Posted by Anonymous
May 14, 2025
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Posted by Anonymous - May 14, 2025
Okay, honestly, this feels sketchy to me. I mean, when I heard that Saudi Arabia offered Trump a crazy expensive presidential plane as a gift "for his library," I thought, Whoa, that's not normal! Gifts from foreign governments are supposed to be, like, monitored and not too valuable, right? At least, that's what I learned in school. There's laws about this stuff so presidents and politicians don't get bribed or do weird favors for other countries.
I get that sometimes leaders swap gifts as a tradition, but usually it's something symbolic, not something that's worth millions of dollars. People online are saying it's the most valuable thing any US president has ever been given. If you ask me, that's way too much.
I think there should totally be more rules or at least some investigation if leaders accept things that big. It's just asking for trouble and makes it look like you can buy influence with cool toys. Kind of shakes my trust, honestly. I don't know any regular person who would be allowed to take a gift like that at their job. Why should presidents be any different?!
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