Following is
a current editorial in The New York Times. This should be a free link.
This New York Times editorial is a well-documented report of how Donald Trump has used his presidency to enrich himself and his family by $1,408,500,000 in just one year. The report is a dramatic visually enhanced sequence of facts, which cannot be replicated here.
All told, Mr. Trump has profited from his return to the presidency by an amount of money equal to 16,822 times the median U.S. household income.
Mr. Trump’s hunger for wealth is brazen. Throughout the nation’s history, presidents of both parties have taken care to avoid even the appearance of profiting from public service. This president gleefully squeezes American corporations, flaunts gifts from foreign governments and celebrates the rapid growth of his own fortune.
When President Harry Truman left office in 1953, he did not even own a car. He and his wife returned to Missouri by train and lived for a time on his Army pension. He refused to take any job that he regarded as commercializing his public service, explaining, “I knew that they were not interested in hiring Harry Truman, the person, but what they wanted to hire was the former president of the United States.” Mr. Trump has said that when he leaves office, he plans to take with him a $400 million Boeing 747 that was a gift from Qatar, and to display it at his presidential library.
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Throughout the nation’s history, presidents of both parties have taken care to avoid
even the appearance of profiting from public service.
This president gleefully squeezes American corporations, flaunts gifts from foreign governments
and celebrates the rapid growth of his own fortune."
How many times has Donald J. Trump violated the Constitution's Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses?
WTH is going to be done about it?
Surprisingly, the film wasn't nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature Film category.
"Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, owns Amazon and many other businesses
that depend on the whims of the sociopath in the Oval Office.
(Trump sold the idea of the documentary to Bezos when he dined at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024,
just after the election, according to the The Wall Street Journal.)"
"Bezos’s Amazon Web Services has a $1 billion agreement with the General Services Administration
for cloud services, which presumably Bezos would like renewed.
His rocket company, Blue Origin, has over $2.3 billion in contracts from the U.S. Space Force."
"Several of Bezos’s companies are subject to potential tariffs on goods from China.
Amazon is under the cloud of a major antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission
(when the FTC was still independent — before it came under the putative control of the Oval Office).
The trial is expected in 2027."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/melania-the-film-the-shame