Trump Raged at Slain Soldier’s Funeral Bill: ‘$60K to Bury a F***ing Mexican’
When Donald Trump got the bill for Vanessa Guillén’s funeral in 2020, he reportedly raged, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican!”
This is not someone killed in battle:
Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.
Somehow knowing the circumstances of her death makes Trump's awful remark even nastier. Especially since he is a rapist.
Guillén, a 20-year-old American of Mexican ancestry from Houston, was buried in her hometown on Aug. 15, 2020. Months later, in December, Trump reportedly asked his advisers in a meeting, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?"
When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.
Trump says vile things every day but this has to be one of the vilest.
He followed through with the sentiment too.
The magazine reported that Trump then turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and ordered him, “Don’t pay it!” That order was apparently heeded by Meadows, as the Atlantic reported that Trump never sent a dime to help cover funeral costs for the slain woman.
Back in the '80s Trump publicly offered to pay the funeral expenses of a child killed by a bear ... and then reneged, naturally.
But he definitely doesn’t think the same way about the people voting for him…
That's the main point I never understood about his voters. His political agenda and your political affiliation don't even matter. All you have to understand is that everything he does is for his own benefit. Nobody wants an egoist in charge in a smaller setting - why the fuck elect one as president?
It will 100% stop her from immigrating.
and voted for you
I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!
And this is an american. Republicans should be afraid he can change whatever "american" is whenever he wants.
What's funny is his dumb brain immediately went with "What are the costs? I can blame the dems for cost" without even considering the circumstances
This is an American actively serving the country.
At least he said Mexican.
And not....you know....something more racist.
Every cloud
"This is not someone killed in battle"
That sentence does not prepare you for the rest... Not that it would excuse Trump at all if they died "normally". And I would say she definitely died in battle, just not in a war, her battle with the SA and everything is just as valid as anything else. I'd change that sentence if I were you.
And the family he said it about continues to kiss his ass. What the fuck is wrong with people?
We are grateful for everything he has done and continues to do to support our troops.
Says the sister of the soldier who was sexually abused and slain at Fort Hood, TX.
What an absolute fucking moron, I hope her sister is haunting her
That’s what pissed me off the most when I read this. Fucking pathetic.
I'm starting to think Donald Trump is not a very nice person.
That's what they want you to think.
You know, the more I learn about this Trump character, the less I like him.
Oh come on, give him a chance! /s
A guy is wildly racist for a few decades and suddenly that's bad? This is 'merica! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
You've been duped!
I don't know... I'm suspicious...
Trump reportedly complained later in the day that these “fucking people” are “trying to rip me off.”
He thinks it's his money.
He-s mad he's not in the Funeral business.
I mean, to be fair, at least someone cares about the egregious waste that taxpayers spend their money on just to make rich people rich.
It most certainly should not cost $60k of taxpayer money to bury a soldier. Someone, odds are a small group of interconnected people, is making profit off of fleecing the American public.
That's not what he cares about here, though. Very obviously.
As one of SO MANY examples, he charged the secret service, i.e. Taxpayers, ridiculously inflated daily costs after requiring that they stay in trump owned properties throughout his time in office and have events planned and catered by his businesses at equally exorbitant prices.
So, on balance here, You're either ignorant or you're intentionally trying to show trump in what you think is a favorable light. You can acknowledge that what you said here is unfathomably short sighted at best and edit your original post OR you can just sit there unmoved and show your whole ass as a fraud trying to make a coward's argument for trump.
The only problem I have with your statement is the implication that the only “someone” is trump.
Everyone should care about waste or excess spending.
Edit: and trump himself has driven a shitload of waste and excess for personal gain.
That cost isn't even high by civilian standards, and the military has struggled to provide proper servicee, you'd be surprised how many people who are in uniform providing services at military funerals are just people willing to volunteer to do so at their own cost, some travel quite a length to do so.
The next time someone asks you about being a patriot, supporting the troops, and so forth, keep in mind that your against proper funeral services for veterans to save a nickel and represent that view. Be honest, let them know you don't care.
Don is a nasty POS, fuck him and all his supporters.
How the hell is he winning so much of the Black and Hispanic vote? Like... any percentage at all?
A higher percent of the Hispanic support than any republican nominee in history (as high as 45%) with closest next being George W. Bush.
...and as low as 29% - depending on which polls you look at. The important thing is to make it seem like a close race so people will keep looking at ads.
He's not, he had higher polling with African Americans in the last two elections than actual voters, he had extremely low voting numbers with African Americans, slightly higher with men, but not by that much, it's really common in politics to have a lot of people doing shady bullshit to see if it will sway elections, also the population nation wide is low enough that getting a sample size that's actually representative is not likely, even some trusted unbiased polling was using the opinion of one single person to represent all polling numbers in a whole state and the poll was pretty old by that point as well, so with African Americans you see a lot of really strange lookin poll numbers, but believe me, Trump going after Haitian refugees with racist tropes about ''savage'' and voodoo bullshit made him quite vile to antiracists of all stripes, I don't think those numbers are going to pan out at all.
Now Hispanics, that's a whole different story, being Hispanic myself I can tell you, it's not a solid voting block. We aren't as good at consistently voting in our own interests. There's light skinned people who think they're white enough to be in the whites only club, racism isn't hard to find among Hispanics, many do hate African Americans and others, so the white identifying crowd can be pretty similar to racist whites in a lot of ways, you also have Hispanics that are very concerned with hyper mauculinity and want the strongest man, and only think in terms of displays vs substance, and there's deeply religious Hispanics who can get drawn in with the evangelical rhetoric. So your not going to see a big percentage on one vote or issue with Hispanics, it's always going to be a mixed bag even with Trump's promise too deport more Hispanics from the US regardless of legal status, or his call backs to ''operation wetback'' or this bullshit, you just won't see big sweeping numbers from Hispanics it will always be slip up.
There’s light skinned people who think they’re white enough to be in the whites only club
Bro I'm whiter than sour cream, I'm actually grateful for global warming because everytime it snows no one in my family can find each other anymore, and I'm STILL not white enough to be in the Whites Only Club. You need white skin AND approval from a lot of guys named Ben, Franklin that is, if you get what I'm saying....
Money you need a lot of money.
Hispanics have a very high population of religious voters and many of them don't believe in abortion. For many religious people, even if they disagree handily with everything else the Republican party does, they will not vote Democrat because of the abortion issue.
There was a pretty large research study and a bunch of podcasts on it.
This! My guess is that being religious and conservative is at least 75% of the reason why Hispanics would support Trump. My father was a Colombian born immigrant who in my memory always supported the Republican party and the majority of the years after he got his citizenship I'm certain he never voted Democrat. He did come around though before passing in 2023 and I'm pretty sure he did not support or vote for Trump. >
well you have Cubans for one...
Because most people don't follow politics that closely and are simply unaware of stories like this, but are vulnerable to the forces of nostalgia and false memories of the first Trump administration, plus lingering fondness from the character he played on the Apprentice.
If Harris loses, I know the fact that they didn't constantly run ads showing the Pandemic of 2020 asking "Do you really wanna go back to THIS?" is partially to blame
He's not, the media just wants it to look like a super-close race so people will keep watching ads.
See, at this point... I'm either convinced Harris has pretty much got this in the bag and the media is lying to get people to doomscroll because money, or there's a Copium Leak and when it's fixed I'll see that Trump is coming to kill us all.
The former feels weirdly more valid...
Still VOTE, I ALREADY HAVE! MY STATE HAS EARLY VOTING, FIND OUT IF YOURS DOES TOO!
Just one more thing that should absolutely torpedo any political career, that won't hurt him at all. His MAGAt cultists probably think that was "speaking the truth" or some stupid shit like that. Anyone who would be bothered by his comments has abandoned him ages ago.
Fuck the Troops!
-Patriotic Republicans!
But not with consent! -Trump in particular
Like he'd pay any bill ever
If I were a betting man, I would wager that Donald will drop the “N” word by the time the election is over.
I would put money on that. What I wouldn't bet on would be it losing him votes.
I don't think so but I'd take a bet that he'll drop racial slurs for mexicans
i think he hates mexicans much more than black people, though he hates both, and the mexican slurs are easier to get away with politically
Just a matter of time before he lets that slip.
Let's slip? He'll probably bray it, and still not a single vote will change
He got to occupy the news space so yeah why not. He wants hitler generals and "loves" Kim jong un and putin so there's no limit IMO.
Oligarchy 101.
Treat public expenses like it's coming out your own pocket.
Treat the public purse like it's your own personal bank account.
Trump was reportedly still irked by the bill later that same day, with him claiming that Guillén’s grieving family was trying to take advantage of his wealth.
“Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “F---ing people, trying to rip me off.”
So this is rather telling, him thinking that the "money of the US government" is "my money"
This is because he desperately is clinging to the ancient ideal (and I mean ANCIENT. Like early Middle Ages ancient) that everything in the kingdom is the direct and personal property of the king.
So in that sense, the billions of dollars allocated to the military every year is actually his money.
Fuckface 45 is a disgusting pile of burning excrement.
To be fair fuckface 45, is a disgusting, con artist, rapist, mushroom-shaped penis'ed, pile of burning excrement in some wonderful orange make-up that's totally normal for an 80 year old man. He also loves the phantom of the Opera which is perhaps the most offensive thing about home.
Wtf are funerals that expensive?
In the US, funeral homes try to get as much money out of you as possible because they know you are emotionally vulnerable. There are exposes on funeral homes having predatory services.
Is there a Ralph’s around here?
They can be, sadly. It depends where you live, where you have someone buried, and what services and coffin and whatnot you get. But yeah, the funeral business in the US is pretty crazy greedy. $60k is definitely on the higher end. According to a quick Google, my state's average funeral cost is around $8k, with the total cost (including mortuary services, etc) around $20k.
It should be noted that the article says it was attended by the mayor and city's police chief. I'm assuming quite a few more less notable people also came. I would also assume this increases the cost.
They don't have to be.
Trump cultists: "He isn't racist."
"You see, he meant it as in: "A mexican that fucks", which is a totally normal thing to say."
Yes a totally normal thing to say about a sexual assault victim who was murdered by her assaulter.
Another source, Rolling Stone
For the rest of us.
Thanks MVP
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican!” Is this trump admitting to murdering mexicans? Or at least knowing how much it cost to bury them afterwards?
And the Veterans for Trump organization of course had this to say on the matter:
This is awful. But can we get a better news source on this?
Thanks!
“I think the military will be paying—taking care of it.” Trump replied, “Good. They’ll do a military. That’s good. If you need help, I’ll help you out.” Later, a reporter covering the meeting asked Trump, “Have you offered to do that for other families before?” Trump responded, “I have. I have. Personally. I have to do it personally. I can’t do it through government.” The reporter then asked: “So you’ve written checks to help for other families before this?” Trump turned to the family, still present, and said, “I have, I have, because some families need help … Maybe you don’t need help, from a financial standpoint. I have no idea what—I just think it’s a horrific thing that happened. And if you did need help, I’m going to—I’ll be there to help you.”
There's a lot to unpack here.
the man is a completely amoral, psycho-sociopathic narcissist
Fuck McDonald!
Old MacDonald!
And the only thing that matters: "Trump's little butthole gremlin crawled out of his crack to comment: Lies! Democrat Lies! He never said this!!" and all the Magoos nodded in agreement at the absolute truth provided by an unbiased cult member.
Aw he's trying to shout like a lil tough guy but he's just unhinging that beta jaw for the ol "arnold palmer", as he calls it.
Somehow, some way, this orange clown makes me angrier everyday, even when I thought I'd seen the worst of him.
Considering how he treated Ivana's grave I'm really not shocked that he'd be an asshole about someone he doesn't know at all.
I love how Bonespurs is campaigning so hard for Kamala Harris. It's good to see him doing something useful for a change!
Morbidly Addled Geriatric Assnuggets
Poetry
Is anyone surprised by this?
To be fair to him that is an exorbitant amount.
I'm not upset that he's upset at the amount. It's purely the second half of that sentence that shows what a piece of shit he is
I could see a frustrated dad grumbling about "Price of X" on his own time, and it wouldn't be the death of their character. My dad has extended frustration to me when I've overpaid for things.
What sets this moment apart, to me, is the choice of language for the noun. "a fucking Mexican". It's extremely important to me that THAT is his label, and that racial identity somehow influenced the expected cost in his mind.
“Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.
That outburst came after Trump invited Guillén’s loved ones to the White House and offered to pay for her funeral…”
He offered to pay. No one asked him to do that.
Then maybe he should look at what he did as president and realize why he should fuck right off and not ever be seen again.
'I can't believe someone is trying to rip me off'
We never buried my Dad's ashes ⚱️. That's dumb. Why go establish a debt to keep someone's ashes in a bottle. We keep them in the living room. It's just ashes. I personally agree with Trump on this. He's still going to loose and am still gonna kick his nuts off when I find him in hell after I pass away. And most Mexicans aren't fucking....not right now at this moment. It's daylight. We're working.
Trump said he'd fund it. He didn't
If he's not going to keep his promises, he should f**K off.
Wouldn't it be great if what we do with our loved ones after their passing is not up to you or Trump though?
Exactly! I don't care what anyone else does at all with any of their loved ones. And I expect the same. What kind of an asshole stands in between that situation.
