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Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.
Monetizing his presidency further this summer, Trump’s Truth Social media business is pushing a new scheme that offers wealthy buyers special early access to his posts for a fee of $100,000 a month, which top Democrats and public interest groups say pose serious conflict of interest and corruption issues.
This is some of why at least some Americans probably wish the Iran plot succeeded
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men.
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Trump is practically wasting all of our net gain and allowance just to procrastinate our civic regulations, have our privacy dismantled in high oligarchy enforcements and postpone all climate vulnerability and forestation sedimental deployment just to pressure out incriminatingly virulent fuel sources to our atmosphere.
He’s not governing, He’s dictating!!!
Actually outranked Hitler, Pinochet, and King Tarquin as the most inhumanely corrupt cretin ever put in leadership.
And yet his party of gutless and insecure terrorist grifters are not doing anything to contempt his crime streak.
GOP is officially pro corruption pro sectarianism and pro austerity
Was anyone surprised. Dude had a track record of swindling for decades prior to his presidency.
But he DOESNT take a Salary!
-Free Thinking NOT GULLIBLE Republicans!
Just call them fucking stupid at this point. If you voted for a conman TWICE you’re a fucking idiot
A lot went three times.
I mean it’s technically not a salary if you steal money.
There is no need to stress. The next Democratic President will issue blanket pardons, will no do investigations, or Presidential Commissions, or anything that sort.
The Epstein Class always protects each other.
“Now is the time for unity, and to forgive our neighbors” Says every Democrat after a Republican president.
“The Democrats are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp.” Says every Republican after a Democratic president.
A bellwether is whether the politician supports abolishing ICE. If they are willing to uproot institutions then that includes presidential immunity.
Sorry, no they won’t. They will be constrained by technicalities and obscure parliamentarian positions that we never heard of until a key issue.
However, they will have new tech and immunity to attack the progressive left. That won’t be an issue at all
As far as I can tell republicans chose this life for all of us because they were upset that:
They had to wear a mask during covid. Gay people are allowed to be happy. Obama wore a tan suit that one time. Buttery emails.
So now we all get to live shit hole life’s because the crabs at the bottom of the bucket decided to yank everyone down with them and install a king.
If you vote republican, fuck you, genuinely.
You forgot
- They want to have sex with kids
Was it only republican politicians caught up in the Epstein files?
No but Trump will pardon the republicans
He has pardoned democrats in the past. Not many, but it’s happened.
Maybe this is why. Lol.
Grok
Court records show more Republican politicians have been convicted of sexual offenses than Democrats. Since 2015, notable cases include Rep. Dennis Hastert ® pleading guilty to child molestation-related charges and Rep. Mel Reynolds ® convicted of sexual assault. On the Democrat side, fewer convictions exist—Rep. Bob Filner pleaded guilty to groping in 2013. Data leans heavier on Republicans historically. Check GovTrack for raw numbers.
I was thinking more about his pardons of Henry Cuellar, Rod Blagojevich, P.G. Sittenfeld, and Devon Archer who were all facing some sort of bribery or corrupt charges.
He has set the precedent that presidents and their families can not only continue to run businesses while in office, but make governing decisions that lead to profit for those businesses. Oh, and getting payments for advertisements from the Resolute desk, and putting up paid advertisements on government property. Oh, and punish federal funding to states, companies, Universities, etc. for not following his executive orders, which are not laws, but are being treated as such.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office
If you think Ritchie Torres, Elissa Slotkin, and Pete Buttigieg are going to save the county, you’re going to be very disappointed.
They’re saying that no one will make a law against a Republican, but Republicans may make laws against Democrats. Of course, that also won’t happen if it means the GOP can continue to score bitching points with their base while also profitting, but still.
the GOP can continue to score bitching points with their base
The joke of the last 30 years has been the GOP crying “The media is against us!” through louder and larger corporate media megaphones with every passing election cycle.
But the punchline is that bitching about the media being mean is now a central function of federal government. Nothing fucking works because all the top leadership positions are occupied by professional whiners.
Nope. I believe a remedy is not coming and we are COOKED.
Yeah, but Bernie sanders, hunter Biden and Abdul El-Sayed will
Either I’m confused or perhaps you are. Bernie Sanders, while he happily had my vote a while back, is far past the need to retire. Hunter isn’t running for politics, and El-Sayed is behind in the polls. How are any of these people supposed to help?
El-Sayed is behind in the polls
I believe he won his primary
Right. Behind in the polls against the Republican candidate.
Talk to me about general election polling in October, when people are actually beginning to vote.
GOP Nominee Mike Rogers ran uncontested with near-zero negative press coverage, and he’s still in a dead heat. Voters “certain to vote” favor El-Sayed by the same margin voters “likely to vote” favor Rogers. So it’s functionally a toss-up.
hunter Biden
:-|
Trump is just the most corrupt president since Lyndon Johnson.
All that money and still an utterly worthless man.
So worthless you could say it is a negative value.
Likewise some analysts are troubled by how Trump has circumvented the constitution’s prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400m plane as a gift from Qatar, and how other wealthy foreigners have backed some Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad.
Doesn’t the constitution ban all emoluments?
Or is this just saying that the other reps are only outraged by accepting foreign bribes, because they all accept domestic bribes…
an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by…expanding his Truth Social business and more
What? How does that make money? Is he selling sugar pills that claim to make your penis bigger or sth?
Edit:
Canter added that “Trump is increasingly dependent on the presidency to generate business profits since his media company has been losing money over the past several quarters.”
Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, on 10 August announced it lost a whopping $238m in the three months through June as it branched out into new businesses including crypto.
Oh, that sounds more correct
“But he doesn’t even take a salary!” -MAGA Morons
How do any remaining supporters justify this?
They don’t, they will just scream ‘fake news!’
They only trust the news that reports the things they want to hear.
I think there’s others that think the things he does for the country are good. And they take the good with the bad. Like lowering taxes (even though mostly the rich benefitted from that). Or whatever the fuck DOGE claimed to do. Or brain worm measles you.
“Look at what a good businessman he is!”
“If it was actually illegal, he’d be in prison!”
“He’s so savvy to not pay for things when payment is due. Why would you pay if you didn’t have to?”
“He’s made more money while president than any other president because he’s the first non-politician president.”
My personal favorite: “he donates his salary, that proves he isn’t in it to make money. That’s why we elected him!”
They don’t have to.
They’ll never hear about it, and will tell you it’s fake when you show them
Easy, if you weren’t such a mark and smart, you wouldn’t have this happen to you. They fully believe these actions are worth merit, even salvation.
He’s GOD ,so 💩
I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.
Don’t forget to take every last cent the family has. Literally leave them with nothing as punishment.
Agreed. Because they are not likely to serve full sentences; they should have to come out and live as paupers.
And then to die while in prison. He has to KNOW he lost. It’s not enough for him to just die. He needs to die in PRISON
I just want him to go away. Punished or not. Dead or alive. I don’t care, as long as I never have to read about him doing any more atrocities.
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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
These Sociopathic Oligarchs have obvious OCD that manifests as Hoarding Syndrome, and their hoarding target is money. They have far, far more than they can ever use, and they have to have even more, even at the detriment of society, their fellow citizens, and even the world itself. They are literally destroying the planet to amass even more treasure, which they won’t even be able to use when the planet is 150 degrees, and they can’t leave their bunkers. Do we really have to wait until it gets to that point before somebody says Barney was right all alone ng, we should have shut this down long ago.
NOW is the time to stop them, and take away their money. Many of the businesses they’ve built are detrimental to society, and we would be better off without them, or with them in control of responsible people who don’t have Financial Hoarding Syndrome, and will operate the company to benefit society, and not just make more useless profit.
I think they’re just greedy, and they think that because they’ve got more money than everyone that means they’re smarter, better, more deserving than everyone. It’s not a far jump from there to “You will all kneel before me!”
It’s obviously profoundly unhealthy for society to have extremely powerful individuals around who have this attitude. They need to be removed from society by whatever means necessary and steps taken to ensure their ilk cannot rise again.
And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes–i.e. the technically legal income.
Well yes and also it doesn’t include the money his family has made from deals made after he got office. It’s on the order of 5bil+.
Just pure robbery in board daylight. Trump cultists don’t care mind you these people were stuck on a laptop for like 5 years lmao.
