Eric Lipton

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759 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5 Aug

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Fresh Air · How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

So the Trump administration is pouring massive amounts of federal funds to incentivize more nuclear power being built both in the United States and internationally.

We are also pushing our allies to buy the Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear power plant design and to build it in Eastern Europe and to build it potentially in the Middle East.

So we are now a merchant of nuclear power globally because of President Trump and Howard Lotnick and the Department of Energy.

But again, this pattern that we've seen elsewhere is what's happening at the same time as the United States is pouring tens of billions of dollars behind this sector.

The President Trump and his sons and the Lutnick family are also – investors are making fees on the same sector.

Trump media, which the president is one of the largest shareholders of, which owns True Social where he posts all of his social media.

Suddenly, oddly, late last year, they announced that they are moving into the nuclear power sector.

I mean, it was a very weird, you know, social media company is going to become a nuclear power company.

So they announced that they're going to merge with a nuclear fission company, which is another part of the nuclear sector that the federal government is helping try to boost.

So that merger still has not happened, but the president himself could be a financially benefiting company.

from the push to build more nuclear power because Trump Media is going to become a nuclear power company itself.

And the Trump sons are also, you know, stakeholders in that company.

Separately, the Trump sons have bought into another company that is trying to help build a nuclear power plant complex in Texas.

And then again, the Lutnik kids are helping a lot of these nuclear startups raise capital in the private sector market.

So it's a pattern that we've seen in cryptocurrency and, you know, in critical metals and in nuclear power and the defense sector.

It's this intertwining of public policy actions and business deals that involve the families.

The business deals are largely being approved by the Export-Import Bank, and Howard Lutnick is on the board of the Export-Import Bank.

And so are other cabinet members.

And so just really important to reiterate that both the Lutnick family, the Trump family, I mean, they don't see this as a conflict of interest.

The families see themselves as patriots that are helping build important economic sectors in the United States.

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