No. of Recommendations: 5
Frankly, I don't see it. You guys make this accusation by spinning everything possible into a grift with no evidence of actual funds going into some secret bank account somewhere or truckloads of gold bullion being moved at night to the vaults below MaraLago or shipped to his pal Putin for safe keeping.Mike, I know you're not a stupid man, but when it comes to Trump you are willfully ignorant. Trump's endless grifts are out in the open for all to see. There's no secrecy involved, like Biden was constantly accused of.
I'll leave it to others to list all Trump's grifts, but here's a good start from The New Yorker, which enumerates a total of 3.4 billion in POTUS-profiting so far:
The Number:
How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?
By David D. Kirkpatrick
August 11, 2025
I decided to tally up the Trump family’s profiteering, including five Persian Gulf mega-projects, a luxury jet from Qatar, a sprawling resort in Hanoi, half a dozen projects peddling crypto, and MAGA merch.
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Many payments now flowing to Trump, his wife, and his children and their spouses would be unimaginable without his Presidencies: a two-billion-dollar investment from a fund controlled by the Saudi crown prince; a luxury jet from the Emir of Qatar; profits from at least five different ventures peddling crypto; fees from an exclusive club stocked with Cabinet officials and named Executive Branch. Fred Wertheimer, the dean of ethics-reform advocates, told me that, “when it comes to using his public office to amass personal profits, Trump is a unicorn—no one else even comes close.” Yet the public has largely shrugged. In a recent article for the Times, Peter Baker, a White House correspondent, wrote that the Trumps “have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House.” But Baker noted that the brazenness of the Trump family’s “moneymaking schemes” appears to have made such transactions seem almost normal.
How much money does it all amount to? What’s the number? In March, Forbes, known for ranking the wealth of billionaires, estimated that Trump’s net worth had more than doubled in the previous year, surpassing five billion dollars. In July, the Times put Trump’s wealth at upward of ten billion. Yet both estimates included billions of dollars in paper profits that would almost certainly disintegrate if the Trumps pulled out of certain investments. (What’s Truth Social worth without him?)
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