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When Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, he said in a statement that Elon Musk and DOGE would allow his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
I have some quick and easy advice for Donald Trump on how to cut wasteful government spending: stop playing golf at your own resorts.
Donald Trump has already made the government spend an estimated $10.7 million of our tax dollars playing golf at resorts he owns—just in the past 45 days.
Clearly when he talks about DOGE cutting government waste, Trump doesn't mean money that goes to himself.
And that’s not the only way that he’s profiting from the presidency, John.
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Trump raked in over $1.6 billion in income during his first term, with up to $160 million in total coming from businesses in foreign countries. And he’s on track to bring in even more money in his second term.
Now, in addition to his properties and businesses, Trump has Truth Social, his family’s crypto company, a memecoin (which the SEC just announced it won’t regulate) and business ties to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
All of these businesses open up more venues for wealthy interests to pay for access and influence.
The pay-for-play can be quite explicit: WIRED recently reported [[link removed]] that for a price, you can even have a one-on-one dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as long as you pay $5 million for the privilege.
With Donald Trump receiving money from his businesses and foreign governments, all sorts of ethics questions have to be raised:
Is Trump making choices based on his personal profits, or the best interests of the American people?
Are countries and business leaders currying favor with Trump through his businesses?
How much are taxpayers subsidizing all of this?
There's no real distinction between Donald Trump the president and Donald Trump the businessman— and that’s exactly as corrupt, outrageous and dangerous as it sounds.
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