‘You Are So Lucky’ I Gave You ‘Privilege’ Of Voting For Me
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:20 pm
TPM wrote:President Donald Trump reminded farmers on Monday how lucky they were to have had the chance to vote for him.
Speaking to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump celebrated the repeal of the estate tax contained in Republicans’ tax cut bill, which he signed into law in December.
Fewer than 700 estates rich enough to pay the tax in 2016 had any farm assets at all, CNN reported in October, but that didn’t stop the wave of applause that greeted Trump when he claimed to have “spared” his audience the “punishment of the deeply unfair estate tax, known as the death tax.”
“Get up!” he urged his audience, who obliged.
“Oh, are you happy you voted for me,” Trump purred later. “You are so lucky that I gave you that privilege.”