I was smart. I learned my lesson about trump back in the day when I went all in on "trump Steaks" and lost my shirt.
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So much winning.
The ship must really be sinking for that rat to abandon it.
Trump feeling nostalgic ... hoping for a bankruptcy, perhaps? It's not like he doesn't have more money coming in from other sources. Pardon Bribes, his Board of Pus, weapons sales ...
Don't forget the bullshit DOJ settlements paid for by our tax dollars.
over $1.1B in losses since 2024 IPO. Stock down 90% since the hype.
That’s a lot of money to waste on trumps blog.
He's made billions on other grifts so I'm sure he doesn't care.
Has he really though? He's bankrupted Trump casino, Trump steaks, Trump University... I'd be shocked if he really had all that much money in the bank.
One issue with Trump is that we don't really know much about his finances. In particular, he crows about assets but never talks about debt. He's probably leveraged to his scalp-reduction scar.
Leveraged to Russian banks.
Trump has made over a billion dollars his first year in office this term. It’s amazing how much money you can hoard when taxpayers give it to you, businesses pay you homage, business deals just fall into your lap, and you use the government lawyers and taxpayer money to defend yourself from suits.
Don't forget the oodles of insider trading!
He just sued himself as president and then settled the case for a $230 million payout over the classified document investigation. He's also suing himself again for $10 billion over his tax returns getting leaked.
He what?
Donald Trump, the private citizen, is suing the United States Government - of which he is currently the chief executive of. Since he has the authority to direct the justice department and court settlements are paid out of taxpayer income, he can direct the attorney general to "settle" with the plaintiff (himself) and have that settlement money get funneled directly into his private bank account.
It's a scam that, if it had been performed by any other president in the history of the nation, would have been a scandal that dwarfs Watergate and led to an immediate bipartisan effort to impeach and remove the president for blatant corruption.
But since it's Trump, this is just expected of him, I guess...
Christ almighty
You can apply that last bit to about any headline in the last 12 years
Those were all before he became POTUS. Everything he has done since then has been using every single bit of power he has to funnel money to his family and friends, which then goes back to him. You don't think he's getting a kickback on all those insider stock trades on oil futures that suspiciously happened right before going into Venezuela and also happened right before going into Iran?
You are right that he probably doesn't have that much money in the bank, because it is all distributed around to insiders who will give it back to him.
- Make a corp
- Pay yourself a LOT
- Bankrupt the corp
You see how HE doesn't lose, even when the corp dies?
Over a billion (maybe four) in his first year of his second term for him and his family:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-merch-hotels-crypto
It's tough to tease out exactly how much and exactly who it goes to
They always got a side grift running.
Don't have a cow, Devin
Bam! That’s what i’m talkin about.
Everyone knows truth social is going to be worthless by January.
I bet this is more of a tax scheme to use that loss as a tax deduction because that family is a total turd pile.
"Tax scheme" explains why Nunes is moving to "Chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board".
I'd say all of his bankruptcies were used as tax write offs ...
Also, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this whole trump media thing was constructed from the start as an impending bankruptcy...
I can't see it any other way. You're talking about a jackass that would rather embezzle a casino into the ground than just enjoy guaranteed profits.
I could see a future where the smoldering remains of truth social is bought up for pocket change in bankrupcty by The Onion, and gets rebranded as an online museum of trump's lifetime of failures. The irony is that only in the end would the meaning of "truth" in its name actually be accurate.
That is unless the gangster King here trades a favor for some billionaire to keep it afloat.
Oh Lordy I forgot about Devin Nunes.
I know, it was nice wasn’t it
That is less revenue than your average McDonald's location
Lol. Suck it. It’s like a ship with no floor!
Don't get too excited. Knowing these fuckin guys, they planned to tank the company to write off their other ill-gotten gains.