BREAKING: Anderson Cooper Torches Trump's $400 Million "Free" Jet Grift on Live TV
Anderson Cooper just delivered one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump's corruption yet, and he did it using Trump's own words.
On Wednesday night's Anderson Cooper 360, the CNN anchor dismantled Trump's claim that his new Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 is "free." Cooper pointed out that taxpayers are footing several hundred million dollars to upgrade the plane to Air Force One standards, and Trump gets to keep it when he leaves office.
"Taxpayers get the bill for a loaner, and the president gets a keeper from Qatar," Cooper said.
Then came the knockout punch. Cooper rolled the tape of Trump in 2016 attacking Hillary Clinton for accepting a $1 million Qatari donation to the Clinton Foundation. He played Trump in 2015 openly bragging that when he gives politicians money, "when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me."
Trump knew exactly how this works. He told America himself.
Cooper didn't stop there. He listed the fake FIFA Peace Prize created just for Trump, the gold clock and solid gold bar from Swiss industry leaders, and the financial disclosures showing how much the Trump family has profited from questionable business ventures during his second term.
"Virtually any country, company, or individual wanting something from this administration has come bearing gifts, literal gifts, golden gifts often, and even the appearance this creates is staggering," Cooper said.
He contrasted Trump with Jimmy Carter, who put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. Trump, meanwhile, is accepting a $400 million jumbo jet from a foreign government and asking Americans to believe there are no strings attached.
As Cooper put it, Trump is asking the country to "cast aside all the same suspicions that he himself has raised" about every politician not named Donald J. Trump.
Anderson Cooper, heir to the legendary Vanderbilt family, has openly said he won’t inherit a cent of his family’s fortune — and he prefers it that way. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, believed inheritance was “a curse,” insisting that her son build his own success. Cooper agrees, saying, “I don’t believe in passing on huge amounts of money. It kills ambition.” Born into one of America’s wealthiest dynasties, he forged his own path as a journalist, proving that real legacy isn’t measured in money — but in integrity, purpose, and work earned by your own hands.
“Class consciousness takes a vacation while we’re in the thrall of this book,” Barbara Grizzuti Harrison wrote in the Book Review in 1985, in her evaluation of the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt’s memoir “Once Upon a Time.” To be clear, Harrison was referring to the class consciousness of the reader, not the author. Vanderbilt demonstrates perfect awareness throughout her book that most young children don’t play with emerald tiaras and alligator jewel boxes lined in chestnut satin, or rely on the services of multiple butlers, or lose count of their own houses. Harrison’s point was that Vanderbilt’s talent with a pen — and perspective on her own economic altitude — allowed consumers of her tale to suspend their envy and engage with the reality of growing up in opulent neglect.
Memoirs by the rich have always been major publishing events. Readers love to prowl wide-eyed through gilded corridors, and I am no exception. A cherished portion of my shelf is devoted to the self-accounts of Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Pells, Guggenheims and other names familiar from banks, art museums and city centers.
The cherry-red spiral staircase was initially the only way to get upstairs in the former firehouse. Mr. Cooper preserved it, but added another staircase.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
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A living room bookcase is filled with antique books, including some that belonged to Mr. Cooper’s mother, his father and his Vanderbilt ancestors.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
Mr. Cooper worked with an architect to subdivide the four-story, warehouselike space into rooms. Both the spiral staircase and the fireman’s pole were preserved. But now, a wide staircase zigzags upstairs. The wall next to the main staircase serves as a gallery of his mother’s paintings, as well as portraits of her signed by well-
In the basement of the firehouse, Mr. Cooper is working his way through the last 70 or so boxes of his mother’s belongings. Credit...
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Vitra Fire Station, Weil Am Rein, Germany, 1994 One of Hadid's enduring inspirations has been the early 20th century Suprematist art of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, with its rejection of single-point perspective, airborne shards and multiple vanishing points, which she managed to translate into genuine architectural forms. You can find their influence — and maybe also a nod to the massive steel plate sculpture of Richard Serra — in the thrusting, angular planes of her first completed building, a firehouse on the manufacturing campus of Vitra, a furniture company known for commissioning buildings by significant architects like Hadid, Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.
脚注[編集] ^ Vanderbilt, Arthur T., II (1989). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: Morrow. ISBN0-688-07279-8. ^ Preston, Diane (May 2002), Torpedoed! The Sinking of the Lusitania, Smithsonian Magazine, pp. 64–65 In the news
New York Times - 2 hours ago When the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast in 1915, ... Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, perhaps the most widely known man amongst those who were the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German torpedo, left an estate valued at a little more than £5,000,000 (writes the Wellington Post's San Francisco correspondent).
At one time he had been in the neighbourhood of £9,000,000 but in his lifetime he gave away the difference between the two sums to his first wife, when she divorced him, and to his brother Cornelius. The latter had been left a comparatively small legacy by his father because he married against his parent's wishes. All the members of the family united to make the legacy of Cornelius equal to that of the other children, and to this purpose Alfred Vanderbilt donated £1,120,000. The second wife and widow of Alfred Vanderbilt receives about £1,600,000 under the will. She is one of the most beautiful women in America. Before her marriage to Mr Vanderbilt she was the wife of Dr Smith H. McKim, of Philadelphia. She and Mr Vanderbilt became infatuated with each other. Both were married at the time. Two divorces were necessary to clear the way to their union. Liberal provision is made in the will for the children of both marriages, but the second family get somewhat the larger share. There is no bequest in the will to any religious, charitable, or educational establishment.
Another building gone long from NYC The Vanderbilt family built a number of mansions on Fifth Avenue in the 1880s. The home pictured here, at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, belonged to Cornelius Vanderbilt II. It was the largest private residence ever constructed in Manhattan. See the link below for more of NYC past architecture⋯⋯https://amp.insider.com/old-new-york-city-buildings-2016-6
“When you’re fearful, it often leads to a paralysis.... It was a very liberating moment when I realized I just need to plunge headfirst into the stuff that scares me.” — Anderson Cooper spoke at Battell Chapel after receiving the 2016 Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award from Yale College Council
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安德森庫柏出身顯赫家庭，名媛媽媽范德比（左）擁有運輸及牛仔褲事業，身家高達台幣60億元。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 2014-04-24 10:41 〔本報訊〕知名CNN型男主播安德森庫柏（Anderson Cooper）家世顯赫，他的母親出身美國運輸大亨家族，身家高達2億美元（約等同於新台幣60億元），但他不屑繼承家族遺產，直斥這是一種「詛咒」，白手起家才有生活的意義。
安德森庫柏每年靠自己工作賺進1100萬美元（約等同於新台幣3億3千萬）。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 庫柏的曾曾曾外公以船運與鐵路致富，小時候家裡常有安迪沃荷、查理卓別林等名人到訪，他的母親范德比（Gloria Vanderbilt）除繼承家族遺產，還是知名牛仔褲設計師，身家高達台幣60億元，但庫柏表示，「我媽賺的錢比她繼承的還多，我們都勤奮工作。」
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