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Trump administration 2024-2028

PMedMoe said:
I think an extra $100 per person, on top of the regular fee is unreasonable.

Annual passes will be $250 for foreign visitors. U.S. residents pay $80.

Just glad I saw most of the popular National Parks in my travels.
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Monkey see, monkey do.

I guess the French view this a fair alternative to Trumps decision on the US national parks?

www.euronews.com

Louvre to hike ticket prices for non-EU visitors by 45% next year

The Louvre museum said it will raise ticket prices for visitors from outside the European Union, requiring tourists from the UK, the US and China to pay €32. The 45% increase is expected to lift annual revenue by up to €20 million to fund structural upgrades after last month’s brazen daylight theft.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
 
Czech_pivo said:
Monkey see, monkey do.

I guess the French view this a fair alternative to Trumps decision on the US national parks?

www.euronews.com

Louvre to hike ticket prices for non-EU visitors by 45% next year

The Louvre museum said it will raise ticket prices for visitors from outside the European Union, requiring tourists from the UK, the US and China to pay €32. The 45% increase is expected to lift annual revenue by up to €20 million to fund structural upgrades after last month’s brazen daylight theft.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
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They treat our people so badly. So badly. You go to france, I love France, I love the French people, lovely people. And Macron. I get along very well with Macron. But they treat Americans very badly. They charge us more to visit the Louvre. Can you believe that? We protect France. France would be nowhere without us. France would not exist. I talked to Macron, and he begged me to lower tariffs. We need tariffs. But I lowered tariffs, a little bit, to help France, and Europe, really, to help them. But now they charge us more, it's very unfair. So they are going to get more tariffs. That's the way it is.
 
Why am I not surprised. The WSJ article is behind a paywall.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki
@ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans.

2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.

3/ The paper reports that "a cast of businessmen close to the Trump administration have been looking to position themselves as new economic links between the U.S. and Russia." Friends of the Trump family and Trump donors are working on lucrative deals with Russian companies.

4/ Anticipating the removal of US sanctions, Gentry Beach, a Trump donor and a college friend of Donald Trump Jr., has been in talks to acquire 9.9% of an Arctic liquid national gas project with the Russian company Novatek. Other businessmen have been involved in similar talks.

5/ They include executives from Exxon Mobil, mining companies, and investment funds, which have been offered stakes in Russian energy production, mines, and pipelines. Rare earth production has been a particular focus of interest, as well as gas concessions in the Sea of Okhotsk.

6/ The rest of the US diplomatic and national security apparatus, including the State Department and CIA, is said to have been kept in the dark. US Treasury officials reportedly only learned about the details of Witkoff's meetings from their British counterparts.

7/ Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, is reported to have been "all but frozen out of serious talks" and is leaving his post in January 2026.

8/ According to the WSJ, "In the days after [the Alaska peace talks in August 2025], a European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents."

9/ These efforts have not yet been successful. The Alaska summit fell apart after Putin angered Trump by lecturing him on Russia's historic "right" to control Ukraine, and ended without agreement.

10/ In October, Witkoff and Putin appear between them to have persuaded Trump to reject President Zelensky's plea to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack Russian refineries. Witkoff suggested that the Ukrainians should ask for a 10-year tariff exemption instead. /end
 
The corruption is insane. Even for this administration. I think David Frum put it well when he said that this administration is not only the most corrupt administration in American history, if it was dropped into Nigeria it very well could be the most corrupt administration in Nigerian history. This is globally historic levels of corruption at this point to the tune of billions of dollars for thr Trump family and friends.

My question is what will give? This cant be sustained and it is breaking the American (and Western) social fabric.
 
Rifleman62 said:
Why am I not surprised. The WSJ article is behind a paywall.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki
@ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans.

2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.

3/ The paper reports that "a cast of businessmen close to the Trump administration have been looking to position themselves as new economic links between the U.S. and Russia." Friends of the Trump family and Trump donors are working on lucrative deals with Russian companies.

4/ Anticipating the removal of US sanctions, Gentry Beach, a Trump donor and a college friend of Donald Trump Jr., has been in talks to acquire 9.9% of an Arctic liquid national gas project with the Russian company Novatek. Other businessmen have been involved in similar talks.

5/ They include executives from Exxon Mobil, mining companies, and investment funds, which have been offered stakes in Russian energy production, mines, and pipelines. Rare earth production has been a particular focus of interest, as well as gas concessions in the Sea of Okhotsk.

6/ The rest of the US diplomatic and national security apparatus, including the State Department and CIA, is said to have been kept in the dark. US Treasury officials reportedly only learned about the details of Witkoff's meetings from their British counterparts.

7/ Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, is reported to have been "all but frozen out of serious talks" and is leaving his post in January 2026.

8/ According to the WSJ, "In the days after [the Alaska peace talks in August 2025], a European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents."

9/ These efforts have not yet been successful. The Alaska summit fell apart after Putin angered Trump by lecturing him on Russia's historic "right" to control Ukraine, and ended without agreement.

10/ In October, Witkoff and Putin appear between them to have persuaded Trump to reject President Zelensky's plea to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack Russian refineries. Witkoff suggested that the Ukrainians should ask for a 10-year tariff exemption instead. /end
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Iraq War profiteering enters the chat...

www.business-humanrights.org

Iraq: 20 years on from US-led invasion, the companies that profited; incl. co. responses - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
www.business-humanrights.org www.business-humanrights.org
 
If the US of today existed at the same time as the US of the 80s or 90s, the US of the past would be very concerned, and would have already branded the US of today a rogue state.
 
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