Mehdi Hassan

I don't get bored.

And then on Sunday, he said, I'm bored.

You say he cares only about his ego.

He does also care about money.

And, you know, while there are genuine worries for the Republicans that Trump will tank in the midterms because of this war, the war has been good for business.

His business, not American business.

Well, how much money is it estimated that Trump has made from being in power?

And how much has he pushed the boundaries and broken the rules of what a president can and can't do?

So last year Forbes magazine said it was his quote most lucrative year ever.

The irony of Donald Trump is that he always claimed to be a billionaire when he wasn't.

He was a fake billionaire.

And by becoming a politician he actually became a real billionaire by getting into crypto in particular.

In the middle of the election campaign in 2024 he and his family and the Witkoff set up this World Liberty Financial which is a crypto company.

in the middle of an election campaign.

The Trump family sets up this crypto business before foreign governments couldn't just give money, like in a briefcase, to a presidential candidate or to a sitting president.

Now you can just put money straight into his crypto company.

It's what the Pakistani government have done.

It's what the Emiratis, on the eve of his inauguration, January 2025, an Emirati prince, a national security advisor for the Emirati government, took a half a billion dollar, 49% stake in World Liberty Financial.

$187 million of that $500 million went straight into Trump family bank accounts.

months later months later months later coincidentally completely coincidentally the Trump administration lifted a restriction on selling AI chips to the Emiratis it is not allowed to answer your question a president and for any official in government cannot take a gift cannot take a public office or title from a foreign government Donald Trump took half a billion dollars from the Emiratis he took a 400 million dollar plane from the Qataris he hosts the Saudi sponsored live golf tournament at his golf courses and so where are the consequences