David Kirkpatrick
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Apple News Today · Inside the revelations from Trump’s $2 billion financial disclosure · 25 Jul 2026
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There's been no president doing it at this scale.
There's no one even close to this amount of money.
Well, let's break this down a little bit.
There's a couple of categories of why we care about presidential profiteering.
The first category, the thing that really springs to mind is the pay for play, buying influence, right?
If a president or other public official is taking a personal payment to provide some public favor, that's corruption.
That's really bad.
That's the worst thing.
Most of the profiteering that Trump and his family have done off of the presidency doesn't look exactly like that.
It looks more like something else that makes people feel kind of queasy, which is generally using the office of the presidency for personal gain.
You know, selling a meme coin that you can sell because you're the president and the money goes into your own pocket.
It's not like everybody who bought a meme coin from Trump got a favor from the US government.
So most of the money that Trump has made falls into that second category of unseemly because he's profiting off of this thing that ought to be a property of the public, the White House.
A little bit falls into the, is he selling favors category?
And that's really hard to prove.
It's very rare that someone turns up with a smoking gun
You know, a tape recording where a public official says, yes, I will.
I will do this public act with my public office for your private payment.
That's right.
It might just mean that there's a greater sense of affinity and communication happens more smoothly and the presidential decision-making changes in ways that even the president is unaware of.
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