For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office.
Harry Truman refused to lend his name to any business, even in retirement. Richard Nixon so feared a brother might profit off their ties, he had his phone tapped. And George W. Bush dumped his individual stock holdings before taking office.
Donald Trump is taking a different approach.
The family real estate business is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its founding a century ago, each deal potentially shaping everything from tariffs to military aid.
Led by Eric, and his brother, Donald Jr., the family business has expanded into cryptocurrencies with ventures that brought in billions of dollars but raised questions about whether some big investors received favorable treatment in return.
Quit normalizing Trump’s bullshit.
We need to elect someone who, among other critical traits, is comfortable with approving bills to limit their own power and the power of their successors.
I don’t believe that will actually be possible.
More likely will be a congressional supermajority forcing through such bills. At any rate there are already laws supposed to stop many of these grifts, but they are not enforced.
If an individual person can limit their own power, the next person will be able to strip those limitations just as easilly.
What we need is more direct democracy instead of just relying on representatives to do the right thing.
I’d like to see the ability to recall a sitting president added. Waiting for congress to step in is getting ridiculous.
And we should be able to directly pass laws, bypassing all branches of the government (including the Supreme Court).
That is fucking dangerous
So is entrusting all power to representatives, who, as we’ve seen many times over, inevitably become corrupt and/or drunk with power.
When we take this country back, the Trumps are ALL going to prison, and the entire Trump fortune will be confiscated under civil forfeiture laws. It will also be illegal to name anything after Trump.
This should be a campaign promise.
#takeamericaback
Damn Skippy. I’m waiting to support the candidate who explicitly states that they understand that America cannot continue into a positive future as long as MAGA is poisoning our governmental system.
The first one who says that crushing and purging MAGA will be their first priority, is my candidate.
Enforcement of the emoluments clause is all it takes. Enforcement is what’s failing in the US.
Yeah, thanks for the news flash… I kinda got that impression when they were advertising canned beans from the oval office.
I’ve not purchased a single goya product since that event.
Same!
Future?
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the plan is for the trump family to rule us for decades.
Man, yet another thing on the pile of things easily avoidable by FUCKING VOTING.
Well, Kamala cackled and there was the genocide, so I so tots had to stay home and/or vote for a bullshit party. Or at least do so much bitching about the Democratic Party that I convinced others to take that course of action!
And I don’t feel the least bit sorry for it, because I’m Morally Superior! Toodles!
–More than a few conversations I’ve had with a few maximalist contrarians. Some of it IRL, unfortunately.
If every moral abstainer/third party voter had voted for Kamala in 2024, Trump would still be President. There simply weren’t enough of them to matter.
Math is a lie by Russia to disprove that unpopular candidates lose popularity contests.
