Trump's remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid. At the same time, he has turned to the industry to help shape his environmental agenda for a second term, including the rollbacks of some of Biden's signature achievements on clean energy and electric vehicles.

Despite the oil industry's complaints about Biden's policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year.

"You've been waiting on a permit for five years; you'll get it on Day 1," Trump told the executives, according to the recollection of the attendee.

At the dinner, Trump also promised that he would scrap Biden's "mandate" on electric vehicles - mischaracterizing ambitious rules that the Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized. The rules require automakers to reduce emissions from car tailpipes, but they don't mandate a particular technology such as EVs. Trump called them "ridiculous" in the meeting with donors.

What could possibly go wrong?

So Biden stole from others to bribe you and your brother to vote for him. How special.

Such a feckin' moron. First, Biden hasn't stolen anything from anybody. The loans being forgiven now are loans where people have paid for sometimes decades, but due to onerous terms many have paid more than the amount they originally borrowed.

Second, forgiveness is not taking from anyone. If the person dies tomorrow, the balance will not be paid either. It's the government's money (meaning every single person getting relief has partially self-funded through paying federal taxes anyway) and most taxpayers aren't selfish bricks like you and understand why loan relief is being offered.

Third, only shallow, insecure imbeciles would consider loan relief as a bribe for an expected political return. For those like you, forgiving loans is a reason NOT to vote for this President, so in a 50/50 society, I'd call it a wash.

And the only special thing around here is you. You constantly display your special education-based leaps of illogic on a nearly daily basis.

And answer me this: Why can corrupt businessmen - like Trump - file bankruptcy after bankruptcy, shifting billions upon billions of dollars onto the backs of taxpayers, yet GOP politicians made sure that student loan recipients are never allowed to use bankruptcy to relieve their loan debts?

Where is the fairness in that? Why is the debt of billionaires so deserved of relief, but not the loan debt of lowly college students trying to better themselves to succeed in the very economy so many alleged business savants continue to fail in and then walk away from their creditors sometimes without losing a penny of their own money?