*** “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]
This post continues examining the UNPRECEDENTED. GREED. of Donald Trump and those around him in MONETIZING the U.S. presidency. They’re doing things commonly seen in “banana republics” and other authoritarian regimes. In just over one year, the Trump clan and various associates have managed to make BILLIONS of dollars. They’ve also sabotaged what the world used to think about American morality and decency. They’ve quite literally sold their soul for a few pieces of gold……… Following are some excerpts providing facts.
I. “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.” { New York Times. editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic”; 1/25/26 ]
***. “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” [ I Thessalonians 5: 22 ]
II. 5] “It is hard to wrap your head around that the president of the United States would engage in this level of self-enrichment at the expense of so many of his supporters, said Lee Reiners, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner..” [ Eric Tipton, Andrea Fuller, David Yaffe-Bellamy: “President cashed in, others not so much”; New York Times; 7/5/26 ]
6] “As of the middle of last year, according to Chainalysis…58 investors in the $Trump coin had made profits in excess of $10 million, totaling an estimated $1.1 billion – most of them early traders who got out before the coin crashed in value. At the same time, some 764,000 crypto wallets, most with small holdings, lost money on $TRUMP…” [ Tipton ]
1] “a large chunk of the $2 billion haul President Donald Trump took in last year came as hundreds of thousands of his fans and other investors bet on a speculative cryptocurrency called 4TRUMP, hoping its value would soar with his return to the White House. But while Trump amassed an eye-popping $636 million from the cryptocurrency, known as a memecoin, many of his followers who heeded his call to purchase the coin came out losers.” [ Tipton ]
*** “The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.” [. George Bernard Shaw ]
2] “The president’s 927-page financial disclosure showed how Trump and his family reaped huge financial rewards in 2025 through his money-losing Trump Media venture and a separate cryptocurrency firm called World Liberty Financial, even as routine investors suffered vast losses.” [ Tipton ]
3] “In a way, Trump’s cryptocurrency windfall is a reflection of the speculative nature of the crypto industry, in which executives behind these often highly volatile ventures are at times able to generate huge profits at the expense of smaller investors, who often lose vast sums…” [ Tipton ]
4]. “Former federal financial regulators said Trump has taken that to a new extreme, structuring his crypto ventures so he always made money on the front end, according to disclosures from ther companies, no matter what happened to the business in the long run.” [. Tipton. ]
***. “The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.” [ Zeno. ]
III. 1] “In the first three months of the year, President Trump’s brokerage accounts placed ore than 3,600 trades, as they bought and sold a wide variety of stocks and bonds, according to a disclosure form released last month….Some of the trades early this year also appeared to be well timed, notably a purchase of Dell shares that came months before the company secured a lucrative government contract.” [ Ben Protess: “Documents Offer Insight Into Trump’s Stock Trades”; New York Times; 6/21/26 ]
2] “Unlike every other president since the 1970s who has owned individual stocks and businesses, Mr. Trump did not put his assets into a blind trust. The decision to forgo that ethical guardrail potentially allows him to know what stocks he owns, and to influence their performance with policy announcements or contracts even if he cannot direct how or when they are traded…..”The whole point of having a blind trust is so your virtue can never be called into question,” said Jeffrey A. Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. he added that “President Trump does not feel obliged to follow the same norms and rules as everyone else.”
[ Protess; 6/2/26 ]
*** “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [ James. I: 8. ]
IV. “Trump netted $2B in his Ist year back.” [ Ben Protess, Andrea Fuller, Eric Tipton, David Yaffe-Bellany; New York Times; 7/2/26 ]
V. A. PARTIAL. itemization of “YOUR’. president’s MONETIZATION of a U.S. presidency:
– $23 million: name licensing – $28 million: Melania documentary -$400 million Qatar Boeing 747-8
– $90.5 million: legal settlements from major tech and media companies. – $867 million; cryptocurrency
– $466 million: World Liberty Financial {New York times editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic” ]
*** “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain…the character of an “Honest Man.”
[ George Washington; 8/28/1788. ]
VI. “There are official diamond-studded gold watches for $100,000, promoted by President Trump…The industry is a cornerstone of mr. Trump’s political movement..”….The president has built a merchandise behemoth unmatched by any other American politician….Mr. Trump and his family have made millions from the products. – more than $1 million from guitars and at least $2.8 million from the watches alone…he misses few opportunities to market the wares..” [Tiffany Hsu, Stuart Thompson: “Inside the Sprawling World Of MAGA Merchandise”; New York Times; 4/15/26 ]
2] “This is so concerning not just because of how it might impact Trump’s specific decisions, but because it might suggest that public service in general is just another way to get yourself ahead and make more money,” said Daniel I. Weiner, an ethics and campaign finance expert at the Brennan Center for Justice…”That can open the door to a sort of systemic corruption that really can, over the long term, undermine people’s faith in democracy.” [ Hsu, Thompson ]
***. “So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible, would cheat even God himself.” [ George Bancroft ]
With Justice For All 