“‘The whole world, unfortunately, has become a casino,’ said the President of the United States, before adding, ‘but it is, what it is,’ with a self-satisfied nonchalance when asked about a U.S. Army soldier placing bets on Polymarket (where his son, Don Jr., is an investor and sits on the advisory board) ahead of the military raid on Venezuela and subsequent capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Donald Trump then, of course, went on to feign ignorance about the specifics of the situation - as he always does when presented with a tough question.
The feigning is always a bald-faced lie.
If there’s money being made in any aspect of his administration and actions as POTUS, trust me, Trump knows all about it down to the very last dime. He is a very petty man, and as dysfunctional and demented as he is - when it comes to money he is a notoriously cheap micromanager who would rather sue someone into ruin than pay a nominal amount due.
The soldier, who was arrested earlier this week, made $400,000 betting on his inside information.
POTUS’s own family made more than one hundred times that - and it’s only the beginning of a season of stock market manipulations and prediction market bets that have turned our nation’s military misadventure in Iran into a cash cow for the Trump clan.
If there is an angle, a way to cheat the system and get over on others, Trump will find it and take it. He raised his children to behave the same way; unbridled greed is the family motto.
Never before has such a mediocre brood made so much money while doing so much damage.
Incompetence and fraud has been a lifelong family pursuit. All of their businesses essentially went bust until now.
The bankrupt casinos and failed real estate projects are very much a part of Trump’s legacy. Before his political career, POTUS’s real estate empire was essentially a branding operation; they stuck the Trump name in gaudy gold lettering on other developers’ buildings for a licensing fee.
Donald stopped participating in the actual construction of buildings after the Italian mob-money laundering side of things dried up and selling condos to Russian mobsters through anonymous LLCs became the easier and quicker money.
Donald Trump was never good at building things - he is much better at breaking them.”
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