Very odd story: Whenever Netanyahu visits DC, he literally brings loads of dirty laundry to be cleaned free of charge

Saving a few quarters.

SO WEIRD.

The more I hear about what the privileged upper-class does on a daily basis, the less I feel like a terrible or strange person.

Literally and figuratively.

Bizarre beyond belief. I expected an Onion link but the article turned serious with the discussion of his corruption charges. Obama will surely get a chuckle out of this if he sees it.

It’s a shanda!

So bizarre, and petty.

That sounds like a subtle insult.

I cringe when people so stupidly play into the worst stereotypes.

I would like to read other examples of him and wifey being cheapskates because there must many.

No worse than the Pompeos having senior staff wash their dishes.

The whole lot of “conservatives” are leeches.

R4 I also thought this was something from the Onion.

This is so bizarre. This is as strange as Prince Charles having to travel with the same furniture or something like that.

[quote]This is as strange as Prince Charles having to travel with the same furniture or something like that.

That would be just a weird affection. This is being pathologically cheap and taking advantage of hospitality.

It's not as if the Neanyahus can't afford cleaning back home.

Are American taxpayers paying for his dirty shit stained undies to be cleaned?

You took the words right out of my mouth R8.

I mean really!

I would sometimes pack dirty clothes on business trips where I got back home on Saturday and left early Monday. I would then have them cleaned at the hotel on Monday night and expense it. But suitcases?!?

I worked with a man who did the same thing. He also brought the garbage from his home into the office so that he wouldn't have to pay for garbage collection at home. He was American but his religion was Jewish. When I first heard this gossip, I thought people were making mean jokes based on stereotypes, but they were just telling the truth.

oh jeez...

Hmmm... cheap...?

Way to keep that stereotype alive!

From an insider, Mrs N is known as a ...., well you know the word that begins with a "b".

I thought OP meant dirty money to be laundered in the U.S.

Well that's just tacky.

This reminded me of a tv show I watched the other week. One of the actresses from Coronation street visited one of the poshest hotels in London. The concierge mentioned that they once had a guest who came with 30 suitcases of dirty washing they wanted cleaned that day. It’s totally some fucked up power play thing these rich people seem to have.

Way to reinforce those stereotypes Ben!

It’s free, that’s why we brings all his dirty laundry

He's a nutter and morally corrupt. Why do they keep electing him?

Amusingly bizarre. Good to know this story is out there for everyone to snicker about.

R16, my mother had some similar cheapskate habits. She did that with her garbage. She’d put it in small bags and drop them in the garbage cans outside McDonalds and the supermarket. Wherever she went, she’d take extra napkins or paper towels and use them at home. Ketchup and sugar packets? Yup.

We are New England WASPs. Her mortgage was paid in full when she died. Thanks for the parsimony, mom!

Who cares!

Where are you all living that there aren’t municipal trash collection sites that anyone can freely drop off household trash and recycling?

R31 is 112 years old and has had dementia since 1968

What the hell is up with this nut and his laundry? First there is something so outrageous about his laundry bills he sues to keep them secret, and now he just totes his dirty undies around the world looking for free service? Does he take it everywhere or just to the US?

[quote]No worse than the Pompeos having senior staff wash their dishes.

But at least Pompeo is American garbage. Where the fuck does this foreign shit get off bringing it here and making American taxpayers pay to have it cleaned? They get enough foreign aid from us.

[quote]He's a nutter and morally corrupt. Why do they keep electing him?

Because he, his son and all of his supporters -including the Likudniks here- put the "Nazi" in Ashkenazi.

Actually his supporters are mostly Mizrachim R35

But it was a good try at a pun.

R36, that's surprising considering how racist his son is.

The Israeli media is backing up the story.

Ha'aretz is a left-leaning paper but a very prominent one. (Think NYT of Israel) -- so not fans of Bibi, but still...

[quote] The report matches years of reporting by Israeli journalists but is the first time that American officials have commented on the subject in a leading American publication.

OTOH, there's the right-leaning Jerusalem Post backing it up too-- seems it was an open secret in Israel

[quote] Netanyahu’s laundry practices first came into question as part of recordings made of Nir Hefetz that were released in 2018, in which he explained some of the ways the prime minister and his family avoid several expenses.

[quote] “On every trip at least four or five suitcases come filled with laundry for dry cleaning, and I’m telling you that journalists have asked me about it and I’ve checked the bills,” Hefetz said. “Nothing appears in the bills, they somehow hid it.”

[Nir Hefetz is Bibi's former media advisor who was key witness in the corruption trials against him.]

To Mr. Netanyahu:

[quote] But at least Pompeo is American garbage. Where the fuck does this foreign shit get off bringing it here and making American taxpayers pay to have it cleaned? They get enough foreign aid from us.

They are equally terrible people. Pompeo’s antics are not easier to stomach, simply because he is American.

When I had a car I would clean it out at the lakefront and throw the garbage in the City of Chicago dumpsters . The cans were bigger and people there didn’t judge my garbage of junk food bags and questionable reading materials

I hate Netanyahu but as a fan of chubby grandpas I’m getting precum in my undies right now thinking about sniffing his dirty cummy undies

Get professional help, R43.

Doesn’t Israel have a constant water shortage?

Cheap. What else can we say. Oh, and vulgar.

R45, they brought their dry cleaning, not towels and socks.

It's good to know the U.S. is still great when it comes to dry cleaning.

Stereotypes? Who said anything about stereotypes?

How disgusting. The whole world is laughing at this.

Actually R50, at Mar a Lago I think the reaction was more jealousy than mirth

[quote] Are American taxpayers paying for his dirty shit stained undies to be cleaned?

How different is that from American taxpayers paying for that ghoulish apartheid state?

I saw him and his wife in Central Park once. He has a VERY fat ass!! You can't tell when he is behind a podium, but he is very pear shaped. Just one pair of his draws would be a load of wash.

He's not helping to disprove a persistent stereotype, is he?