LOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to establish a new task force to help oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
https://abc7news.com/post/president-trump-sign-executive-order-creating-task-force-2028-olympics-los-angeles/17440740/

Trump did this for two reasons:
1. He never misses an opportunity to troll California and demonstrate to us who our daddy is; and

2. He never misses a chance to monetize the Office of the Presidency. He will be hawking t shirts in L.A. that have him fist pumping after the assassination attempt with the Olympic Rings overlaid.

Trump pleading his case to the Olympic Committee

"NEW YORK (AP) Millions of Americans saving for retirement through 401(k) accounts could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments, according to an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump that could give those financial players long-sought access to a pool of funds worth trillions."

Trump opens the door for private equity and crypto as 401k options | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crypto-401k-private-equity-retirement-plans-d7fdae32d904c9454f4d4eb0b12b88ef

*Hot tip: All MAGA and BI Trumpers should go ALL IN with their 401(k)'s in crypto. Trust Trump. He won't f@uck you and his own crypto enterprise will give you good buy in terms.

"President Trump and his family stand to net around $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, David Kirkpatrick reports for The New Yorker in a piece out today, "The Number."

Why it matters: No U.S. president has monetized the highest office in the land quite like this.

"Many payments now flowing to Trump, his wife, and his children and their spouses would be unimaginable without his Presidencies," Kirkpatrick writes.

Trump and his family have been profiting from crypto ventures, five mega-projects in the Persian Gulf, luxury gifts, MAGA merch, exclusive club fees and more.

Estimates of Trump's personal wealth have ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion. But the true bottom-line profit from his presidential term remains unknown."
Axios

BUT, BUT, BUT, TRUMP WAIVED HIS PRESIDENTIAL SALARY!


What is Matt Taibbi' learned opinion of that?


How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? | The New Yorker
https://archive.is/2025.08.11-105904/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number

Trump Family Expands Crypto Empire With $6.4 Billion Venture | Investor's Business Daily https://www.investors.com/news/trump-media-cro-6-4-billion-crypto-com-crypto-empire-metaplanet-bitcoin/

"The Trump digital asset businesses have benefited from the president's agenda to make America the "crypto capital of the world." President Trump has formed a White House working group and issued a number of crypto-related executive orders, aimed at streamlining and reducing regulations while developing the industry. President Trump in July signed the Genius Act, which creates a framework for regulating stablecoins. A larger crypto market structure bill is working its way through the Senate."

Where's that picture I have of Mussolini at the gas station?

concordtom said:

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Where's that picture I have of Mussolini at the gas station?

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I think it's next to your picture of Gaddafi at the proctologist.

Yeah, either that or next to Saddam and his stairway to heaven.

Is there a grade higher than A+ for these self serving fascist crooks?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/22/heres-how-much-the-trump-kids-have-made-because-of-the-presidency/

Do you really think Trump is letting his kids keep anything other than a small percentage of the wealth generated off opportunities created solely by him? They are financial straw men on an allowance.

It is stunning and the problem is that if the shoe was on the other foot the MAGA cultists would be Screaming. It really makes anything the Clinton's allegedly did look like child's play.

One of the really important missions for the democrats is to think about this era and put in place reforms so it never happens again - akin to the reforms passed after November '74.

As a public service to my MAGA nut friends see


https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-democrats-reintroduce-bill-aimed-at-preventing-abuses-of-presidential-power/#:~:text=House%20Democrats%20Reintroduce%20Bill%20Aimed%20At%20Preventing%20Abuses%20of%20Presidential%20Power,-By%20Devon%20Hesano&text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%94%20On%20Thursday%2C,of%20their%20family%20and%20friends%2C


There really is NOTHING here that should be of issue for the GOP supporters and a way of advancing the country would be to put it into your information eco-system and promote it.

And yes, Biden should have lived by this. He should NOT have preemptively pardoned his son. It sucked. But he made a choice to run for President and part of that package, right or wrong, is the toll it takes on your family. Sad but true and why the mature thing is to discuss and be sure they are all on board with the consequences.

Biden: Cash for Clemency / $250,000 per Autopen signature.

https://instagr.am/p/DO6tuGpCl4S

When Trump 🇺🇸 openly told the world:-

‘[Gaza 🇵🇸] is a real estate development of the future’

‘Palestinians 🇵🇸 have no right to live there’

Trump 🇺🇸 & Netanyahu 🇮🇱 have normalised ethnic cleansing and land theft

Fascism is mainstream in 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱pic.twitter.com/mvpbFxXe3j

— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) September 23, 2025

I thought Egypt and Lebanon didn't want them?

Plan B is to concentrate Gazans into the southern quarter of Gaza, and to make their lives so miserable that many will take a one-way trip to any destination, Europe, N. America or perhaps some makeshift camps in an African country.

A European country took in a few hundred Palestinians and they had high rates of crime and welfare use; as did their children.

Why America Doesn't Care About Trump's Graft https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/why-america-doesnt-care-about-trumps

"What boggles me more is why MAGA adorers, and the American populace in general, seem to care so little about the raging kleptocracy that is business as usual in the Trump circle. The president's net worth has nearly doubled in the eight months since he returned to the Oval Office. In May, the UAE's ruling family deposited $2 billion into the crypto fund cofounded by Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. with, among others, the Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff's fresh-faced son, Zach and a fourth Musketeer Zak Folkman, who used to run a company called Date Hotter Girls, and lo!two weeks later, the White House gave the UAE access to a payload of the world's most advanced and scarce AI computer chips, despite national security concerns that they might be shared with our biggest adversary, China. A NYT investigation described the transaction as "eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in a manner without precedent in modern American history."

> Why America Doesn't Care About Trump's Graft

welll, much of the Big-A does care, but apparently the mindless middle not so much (yet)..

Do you know what the Trumps call all the money the Bidens have banked in an entire lifetime as a result of grift?

A "business" lunch at Mar a Lago.

~ uhh . . .




- vwhat if Greg Kihn was under-rated, outside of the Bay, what then




https://www.statepress.com/article/2025/10/echo-review-harris-107-days#

The latest "F@uck you, what are you going to do about it?" from Trump:

Trump Jr-linked drone company wins Pentagon contract https://www.ft.com/content/4cedc140-4a02-4ab6-9f78-93dd8c51aeef

"A little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr has won its largest contract from the Pentagon, as the US government expands its procurement of the drones.

Florida-based Unusual Machines, in which Trump Jr has held a $4mn stake, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts.

Trump Jr on as an adviser in November 2024. The Financial Times earlier this year found shares in the company almost tripled in price in the weeks leading up to its disclosure of the move.

The US army did not respond to a request for comment."

Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. https://t.co/7tgpoLaeIn pic.twitter.com/FBh29vhXgY

— Financial Times (@FT) October 24, 2025

Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/11/06/trump-wine-coast-guard-exchanges-stores-federal-property-government/

"The Trump Organization's second-term push to monetize Donald Trump's presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores, which provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods, have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider."

Free to Choose?

movielover said:

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Free to Choose?

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Do you think the officer in charge of determining which products are sold at the Coast Guard-run stores was "free" to decline offering Trump wine and cider at the stores?

Trump Organization said close to joining $63 billion Saudi-owned real estate project | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-organization-said-close-to-joining-major-saudi-owned-real-estate-project/

"Protests in Serbia last week over a planned Trump Tower in Belgrade were just the latest example of the president's business empire rubbing up against U.S. foreign policy, Axios' Dave Lawler writes.

Why it matters: Officially, the president has handed management of his real estate portfolio to his sons. But for some governments around the world, it may be hard to entirely separate President Trump's business from Trump himself.

Zoom in: Serbia's government passed a law this month to fast-track development of the future Trump Tower Belgrade by an investment firm founded by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law.

The project is backed by strongman President Aleksandar Vucic, who has tried to court Trump while
facing mass protests at home.

Zoom out: It's not the first Trump-branded project that's reportedly been expedited by a foreign government during Trump's second term or the first to face backlash.

Work was allowed to begin earlier this year on a massive hotel and golf development outside Hanoi without all the required legal and environmental reviews, while Vietnam was also holding high-stakes trade talks with the Trump administration, according to a New York Times investigation.

The big picture: Investment funds backed by Gulf states or royals have poured money into Kushner's investment fund and the Trump family's crypto venture, for example.

Those countries the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia also struck massive deals with the Trump administration for AI chips and arms.

Driving the day: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected to meet Trump at the White House this morning, Axios' Barak Ravid writes.

Trump said yesterday he'll approve the sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia, making the kingdom the first Middle Eastern country other than Israel to obtain the advanced fighter jets."
Axios

"President Trump said "a lot of people didn't like" journalist Jamal Khashoggi while answering a reporter's question during a White House meeting today with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Axios' April Rubin reports.

Khashoggi's 2018 murder was one reason for tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia during the Biden administration, whose report concluded that MBS approved an order to "capture or kill" the Saudi journalist.

Saudi officials rejected that report, calling it a "negative, false and unacceptable assessment."

Khashoggi became an outspoken critic of MBS after the crown prince began cracking down on dissent.
"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial," Trump said in the Oval Office while responding to a question about Khashoggi from an ABC News reporter.

"It's really painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or not in a legal way," MBS said of Khashoggi.

"And it's been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation, et cetera, in Saudi Arabia. And we've improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that."
Trump said the question "embarrassed" his guest.

The president called the inquiring reporter a "terrible person," days after he called a female Bloomberg News correspondent a "piggy."
The Washington Post, where Khashoggi worked, did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment."
Axios

At least they honored him with an LIV tourney.

During Trump I, Trump said the Khashoggi murder was the worst cover up ever.

bearister said:

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"President Trump said "a lot of people didn't like" journalist Jamal Khashoggi while answering a reporter's question during a White House meeting today with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Axios' April Rubin reports.

Khashoggi's 2018 murder was one reason for tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia during the Biden administration, whose report concluded that MBS approved an order to "capture or kill" the Saudi journalist.

Saudi officials rejected that report, calling it a "negative, false and unacceptable assessment."

Khashoggi became an outspoken critic of MBS after the crown prince began cracking down on dissent.
"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial," Trump said in the Oval Office while responding to a question about Khashoggi from an ABC News reporter.

"It's really painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or not in a legal way," MBS said of Khashoggi.

"And it's been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation, et cetera, in Saudi Arabia. And we've improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that."
Trump said the question "embarrassed" his guest.

The president called the inquiring reporter a "terrible person," days after he called a female Bloomberg News correspondent a "piggy."
The Washington Post, where Khashoggi worked, did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment."
Axios

At least they honored him with an LIV tourney.

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Trump running cover for MBS is disgusting.

That said:

Biden was obsessed with getting Saudi to normalize with Israel so they actively ran cover for them

Meanwhile liberals are pretending this is just a Trump thing. I hate when people hide the actions of empire by making everything partisan

— Nick Cruse 🥋 (@SocialistMMA) November 19, 2025

Also, some background on when it happened:

Ryan and Emily talk through Trump’s relationship with Mohammed bin Salman and place it in context. Ryan shares the story of the day journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered — how he had lunch with him two weeks earlier, and how hours passed with no sign of Khashoggi after he… pic.twitter.com/WLhYeoxJQz

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 19, 2025

Throughout history America has a pattern of playing ball with oppressive regimes (see Latin America) as long as they hated commies and sold us bananas and coffee.

I wonder if your buddy, Bibi, is losing his erection thinking about the prospect of MBS getting his paws on a fleet of the F-35 Lightning II's?