Southerner-Lower AL, on the Gulf of Mexico, Never Trump, former Republican, WDE “78”, OMS(Old Man Syndrome) sufferer, Retweets fascinations/not endorsements!
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The Christian right has come to resemble Trump and his hatred….well said here. All this straight from Trump’s mouth apple.news/Aei6scAc1QAKTpW-Y…
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Jake in LA retweeted
I have a history PhD from Oxford and try to support all of my historical claims with strong evidence, particularly when regarding the president of the United States.
But based on a comprehensive review of 250 years of American history, it is simply irrefutable that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in U.S. history when it comes to using the office to enrich himself and his family.
Here are the facts, and why there isn’t even a close second.
Trump’s own federal financial disclosure reported more than $1.4 billion in 2025 income from family crypto ventures, including about $635 million from his meme coin and nearly $800 million from World Liberty Financial. Reuters separately estimated that the family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune from crypto ventures after Trump returned to the White House.
The clearest example of how Trump used the office came in May 2025. The 220 biggest holders of his meme coin were invited to dine with the sitting president at his private golf club. The coin jumped more than 60 percent when the dinner was announced. To get a seat at the table, you had to buy and hold a product that made the president money. Trump turned access to the presidency into a sales pitch.
The foreign dealings raise an even more serious question. Four days before Trump took office, an investment vehicle backed by a UAE national security official agreed to pay $500 million for nearly half of World Liberty Financial. The Wall Street Journal reported that $187 million of the initial payment was directed to Trump family entities.
Trump is clearly not the first United States president to be guilty of corruption, but the size and scale of his malfeasance put him in a league of his own.
Under Ulysses S. Grant, whiskey distillers and federal officials pocketed money by cheating the government out of liquor taxes. Under Warren Harding, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves. Richard Nixon had a personal tax scandal, but his defining abuse of presidential power was the Watergate cover-up, an effort to protect his hold on office. LBJ’s political connections helped turn a small Texas radio station into a family broadcasting empire.
By September 2025, less than eight months into Donald Trump’s second term, he and his family were roughly $5 billion richer than they had been around the 2024 election, according to Forbes. In comparison, a reasonable estimate is that all 44 other U.S. presidents combined added about $250 million to their wealth while in office, adjusted to today’s dollars. That puts the Trump family’s gain at about 20 times the estimated combined total for all other presidents over the course of two and half centuries.
The election results were, at least in part, a clear repudiation of this staggering and historically unprecedented corruption. Congress now has a mandate to investigate, follow the money, pursue the recovery of all ill-gotten gains, and enact enforceable safeguards so that no president can ever again use the White House as a vehicle for personal enrichment.
Jake in LA retweeted
Hot take: all this talk about the rise of the religious left in politics is overblown. 🧵
1) It's always been there, c. 1900, just waning.
2) Hamilton, Talarico, etc. are part of a blue wave generally, not the revival of mainline Christianity as a whole, which is declining
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Jake in LA retweeted
While pundits do the same-old tired debate of whether Tuesday’s election results mean Democrats should be more progressive or more moderate, they’re missing the whole damn point.
I just won my swing district by 26 points. This was an election about POWER.
Let me explain. 🧵:
The silence of the Republicans is telling. Trump has been the most wicked, evil and rotten person to ever serve as potus and it can’t be denied. Hopefully even more of this will be made public as the GOP strangles itself
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There is no reason to listen to any serving Trump House or Senate members. Please, let us ignore their voices and move on to what can be done to help Americans! Do the truthful and just thing for the nation.
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Jake in LA retweeted
1 Although our country chose some terrific candidates to form a new government in January, evisceration of the Republicans Tuesday was more a statement that we’re not stupid, we no longer believe anything Trump says, our country was not becoming great - far from it - and that
This!
It's fascinating to me how few on the political Right are firmly in reality about what just transpired. Ted Cruz gets it. MTG gets it. Tucker Carlson gets it. But all these RW influencers here on X are in their own self-generated purgatory of disbelief. Like they think it's going to go back to what it was. Cruz and Carlson know - it won't.
This was a rebuke of Trump - done WITH animus. The electorate was rebuking HIM, on a national level. They were doing it with disdain.
Nobody wants to tell him this to his face and even Cruz and Carlson don't want to put it out there overtly - yet.
But trust me - it's coming. Because it was the lying. And the grifting. And the mocking. And Trump can't do anything else. He was saying "affordability is a hoax" to their face out loud, and the electorate responded with "f*ck off." He was saying "we beat inflation" and "we won the war" and "we're making boatloads of money" - to their faces, out loud, and the electorate responded: "Are you f*cking kidding!? Are you mocking us!?"
Some Senator told the electorate, clamoring over the high price of beef, to "find another protein," Marie Antionette-style. And the electorate responded that they'll just find another Senator.
Trump is more than a lame duck. He's lame, period. He's toxic. He's toast. He's shot.
If the GOP doesn't want to be taken down for good, they know what to do. And if they want to stay craven and bury their heads like ostriches at the risk of being taken down for good, Trump will accommodate them.
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Jake in LA retweeted
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan.
I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all.
He is a danger to the entire world.
He must be impeached.
Jake in LA retweeted
"I have a duty as a Vietnam vet, as a survivor, to my buddies buried there, to honor their sacrifice and protect their memory from this vainglorious monument."
- A Vietnam veteran suing President Trump over the proposed arch. @cspan (2026)
Jake in LA retweeted
The Marco Rubio resignation rumors are predictable. He is a wormy guy like Vance. He is going to wash the Trump stink off himself. Too late, dude. Much too late. You never should have tethered yourself to a man you rightly condemned as unfit in 2016.
Jake in LA retweeted
2 years of heavy damage Marco. We have all the receipts. America is fed up with your like.
Jake in LA retweeted
Let me get this straight.
Marco Rubio's claim to fame will be nearly two years as Secretary of State, during which America's standing around the world has been trashed, another Middle East war was launched with no clear end in sight, and the wars he and his boss PROMISED to end on Day One remain unresolved.
The WORST Secretary of State serving the WORST President in American history.
And after Tuesday's electoral BLOODBATH, they can't even pretend the American people are impressed.
What a legacy.
Marco Rubio expected to step down and launch bid to be next US president ift.tt/aZG8swE
Please just go away. You could have told the nation the truth about Trump but you chicken out.
My thoughts on the Midterm Results:
My heart breaks for our country. Despite the best efforts by so many to support Republican candidates and call conservatives back to our principles, our Republican team suffered a historic defeat.
This midterm election wasn’t a rout, it was a reckoning. The American people have rejected our party’s shift toward economic populism, and our majorities in Congress and state legislatures and governorships across the country paid the price.
But like most people of faith, I’m an eternal optimist. I know that with God’s help, we can save our movement—and our country—again. We can return the Republican Party to the timeless principles that have led to our greatest successes and, more important, have made America strong, prosperous and free.
The conservative comeback starts today. Let’s get to work. 🇺🇸
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