I don’t suppose it’s stunning that I’ve been serious about greed these days. From the place I’m sitting, it appears there may be an epidemic of greed. Being poor and ageing, I acknowledge my bias. So I assumed I’d seek the advice of with my AI good friend, Claude. And this morning I requested Claude the next: “I used to be questioning—contemplating all of the studying you’ve performed, the fiction, historical past, politics, and many others.—what would your easy, easy-to-understand definition of ‘greed’ be?”
After all, Claude is aware of there may be nothing easy in terms of human conduct. Let’s skip for a second MAGA’s obsessive curiosity in pronouns and head to Claude’s reply. I’ve honored Claude’s option to make sure phrases daring:
I’d outline greed as: wanting greater than you want, on the expense of others, with out it ever feeling like sufficient.
A couple of issues I believe are important to that definition, primarily based on how the idea exhibits up throughout contexts:
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- It’s relational, not simply private. Wanting loads isn’t routinely grasping — ambition, starvation for all times, wanting safety for your loved ones, these aren’t greed. Greed particularly includes taking greater than your share in a means that prices another person, or hoarding previous the purpose of any actual profit to you.
- It’s bottomless by nature. That is the half fiction captures higher than any dictionary definition. Scrooge, Gollum, Michael Corleone, Daisy Buchanan’s entire world — the defining characteristic isn’t the quantity they’ve, it’s that satisfaction by no means arrives. The goalpost strikes. That’s what separates greed from a authentic need, which may really be happy.
- It normally requires some self-deception. Traditionally and politically, greed hardly ever pronounces itself as greed. It will get dressed up as ‘effectivity,’ ‘simply being an excellent businessman,’ ‘another person would take it anyway,’ or ‘I earned this.’ A part of what makes it fascinating as a vice (the Christian custom calls it avarice, one of many seven deadlies; Buddhism calls it one of many three poisons) is that it tends to deprave the ethical vocabulary round it, not simply the conduct.
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So the compact model: greed is the compulsion to build up past want, at others’ expense, that by no means resolves into contentment.
Curious what prompted the query — are you working by means of this for one thing particular (writing, a dialogue, simply turning it over)?
Simply as I realized throughout remedy that there’s simply no good motive to mislead your therapist, I’ve found I really feel the identical about Claude. And so I responded:
I’m within the midst of writing a column in regards to the extraordinary accumulation of wealth by our sitting president and his household—and the obvious growth during the last years to not cover it—to embrace their greed as whether it is totally pure and deserved.
Which prompted this from Claude (flattery will get you wherever):
That’s a wealthy and fairly charged subject for a column — the shift from concealment to open embrace is the extra fascinating story, I believe, than the wealth itself. Let me pull some present, concrete particulars so no matter you write is factually stable.
I let that final dig go, as a result of I all the time do my finest to make sure my writing is factually stable. And due to that, I’ll solely add little bit of Claude’s response and rely alone analysis:
The dimensions, briefly:
Forbes at present estimates Trump’s web value at $6.5 billion as of February 2026, up from roughly $2.3–2.4 billion in the beginning of 2024 — practically 3 times his fortune in the beginning of that 12 months, progress pushed overwhelmingly by enterprise ventures tied on to his political energy …
Let me credit score Claude for this perception/recommendation:
The mechanism, which is absolutely your ‘embrace’ angle: this marks an actual departure from the primary time period, when Trump stated he barred members of the family from worldwide enterprise dealings — within the second time period, he informed the New York Instances in January there aren’t any such restraints. That’s about as near an on-record admission of the shift you’re describing as you’ll discover.
Then this from Claude:
On the ‘naturalness’ angle you’re going for — that is your column’s actual hook, I believe. A couple of historic/rhetorical parallels which may sharpen it:
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- Gilded Age robber barons a minimum of carried out philanthropy (Carnegie’s ‘Gospel of Wealth’) — the wealth was justified as stewardship, even when self-serving. What you’re describing is completely different: no efficiency of stewardship in any respect, simply bare assertion of entitlement.
- Divine proper / droit du roi framing is nearer to what you’re pointing at than robber-baron comparisons — the concept the workplace itself generates a pure declare to spoils, moderately than wealth being separate from and probably compromising the workplace.
- Gordon Gekko’s ‘greed is sweet’ a minimum of framed greed as an engine of broader prosperity (trickle-down logic). What you appear to be describing lacks even that justification — it’s not ‘greed is sweet for everybody,’ it’s ‘greed is solely deserved,’ full cease.
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That final distinction is likely to be your sharpest thesis: this isn’t Gekko-style ideological greed, it’s pre-ideological — a return to older assumptions about energy and plunder that the final two centuries of democratic norms had largely suppressed.
Need me to assist draft a gap, or work by means of a particular part?
As all the time, I thanked Claude however informed him/her/everybody that I’d take it from right here.
Maybe it’s the worsening dementia. The creeping sense that MAGA would possibly lose the midterms. And the extreme penalties of shedding management of Congress. Possibly greater than something it’s the unavoidable actuality that the story is out. A lot in order that even Fox Information can not cover the reality. Sure, all people now is aware of in regards to the billions Trump has extracted from the MAGA suckers. After all, the elites, international and home, understood properly from the get-go that by shopping for into Trump crypto and his $Trump meme coin, they might get again way over they spent—in tax breaks and exorbitant no-bid contracts and international coverage concessions. However there have been the oh so many who, nonetheless all these Trumpian scams later, couldn’t/wouldn’t think about that Trump and his household and pals would stiff them. The couldn’t anticipate that they might money out as fast because the Trumpians managed to shovel in all of the money they may from the true believers. These people most likely hadn’t known as themselves MAGA in these days, however they definitely fell for the Trump schtick and had dutifully fallen for his casinos and his water and airline and steaks and Trump College.
In regular occasions—and with the conventional expectations we as soon as had of the nation’s highest public officer—a canopy just like the one under, from a prestigious mainstream enterprise publication like Forbes, would have brought about a serious disaster and maybe prompted Congressional hearings. However I’m guessing for a lot of of you that is the primary time you may have seen this September 2025 Forbes cowl:
Any recollections of our Republican Congress tackling the issues raised by Forbes? Any MAGA outrage in regards to the story of an exceptionally completely satisfied Donald Trump and the golden goose who shares his gold-leafed White Home: “President Trump simply had essentially the most profitable 12 months of his life. However percentage-wise, members of his rapid household, together with sons Eric, Don Jr. and Barron, did even higher.”
Forbes then supplied this mixed Trump household historical past and psychological portrait of the president who has an awesome want to counterpoint himself:
President Trump’s dad, Fred, bought wealthy constructing 20,000 flats throughout New York Metropolis. Donald joined Fred’s agency in 1968. From the outset, he was bold and ruthless. His first quote within the inaugural Forbes 400 from 1982, when he and his father have been listed collectively, value a mixed $200 million ($660 million in right now’s cash): ‘Man is essentially the most vicious of all animals, and life is a sequence of battles ending in victory or defeat.’ A long time later, with Trump now ensconced within the White Home, his household is monetizing these killer instincts in novel style.
It’s not that the Trumps are the primary to leverage the presidency for revenue. Jimmy Carter’s brother, Billy, promoted Billy Beer—and took cash from the Libyans. Richard Nixon had his brother Donald’s cellphone tapped amid issues about enterprise dealings. Hunter Biden obtained greater than $1 million for paintings of questionable high quality. However no first household has used the workplace to make as a lot cash as Donald Trump’s.
Crypto is the large driver, however extra funds have come from advising right-wing firms in America and partnering with cash-rich companies abroad, particularly within the Center East. Relations who by no means had vital fortunes of their very own—Eric, Don Jr., Barron and Melania—have amassed tens, then a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}. All informed, the household (together with the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) is now value an estimated $10 billion, having practically doubled its web value since final 12 months’s election.
Sure, based on Forbes, as soon as once more Donald and his household have made positive to beat Sleepy Joe and all of the Bidens by a monumental margin:
Donald and Melania Trump
NET WORTHS: $7.3 billion; $20 million+
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
NET WORTHS: $1 billion; $100 million
Eric Trump
NET WORTH: $750 million
Donald Trump Jr.
NET WORTH: $500 million
Barron Trump
NET WORTH: $150 million
I need to admit that through the course of my lifetime, whereas I had gotten used to presidents hiring pals and family members (Jack employed Bobby) and doing favors for his or her pals, I by no means anticipated them to leverage the superior energy of the Oval for billions.
However, sure, this time round, as The New York Instances tells us, there was a monstrously massive pot of gold awaiting them:
The Instances reviews:
The discharge of a compulsory monetary disclosure for 2025 exhibits that the Trump household’s holdings, significantly the president’s crypto companies, have been stunningly profitable. President Trump reaped a shocking windfall in his first 12 months again within the White Home, together with about $1.4 billion from his household’s cryptocurrency companies, a brand new submitting exhibits.
All informed, the president pulled in a minimum of $2.2 billion, a determine that features different elements of his huge holdings, resembling his actual property belongings. That compares to a minimal of $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, earlier than he returned to the presidency.
One in every of his greatest hauls in 2025 got here when an funding agency tied to the United Arab Emirates purchased practically half of the Trump household’s predominant crypto firm, World Liberty Monetary, a transaction that blurred the road between international coverage and non-public enterprise.
Mr. Trump additionally collected a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from gross sales of his $TRUMP memecoin and World Liberty’s sale of its personal digital tokens.
The outcomes, detailed in Mr. Trump’s necessary monetary disclosure report for 2025 and launched on Tuesday, pulled again the curtain on the president’s enterprise operations. His crypto ventures, the report exhibits, are actually a few of his most profitable enterprises, a exceptional turnabout for a person who as soon as slammed crypto as a haven for drug sellers and scammers.
The president’s funds, which had been one thing of a thriller, spotlight a battle in his crypto enterprise: Mr. Trump is a serious crypto business operator and its high policymaker. It’s hardly the one situation to come up from having a businessman function president. The president’s household enterprise, the Trump Group, has additionally capitalized on Mr. Trump’s reputation in sure elements of the world, licensing the Trump identify to properties in international locations which are essential to U.S. international coverage pursuits, together with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
These two offers alone generated greater than $14 million for Mr. Trump final 12 months, the submitting exhibits. The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark, although prior to now, Mr. Trump has famous that he’s exempt from federal battle of curiosity legal guidelines …
As soon as an outspoken skeptic of crypto, Mr. Trump embraced the business on the marketing campaign path in 2024 and began a sequence of ventures which have reaped huge sums. Along with his three sons, he helped create World Liberty, a crypto agency that sells a digital foreign money known as $WLFI. Final 12 months, World Liberty marketed its coin to buyers world wide, with 75 p.c of every sale allotted to a Trump enterprise entity, after the deduction of sure bills, guaranteeing the president would earn cash even when the worth of the token declined. The president obtained about $500 million from these gross sales final 12 months, based on the submitting, in contrast with $57 million in 2024.
World Liberty enriched the Trump household in different methods, as properly. In January 2025, days earlier than Mr. Trump’s inauguration, an funding agency tied to the federal government of the U.A.E. purchased a 49 p.c stake in World Liberty, elevating a slew of moral issues. Quickly the Emiratis struck a cope with the Trump administration — over the objections of some nationwide safety officers — for the export of useful pc chips that energy synthetic intelligence …
The opposite main supply of Mr. Trump’s crypto wealth was his memecoin, a novelty foreign money often known as $TRUMP that he began promoting days earlier than his inauguration. He earned greater than $600 million from gross sales of the coin, based on the submitting. The coin’s worth shot up briefly, earlier than plummeting, with its worth lately hovering round $1.67, a roughly 80 p.c drop from a 12 months in the past.
The Trump household additionally continued to tug in chunks of cash from actual property branding offers, the brand new report confirmed, together with some within the Center East that generated a minimal of $35 million in income final 12 months. Offers in Vietnam and Romania, in addition to older ones in India, Turkey and Indonesia, mixed to usher in a minimum of one other $20 million. And the president’s main actual property holdings in the US, like Trump Nationwide Golf Membership close to Miami, pulled in $122 million in income, whereas his Mar-a-Lago membership generated a complete of $77 million for him, the report stated.
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Donald Trump has been telling his followers from the very starting that he’s a winner and that, by coming alongside for the experience, they might be a winner too:
So was it actually the time for individuals who adored Trump and religiously adopted his recommendation to purchase $Trump? To rejoice every thing all of them stood for? Was it really the time for successful? And what precisely would you win by becoming a member of the particular “Trump Group”?
Precisely nothing, it turned out, until you have been one of many favored few and have been fortunate sufficient to be in on the bottom ground and shrewd sufficient to exit simply because the ignorant others rushed in. Until, first and foremost, you have been the United Arab Emirates and have been fairly keen to change a number of billion to get the ban reversed on the important pc chips you wanted to jumpstart AI and have been determined to import.
The New York Instances revealed how the Trumps exchanged influence for cash and what that course of value his admirers:
President Trump and his household reaped huge monetary rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for a whole lot of hundreds of buyers. A big chunk of the $2 billion haul President Trump took in final 12 months got here as a whole lot of hundreds of his followers and different buyers guess on a speculative cryptocurrency known as $TRUMP, hoping its worth would soar along with his return to the White Home.
However whereas Mr. Trump amassed an eye-popping $636 million from the cryptocurrency, often known as a memecoin, a lot of his followers who heeded his name to buy the coin got here out losers.
That final result, documented by an unbiased evaluation of trades and charges paid out from $TRUMP token gross sales, is drawing renewed consideration this week, as Mr. Trump for the primary time has detailed the extraordinary $1.4 billion in income he secured simply from the cryptocurrency business since he returned to the White Home.
The president’s 927-page monetary disclosure confirmed how Mr. Trump and his household reaped enormous monetary rewards in 2025 by means of his money-losing Trump Media enterprise and a separate cryptocurrency agency known as World Liberty Monetary, at the same time as routine buyers suffered huge losses.
He additionally amassed a whole lot of thousands and thousands by means of offers that concerned international governments or companies with agenda gadgets pending earlier than the Trump administration. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump dismissed questions on how a lot cash he had made after returning to the White Home, suggesting that he left private monetary choices associated to his investments to others …
The memecoin, which options a picture of Mr. Trump pumping his fist the best way he did after a 2024 assassination try, has no intrinsic worth itself. As an alternative, it was a guess on the aura round Mr. Trump and the concept the coin’s fortunes would rise along with his presidency.
I confess that I didn’t fairly get how memecoins labored, however CNN offered this useful analysis:
President Donald Trump launched his $TRUMP memecoin within the days main as much as his second inauguration … The enterprise that netted Trump a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} final 12 months, a part of total crypto features that topped $1 billion.
Most $TRUMP memecoin buyers weren’t so fortunate. $TRUMP was an immediate success, catapulting to a $15 billion market valuation, based on CoinMarketCap. It’s now value simply $400 million – a 97% implosion.
However the memecoin’s worth is meaningless to Trump. At the same time as his memecoin buyers misplaced cash, Trump reaped the rewards … Memecoins tend to surge – then tumble – in worth. That’s as a result of memecoins, in contrast to typical cryptocurrencies, haven’t any intrinsic worth. They’re terribly dangerous and speculative belongings that commerce on an change however lend themselves to scams known as ‘rug-pulls.’ In a rug-pull, memecoin creators launch a coin, look ahead to the worth to surge, and then money out their earnings.
$TRUMP and the related $MELANIA, marketed themselves as rug-pull-proof, making certain that the president and first girl couldn’t unlock any of their features suddenly – they needed to stagger gross sales over the course of three years.
However simply because a memecoin isn’t a rip-off doesn’t make it a wise funding. So why would folks purchase $TRUMP? Buyers in $TRUMP might have been attracted as a result of they needed to help the president. They could have performed it for the novelty or as a result of they believed it could be profitable.
However some big-pocketed buyers poured cash into the memecoin to achieve entry to Trump. Final Might, Trump hosted a black-tie dinner as a particular reward for the highest 220 holders of $TRUMP. Attendees contributed thousands and thousands of {dollars} in investments in his crypto token. The 25 greatest buyers gained entry to a small VIP reception with the president.
So the $TRUMP memecoin might have been a awful funding over the previous 12 months. However a few of its buyers nonetheless gained one thing. Trump definitely did … Pressed on whether or not he was conscious of his large crypto holdings, Trump informed CNBC, ‘No, however that was simply one thing I may learn about it, proper? I imply, there’s nothing unlawful. There’s nothing fallacious with it.’
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Donald Trump says, “There’s nothing unlawful,” and claims, “There’s nothing fallacious with it.” Sure, the laws that governs unethical conduct by these within the workplace of the chief—18 U.S. Code § 208 – Acts affecting a personal financial interest—sadly exempts the president.
However it’s crystal clear that in Donald Trump’s world, there may be nothing fallacious with taking benefit of people that imagine in you, of constructing plenty of cash on the expense of people that belief you. Bear in mind, he informed Forbes, “Life is a sequence of battles ending in victory or defeat.” And on this case, victory was accompanied by the defeat of his followers.
The New York Instances makes crystal clear who the winners have been and who the losers have been:
An up-to-date tally of Trump followers turned crypto buyers is in. And for them, the general outcomes are remarkably unhealthy. Practically 1 million individuals who purchased President Trump’s memecoin have misplaced cash by means of the top of June, based on a report by the cryptocurrency analytics agency Nansen. Their losses complete $3.81 billion … The chances have been all the time in his favor. Mr. Trump profited whether or not the worth of his memecoin went up or down. He collected returns at any time when anybody traded the tokens, as he repeatedly pushed his followers to do, utilizing his Reality Social account to advertise the coin.
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Claude, as common, urged me to be honest, and in that regard, the White Home and its spokespeople adamantly defend the president and his household. Newsweek noted that in an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen:
President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his household’s enterprise actions whereas arguing that the ability of the presidency has made it practically inconceivable for his kids to keep away from allegations of conflicts of curiosity … Trump stated he sympathizes along with his kids as a result of practically any enterprise resolution they make is scrutinized by means of the lens of his place within the White Home. ‘I really feel badly for my youngsters. Something they do … as a result of the presidency is so highly effective, so large, you may have a battle of curiosity. Nearly something they do, there’s a battle of curiosity,’ Trump stated partly … In the course of the interview, Trump rejected strategies that he’s utilizing the presidency to learn himself or his household financially. When Kernen requested how he responds to critics who accuse him of enriching his household by means of the White Home, Trump stated he has stepped away from managing his enterprise empire.
The Christian Science Monitor put it this way:
To President Trump’s detractors, it’s unprecedented self-enrichment and corruption, or on the very least a failure to observe norms upheld by previous occupants of the Oval Workplace. To defenders, together with his Cupboard, workers, and base supporters, the criticism is politically motivated, aimed toward punishing a president who they are saying is clear in his dealings and follows all relevant legal guidelines.
Whereas Mr. Trump’s first time period had its share of headlines about conflict-of-interest questions, the quantities of cash concerned have surged in Time period 2, notably in cryptocurrencies and different comparatively new enterprise pursuits for the Trump household. The voting public is extra targeted on points affecting their very own pocketbooks than on the president’s. However because the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, the stress over monetary ethics represents a check for American democracy underneath a president like no different.
‘The variety of entanglements, the quantity of cash, it’s staggering,’ says William Howell, dean of the Johns Hopkins College Faculty of Authorities and Coverage in Washington …
The administration rejects the view that the Trump presidency is rife with conflicts of curiosity, calling critics’ assaults unfair.
‘This is similar, drained narrative that Democrats have pushed in opposition to President Trump, his household, and his administration for a decade,’ says Anna Kelly, White Home principal deputy press secretary, in a written assertion to the Monitor. ‘President Trump solely acts in the very best pursuits of the American public – which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this workplace, regardless of years of lies and false accusations in opposition to him and his companies from the faux information media. There aren’t any conflicts of curiosity.’
But, for these of us with out political energy and missing affect, it seems that we’ve been huge losers because the Trump administration has put a serious emphasis on maximizing the wealth of Trump and firm. Unsurprisingly, the Democratic Home Judiciary Committee issued a report on November 24, 2025, highlighting what these skewed priorities have meant for the American public:
They wrote:
Since taking workplace, President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Congress have minimize funding to Medicaid and Medicare, thrown thousands and thousands of Individuals off their medical health insurance, refused to increase tax credit that assist make healthcare extra reasonably priced, and used a authorities shutdown as an excuse to illegally fireplace federal civil servants and withhold meals advantages for 42 million Americans, together with kids, people with disabilities, and veterans. On the similar time, President Trump and his household have been pocketing billions of {dollars} by means of corruption of unprecedented scale. This report shows how the President has leveraged his workplace to make himself a crypto billionaire and how he has prolonged broad safety to fraudsters, rip-off artists, and different on-line criminals—who, in flip, repay the President and his household with thousands and thousands of {dollars} in tribute. Maybe most troublingly, these crypto ventures enable anybody—together with international governments, organized crime teams, company pursuits, and criminals searching for pardons and individuals searching for authorities contracts, appointments, or different presidential favors—to secretly place enormous sums of cash straight into the President’s pockets.
Now, it’s one factor to invest about attainable improprieties and fairly one other to current incriminating proof. The Democrats supplied information introduced by Fortune that recommended {that a} noticeable profit accrued to those that generously contributed to the Trump Inaugural Committee:
These days, there appears to be a wholesale rush to extract as a lot cash as attainable—for him, his household, and these nonetheless in his favor. Maybe as his well being fails, or the percentages enhance that MAGA may not be capable to steal the midterms, handle a coup, or enchantment the twenty second Modification.
And so, a method or one other, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and hardcore MAGA have determined to mount an unrelenting, over-the-top marketing campaign to distract as many citizens as attainable from the rising outrage over the Trump household’s colossally profitable greed.
They appear to be hoping that exhuming the ghost of Sen. Joe McCarthy and waging a 2026 model of the Twenties Purple Scare would possibly do the trick. I understand how properly “there’s a Communist right here, there’s a Communist there, there’s a Communist in all places you look” marketing campaign labored within the Nineteen Fifties. See my guide about Junius Scales, “A Red Family,” the one American imprisoned underneath the membership clause of the Smith Act, imprisoned for being a member of the U.S. Communist Get together. Or watch previous episodes of the black-and-white tv present “I Led Three Lives.”
Right here is how Reuters talks in regards to the new marketing campaign:
Reuters reviews:
Focus teams present message fires up Trump’s base. Trump invoked communism 81 occasions in two weeks. Republicans see opening to shift focus from residing prices … U.S. President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his warnings a couple of communist takeover of the Democratic Get together forward of November’s midterm elections as his political workforce assessments whether or not the message can resonate past his core supporters.
Preliminary findings from his workforce’s focus teams recommend the message strongly energizes Trump’s base and may enhance turnout amongst rare Republican voters, based on two folks accustomed to the matter. Nevertheless it seems much less efficient with independents — typically decisive in carefully fought contests — and youthful voters who didn’t dwell by means of the Chilly Warfare.
The success of democratic socialists and different progressive candidates in Democratic primaries in Colorado, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere has given Trump and his fellow Republicans a contemporary line of assault: portraying Democrats as excessive moderately than defending Trump’s report on tackling the excessive value of residing.
A Reuters evaluation of Trump’s public feedback from June 23 by means of July 6 — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates received their get together’s primaries in New York — discovered he invoked communism 81 occasions, together with calling a number of the victorious candidates ‘hardcore, godless communists.’
In the meantime, his arms now want make-up. He can’t assist however nod off earlier than the cameras. His legs often wobble, and it has clearly develop into a little bit of a chore to climb the steps to his new Qatari jet. He not appears terribly involved about pretending he’s a Republican and not an authoritarian. He has totally botched his utterly pointless warfare in opposition to Iran and but continues to anger our worldwide pals by threatening to invade our ally, Greenland.
So sure, as costs proceed to soar, he has now determined to distract us from his unadulterated, shameless greed with unimaginable gall. Railing in opposition to communism at a time when nobody in his/her proper thoughts would select to be an American communist. And when he, greater than anybody I do know, is 100 occasions nearer to real-life communist despots like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. As a result of just about everybody yow will discover who’s watching Russia and China and North Korea is horrified by what the communists have performed to communism. Poor Karl Marx is writhing in his grave.
Most lately, regardless of the barrage of FOX information and White Home propaganda, it has develop into crystal clear that the MAGA lots rapidly deserted Donald Trump’s totally embarrassing Nice American State Honest, strolling out on his speech, unimpressed along with his cardboard mannequin of the Arc De Trump and the chintzy reveals of half of the states, with their melting ice cream and embarrassing performers.
Then, as the vacation grew nearer—sure, his manufactured 250 America—even the president not had the vitality or the guile and even the slightest curiosity to faux any longer to be chatting with, not to mention representing, us all. After which, on July 3 at Mount Rushmore, in what he and Stephen Miller pretended was a recognition of the founding of American democracy, the masks was utterly gone. They couldn’t assist themselves, providing a Sen. Joseph McCarthy-inspired, hate-filled, clumsy resurrection of their phony screed, God Loves America, America Loves God, aside from the Democrats/Reds.
However don’t take my phrase for it. Read some of it for yourself:
At 250 years, America is the oldest republic on Earth. We’re the freest folks on Earth. We now have essentially the most righteous and enduring structure on Earth. We’re the strongest and strongest nation on Earth. And by the grace of God, the US of America is essentially the most profitable, most completed, most distinctive nation ever to exist in human historical past. And it’s nice to be your President. It’s nice. Your President. It’s nice …
All of it got here collectively for the miracle of July 4th, 1776. That was an enormous 12 months. 250 years in the past, tomorrow. What an enormous day that’s. I contemplate this an enormous day as a result of I’m with you. I like that too. And by the best way, we received large right here. We received actually large. Every and each time …
For generations, it was understood that the core patriotic obligation of each American was to cross this tradition on to our kids and to protect the nation for hundreds of years and centuries to come back.
However in recent times, there’s been an plain try to alter this distinctive character, to beat the American spirit out of us, alienate us from our historical past, and to make it inconceivable to even reply the query, what does it imply to be an American? …
In America, we don’t want anybody’s permission to say what we expect and to dwell as we please, to worship as we select, or to maintain and bear arms. You already know that. And for nearly six years throughout my presidency, I’ve saved virtually single-handedly, however working with John and another nice folks. We’ve saved your Second Modification, and I’ll proceed to take action, I promise. Our rights listed here are given to us by the God who made us and these rights shall not be infringed.
Individuals imagine in self-reliance. We have a look at success with envy not. And I say that some individuals are envious and some individuals are not. We’re not. However with admiration and we earn it and we’ll all the time earn it and we’ll all the time respect it.
We’re an unbelievable, good, type and beneficiant folks, all the time prepared to assist a good friend or a neighbor in want. Nobody has ever given extra to charity, ended extra starvation, cured extra illness, or performed extra to uplift humanity than Individuals, and no nation ever will be capable to match it. Thanks. So true …
You wouldn’t have to be born right here, however you do have to like what we’ve constructed. You need to love our nation. There has by no means been something like us wherever on Earth, and we’re not going to let anybody take that away …
But, as we method this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identification underneath a renewed assault. A era after we fought and received the Chilly Warfare in opposition to the menace of communism, there may be now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, together with from newcomers to our nation who embrace concepts completely against our lifestyle and our nice success.
These are usually not mere political disagreements like variations over taxes or laws. Communism is a mortal menace to American liberty. It’s the biggest menace to our nation, together with World Warfare I, World Warfare II, Pearl Harbor, and even 11th of September. We’re not going to let this occur to us. Consider me, we’re not letting it occur.
As a result of communism is the enemy of free folks in all places, in all places on the earth. By no means works. It’s the enemy of the Structure. Above all, it’s the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It’s the enemy certainly.
Even whereas the radicals and extremists assault our unbelievable historical past at each flip, they’re silent on the depressing historical past of communism itself as a result of it by no means labored. Hundreds of years, for those who have a look at it, underneath completely different names, underneath considerably completely different ideologies and methods, that system has led to extra dying and destruction than any system ever tried. It killed 100 million folks simply within the final century alone.
Communism is the precise reverse of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s dying, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that something is justified to result in inhuman visions and to actually suggest what’s good. They don’t need good. They don’t love God, and they don’t need God. They don’t love faith and they don’t need faith and they received’t have it. However we won’t allow them to win. They haven’t any likelihood in opposition to us.
Gall occasions 100. Invoking God once more and once more when he has persistently betrayed the religion. He’s a serial cheater who has betrayed each spouse he has vowed to honor and respect. He’s a convicted sexual abuser. He’s a liar extraordinaire—such an completed liar that The Washington Publish ran out area massive sufficient to protect his lies and deserted their Pinocchio undertaking.
I humbly recommend that Donald Trump avail himself of DuckDuckGo and ask, “What does the Bible say about greed?” After which seek the advice of 1 Timothy 6:
However those that need to be wealthy fall into temptation, right into a snare, into many mindless and dangerous needs that plunge folks into smash and destruction. For the love of cash is a root of all types of evils. It’s by means of this craving that some have wandered away from the religion and pierced themselves with many pangs.
And for these of you extra snug today with AI than the Previous Testomony, right here is extra from Claude:
This isn’t Gekko-style ideological greed, it’s pre-ideological — a return to older assumptions about energy and plunder that the final two centuries of democratic norms had largely suppressed.
That sounds proper to me. Power and plunder. Greed and gall.
