Donald Trump’s wealth increased by an astonishing 273 percent in a single year.
That would be remarkable for any businessman. For a sitting president with a long history of bankruptcies, failed ventures and dubious financial schemes, it ought to be one of the biggest political scandals in America.
Instead, the story appeared briefly and then vanished beneath the next avalanche of Trumpian insanity.
That is the defining feature of Trump’s presidency: the corruption is so constant, so brazen and so overwhelming that almost nothing has time to register. Trump can enrich himself, launch vanity projects, pardon political allies, use the government against his enemies and drag the country into a disastrous war—and before the public has processed one outrage, another has already replaced it.
I spoke with longtime Banter contributor Bob Cesca about the sheer insanity of living through a presidency in which every previous standard of political behavior has basically collapsed.
We discuss Trump’s extraordinary accumulation of wealth, his family’s crypto operation, the possibility that his grand construction projects conceal something even more corrupt, and the most uncomfortable question hanging over 2028.
Watch our full conversation below:
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