Posted on 01/26/2016 1:14:37 PM PST by Red Steel
Republican front-runner Donald Trump has broken just about every rule of conventional US presidential campaigning. Short on a long-term political vision to help shape the destiny of the nation, he has gleefully insulted Muslims, Mexicans, women and virtually all of his opponents.
A Trump-in-the-White-House scenario poses high stakes for the Gulf region. Gulf Arabs could pull billion in investment money from the US if Trump, who triggered a global outrage when he advocated a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the US, wins the presidency later this year, prominent UAE businessman Khalaf al-Habtoor said. Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has a substantial portfolio of US holdings including Citigroup, Twitter and News Corp, has called Trump a "disgrace" in a Twitter spat.
If other Gulf investors take a similar view, billions of dollars of Gulf money slated for investment in the US could be at risk. The UAE was America's largest trading partner in the Middle East in 2014, with $25bn in bilateral trade. Qatar's sovereign wealth fund plans to invest $35bn in the US over the next five years.
Hitting to local galleries, Trump has railed at the loss of US jobs to overseas competitors and said as president he would "get Apple to start building their damn computers and things" in the US, instead of China. A possible hostile takeover of the White House by protectionist Trump is sending shockwaves through the financial world.
Trump is already proving a divisive character in the US political theatre. Prominent actors, writers and thinkers have joined a "Stop Hate Dump Trump" campaign to denounce the populist. Calling him “astoundingly ignorant,†conservatives have also asked the Republicans not to support his candidacy.
On the face of it, the US constitution lays out just three requirements to be eligible to become president: You must be at least 35 years old; have lived in the US for at least 14 years and be a natural-born citizen. But it’s much more complex than it seems to be.
Americans have the longest (2-year), most expensive (the 2012 race had a price tag of more than $2.6bn) and arguably the most complex system (in 2000, Vice President Al Gore gained a half million more popular votes than Texas Governor George W Bush, but Gore lost to Bush at the Electoral College) of choosing a head of state in the world.
In a wider sense, the rise of Trump also turns the spotlight on the defining impact of money on US politics and public policy.
Trump might go on to win the nomination and even make it to the White House.
To be sure, it's entirely up to the American electorate to decide who the US president be. But here's the billion dollar question: Can a ruthless corporate honcho, who would balk at nothing to sell his short-term, profit-driven corporate goals, be trusted with arguably the most powerful job in the world? Stake are high not just for a sharply divided nation, but for the whole world.
It’s worked very well for the Qataris. They have received billions of our defense dollars. This in the country with the highest per-capita income in the world. Plus, they have been able to indoctrinate many of our senior military commanders and stubborn most of the political class. Not hard when Elitism is already their normal world view.
That just might crank up the oil industry her in the U.S. again.
There will be lots of heads exploding. The world doesn’t want to change the status quo.
They like what Obama is doing.
The reason they invest in the US and in the US dollar rather than Qatar is that they believe the US is safer than Qatar.
Please. Don't invest here. Don't come here. Don't buy houses here. Keep your money in Syria, Libya, Egypt or some other Middle East Hellhole.
Shake Habtoor ought to be more worried about Trump causing International Arrest Warrants to be issued for members of the House of Saud and the Wahhabi Mullah murderers, who have killed thousands of Americans, that they support.
The House of Saud owns the Bushes. It does not own Trump (I hope).
Q: Why do you make an investment in a specific place?
a. To show your solidarity with the controlling political authority.
b. To demonstrate your compassion and your commitment to social justice.
c. To make money.
The answer I want to hear out of my financial guys is "c." If you allocate investments by how your little feelers are hurt you probably won't have them long anyway.
If Trump getting elected will make Prince Folderol and his fellow sheikhs stop buying blocks of corporate America, his putative presidency begins to look dramatically more attractive. BDS. Boycott, Divest, STFU.
So yes Qatar! Let’s take a look at what Qatar is doing in the education sphere-
Arabic learning for US students.
http://bit.ly/1UXSPTJ
BUMP
If he’s upset the ME, then bully for him.
They’re afraid that the Gravy Train is OVER the moment he gets in.
Good.
From a bunch of butt-tards who wear curtains, treat their women like livestock and their livestock like women and smell worse than the livestock they bugger.
Yeah, these guys are credible...
They won’t be able to bribe Trump like they can Obama.
And a lot of that 5 billion this psychopath slug hillary spent on her size 54 pant suites....the pig!
Qatar and Saudia Arabia (our allies), fund terror and mosques world wide. If they hate Trump, I would vote for him on this reason alone.
Prominent actors?
Personally, I think it’s time stopped allowing the rest of the world pick our president. Maybe Trump will finally stop the “New World Order” old man Bush talked about.
That’s it: noow even Qatar is against Trump. That’s the FINAL straw: I won’t be voting for Trump now.
Bingo. You nailed it.
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