struggled to attract american customers, three have gotten big bumps in business from saudi customers in d.c. and new york. one visit by saudis traveling with the crown prince this year, provided enough revenue to boost the revenue for the entire quarter, one visit. let me follow up on that. we don t have a definitive sense of the business or financial entanglements between the president and the saudis because we don t have any real way of peering into trump work and we don t have the president s taxes. we know what we know because we managed to get investors in the trump s hotels in new york and chicago to give us internal data. the trump organization hasn t released any of these things. there s a couple of lawsuits that may have forced the disclosure. the democrats take back one of the houses of congress, that could do it. but they haven t provided anything. what we know comes from our reporting and not what they ve said publicly. willa, you proa piece about
five conservative justices voted in citizens united to effectively allow an unlimited flow of money in politics. and that turned out to be amazing news for sheldon addleson, the las vegas casino magn magn magnet worth a billion dollars. a few hours after we learned republicans were cutting coasts, politi politico broke the news, in addition to the money he d already sent to maintain the house in the senate, addleson is dropping tens of millions more to save the republican congress. it s frankly surprising he s not spending even more than that because republicans have been very, very good to sheldon adelson. after trump signed the gop tax cut for corporations and the rich adelson s company estimated it would get a $1.2 billion part of his return on investment. he really wants to build a casino in japan.
oval office today and said whose my daddy? trump s my dad different. look, he is not the first politician in recent years to make this argument that black men sense a father loss or father lack drives policy. barack obama also did this a lot. but what i think kanye is doing or thinks he is doing is actually setting himself up for presidential run using trump s playbook. he is making a media spectacle of himself. he is trying to play on black men s emotions, and 13% of black men supported trump. so he s trying to say that we re putting black families back intact by putting fathers back at the center of the story. it s all trash. we should reject all of it. but i have felt really triggered in this kavanaugh/cosby moment in our inability to think about the fluctuation of patriarchy. it s a funky word see we keep leaving it out of the discussion. but this is about male domination. that s what they were exclusively bonding over.
oval office today and said whose my daddy? trump s my dad different. look, he is not the first politician in recent years to make this argument that black men sense a father loss or father lack drives policy. barack obama also did this a lot. but what i think kanye is doing or thinks he is doing is actually setting himself up for presidential run using trump s playbook. he is making a media spectacle of himself. he is trying to play on black men s emotions, and 13% of black men supported trump. so he s trying to say that we re putting black families back intact by putting fathers back at the center of the story. it s all trash. we should reject all of it. but i have felt really triggered in this kavanaugh/cosby moment in our inability to think about the fluctuation of patriarchy. it s a funky word see we keep leaving it out of the discussion.
if you know anything to any of us, i report, and i did this, you will criticize a saudi crown prince, they need to warn us because our life is at stake. and we risk our life. donald trump doesn t risk anything from his high office but we do. david, there s still a lot we don t know about this relationship from a business perspective. what are you sort of wanting to know more about in terms of the financial ties that may exist that we know some exist or may exist in more depth between the u.s. and between trump and the saudis? a couple things. one would be, what other sorts of hotel business are the saudis giving to trump s hotels in the u.s. or overseas? the other would be before the elections, in the middle of trump s campaigns he incorporated a bunch of lccs, indicating he was planning a hotel in saudi arabia. they were active for a year or two and then shut down. he never reported any income from those. who were his partners there? what was happening in saudi arabia that he thou