They are making hundreds of millions of dollars on the grift. They seem quite comptent.

no-name-here a day ago | parent | next [-]

Hundreds of millions dramatically undersells what happened in Trump's ~first year back in office:

Trump personally made $3 billion during his 2nd term's 1st year. [1]

19-year-old high school graduate Barron Trump earned $150 million dollars. [2]

Also, Trump's children stand to profit from a $1.6 billion mining deal that Trump cut as president this term - 'Kaz Resources'. [3]

Also, "The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr." - 'Vulcan Elements'. [4]

Also, "Trump’s Sons Land Massive Pentagon Deal as They Flaunt Corruption" via "Powerus" a company founded last year and which merged with a golf club in March. [5]

The Trump family cryptocurrency company received a $500m investment by the Emirati royal family, before the Trump admin announced that the Emirates would be allowed to import enough Nvidia AI chips to build the largest AI campus outside the US. [6]

Edit: As alluded to by walrus01, "The double life of Jared Kushner, mixing business with politics as emissary for his father-in-law Donald Trump … Ivanka Trump's husband has a career as an unofficial diplomat and a master dealmaker, juggling billions and focusing his activities on the Middle East and Near East. His latest coup, carried out with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, was the $55 billion acquisition of video game giant Electronic Arts." [8]

While Trump and his family have made billions during Trump's first year back as president, for an example of how Republicans treated Biden family finances: in 2018, while Biden was out of office, Biden received a check from his brother with "loan repayment" written on it for 200K. Despite that Biden was not in office then, and the small amount (compared to not just thousands or even millions, but billions that Trump and his family have made in Trump's first year back in office), 5 years later, in 2023, Republicans were still investigating that $200K loan repayment. [7]

[1] https://theweek.com/politics/donald-trump-presidency-wealth

[2] https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/how-did-barron...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnic...

[4] https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-de...

[5] https://newrepublic.com/post/209840/donald-jr-eric-trump-mil...

[6] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/trump-uae-cr...

[7] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/fact-check-evide...

[8] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/07/the-dou...

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walrus01 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Heck, all of that is like the tip of an iceberg, before anyone even googles like "kushner + saudis"

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psadauskas 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But, what about Hunter Biden's laptop!? /s

	▲	no-name-here 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's actually an excellent example - perhaps the closest thing to something real for Joe Biden to come out of the laptop was that in 2017, while Joe was a private citizen and held no office, an email between his son and his son's business partners had proposed Joe take a 10% share in a foreign deal his son was negotiating. 6 days later in 2017, Hunter replied that Joe had replied "an emphatic NO" when the idea was presented to him. https://www.vox.com/2020/10/22/21529237/hunter-biden-debate-... Republicans spent years focusing on a potential deal that Joe had quickly said no to, which was while Joe was out of office anyway. Meanwhile Trump in both term 1 and term 2 has been actively getting foreign income, but crickets. (I realize you said /s.)

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hamper653 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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