Manuel Moroun ran a television commercial years ago explicitly addressed to Trump begging him to help stop this new bridge.
The Moroun family owns the Ambassador Bridge, collecting a $50 toll from each of a few hundred trucks that cross it daily. They also own the duty free shops on either side I believe. Of course they have opposed a publicly owned bridge since the day it was proposed.
It’s not surprising Trump would be stoking the flames here. Support an old billionaire buddy’s family while simultaneously distracting from both the Epstein files and ICE? Three birds with one stone. Unfortunately for him, the time to stop the Gordie Howe was before it was built, not after billions have been spent.
This might result in delays, but the only thing coming from that is more resentment from the people that paid for it.
I never realized something like infrastructure connecting two nations together was susceptible to private wealth like that, thats ridiculous.
Welcome to America.
Anything and everything is susceptible to private wealth and exploitation of the poor.
Doesn’t matter if it’s your health or your property or you name it. It can and will be exploited to take money from you. The plebs.
To cheer you up a bit, here is Tom Scott talking about another ridiculous bridge, albeit quite a bit smaller.
To cheer everyone up a bit, here’s a bit about that time a WV town got a bridge built by asking the USSR.
Well that makes sense. Trump truly is a man of the people
The [bridge] would not open until Ottawa “treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve”, Trump wrote on social media.
According to the project’s website, the bridge is being funded by the Canadian government but will be publicly owned by both Canada and Michigan.
I guess Trump wants Canada to invoice him for half of the cost.
Or he got a bribe from the first bridge owner.
We should send a bill that would be hilarious.
“Construction began in 2018” He does know who was President in 2018, right?
“the same asshole who signed the USMCA”
Clearly not if he was wondering how Jerome Powell was nominated in the 1st place
Edit: and as if facts would matter to the shart lord even if he knew them
He also allocated 15 million to the project back in 2020.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
We should change the name to the Elbows Up bridge.
Trump-Epstein love bridge
If I hadn’t heard the 99%Invisible episode about the Ambassador Bridge that story would have made a lot less sense. https://99percentinvisible.org/category/infrastructure/
This article reads like the Maroun family have poked the beast, who is now angry that he didn’t wet his beak.
Wow, that was one wild read. The guy really has lost the plot.
Chaos is the plot
Is it Infrastructure Week™ yet?
