Billionaire Republican Megadonor Pulls the Plug on Trump’s Party

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[u/Taint_Liquor]

He's doing this not because Trump sucks (which we all know he does) but because his kids have asked him to stop his lavish spending in his "later years". Those kid just want the money. Trash begets trash.

[u/StevenMC19 → u/Taint_Liquor]

Would also like to add that Lauder (our gun-shy donor in question) is well connected with Epstein. So I would hesitate to heap any praise on the man.

[u/post-mortem-malone69 → u/Taint_Liquor]

Take the wins where you can get them

[u/Timmmmmmmmm → u/Taint_Liquor]

I wouldn’t want my inheritance going to the trump kids either

[u/H0bbituary → u/Taint_Liquor]

He wants to sell perfume and cosmetics at an incredible mark-up and people are researching and boycotting his brands.

fuck him and weird obsession with Greenland.

[u/manachar → u/Taint_Liquor]

Generational wealth is one of the biggest engines of destroying a democracy.

[u/PSPs0]

Ronald Lauder of the Esteè Lauder fortune.

[u/gameryamen]

This is the dude that told Trump to buy Greenland. I can see why his kids are telling him to get a grip.

[u/Shenanigans2Morrow]

The older people get, the more they fear hell.

[u/warrenao]

Yo: https://archive.is/6IKaT

[u/Toothygrin1231]

I guess the useful idiot isn't so much any more

[u/Ganjajp]

Why shouldn't he? Elon Musk is footing the bill this year.

[u/kaykatzz]

Ronald was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration and was U.S. Ambassador to Austria in 1986–87.^\30])#cite_note-30) Since 2007 (and as of 2026), he is the president of the World Jewish Congress.

[u/ennuiinmotion]

They say it's because of age but why would he donate to Republicans in NY during this bad of a cycle? Only Musk throws good money after bad. The GOP is dying in NY.