Especially if his plan is to keep it for personal use, rather than as federal property

President Cleveland can only equally enjoy the Statue of Liberty as much as anyone else. Trump would enjoy that plane infinitely more than the rest of us.

Something that provides a whole lot of modern context is realizing that America was France’s early “Proxy war”. They wanted to give Britain a hard time, and so they gave colonials weapons to do it. Both of us won out from that exchange.

The key part here is that France didn’t keep an iron stranglehold of us. It was enough to win us our freedom that we would want to be their buddies without being forced. Fun story for anyone who insists the US wants to control the Ukrainian government.

I think autocorrect got you, unless there was a secret bellybutton supply we don't know about?

Its ridiculous for you to say something so dumb, you have no concept of how many miles he put on that statue during the course of his presidency.

The big difference really is accepting a gift as the POTUS, and accepting a gift that they keep as a personal item.

Many presidents receive gifts from foreign nationals (with congressional approval). The big difference is they always had to leave it when they were no longer the president (they go to the National Archive). Trump already declared that after he steps down, he will keep it for himself.

He said not long ago that they were looking at it as a feature because it consistently kept correcting him and calling him out lol. It was one of his (many) dumb ass tweets where he just said "investigating" or "looking into this" or some crap. I would not be surprised at all if it's changed or removed very shortly.

She has a lane and it is called "What is in the best interest of Ann Coulter right now?"

Bonus: a handful of Democrats may vote to approve, out of an instinctual desire to ~~reach across the aisle and build bridges or whatever~~ lick boot

I am also pretty sure Grover Cleveland didn't refer to France as "historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level" less than 10 years before accepting the gift from them.

not so fun fact: Ann Coulter wanted to sleep with my dad when he was in college, and once invited him to her house for the weekend, but he turned her down. I thank my lucky stars everyday that Ann Coulter isn't my mom.

A lot of these "grifters" or "commentators" and stuff aren't really there to interpret news and stuff. They're there to tell certain groups of people what to think.

Like pass talking points to them or assuage their doubts about what's really happening to them. Accuracy and stuff is an afterthought because they only need to worry about the next news cycle which used to be months but is now days.

Haha, I was coming here to ask who gave her a blood meal. If 80s movies taught me anything, it was some suspiciously mature looking "teens" that went to party in her tomb.