The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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We've always known that Vance is a buffoon - this just provides additional proof

JD Vance branded 'buffoon' for dismissing Trump family financial claims​

Vice President JD Vance is facing a wave of online ridicule after brushing off claims that Donald Trump and his family have cashed in on the presidency. In an interview with 2WAY’s Mark Halperin, Vance called the idea “laughable” and argued the Trumps were already extremely wealthy before politics came into the picture. He added that the family had paid a heavy financial and personal price for Trump’s time in office.

The comments landed awkwardly given Forbes’ latest numbers. The magazine puts Trump’s net worth at around $7 billion, roughly $2.7 billion more than when he won the 2024 election. In 2025 his fortune hit a record $7.3 billion, well above the previous peak of $4.5 billion in 2015.

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"Trump family financial claims" #4,201

Perhaps less so now, but I've long suspected DJT's "wealth" was a Potemkin village of leveraged baloney.

Mayor Rudy Giuliani said of Trump:
"The man's a genius."

Late night TV comedy host Stephen Colbert replied:
"Yes. Only a genius could lose a $Billion $dollars running a casino."

Trump is a narcissistic self-impressed bumbling incompetent.

Whether or not President Trump's personal $wealth acquired while in presidential office violates the Constitution's emoluments clause is a matter for our Constitutional scholars to resolve.
At very least, there is the appearance, if not the fact of impropriety.


Potemkin village
n.
Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: "the Potemkin village of this country's borrowed prosperity" (Lewis H. Lapham).
[After Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who is said to have had elaborate fake villages constructed for Catherine the Great's tours of Ukraine and Crimea.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

 

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Not the reason it exists but the reason we're seeing so many cases (and fatalities)

 

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Justice Department IG refuses to investigate botched Reflecting Pool case after Trump’s false vandalism claims​

Attorneys for David Hearn have asked the inspector general’s office to reconsider, citing “numerous potential crimes” in DOJ’s handling of the case.
Lawyers for former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, left, including Norm Eisen, right, allege prosecutors had evidence in their possession that Hearn did not cause “any harm or monetary loss” by touching the pool. Mark Schiefelbein / AP

Oct. 21, 2026, 11:43 AM GMT-5 By Ryan J. Reilly and Dareh Gregorian
The Justice Department’s inspector general is refusing to investigate what went wrong with the botched criminal case against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn over damage at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, including whether there was any criminality on prosecutors’ parts, Hearn’s legal team said.
In a letter Wednesday to Inspector General Don R. Berthiaume, Hearn’s attorneys asked his office to reconsider its decision because of evidence of “numerous potential criminal violations — possible crimes committed solely by DOJ personnel, as well as crimes committed jointly by DOJ” employees and personnel from the Department of Interior.

Trump had blamed the damage at the pool on Hearn and other “vandals.” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s office moved to dismiss the case at the end of July, saying it had found the damage was “the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings.”
A judge later tossed the case and barred the government from trying to charge Hearn again.

Justice Department IG refuses to investigate botched Reflecting Pool case after Trump’s false vandalism claims

Attorneys for David Hearn have asked the inspector general’s office to reconsider, citing “numerous potential crimes” in DOJ’s handling of the case.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Trump supporters confronted with painful gas prices deliver striking response: ‘I'll take that any day’​

Voters at the North Carolina event backed the president's stance that the ongoing war with Iran is a 'small price to pay'​

By Ireland Owens , Charles Creitz , Kiera McDonald Fox News Published October 21, 2026 2:18pm EDT

Trump supporters confronted with painful gas prices deliver striking response: ‘I'll take that any day’

Trump rally attendees in North Carolina say rising gas prices are worth it if the Iran war stops a nuclear weapon from threatening future generations.

www.foxnews.com