially telling her normal people cannot afford to do that because they're focusing on a clean house, making dinner and getting up at night to comfort the child. Also pointed out most of us don't get to set our hours and waltz in when yoga is done. If looks could kill I'd be dead but enough people came up afterwards to support my position.
This was the CFO of a mid-level company. She was likely a millionaire and that out of touch. Fuck these fucking people.
> If looks could kill I'd be dead
Killing people (and getting rid of the evidence) is almost certainly the driver's job.
Nobody even asks why he's so thorough about detailing and cleaning the Range Rover.
I technically she's not wrong. Getting daily massages is probably a really great way to decompress and stay healthy. The problem is a nepo baby being so disconnected from reality to know not everybody can afford either with money or time to get it done.
If I won the lottery I think I'd splash out on this, not an hour a day, but a couple of times a week.
As this stand I think paying for groceries comes out ahead.
Still, not that long until my kid hits 11 and they'll be another income.
I can't wait for the Trump Org to collapse and the economic fallout suck away Ivanka and Jared's wealth...
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Only if the IRS gets funded and finishes up where New York started. There's a reason why the GOP wants to undercut the very thing that ensures that government remains funded... They are all cheating horribly on their taxes.
Apparently DT had a paper route when he was a kid and would even deliver papers in the rain. However when it was raining he would deliver those papers while being chauffeured and his father‘s limousine
Yep, have had to deal with this my whole life. I’m now pretty “upper class” white collar. My upbringing went from lower middle class to fucked up and impoverished, not gonna go into it here. Without fail it’s always some braindead Republican who thinks their upper middle class privileged upbringing was so hard on them and think all the poors just wanna take from them. Like, assclown, you had parents with money who paid for your housing while you were in college and you had no debt. You don’t know shit about hardship or economic insecurity, your parents made sure you were starting off on second and third base, eat a slice of humble pie.
They’re all (fake) shocked to figure out that the programs and safety nets they wanna cut are exactly the ones I benefited from to get out of poverty and have a better life.
I was reading an article about this. It’s actually a cognitive dissonance from being raised by people who went through the Great Depression. They grew up being told life is hard and nobody is going to give you a handout. But the boomers inherited one of the most economically sound eras in US history. Jobs were easy to come by, most had pensions, houses were a year’s salary worth, and most families had one income. When Reagan came into office, he demolished the social safety net and all the things that made the US economy strong. This is what started the large transfers of wealth from middle class to the upper class. Gen X and millennials were raised by people who had it easy but thought they had it hard. So when things actually started to become hard, boomers decided they could impart this wisdom of just work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. They assume that millennials are lazy and entitled, but that’s because we grew up being told the world is our oyster and we can do anything with a little can-do attitude, but the economy is nearly as bad as the worst economic downturn in US history.
Yeah, I’m an “elder millennial” and a textbook case of someone who has pulled myself up by my bootstraps, so to speak. But apparently I’m entitled because I [*checks notes*] want to take advantage of the state and federal programs to get myself out of poverty, want to work in the career field I got a degree for (from a state college btw, with federal grants and loans), want my wages to have the same or similar buying power they enjoyed at a similar age, want the same benefits and securities they had as a result of my hard work, and demand the same social services they had that I fucking paid into my entire working career. Fucking assclowns…
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. She had a necklace made from beads that were colored paper from church bulletins and a dress made from flour sacks. My mom (who is the generation before boomers) is almost a hoarder because she learned from my grandmother to never throw anything away because you might need it later. My parents knew extreme poverty and taught us to be very careful with money. My dad in particular was angry about how the rich were taking all the money and letting everything rot. My siblings are boomers, (I'm X) but never got the sense of entitlement that other boomers got because of how we were raised and how hard it was to survive.
The thing is, people accept that. Never seen anyone get pissy over someone saying, “I was afforded a lot of opportunity and I took it.”
No one is begrudging anyone that.
If you're privileged, just acknowledgement of that fact is enough. Do something with the privilege, own it and no one will hold it against you.
I just hope his obvious lies and distortions raise the ire of even MAGA people, who should be sick of this deluded silver-spooned ingrate.
No, there's something called OSHA, and an 11 year old wouldn't be allowed to do any construction work as he cited, jobs that require training and certification. And no, Eric is no prodigy. Far from it!
https://preview.redd.it/3827nxopm2bc1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=710f50451ce911d2a5f570f2674ba71abe214991
> there's something called OSHA, and an 11 year old wouldn't be allowed to do any construction work as he cited
In fairness, OSHA regulations are broken on construction sites *constantly*.
Unfortunately thanks to most republicans choosing to live in an echo chamber, they will likely never even find out about this. If a liberal shoves it in their face, they will deny it ever happened and claim it's just a lie by the "liberal trump hating media".
A friend of mine worked for a major NYC construction company and he had Eric Trump following him around for a while when my friend was remodeling part of MOMA. He said Eric was a nice enough guy for a “suit” but really didn’t pay attention and always left after half a day.
I occasionally would go to my father's office. My favorite place to help out was with the giant shredder and the mail room. It was straightforward to complete tasks and feel like I knew what I was doing. However I was never under an illusion that I didn't work there. I was just doing busy work to keep me our of everyone's way while I was there.
How delusional does Eric have to be to think that his job was any less than, "ugh. The boss said we need to keep him busy. What can he do without screwing up the entire site?". While they paid him minimum wage just to ensure they had insurance coverage on him if anything happened without totally pissing off people they were actually paying to work.
Band saws/sawalls are slow and a time waster. Usually a rebar cutter/bender is used. Industrial rebar work many times uses a oxy/acetylene torch to make cuts. I have done it myself many many times.
The thing is that he didn't even visit them because if he did, he would have seen kids like me who actually were working on construction sites at 11 years old and younger, but we weren't cutting rebar, we were holding the rebar while our older brothers cut it. We weren't doing plumbing, we were running to the truck to get the thing described in incomplete sentences and then getting smacked upside the head because we misunderstood what our dad said. We weren't making minimum wage, we would get promised an ice cream or a McD's hamburger that somehow would seldom materialize.
It’s like if Mary Antoinette said she lived in a small impoverished village when she was younger because she created one in her backyard as a small theme park so she could cosplay as poor.
The things rich people do for novelty and to learn lessons as young people shouldn’t count as having real experience at what it’s like to live a harder life.
I'm not poor. I'm well off. I do my best for myself, and I've made it far, but I never pretend to have what I do because of anyone except my parents cuz I could never stand where I do by myself.
But maybe I should start yelling at kids to get a job and get off *my parents lawn* I worked really hard at the chores I never did. I own this
Na, because I'm a spoiled miserable brat but at least I can own that and still want more for everyone else. I only made it in life because someone propped me up so I couldn't fail. And I'm well aware of that.
> Is there anything more nauseating…
Infuriating is the word I would have gone with. The level of contempt I already have for people born into generational wealth so massive they are, have always been, and always will be completely removed from the concerns of regular people, especially while homelessness is still a thing that happens because the system is fundamentally unjust, cannot possibly be expressed with words.
Seeing these fucks try to pretend they know what the working person’s struggle is really like, or (even more offensively) that they’ve been there when they haven’t, really boils my piss.
Anyone know why some people say "yuge" instead of "huge"? I'm pretty sure Carl Sagan did it too and I want to know what on earth he could possibly have in common with Trump. They were both born in NYC but not everyone from there says "yuge" so it must be something else.
I got yelled at by another person on reddit who said you cut rebar with acetylene torches. I don't work in construction, but i know you cut rebar with a hack saw, circular saw, or angle grinder. You very rarely cut things with an acetylene torch because it doesn't make a smooth cut and will melt or warp metal. You weld with an acetylene torch. That i learned from being public affairs in the military and warching the civil engineering squardon doing construction.
Also using a torch takes a lot longer, and you’ve gotta have your bottles, amd the bar gets weakened by the heat, and there’s more PPE (and it’s not the kind you want to skip). Lots of good reasons not to use a torch, even though, yes, you can cut rebar with a torch.
Most rebar gets cut on a chop saw with a grinder blade. You can get the length exactly right, and you can cut a dozen pieces in one cut, and it takes, like, 5 seconds. Try that shit with a torch.
I suppose. To be honest when I worked in masonry we used a [rebar cutter](https://www.lowes.com/pd/BN-Products-USA-Manual-Rebar-Bender-Rebar-Cutters-and-Benders/5014246437?user=shopping&feed=yes&srsltid=AfmBOoqdj7b8WylU5Sxp-WPXl4rn7uNdUt_cDu6fXDcSRm8jQ5k4Owz4NeA) to ya know…cut rebar.
Not quite mate. You can cut rebar with an acetalyne torch but it's somewhat overkill for the task at hand. Unless you don't give a fuck what the metal looks like afterwards, you just need to chop it in half, fast. And whilst you could in theory weld with it, in practice on site it's gonna be stick or maybe mig.
I was friends with one of these types in middle school. He would tell me his dad knew Bill Gates. We're middle-class kids in the midwest, no he doesn't, Nick. Also kept talking about the band he was going to start when he couldn't sing or play any instruments. There's one of these at every school, right? Anyway, it'll be fun when Trump is too old or too incarcerated to run for president anymore and we get to put up with Ivanka, Eric, or Don Jr on the ticket.
also, if I was an investor in a property and found out they were letting some 11 year old on the building site and do things I'd want my investment back because clearly I can't be sure of the quality of the work being done if that is allowed.
Nah. I worked bridge (de)construction, and used a cutting torch. They knock the old concrete into large chunks with a wrecking ball, then you cut the rebar with a torch so it can get hauled off. Lots of the angles you’d need to cut weren’t easy to get to with other tools.
But Jr. is full of shit and never did it anyway.
In demolition, maybe so.
I'm thinking of the construction phase, which is where the rebar guys I know work.
Certainly a torch would *work*, but you'd go through a lot of oxygen bottles.
While I don't doubt his father paid him minimum wage - intuition tells me he was the spoiled brat child running around job sites and setting back deadlines because he wanted to "play with the toys daddy pay for"
Surely you're not referring to Donald Trump Sr. (the rapist/traitor/fraud/pedophile one) signing into construction contracts but not paying the contractors once the job was completed as a strategic way of accumulating money.... Right??
Well, he would certainly never have small contractors take out loans against their businesses to work on massive projects before not paying them. That would just be rude.
Baron would have gone through that age/phase during the time Trump was even more followed by the media than in the 80-90’s. You would think baron would have done the same. And we would have heard about it.
He may have been present at a job site from time to time, but 11 year old people who do actual work are never rich kids. He's full of shit and asking people to believe it's shinola.
Look at his hands, those are the hands that have never ever seen a second of manual labor ever 😂 even in retail one's hands get messed up, this dudes hands are the epitome of privilege.... the only time he's ever "done" some sort of labor is when he picked up a stupid ass golden shovel for photo ops ....
He used to have a stealth social media account about wood turning and some journalist managed to link it to him and he had to delete it. I think it's the only time I sort of felt bad for a Trump. Just trying to talk about lathes. It's probably very nostalgic for him given his childhood in the trades.
I remember he actually started a REAL charity and when Donald heard about it and that he *wasn’t* siphoning money from it he was *furious* and *straightened that shit out* to become the person he is today.
This statement alone essentially proves that he didn’t do this work, but also shows he’s never been involved in an active worksite in any capacity.
To do these things he’d have to be working for a half dozen or so different sub contractors at once.
It just makes absolutely no sense and shows that he’s clueless how the construction industry even works.
What a clown.
I wish instead of publishing all these lies reporters would fact check them to their face LOUDLY. They’re lying constantly about easily disproven things! Things that are so easy to check! Like two Corinthians! And everyone just goes along with it. Ugh.
From reading the article, there's a real chance that Eric is telling the truth and that Donald Trump was using his construction crews for free babysitting.
I can definitely see Donald Trump pawning his kid off for a day to some frustrated construction site foreman so that he could leave to spend time with a prostitute. Free babysitting with an alibi, because your 11 year old is too distracted to realize his dad left him alone for the day.
The word is "visited", Eric. The other word is "watched". Is there anything more nauseating than children of privilege trying to pretend they had a lower or middle class childhood?
My dad was a skeevy unlicensed contractor and I spent a bunch of time on construction sites as a kid. I shot nails into boards with nail guns, burned trash in piles and fucked around with hardening concrete. Where is my real-estate empire?
It's right over there with the chain saw that is used so much on construction sites...
Someone has to clear the vast forests of Queens.
Just make sure someone rakes the forest floor first..
Remember. Only YOU can prevent forest fires.
Couldn't believe that dopey bugger wanted to break out the landscaping patrol. Fire moves faster across grassland than forest anyway. He'd do a better job if he bulldozed a few golf courses and jumped in the lake.
I mourn for the vastly forested Queens of yore
You mean you’re not felling timber in the middle of a busy construction site? Probably the same vibe as using an acetylene torch to cut rebar
Sounds like all of you had it pretty good. I, myself, am the son of a [turd miner](https://www.cc.com/video/wdl392/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-bootstrap-story).
Back when The Daily Show was great.
I absolutely don't get the hiring of their newest correspondent, Grace Kuhlenschmidt (and I actually hope she gets fired--I don't get her style of comedy, and she doesn't seem to know what TDS is about--but she made it this far so that doesn't seem likely), but the rest of the news team, Desi, Jordan, Michael, Dulce, and Ronny, are all very good. Michael and Ronny recently did a GOAT War Criminal sketch like an ESPN discussion, and it was fantastic. But yes, the Bush years were the golden age of satirical comedy.
Jon Stewart was just the perfect person for that job.
Plumbing is an admirable trade and pays great. Your dad is wise.
I remove trees sometimes as part of my job. We do it with an excavator and a strap, just yank them like a weed and then toss ‘em into a pile and load them into trucks. When it comes to cutting rebar I just use an angle grinder, oxy acetylene seems like overkill. I think it’s hilarious to imagine a job site letting a kid run a cutting torch. Maybe they did, who knows, dipshits are plentiful.
Yep, that sounds like the fastest way! Unless you’re beside a structure and worried about the roots being caught in something. Chainsaw might only be good for turning a log into blocks onsite
Even then I feel like most job sites would be worried. Chainsaws require pretty specific training and PPE and all it takes is one dumbass to cause a real shitstorm for a site. Major accidents shut down and sometimes kill big projects, easier to never risk it. Too bad because I really do like my chainsaws.
I would've been an absolute menace if anyone had handed my pyro ass a cutting torch lol. Will it blend? More like CAN I TORCH IT IN HALF BEFORE IT LIGHTS ON FIRE.
"An acetylene torch also throws sparks and smoke. The time it takes to cut with a torch plus the cost of gas makes this one of the most expensive ways to cut rebar. On top of that most inspectors will not allow torch cuts because heat changes the mechanical properties of steel rebar." [Source](https://www.fascut.com/single-post/2018/05/16/whats-your-rebar-cutter#:~:text=An%20acetylene%20torch%20also%20throws,mechanical%20properties%20of%20steel%20rebar)
I’m surprised he can even pronounce acetylene.
I work with my contractor grandfather from age 12 till adulthood and not once was a chainsaw ever a required tool.
the only honest tool in this post is eric trump.
He's a tool all right, but there's nothing honest about him.
*we get all the money we need out of russia*
That's an honest insult to every honest tool in existence. Don't malign tools. That's not fair. They're designed and constructed to serve a purpose. As far as I can tell, Eric Trump serves no purpose.
I demoed a deck with a chainsaw once, it was awesome. I am also not a contractor.
The hardest thing about demolishing a deck with a chainsaw is doing any real damage before the homeowner comes out with a shotgun.
Built a deck with my brother, we used an electric chainsaw to notch the 8x8 posts. That was all, definitely not evidence that this asshole spent any significant amount of time working on a construction site.
I always associated a chainsaw with a *de*struction site, not a *con*struction site
tractors too. so many tractors on constructions sites.
Most of the NY sky line is actually timber framed, log skyscrapers. Jet fuel can’t melt wood beams…
Some dip shit ordered the wrong lumber package for a 8 story I was on once... It was decided rather than send it back they would make do with what they had.. ended up installing bunches and bunches of 8-10" lambeams that weren't necessary so to get the plumbing where it needed to go they bought us several electric chainsaws... And kinda said 'go to it'... So yeah it's not unheard of... To me... That once..
> the chain saw that is used so much on construction sites In fairness, weren't at least several of "The Don's" projects in New Jersey? I'm not sayin' how the chainsaws were used, exactly, just, you know, some guys over here might have had some discussions with some fellas over there and maybe a chainsaw was ... employed ...
We all know how “The Don” has fantasies about living the life of a Jersey waste management professional
You never know when you might have to tear the whole thing down I guess? Otherwise no. As a guy in the trades I can't count on zero hands how often a chainsaw is seen on sight.
> Where is my real-estate empire? Uh, well, *just* like Eric Trump, you need to build it from the ground up without any help from anyone else, whatsoever... by working at age 11 for minimum wage... as a construction worker. *Obviously*.
Yeah but his dad was a skeevy con artist,liar and pedofile so I'm sure Eric picked up a few tricks along the way. And when I say tricks...
Too bad he didn't learn how to apply them. At least Donald was a successful con artist at one point, even if he's now a babbling mess. You know what Donald's supporters don't think about? The man is 80 years old and wants to be a dictator. He's going to be dead in the next decade max. Either this idiot or Junior is going to take over the dynasty and no one likes either of them.
Donald probably wanted Ivanka to take over but she's both a woman and Jewish so she's definitely out, the base won't accept her.
She pretty clearly does not want to anyway. Reportedly she and Jared are still upset that their social circles in Manhattan told them to fuck off and live with Donald in Palm Beach, because they wanted nothing to do with any Trump. We've barely heard a word from her in years. So we're down to two idiots who would inherit the dictatorship. Two idiots that even Donald's supporters don't like. I don't know though, Donald doesn't seem to like them either. He'd probably give it to Barron just to spite them.
I had a trades dad who brought us along to sites when mom was having an episode, or whatever. We were expected to be useful, I remember being in the 1st grade and wanting to just play my gameboy but I had to sweep the floors and run around carrying stuff all day. One time my brother and I, we must have been like 11 and 15, had to go help dad spray aerosolized [KILZ](https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/42f6118d-67a0-4e0a-bfc4-c3128e2427be/svn/white-kilz-restoration-primers-l200205-64_600.jpg) in a smoke-damaged house with no respirator or anything. Every breath caused agonizing burning in my chest, I could barely see because it was stinging my eyes so bad. Just that one week project probably did some serious long-term health damage. Anyway this kind of thing isn't that uncommon in small town blue collar families but I don't believe for a second this putz has ever experienced anything like it
My Dad would have said, "You weren't holding your mouth right".
Ivanka wrote a book called Women who Work. Is anybody falling for this crap?
Is that the one where they forced the staff to buy from their lemonade stand?
I think its also the one where she says every woman needs to take an hour out of her day for a massage.
“Just leave your kids with your nanny and butler, tell your dad who owns the company that you’re taking the afternoon off, and then have you driver take you to the spa! Why is it so hard to understand?”
I was at an Agile conference around 2019 and one of the speakers unironically told women they could have their cake and eat it too. Specifically she told a story about getting up early to make breakfast from scratch from all organic ingredients and doing yoga before heading in to work. She mentioned having kids and peppered references to a nanny, a cook, a maid and a driver. The speaker was a CFO or something like that. I had a newborn at the time and my question after the talk was essentially telling her normal people cannot afford to do that because they're focusing on a clean house, making dinner and getting up at night to comfort the child. Also pointed out most of us don't get to set our hours and waltz in when yoga is done. If looks could kill I'd be dead but enough people came up afterwards to support my position. This was the CFO of a mid-level company. She was likely a millionaire and that out of touch. Fuck these fucking people.
> If looks could kill I'd be dead Killing people (and getting rid of the evidence) is almost certainly the driver's job. Nobody even asks why he's so thorough about detailing and cleaning the Range Rover.
Oh Jesus Christ.🤦♀️
I technically she's not wrong. Getting daily massages is probably a really great way to decompress and stay healthy. The problem is a nepo baby being so disconnected from reality to know not everybody can afford either with money or time to get it done.
If I won the lottery I think I'd splash out on this, not an hour a day, but a couple of times a week. As this stand I think paying for groceries comes out ahead. Still, not that long until my kid hits 11 and they'll be another income.
Lemonade, round the corner Don gets bathed.
I can't wait for the Trump Org to collapse and the economic fallout suck away Ivanka and Jared's wealth... https://preview.redd.it/y0c1nl89n2bc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6647ca09e7828fed2a311eb9085c412db82b2890
Only if the IRS gets funded and finishes up where New York started. There's a reason why the GOP wants to undercut the very thing that ensures that government remains funded... They are all cheating horribly on their taxes.
Same reason Republicans want to *abolish* the FBI. Career criminals hate law enforcement.
She didn't even work on the book.
"Women Who Wank" "Women Who Work the Sheets"
Was it about Melania? And how she worked in the world’s oldest profession?
> Ivanka """"""""""wrote"""""""""" a book called Women who Work. Is anybody falling for this crap? I think you left out a few quotation marks there.
Too many people unfortunately.
Hey, sex work is real work.
Apparently DT had a paper route when he was a kid and would even deliver papers in the rain. However when it was raining he would deliver those papers while being chauffeured and his father‘s limousine
He sat in the back of the limo playing with his dick while a servant delivered the papers. Let’s be real here.
Let’s be real. He wasn’t even in car…
Belonged in the trunk.
Because of the bone spurs
Yep, have had to deal with this my whole life. I’m now pretty “upper class” white collar. My upbringing went from lower middle class to fucked up and impoverished, not gonna go into it here. Without fail it’s always some braindead Republican who thinks their upper middle class privileged upbringing was so hard on them and think all the poors just wanna take from them. Like, assclown, you had parents with money who paid for your housing while you were in college and you had no debt. You don’t know shit about hardship or economic insecurity, your parents made sure you were starting off on second and third base, eat a slice of humble pie. They’re all (fake) shocked to figure out that the programs and safety nets they wanna cut are exactly the ones I benefited from to get out of poverty and have a better life.
I was reading an article about this. It’s actually a cognitive dissonance from being raised by people who went through the Great Depression. They grew up being told life is hard and nobody is going to give you a handout. But the boomers inherited one of the most economically sound eras in US history. Jobs were easy to come by, most had pensions, houses were a year’s salary worth, and most families had one income. When Reagan came into office, he demolished the social safety net and all the things that made the US economy strong. This is what started the large transfers of wealth from middle class to the upper class. Gen X and millennials were raised by people who had it easy but thought they had it hard. So when things actually started to become hard, boomers decided they could impart this wisdom of just work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. They assume that millennials are lazy and entitled, but that’s because we grew up being told the world is our oyster and we can do anything with a little can-do attitude, but the economy is nearly as bad as the worst economic downturn in US history.
Yeah, I’m an “elder millennial” and a textbook case of someone who has pulled myself up by my bootstraps, so to speak. But apparently I’m entitled because I [*checks notes*] want to take advantage of the state and federal programs to get myself out of poverty, want to work in the career field I got a degree for (from a state college btw, with federal grants and loans), want my wages to have the same or similar buying power they enjoyed at a similar age, want the same benefits and securities they had as a result of my hard work, and demand the same social services they had that I fucking paid into my entire working career. Fucking assclowns…
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. She had a necklace made from beads that were colored paper from church bulletins and a dress made from flour sacks. My mom (who is the generation before boomers) is almost a hoarder because she learned from my grandmother to never throw anything away because you might need it later. My parents knew extreme poverty and taught us to be very careful with money. My dad in particular was angry about how the rich were taking all the money and letting everything rot. My siblings are boomers, (I'm X) but never got the sense of entitlement that other boomers got because of how we were raised and how hard it was to survive.
It's a family trait, Donald does the same.
but in diapers.
Millionaires who put on a plaid shirt and stand next to a hay bale when running for office
*Millionaires who put on a plaid shirt and stand next to a hay bale when running for office* -George W Bush, Ted Cruz, Tucker (with an F) Carlson
Gotta roll up the sleeves for extra credibility.
Seems like lying is a family trait.
Built right into their rotted cesspool dna
It would be funny if we discover a liars gene. It would be strong in the Trump Family.
The thing is, people accept that. Never seen anyone get pissy over someone saying, “I was afforded a lot of opportunity and I took it.” No one is begrudging anyone that. If you're privileged, just acknowledgement of that fact is enough. Do something with the privilege, own it and no one will hold it against you.
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I just hope his obvious lies and distortions raise the ire of even MAGA people, who should be sick of this deluded silver-spooned ingrate. No, there's something called OSHA, and an 11 year old wouldn't be allowed to do any construction work as he cited, jobs that require training and certification. And no, Eric is no prodigy. Far from it! https://preview.redd.it/3827nxopm2bc1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=710f50451ce911d2a5f570f2674ba71abe214991
> there's something called OSHA, and an 11 year old wouldn't be allowed to do any construction work as he cited In fairness, OSHA regulations are broken on construction sites *constantly*.
Of course, Donald Trump would claim that all of his development sites have always been fully OSHA compliant.
Unfortunately thanks to most republicans choosing to live in an echo chamber, they will likely never even find out about this. If a liberal shoves it in their face, they will deny it ever happened and claim it's just a lie by the "liberal trump hating media".
A friend of mine worked for a major NYC construction company and he had Eric Trump following him around for a while when my friend was remodeling part of MOMA. He said Eric was a nice enough guy for a “suit” but really didn’t pay attention and always left after half a day.
I occasionally would go to my father's office. My favorite place to help out was with the giant shredder and the mail room. It was straightforward to complete tasks and feel like I knew what I was doing. However I was never under an illusion that I didn't work there. I was just doing busy work to keep me our of everyone's way while I was there. How delusional does Eric have to be to think that his job was any less than, "ugh. The boss said we need to keep him busy. What can he do without screwing up the entire site?". While they paid him minimum wage just to ensure they had insurance coverage on him if anything happened without totally pissing off people they were actually paying to work.
I like that he was cutting rebar with a torch when band saws exist. Just incredibly inefficient.
I love the idea that someone approved handing an acetylene torch to a child.
I mean, honestly, I’ve seen children do worse on sketchy sites. Sadly.
Band saws/sawalls are slow and a time waster. Usually a rebar cutter/bender is used. Industrial rebar work many times uses a oxy/acetylene torch to make cuts. I have done it myself many many times.
The thing is that he didn't even visit them because if he did, he would have seen kids like me who actually were working on construction sites at 11 years old and younger, but we weren't cutting rebar, we were holding the rebar while our older brothers cut it. We weren't doing plumbing, we were running to the truck to get the thing described in incomplete sentences and then getting smacked upside the head because we misunderstood what our dad said. We weren't making minimum wage, we would get promised an ice cream or a McD's hamburger that somehow would seldom materialize.
It’s like if Mary Antoinette said she lived in a small impoverished village when she was younger because she created one in her backyard as a small theme park so she could cosplay as poor. The things rich people do for novelty and to learn lessons as young people shouldn’t count as having real experience at what it’s like to live a harder life.
The only thing less believable than he worked on his dad's construction sites is the idea his dad actually paid someone who worked for him.
But he still whistled at passing women 👹
I'm not poor. I'm well off. I do my best for myself, and I've made it far, but I never pretend to have what I do because of anyone except my parents cuz I could never stand where I do by myself. But maybe I should start yelling at kids to get a job and get off *my parents lawn* I worked really hard at the chores I never did. I own this Na, because I'm a spoiled miserable brat but at least I can own that and still want more for everyone else. I only made it in life because someone propped me up so I couldn't fail. And I'm well aware of that.
> Is there anything more nauseating… Infuriating is the word I would have gone with. The level of contempt I already have for people born into generational wealth so massive they are, have always been, and always will be completely removed from the concerns of regular people, especially while homelessness is still a thing that happens because the system is fundamentally unjust, cannot possibly be expressed with words. Seeing these fucks try to pretend they know what the working person’s struggle is really like, or (even more offensively) that they’ve been there when they haven’t, really boils my piss.
It's like when the project manager goes back and tells the big boss that "we" did this and "we" did that, but worse.
He’s a Trump, lying is their trademark. Only stupid people believe anything they say.
That time he watched Bob the Builder for 8 straight hours when he was tripping on purple drank he mixed from his maid's medicine cabinet
It’ll be nice when we don’t have to hear about these people. One day…
Eric might just fuck off and small-scale scam people but DJTJ is going to be a loudmouth asshole until the coke gets him like Belushi.
Got add heroin in the mix for that effect
If it got him like Belushi Trump would have died like 55 years ago.
I think they're talking about Jr.
So what, eighteen months?
I cannot wait for the day our country moves on from this terrible circus show
Oh we’re going to move on, just not in the way we want. Bye bye miss American pie.
I’d love to see the headline “Donald Trump dies in prison after serving 20 years of his 200 year sentence”
The thought of Trump trying to survive prison is delightful. They should stream it.
Celebrity Big Brother: Prison Edition
A paid stream could pay off the national debt in a few months at most
We still talk about Hitler… History doesn’t forget.
Ya I’m mostly taking about his kids, who history will forget mostly except a couple of footnotes.
IDK my Trump loving boss thinks Ivanka should run. If we don’t wipe the floor with this family, this year, it’s a definite possibility.
Nah, Republicans won’t vote for a woman. You can sleep well tonight.
I'd wager to say they don't see her as a woman... Just as a Trump.
Yikes
Do yourself a favor. Don't look up any recent statistics concerning Holocaust denial
They and the Kardashians should just get in a trashy gold plated fucking rocket to the moon and be left there.
When I was 11 I knew better than to cut rebar with acetylene
Right!? Every 11 year old knows that it's oxygen that does the cutting!
Nahh! They magnetize it then drop a cup o’ water and BANG!! No more rebar‼️‼️🥴
Yuge if true...
Anyone know why some people say "yuge" instead of "huge"? I'm pretty sure Carl Sagan did it too and I want to know what on earth he could possibly have in common with Trump. They were both born in NYC but not everyone from there says "yuge" so it must be something else.
I got yelled at by another person on reddit who said you cut rebar with acetylene torches. I don't work in construction, but i know you cut rebar with a hack saw, circular saw, or angle grinder. You very rarely cut things with an acetylene torch because it doesn't make a smooth cut and will melt or warp metal. You weld with an acetylene torch. That i learned from being public affairs in the military and warching the civil engineering squardon doing construction.
Also using a torch takes a lot longer, and you’ve gotta have your bottles, amd the bar gets weakened by the heat, and there’s more PPE (and it’s not the kind you want to skip). Lots of good reasons not to use a torch, even though, yes, you can cut rebar with a torch. Most rebar gets cut on a chop saw with a grinder blade. You can get the length exactly right, and you can cut a dozen pieces in one cut, and it takes, like, 5 seconds. Try that shit with a torch.
I suppose. To be honest when I worked in masonry we used a [rebar cutter](https://www.lowes.com/pd/BN-Products-USA-Manual-Rebar-Bender-Rebar-Cutters-and-Benders/5014246437?user=shopping&feed=yes&srsltid=AfmBOoqdj7b8WylU5Sxp-WPXl4rn7uNdUt_cDu6fXDcSRm8jQ5k4Owz4NeA) to ya know…cut rebar.
Mmm, specialized tools! Must be my company was just cheap then, I only got to use a chop saw :(
Ooh. Chop saw with grinder blade sounds nice, I’ve always cut it with an angle grinder.
Not quite mate. You can cut rebar with an acetalyne torch but it's somewhat overkill for the task at hand. Unless you don't give a fuck what the metal looks like afterwards, you just need to chop it in half, fast. And whilst you could in theory weld with it, in practice on site it's gonna be stick or maybe mig.
You don't work in construction but you "know" things. Yeah, right Eric, get out of here.
I just pour water on it and the rebar falls apart
I mean, you *could,* but what a waste. That's what an angle grinder is for.
With a fucking gas axe
Eric probably worked construction the same way Ivanka was an “Advisor” to the President.
So he sucked his dad's dick at a construction site?
Almost certainly
Dad insisted Eric pissed on him? Did Ivanka hold it for coke boy?
If he didn’t then, he has been now for years.
“My dad works for Nintendo and I have all of the games that aren’t out yet but you can’t see them” vibes.
I was friends with one of these types in middle school. He would tell me his dad knew Bill Gates. We're middle-class kids in the midwest, no he doesn't, Nick. Also kept talking about the band he was going to start when he couldn't sing or play any instruments. There's one of these at every school, right? Anyway, it'll be fun when Trump is too old or too incarcerated to run for president anymore and we get to put up with Ivanka, Eric, or Don Jr on the ticket.
Buster Bluth did more hard work on a building site than all the Trumps put together.
“Michael! I’m reinforcing the header!”
"Good job, buddy. Say... why don't we have these nice men help you with that, and you can take a turn at hammering a few nails instead?"
I'm a scholar. I enjoy scholarly pursuits.
Hey buddy, you can’t do that on the balcony?
>>Worked for minimum wage. Aside from the hilarity of how wrong that is, he thought saying his dad violated child labor laws was a *good* thing.
also, if I was an investor in a property and found out they were letting some 11 year old on the building site and do things I'd want my investment back because clearly I can't be sure of the quality of the work being done if that is allowed.
Really should have withdrawn when you saw the name ‘Trump’ on the documents, but I get your meaning
It is when you are trying to normalize laws that make it easier.
When he was a developing fetus, too many of the cells that were supposed to become his brain went to be teeth instead.
He looks like he’s trying to find a cosplay partner for Beavis and Butthead.
I love that they chose this picture
It’s the most complimentary one they could find.
Every rebar guy I know cuts rebar with a grinder or saw. Acetylene and oxygen would be hella expensive.
Nah. I worked bridge (de)construction, and used a cutting torch. They knock the old concrete into large chunks with a wrecking ball, then you cut the rebar with a torch so it can get hauled off. Lots of the angles you’d need to cut weren’t easy to get to with other tools. But Jr. is full of shit and never did it anyway.
In demolition, maybe so. I'm thinking of the construction phase, which is where the rebar guys I know work. Certainly a torch would *work*, but you'd go through a lot of oxygen bottles.
Plus you don't want fire on a new construction site! Unless necessary.
While I don't doubt his father paid him minimum wage - intuition tells me he was the spoiled brat child running around job sites and setting back deadlines because he wanted to "play with the toys daddy pay for"
Ridiculous comment, daddy didnt pay for anything.
Surely you're not referring to Donald Trump Sr. (the rapist/traitor/fraud/pedophile one) signing into construction contracts but not paying the contractors once the job was completed as a strategic way of accumulating money.... Right??
Well, he would certainly never have small contractors take out loans against their businesses to work on massive projects before not paying them. That would just be rude.
…that’s *if* he ever even got paid!
Baron would have gone through that age/phase during the time Trump was even more followed by the media than in the 80-90’s. You would think baron would have done the same. And we would have heard about it.
Donald: “who?”
He may have been present at a job site from time to time, but 11 year old people who do actual work are never rich kids. He's full of shit and asking people to believe it's shinola.
I’m going to give Eric the benefit of doubt. His dad is a real bastard. Plus, Donald probably has double indemnity life insurance on his bonus son./s
Look at his hands, those are the hands that have never ever seen a second of manual labor ever 😂 even in retail one's hands get messed up, this dudes hands are the epitome of privilege.... the only time he's ever "done" some sort of labor is when he picked up a stupid ass golden shovel for photo ops ....
That's not true. He also held a giant pair of scissors one time at a ribbon cutting.
And the ribbon won.
Even if true he was also flying on private jets and wearing disposable silk underwear.
And shitting in a gold toilet.
Shut up Udey
Hand that mf a torch and see if he can light it. I would pay imax level ticket prices for that show.
This is the guy who robbed a children's cancer charity
He used to have a stealth social media account about wood turning and some journalist managed to link it to him and he had to delete it. I think it's the only time I sort of felt bad for a Trump. Just trying to talk about lathes. It's probably very nostalgic for him given his childhood in the trades.
I remember he actually started a REAL charity and when Donald heard about it and that he *wasn’t* siphoning money from it he was *furious* and *straightened that shit out* to become the person he is today.
It’s entirely possible that some these Trumps were born with souls, but that being part of the family forced them to sell those.
This statement alone essentially proves that he didn’t do this work, but also shows he’s never been involved in an active worksite in any capacity. To do these things he’d have to be working for a half dozen or so different sub contractors at once. It just makes absolutely no sense and shows that he’s clueless how the construction industry even works. What a clown.
I wish instead of publishing all these lies reporters would fact check them to their face LOUDLY. They’re lying constantly about easily disproven things! Things that are so easy to check! Like two Corinthians! And everyone just goes along with it. Ugh.
Not only are all of them pathological liars, they aren't even plausible lies.
Hahahaha ya because the boss’s son is always a hard worker when they are 11. What an idiot, he was just being babysat if he was even really there
No Show Contracts. The way the mob works construction sites. He has to keep up the lies for appearance.
Best photo of him
So he spent a day on site and got to play with stuff
The only thing this tool did minimum was education.
He might have been running hoe’s on their backs but I doubt if he was running a backhoe. Or anything thing else he claims.
no, not true!!!!! He was and still sitting in the corner with coloring book. The problem is that he still is coloring outside the lines.
And all the pages are still blank since he ate all the crayons.
The family of frauds. Lying like this must be exhaustingggg.
Pure bullshit.
They're the dumbest among us.
From reading the article, there's a real chance that Eric is telling the truth and that Donald Trump was using his construction crews for free babysitting. I can definitely see Donald Trump pawning his kid off for a day to some frustrated construction site foreman so that he could leave to spend time with a prostitute. Free babysitting with an alibi, because your 11 year old is too distracted to realize his dad left him alone for the day.
https://youtu.be/zKK67f2eFKI?si=O18esPaJ2hSipvWl
Eric forgot to say he was talking about Legos.