At 2:31 in the afternoon, Donald J. Trump exited Air Force One onto the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Florida, and slowly made his way toward the press pool waiting nearby to ask him questions. As the president began to speak, the camera caught the growing exhaustion and confusion we have been seeing more frequently in recent months. As he hurried through questions after attending a crypto event at Mar-a-Lago for those who invested in his $TRUMP meme coin, which he has personally made millions of dollars from, he continued to struggle to justify not sending negotiators to Iran talks because it's "too expensive," adding that he's "a very cost-conscious person."
Glad you are all safe and you had a night out at least.
I am bemused by the ability for Trump to cash in on being president, I thought that this was illegal, and yet I hear he has also had bibles printed to sell at his “Ralies”for $30 a piece ?
He has to be the most venal being on the planet along with his grasping family. When does enough mean enough - do they own a bank as well for all this ill gotten coin ?
Excellent, Heather, to illuminate T's vulgar profiteering. I suspect he believes that he may be impeached or removed from office, but they can't take away the money he is making for himself an his disgusting family, who are standing back in the shadows this second administration, privately profiteering and willing to let their father do the visible corruption and take any rap. What a sordid group of people. Good work, and thanks as ever.
You forget that he is as likely as anyone to be sued for his reckless behavior! NO one is above the law and when he dies he can't take it with him. There's not going to be monuments to the worst president e to ever!
We the people are being scammed royally. Even the so called gunshot was planned IMO; to distract us from the graft and corrupt schemes that make him & family obnoxiously wealthy.
You get us details on so many different aspects of the mess of this government that we don’t see elsewhere which is why I find your writing so impressive and important. While the administration tries to drown us in one heinous act after another, you keep us informed about what might otherwise slip through the cracks. And I am sick and tired of having my tax dollars treated like his personal piggy bank.
You wrote: "The coin is trading around $2.98 today, down 96% from its $75 all-time high in January 2025. "
It only seems fair that we talk about the drop using TrumpMath. I am still learning how to do it, so I might not have it right but that is a TrumpMath decrease of 2400%
Follow the money, always follow the money. Thank you for the succinct narrative. The people who are witnessing these transgressions, large and small will remember.
Heather, this is one of your most informative pieces.Thank you.
It is also important to note that trump, his family, the Epstein Class, KKKabinet, RepubliKKKans and Benedict Fetterman, and all the wealthy elites are profiteering off ALL this also through stock market manipulation, Polymarket, government contracts with their family owned and tech. bros. weapons and A.I. companies here and abroad, other “real estate” ventures and withKushner’s firm being paid millions, extortion, money laundering, oil theft money, etc., in his account in Qatar along with the “BORED of Peace” dues and including their members profiteering as well.
There are also all the corrupt lawyers, most of SCOTUS, police, placed loyalists and the wealthy MAWA elite running the overpaid by our government Concentration Camps, pay-per-head mass deportations to countries they are not even from, murder, or disappearing people. A whole sycophantic and complicit system of Nazi fascist Oligarchs and kleptocratic Eugenics sadistic and serial pedophiles, rapists, sex traffickers working from the inside out to their goals of Money, Power, Control, and MAWA-Make AmeriKKKa White (“christian”) Again with the aid of their useful idiots, ICE Gestapo/J-6’ers “Patriots” and the MAGA KKKult through any and ALL means possible.
THIS SHOULD SCARE EVERYONE ACROSS THE GLOBE, but especially here in the USA…trump, his family, and Epstein Class Nazi fascist MAWA Eugenics are working from the inside of our government to dismantle it all and turn into their own MAWA, Project 2025-26, and Heritage Foundation machine and takeover.
Elon Musk and DOGE stole our private information, Peter Thiel and David Karp of Palantir, and Elon along and other tech. bros. are planning a full takeover both Nationally and beyond with various contracts and A.I. and Data centers abroad.
WE the PEOPLE NEED to do Something and cause some “Good Trouble” before it is too late…November is Now.
Thank you, Ms. Reese. I still maintain we must pound, pound, pound on Congress. I advocate for impeachment and removal. I would settle for a few maga caucus members standing up and speaking out to prove they are physically and morally alive.
Once again I’m thanking u Heather for allowing me to b part of what u r doing and the resistance that is taking place. As a reader and commentator, I sometimes feel inadequate compared to u and other writers, in this fight for democracy. But u added me and all ur readers to the cause, and now I feel part of it. It’s not an easy thing, not knowing how to help and knowing all the problems. It can get us down…way down. But my head popped up with ur article and I felt that I’m part of the fight. Nice job woman! Thanks!
The NYT's article on the corruption is just another nail in the coffin for maybe them, but us taxpayers as well. I read the "The Vory", Russia's Super Mafia about 8 or 9 years ago on my Kindal account, but last week I ordered a hard copy, because it lays out exactly what we are witnessing and I need a refresher read so I can start writing about the parallels of this administration, and there are many. This country is being run by the Trump mob, plain and simple. Too bad the WHCD wasn't held in Ford's Theater last night.
In con man language it’s called a “ mark” the target for the scam..the con…the grift…WE the American people have been his “mark” from Day One and we continue to be. We need to SHUT Off THE VALVE…stop being the chumps..stop being taken to the cleaners..STOP HIM and his grifting money grubbing family …JUST SAY NO.
I love this post and will send it around to friends as mandatory reading. The level of corruption is off the scale as is the level of indifference on the part of Congress. What would a real DOJ do? All of it is mind boggling.
Your writing is fabulous for such disgusting events we are living thru. Thankyou
Glad you are all safe and you had a night out at least.
I am bemused by the ability for Trump to cash in on being president, I thought that this was illegal, and yet I hear he has also had bibles printed to sell at his “Ralies”for $30 a piece ?
He has to be the most venal being on the planet along with his grasping family. When does enough mean enough - do they own a bank as well for all this ill gotten coin ?
Excellent, Heather, to illuminate T's vulgar profiteering. I suspect he believes that he may be impeached or removed from office, but they can't take away the money he is making for himself an his disgusting family, who are standing back in the shadows this second administration, privately profiteering and willing to let their father do the visible corruption and take any rap. What a sordid group of people. Good work, and thanks as ever.
You forget that he is as likely as anyone to be sued for his reckless behavior! NO one is above the law and when he dies he can't take it with him. There's not going to be monuments to the worst president e to ever!
We the people are being scammed royally. Even the so called gunshot was planned IMO; to distract us from the graft and corrupt schemes that make him & family obnoxiously wealthy.
You get us details on so many different aspects of the mess of this government that we don’t see elsewhere which is why I find your writing so impressive and important. While the administration tries to drown us in one heinous act after another, you keep us informed about what might otherwise slip through the cracks. And I am sick and tired of having my tax dollars treated like his personal piggy bank.
Exactly how I (and many others) feel!!!
You wrote: "The coin is trading around $2.98 today, down 96% from its $75 all-time high in January 2025. "
It only seems fair that we talk about the drop using TrumpMath. I am still learning how to do it, so I might not have it right but that is a TrumpMath decrease of 2400%
Follow the money, always follow the money. Thank you for the succinct narrative. The people who are witnessing these transgressions, large and small will remember.
I could not think of this many ways to screw the working class if I had 3 lifetimes to develop these schemes. The corruption here is astounding.
it's never ending. thank you for the clarity
Heather, this is one of your most informative pieces.Thank you.
It is also important to note that trump, his family, the Epstein Class, KKKabinet, RepubliKKKans and Benedict Fetterman, and all the wealthy elites are profiteering off ALL this also through stock market manipulation, Polymarket, government contracts with their family owned and tech. bros. weapons and A.I. companies here and abroad, other “real estate” ventures and withKushner’s firm being paid millions, extortion, money laundering, oil theft money, etc., in his account in Qatar along with the “BORED of Peace” dues and including their members profiteering as well.
There are also all the corrupt lawyers, most of SCOTUS, police, placed loyalists and the wealthy MAWA elite running the overpaid by our government Concentration Camps, pay-per-head mass deportations to countries they are not even from, murder, or disappearing people. A whole sycophantic and complicit system of Nazi fascist Oligarchs and kleptocratic Eugenics sadistic and serial pedophiles, rapists, sex traffickers working from the inside out to their goals of Money, Power, Control, and MAWA-Make AmeriKKKa White (“christian”) Again with the aid of their useful idiots, ICE Gestapo/J-6’ers “Patriots” and the MAGA KKKult through any and ALL means possible.
THIS SHOULD SCARE EVERYONE ACROSS THE GLOBE, but especially here in the USA…trump, his family, and Epstein Class Nazi fascist MAWA Eugenics are working from the inside of our government to dismantle it all and turn into their own MAWA, Project 2025-26, and Heritage Foundation machine and takeover.
Elon Musk and DOGE stole our private information, Peter Thiel and David Karp of Palantir, and Elon along and other tech. bros. are planning a full takeover both Nationally and beyond with various contracts and A.I. and Data centers abroad.
WE the PEOPLE NEED to do Something and cause some “Good Trouble” before it is too late…November is Now.
UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL.❤️🩹
THIS IS A MUST READ by LANCE ROSEN…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/they-are-planning-a-nationwide-j?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps
Thank you, Ms. Reese. I still maintain we must pound, pound, pound on Congress. I advocate for impeachment and removal. I would settle for a few maga caucus members standing up and speaking out to prove they are physically and morally alive.
Once again I’m thanking u Heather for allowing me to b part of what u r doing and the resistance that is taking place. As a reader and commentator, I sometimes feel inadequate compared to u and other writers, in this fight for democracy. But u added me and all ur readers to the cause, and now I feel part of it. It’s not an easy thing, not knowing how to help and knowing all the problems. It can get us down…way down. But my head popped up with ur article and I felt that I’m part of the fight. Nice job woman! Thanks!
The NYT's article on the corruption is just another nail in the coffin for maybe them, but us taxpayers as well. I read the "The Vory", Russia's Super Mafia about 8 or 9 years ago on my Kindal account, but last week I ordered a hard copy, because it lays out exactly what we are witnessing and I need a refresher read so I can start writing about the parallels of this administration, and there are many. This country is being run by the Trump mob, plain and simple. Too bad the WHCD wasn't held in Ford's Theater last night.
In con man language it’s called a “ mark” the target for the scam..the con…the grift…WE the American people have been his “mark” from Day One and we continue to be. We need to SHUT Off THE VALVE…stop being the chumps..stop being taken to the cleaners..STOP HIM and his grifting money grubbing family …JUST SAY NO.
I love this post and will send it around to friends as mandatory reading. The level of corruption is off the scale as is the level of indifference on the part of Congress. What would a real DOJ do? All of it is mind boggling.
Down with Pres. Stupido - vote blue no matter who!