Donald Trump wants to throw America away and start over, and he wants you to pay for it – By Mark Sumner (Daily Kos) / Mar 3, 2023
If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last few years, browsed a web page, or turned on a television, you may have seen some of the dreamy, ecstatic advertising for a massive planned community known as NEOM, or “The Line.” What is NEOM? Why, it’s “the future of urban living,” a city built across four climatic zones from mountain to seashore with that will be a “hub for innovation,” an “entirely new model of sustainable living,” and “home to a community of free-thinkers” who are building the “future of humanity.”
Where is NEOM? Well, it’s in Saudi Arabia. Where free-thinkers were welcomed to mass executions by beheading last year for failing to properly support the dictatorship of brutal killer Mohammed bin Salman. And where hundreds more are executed annually for daring to question the teachings of a very specific form of Islam that just happens to endorse bin Salman’s authority.
So what is NEOM really? Why, it’s a glossy toy for a guy who thinks cutting up journalists with a bone saw is great fun. Welcome to the future, free-thinkers.
Now Donald Trump, who helped bin Salman cover up murder, has decided he’d like a toy of his own. In fact, he’d like ten of them. And he wants you to build them for him, on public land.
