***** “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” [ Donald John Trump:
“Dismal marks, only two months in”; George Will; Washington Post Weekly; 3/23/25 ]
Note: this post presents excerpts from “The monetization of the presidency, with little protest”; Peter Baker; New York Times; 6/1/25 – read the entire article !!!!!]
1] “The Trumps are hardly the first presidential family to profit from their time in power, but their patriarch has done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking.”
2] “The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and is opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join, all in the past few months alone.”
***** “…former first term Cabinet and staff members – Tillerson called Trump “a moron;” James Mattis said Trump was “more dangerous than anyone could ever imagine;” John Kelly said Trump was “the most flawed person I have ever met;” John Bolton said Trump was ‘a laughing fool.” [Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer: “Donald Trump Is Enjoying This”; The Atlantic; June, 2025]
3]. “Just last month, Qatar handed over a luxury jet meant for Trump’s use not just in his official capacity but also for his presidential library after he leaves office. Experts have valued the plane..at $200 million – more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.”
4]. “..Trump hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club for 220 investors in the $TRUMP cryptocurrency that he started days before taking office.. Access was openly sold based on how much money they chipped in – not to a campaign account but to a business that benefits Trump personally.”
***** “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
[ George Bernard Shaw ]
5]. “.. a mark of how much Trump has transformed Washington since his return to power is the normalization of moneymaking schemes that once would have generated endless political blowback, televised hearings, official investigations and damage control. The dearth of outrage in the Trump era…exemplifies how far the president has moved the lines of accepted behavior in Washington.”
6]. “Trump, the first convicted felon elected president, has erased ethical boundaries and dismantled the instruments of accountability that constrained his predecessors. There will be no official investigations because Trump has made sure of it. He has fired government inspectors general and ethics watchdogs, installed partisan loyalists to run the Justice Department, FBI and regulatory agencies and dominated a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to hold hearings.
***** “When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There – a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator – so decrees.” [ Jessica Mitford ]
7] “When Trump provokes a major news story every day or even every hour – more tariffs on allies, more retribution against enemies, more defiance of court orders – rarely does a single action stay in the headlines long enough to shape the national conversation.”
8] “The American public has had to inure itself to the corruption of Donald Trump and his presidency because the president and his Republican Party have given the American public no choice in the matter,” said J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former appeals court judger who has become a critic of Trump.” [NOTE: – †his challenge to YOU – WHY has this distinguished CONSERVATIVE former judge become a Trump critic?????????? Investigate this man to find out the background of him; then figure out WHY Judge Luttig has become a Trump critic.]
***** “The wicked walk about freely when the vilest men are exalted.” [ Psalm 12:8 ]
With Justice For All 