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
I mean . . . Yeah. We know. We’ve been watching it happen every goddamned day.
Thanks for the reminder Guardian. Maybe you could name and shame a little more? It’s not happening magically. People with names and institutions are doing this corruption, so. Map it out. kthx.
What the hell should they do?? Investigate and do journalism???
I’m a rebel, Dottie. A loner.
I don’t make monkeys, I train them
Personally I want them to tell me how Hunter biden’s penis caused all of this.
Can we find a penis that isn’t also mired in corruption scandals?
I don’t think the Republicans can.
We should have never elected his peen
Then his wang should have stopped running around promising affordability and “no new wars” for the past decade.
Truetruetrue
Blows my mind that Americans are still expecting others to help them out of this. The responsibility rests solely in the people’s hands. Favor journalists have and are doing plenty. You don’t need more, yet you demand it.
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.
They believe that everyone does it, and that Trump is just better at it.
That’s why if you point out something corrupt they point to someone else who the think did something corrupt, instead of saying both should be investigated and punished if actually guilty.
Exactly: “Hunter Biden and his laptop! And Hunter sold art, can you even believe it? Hillary’s emails! Bill Clinton gets speaking fees, how is that even possible?”
Lol remember when Hillary’s emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.
Was it even weeks? Also, how many magaferbrainz even know about Signalgate, I wonder?
Yeah the problem I have with it is I can’t tell how many of them are just excusing peoples crimes because others commit crimes or excusing their crimes because they would do the same thing if they could, and point to others doing potentially other crimes as a “well anyone would do it” type of shit. ,
“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
The response you will get is “This is nothing new! Bill Clinton was worse…”
He’s GOD ,so 💩
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.
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
Why stop there? An outsider looking in could arguably be surprised that ICE officers go down the street in uniform without the fear of a spontaneous and public execution, especially with how armed the country is.
Like, if America is so opposed to ICE, why aren’t Americans just shooting ICE officers in the head as they walk by? From a certain point of view, that might even be an affirmative step in defense of innocent third-parties.
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+.
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.
We could end this in a few weeks if we acted. Everyone wants to hold on to what little they have instead of losing it for a better future.
People will die. People have kids they need to raise. People have parents they need to take care of. If we burn the system down, all that is over. Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution. You basically have to sacrifice an entire generation to burn this system down. Maybe we’ll get there soon, but people are still hoping to make it to the other side in one piece.
we sacrificed an entire generation stopping nazis before. we can do it again. they didn’t sacrifice their lives for the rest of us years later to let these fascists rise up again. if they were still here, they’d be standing right up front, ready to do it again.
Yeah, let’s make our kids figure this out. It’s not like they’ll be kind of busy dealing with global warming and all those other nice challenges we’ve left them.
You’re not wrong in a lot of ways, however that just means we’re kicking the can down the road, and allowing the atrocities going on in our backyards to continue.
Feels irresponsible and lacks empathy to me.
Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution.
I strongly disagree. My life is already pretty fucked up and doesn’t seem like it’ll be getting better without some massive political changes.
I believe part of the issue is that in addition to the regulatory system being captured, the media has been as well. Sure there are some late night shows poking fun, but major news networks are being bought up one after another.
It’s difficult to organize when half the news pretends this is normal and the other half openly celebrates this degradation of our systems. Unfortunately I fear things will get worse before they get better.
Wishing tons of non viloent misfurtunes to happen to all republicans.
I’m also wishing violent ones. After all, republicans are nazis, and the only good nazi is the dead nazi.
I’m talking stuff like having bad diarrhea and a sneezing fit while stuck in traffic. Or forever having one cent less than the purchase they’re trying to make. Getting comfortable in bed starting to drift off to sleep then suddenly having to piss. Every poop is a splasher. That kinda of stuff.
And I’m talking about being confused for an inmigrant by ICE and consequently beaten/shot to death. Or involved in a violent arrest by the police and consequently beaten/shot to death, or simply caught in a road rage incident with a fellow
republicannazi and consequently beaten/shot to death. That kinda stuff.Or chased down and eaten by large reptiles? Not that you would know anything about that…
Or needing a simple yet life saving drug/procedure done but their insuranc refuses to pay for it and they die slowly and painfully. Or get hit by a car and break their neck leading them to live the rest of their ‘life’ unable to move or communicate
Yeah… surely that’ll show em…
an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by…expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
What? How does that make money? Is he selling sugar pills that claim to make your penis bigger or sth?
He’s selling early access to his tweets for money laundering and stock manipulation
“You too can enjoy the same insider access as Barron Trump for the low, low price of $100,000 a month!”
All that money and still an utterly worthless man.
So glad we elected this guy again instead of putting him in prison…
Trump is the most openly American president to ever live. The stuff he does in the open, were happening in secret for decades. The secret is out.
Something something peanut farm.
Hell yeah! Both parties are the same!
Who doesn’t remember the Obama bens Ponzi scheme?
Or Biden cryptocurrency?
All Democrats are billionaires in fact!
(/s if not obvious)
Nah I mean think about how long Senators and Congress people have engaged in insider trading. At least 30-40 years maybe longer. Trump just doesn’t hide his criminal activity and he probably engages in it at a volume never seen before, but a lot of these actions basically amount to insider trading.
Also both parties don’t support universal healthcare, they both support Israel, they both don’t support workers unions, they both believe in bailing out big business, they both support immigration camps at the border.
Yeah one doesn’t support having the gestapo abducting and murdering people in broad daylight, but like is that the ONLY thing that needs to end to fix the country?
The biggest and best Ugly American ever
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.
“But he doesn’t even take a salary!” -MAGA Morons
Early access for 100k? Fuck me sideways. Some twats will do it.
They do it and then cash in on Polymarket bets based on advance knowledge.
It’s crazy that Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, and now the president is selling it.
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…
