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White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him
— George Conway ðºð¸ð«ðð¸ (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-11-11T13:46:12.756Z
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/10/trumps-50-year-mortgage-plan-is-getting-panned-allies-blame-this-man-00645654
On Saturday evening, Pulte arrived at President Donald Trumps Palm Beach Golf Club with a roughly 3-by-5 posterboard in hand. A graphic of former President Franklin Roosevelt appeared below 30-year mortgage and one of Trump below 50-year mortgage. The headline was Great American Presidents.
Roughly 10 minutes later, Trump posted the image to Truth Social, according to one of the people familiar, who was with the president at the time.
Almost immediately, aides were fielding angry phone calls from those who thought the idea which would endorse a 50 year payback period for a mortgage was both bad politics and bad policy, a move that could raise housing costs in the long run, the person said.
He just sold POTUS a bill of goods that wasnt necessarily accurate, the person said. He said FDR did it, you can do it, its gonna be a big thing. But he didnt tell him about all the unintended consequences.
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Joinfortmill
(19,489 posts)biophile
(1,022 posts)Diamond_Dog
(39,100 posts)Sounds like what gossipy teenagers do.
tanyev
(48,279 posts)Harker
(17,127 posts)He wasn't "sold a bill of goods"... He snatched it and held it up for all to see.
Historic NY
(39,470 posts)highplainsdem
(58,976 posts)He's a dunce.
IbogaProject
(5,401 posts)Maybe that is the average or median time a purchased home has remained under mortgage. An artifact of how high rates were in the 80s colliding with a declining stagnant middle class. Many people may have refinanced and extended their mortgage durations.
pandr32
(13,624 posts)Norrrm
(3,399 posts)Lovie777
(21,087 posts)but in reality it's dangerous.
newdeal2
(4,439 posts)Shouldnt he be familiar with how mortgages work.
riversedge
(78,806 posts)Damn!!
..............Roughly 10 minutes later, Trump posted the image to Truth Social, according to one of the people familiar, who was with the president at the time.
.........He just sold POTUS a bill of goods that wasnt necessarily accurate, the person said. He said FDR did it, you can do it, its gonna be a big thing. But he didnt tell him about all the unintended consequences. ...................
AZ8theist
(6,977 posts)
mwmisses4289
(2,751 posts)"Gee, ya think?", "No shit, Sherlock?", or "Thank you, Captain Obvious"?
angrychair
(11,468 posts)The 50 year mortgage idea is stunningly incompetent and literally no one would take it seriously as a means for home ownership.
What will keep you up at night is the ideas that are much more dangerous and we don't know about...yet.
Wednesdays
(21,300 posts)Make it a 100 year mortgage, one that your great-grandchildren will be paying for!
YepYep
(78 posts)I couldnt afford a 50 year mortgage. If I wait til I am in my late 20s or early 30s and by some great miracle I could afford it, I would be in my 80s. Of course I would still be working because Social Security would be long gone. Now if I do live long enough to pay it off, would I be in the Barron Trump Dynasty or the Adolph Miller one?
I would be in my 80s when I paid it off. Or a lot earlier if I was a congressman.
Diamond_Dog
(39,100 posts)10 year car payment, forever health insurance payments, etc. etc. Its like youll never get out of debt.
MLWR
(667 posts)ten years ago when his first Sec. of State Rex Tillerson told all of us that he's a "fucking moron."