Yesterday morning, the President of the United States sent his entire traveling press corps away, cutting off all access for the day and ensuring he would face no cameras and answer no questions. Just before that, he had posted a photo of himself standing side by side with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, praising the dictator as a friend he gets along with “GREAT.” Then, from his private golf club in Bedminster, he spent his Saturday posting AI-generated images of himself with George Washington, positioning himself as an equal. But Washington is the opposite of everything Trump pretends to be. He could have been king and chose not to be. He walked away from power because he believed no one man should hold it too long. Trump said this in January: “we shouldn’t even have an election,” and already tried once to overturn one and keep himself in power by force.
While Trump posts images aligning himself with the founders, the people closest to him are doing something far more dangerous, something built to outlive him. They are buying the country. Friday night, his own administration granted preliminary approval for the Trump family’s crypto venture to become a federally chartered bank, a venture that has already earned them more than $1.6 billion, is 49 percent owned by an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and is run by the son of Trump’s own Middle East envoy. Josh Kushner, brother of Jared, is buying the Lakers. Jeff Bezos just bought into Liverpool FC. Larry Ellison’s son is acquiring Warner Bros, which would put CBS News, CNN, and HBO under one family that already installed a handpicked editor at CBS. Sports and news are where millions of people from different backgrounds still come together, and they are being commandeered one deal at a time.
Here is what they forget. The model only works if the money keeps flowing up to them, and we are the ones who decide whether it does. Every dollar we spend is a choice about which companies and which future we fund, and being deliberate about where our money goes is one of the most powerful tools we have. The urgency of everything they are building tells us something important: they are moving this fast because they know they are losing. CNN reported yesterday that Trump’s own advisers privately admit their chances of holding Congress are “dwindling,” that his approval is scraping new lows, and that even Trump himself keeps asking, “Why am I doing this? I want to be doing other things.” They are not buying up the country because they expect to win in November. They are buying it as an insurance policy against losing. They can start a bank, buy our sports teams, and influence the news. But they can never buy us.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 8-15-2026.
This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
Sources:
https://us.cnn.com/2026/08/15/politics/trump-midterms-campaign-strategy
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/world-liberty-trump-occ-bank-charter-stablecoin.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-over-1-billion-on-crypto-ventures-financial-disclosures/
https://thehill.com/business/6031421-trump-family-crypto-firm-bank-charter/
