Trump admits he hoped to get paid for 'Board of Peace': 'Could always use extra cash'
Source: Raw Story · Bias: Far Left
Summary
President Donald Trump opened his first Board of Peace meeting by admitting he expected to be personally paid.Speaking on Thursday from the recently-named Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace, the president insisted that world leaders, such as Pope Leo XIII, would eventually accept his invitation to join the group."I believe it's the most consequential board, certainly in terms of power, and in terms of prestige, there's never been anything close," Trump said. "Almost everybody's accepted, and the ones that haven't will be. Some are playing a little cute. It doesn't work. You can't play cute with me. They're playing a little bit, but they're all joining.""A few that we really don't want because they're trouble, take care of them," he continued. Trump went on to claim that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had secretly named the building after him."This building was built for peace, and nobody knew what to name it," he recalled. "And then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear I didn't. I swear, I had no idea.""They said, there's a surprise coming. I didn't know that surprise," he added. "I thought they were going to give me a lot of money or something, maybe cash. You could always use some extra cash.""That was Marco and JD and a group got together, and they did that, and I just thought it was very nice."
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