Donald’s presidency is not about governing. It’s about extracting as much money and power as possible for himself and his inner circle of grifters. It’s all a big grift.

This week, Donald got called out on one of his latest scams in a sit-down interview with Laura Ingraham of all people. Even she wasn’t buying his rationale for some of his policies”

INGRAHAM: Housing costs are still out of reach, another thing that your administration is trying to tackle… Your housing director has proposed something that has enraged your MAGA friends, which is this 50-year mortgage idea. So a significant MAGA backlash, calling it a giveaway to the banks and simply prolonging the time it would take for Americans to own a home outright. Is that really a good idea?

DONALD: It’s not even a big deal…All it means is you pay less per month. You pay it over a longer period of time…It might help a little bit, but the problem was that Biden did this.

It’s never Donald’s fault. Ever.

First of all, it’s sad that the average age of a first time home buyer is 40. Right now, the housing standard is a 30-year mortgage. If you buy a house at 40, you’re mortgage won’t be paid off until you’re 70. Obviously, because we’re not Donald and we can do basic arithmetic—if you get a 50-year mortgage, it won’t be paid off until you’re 90, so we’re talking about saddling people with a lifetime of debt.

It’s actually true that monthly payments would be lower on a 50-year mortgage, but not that much lower. On the flip side, though, how much will an extra two-decades worth of mortgage cost you? It turns out the extra cost would be staggering.

Mortgage lender Jordan Nutter broke down the numbers.

NUTTER: So let’s take a $400,000 loan on a 30-year term at 6.5%. You’re paying just over $2,500 a month for your principal and interest. However, if we do that on a 50-year term, you’re about $2254, which saves you about $273 a month, and you would think that’s great… So let’s look at the whole picture. On a 30-year mortgage in total, you’d pay roughly $910,000. The interest portion of that $910,000 would be about $510,000, okay? However, if you look at a 50-year term, $952,000 is going towards interest, which is a difference of $442,000… saving $273 a month to then pay an extra $442,000 for the life of the loan is ridiculous and in my opinion, not the way to fix this housing crisis.

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