Americans are waking up to Trump’s money grabbing. They won’t forgive him
Americans are waking up to Trump’s money grabbing. They won’t forgive him
Americans are waking up to Trump’s money grabbing. They won’t forgive him
Americans are waking up to Trump’s money grabbing. They won’t forgive him
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Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm in a blind trust when he won the US presidency. That’s how important he thought it was to avoid any potential conflict of interest in his decision-making – Carter wanted to make sure he had no vested interests whatsoever.
Times have changed. [Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-building-himself-bunker-clear-knows-failing-4427052?ico=in-line_link) was already a billionaire when he returned to the Oval Office in January 2025, but his net worth has more than doubled in less than 18 months. Forbes estimated his wealth at $2.3 billion in 2024, and today estimates it at more than $6.1 billion.
Trump isn’t the only member of his family, or The Trump Organisation, to get richer either. His son, and executive vice president, Eric’s wealth is now estimated at $400 million, more than 10 times its value during the last presidential election. Another executive vice president Don Jr’s wealth has reportedly increased sixfold, to around $300 million. Even Barron Trump, the president’s youngest son and 19-year-old college student, still has a net worth estimated at around $150 million.
The [Trump family](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/donald-trump-failed-marry-royal-planning-dynasty-3429231?ico=in-line_link) has not exactly shied away from mixing business and politics. Much of the Trump family money is thanks to cryptocurrency holdings – and the Trump White House has been more than happy to relax regulations on the industry. Moreover, President Trump posts many of his political announcements on Truth Social, the social network estimated to be worth $1.2bn that he owns.
Trump has also appeared to facilitate meetings for his sons while on official overseas visits. When Donald Trump travelled to Indonesia, its president was [caught](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/indonesia-president-prabowo-subianto-hot-mic-asking-meet-eric-trump-egypt-gaza-peace-summit) on a hot mic asking Trump if he could set up a meeting with his son Eric to talk business, to which Trump said he would arrange a call. Jared Kushner – his son-in-law, who became a billionaire in his own right last year – was an unofficial envoy for negotiations in the Middle East, while he was also trying to raise funds for his firm with governments in the region.
There are no shortage of ways in which Trump’s presidency has directly or indirectly benefitted his family’s wealth. The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar contract for drones from a company whose chief strategy advisor is Eric Trump, for example. And that is before the endless parade of Trump merchandise which can of course be bought online from the official retail website of The Trump Organisation or at their flagship store in New York.
None of this is normal. Presidents usually have little to no business dealings whatsoever during their term, nor encourage their family to – so that when they sign a trade deal, or introduce tariffs, or decide whether or not to introduce new regulations, everyone can be confident they are acting in what they believe to be the nation’s best interest.
The business dealings of President Trump and his family have faced much criticism in the US – with accusations of corruption and profiting from the presidency. The White House insists Trump has done nothing that violates any US laws, nor has he broken any ethics rules that apply to the presidency.
On its own, the Trump family’s business dealings and vast increase in personal wealth might not be a problem for the president. Americans are intensely relaxed about their politicians getting, or being, filthy rich – the American Dream is, after all, the hope that the same thing will happen for them. Trump was elected in large part because Americans thought that a rich and successful businessman could do for the country what he had done for himself.
Trump’s personal wealth has increased 165 per cent during his presidency. To say he has not delivered in the same way for the people who voted for him would be the understatement of the century. Americans hired Trump to grow the economy and cut inflation. He is managing the opposite.
Prices are going up faster than wages, meaning that Americans who rely on a wage to make their living are still poorer now than they were when Trump left office in 2021 – on average, in real terms, Americans are earning 1.2 per cent less per hour in 2026 than they did then. To many Trump voters, this isn’t some abstract concern – [the cost of petrol at the pump has skyrocketed](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/oil-loving-americans-cant-cope-pain-trump-4301073?ico=in-line_link) thanks to the invasion of Iran, and food prices will soon do the same.
Trump’s second presidency is working out brilliantly for the Trump family, and for almost no one else, and voters are waking up to that reality. Once they’ve noticed, winning them back will be all but impossible, even for Teflon Don.
They’re not. And they don’t need to forgive what they’ve long forgotten.
Americans haven’t been asleep to his money grabbing. It’s a central part of his identity and he was elected on that basis.
News just in! Republicans have forgiven Trump! I can’t remember what happened last week says one bankrupt farmer having to sell his land to the Chinese. “Only Trump can make my life better” he was quoted as saying.
A motorist in Alabama was interviewed and said as long as he keeps the gas prices low like they are now then I’m fine with it. He’s a smart businessman.
An unnamed billionaire was also interviewed, Trump is making America the best place in the world! That’s why I am building a bunker in New Zealand he quipped.
Republicans are Trump. The whole party is responsible for this shitshow.
No one in the world trusts him. France just pulled 15bn in gold out of US vaults.
No they’re not and yes they will. Try actual journalism and hold him to account
Maga will they are a cult
BS. They’re perfectly fine with it. Americans have forever lost any trust and goodwill from the rest of the world. They can shove it up their arses.
Trump doesn’t care if we forgive him.
Americans sleepwalk through life….they believe ignorance is bliss….turns out, ignorance is just ignorance…
These revenge porn stories are annoying.
The people who need to “wake up” to it are the same people benefitting from it. Those who have the power to do something *right now* are either willfully ignorant, cowards, or directly involved.
Wake me when the inevitable happens or call me when I need to hold the line.
The people who *should* be waking up to Trump’s money grabbing aren’t. Or they don’t care.
I’m so tired of this man
He doesn’t need them to. He’s already got immunity from IRS tax audits, and will pocket billions more before he’s done plundering.
There is a considerable number of Americans who see completely amoral, even criminal money grubbing as acceptable or even virtuous. Especially ones with money.
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They don’t care. Here’s what one trumper said to me yesterday on this very platform
>I mean if he cuts the fraud out in California and Minnesota…then even if he stole billions, we’d be coming out ahead
Can I have one day where this orange shit goblin isn’t at the top of my news feed. It’s a fucking holiday weekend for christ-sake
Been hearing about MAGAts turning on Trump for years now lol. But they seem to be right there when he needs to use them.
Sadly I’m afraid this is not entirely accurate. For MAGA, Trump supporters and followers, Trump has given a loud voice to the evil, darkness, bigotry, racism and misogyny that resides deep within themselves. The parts they have begrudgingly kept hidden to protect themselves from a modern and tolerant society.
I am fairly confident, that were it not for these people having lighter pockets thanks to Trump, they would be gleefully celebrating the direction their poor country is headed in.
How tf can this be a “waking up to” moment he has been doing it from 2016
Also, as we have CLEARLY seen his fans forgive him for bankrupting them, for deporting their family, for killing and bombing, everything
Republicans will celebrate the grift, corruption, and theft. They think about trump almost exactly the same as how North Koreans think about Kim.
Yeah but the “he hates who I hate” crowd doesn’t care.
They’ve known about his money grabbing since the beginning. They just thought it was cool.
Americans have a sick culture. Money comes before all.
The poor Carter family. I feel for them. That peanut farm was a generational family legacy that barely turned a profit. And now we have this…disgusting.
This is not true.
Republicans are going to Republican– I urge all to ignore the fake unity, the fake reconsidering-of-policy and the fake humility. These people will kill their opposition if given enough power– and they’ll do it while smiling.
All these articles make it seem like the American people are actually going to do anything about this guy.
I live in rural North Carolina, and I’m completely surrounded by idiots. I would argue in North Carolina has the absolute dumbest population out of the entire United States. These racist motherfuckers still 100% support this pedophile con man. We are so fucked. I hope the sorry pieces of shit lose everything they have.
Can we ban posts like this? 3 times a day for the last decade we’ve been hearing about how “Americans are done with trump”. But guess what, hes looking at even 4 MORE years! Fuck all the way off with this until he is off the fucking planet.
🐂💩! He’s a pedophile rapist and they still support him. Piss off with these headlines.