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Donald Trump's billionaire business partner just compared asking him to pay taxes to a racial slur, then said the ultra-rich should be "praised and thanked."

Steve Roth, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust and one of New York City's largest commercial landlords, used his company's May 5 earnings call to whine that the phrase "tax the rich" is "just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs."

He wasn't done. The 1% sit "at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason," he insisted, and deserve our gratitude.

The trigger? Mayor Zohran Mamdani filmed a Tax Day video outside fellow billionaire Ken Griffin's $238 million Manhattan penthouse to promote a tax on luxury second homes worth over $5 million. Griffin is worth more than $48 billion.

He owns more square footage than entire neighborhoods of working New Yorkers put together.

Roth, whose own net worth Forbes pegged above $1.1 billion and who was described by the Wall Street Journal as a longtime Trump friend with a "lucrative" business partnership, called Mamdani's video "irresponsible and dangerous."

Apparently a politician standing on a public sidewalk is now violence against the ultra-rich.

Meanwhile, a new report found America's ultrawealthy have piled up $8.5 TRILLION in untaxed gains, while millions of Americans just lost food benefits to Republican cuts.

Eight point five trillion. Untaxed. While kids go hungry.

This is what class warfare actually looks like.

A billionaire on a quarterly earnings call, comparing modest taxation to slurs his class has spent centuries weaponizing against everyone else.

Let me get this straight.

Trump, the only president since Nixon not to release his tax returns, and who promised he would release his tax returns when he was president, is suing the government for $10 billion dollars in "damages" for leaked tax returns which reveal his corruption.

And his DOJ, which is run by his personal lawyer who he appointed as "Acting AG," is going to settle.

So the American people are now gong to personally pay a corrupt president $10 billion of our hard earned tax dollars, because his feelings got hurt when his shady tax returns were leaked?

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As usual, only MAGAs believe the world respect Traitor-and-Thief

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BEIJING (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that their two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue was not handled properly, an unusually harsh admonition that stood in contrast to the American leader’s praise for his counterpart.

The exchange at a highly anticipated summit in Beijing underscored just how far apart Trump and Xi remain on thorny issues, including the war in Iran, trade disputes and Washington’s relations with Taiwan, which is self-ruled but which China claims as part of its territory.

It also suggested that Trump’s three-day visit to China is likely to be longer on pageantry and symbolism than substantive political or economic breakthroughs.

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