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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[–] 106 points 2 months ago (11 children)

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.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    What the hell should they do?? Investigate and do journalism???

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Personally I want them to tell me how Hunter biden's penis caused all of this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    We should have never elected his peen

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    How do any remaining supporters justify this?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They don’t, they will just scream ‘fake news!’

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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?"

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Lol remember when Hillary's emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.

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  • 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. ,

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "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."

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    But he DOESNT take a Salary!

    -Free Thinking NOT GULLIBLE Republicans!

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes--i.e. the technically legal income.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but we need a critical mass of people for whom that is true. I don't think we're there yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I think we've "been there" since at least the 1930's in terms of "the majority of people's lives suck for preventable reasons," but there's a lot of propaganda convincing people that their lives are actually awesome.

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  • 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..

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    All that money and still an utterly worthless man.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    So glad we elected this guy again instead of putting him in prison...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    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?

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    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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    "But he doesn't even take a salary!" -MAGA Morons

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Wishing tons of non viloent misfurtunes to happen to all republicans.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'm also wishing violent ones. After all, republicans are nazis, and the only good nazi is the dead nazi.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    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 republican nazi and consequently beaten/shot to death. That kinda stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Early access for 100k? Fuck me sideways. Some twats will do it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah, but Bernie sanders, hunter Biden and Abdul El-Sayed will

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    El-Sayed is behind in the polls

    I believe he won his primary

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Right. Behind in the polls against the Republican candidate.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    He has set the precedent He has done what a disgusting imperial system allows...

    FTFY

    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.

    If both parties are doing the same thing, nobody is every going to stop it. Just look at all of USA history. As a very obvious example, they're all talking bribes (aka lobbies), doing insider trading, etc. Ofc they're getting that crypto cash too... Nobody gonna fix any of this ever. It's a feature not a bug to them.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You forgot

    • They want to have sex with kids
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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Was it only republican politicians caught up in the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    No but Trump will pardon the republicans

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    He has pardoned democrats in the past. Not many, but it's happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    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 (R) pleading guilty to child molestation-related charges and Rep. Mel Reynolds (R) 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    "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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Now isn't that funny? It cost MORE to make a rich person richer than it does to make me rich.

    Go figure.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Second only to whoever ran the country from 2016-2020

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Many Americans seem to be fine with that, must be some kind of national kink.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Alarmed‽ tf you mean "alarmed", it's openly criminal. Nobody's fucking surprised by this

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