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.
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