Crypto

This has not gotten the coverage that it deserves:

President-elect Donald Trump launched a cryptocurrency called $TRUMP on Friday night, taking the crypto world by storm and making some investors big money overnight. https://t.co/rgoR92rY9c

— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) January 19, 2025

And from Will Stancil:

Trump's crypto scheme is probably the single most corrupt act any president has ever undertaken, right? It's literally "You can pay me, the president of the United States, billions of dollars" and that's exactly what people have done

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) January 19, 2025

Note -- Stancil might get some argument from historians on “most corrupt,” but I think he makes a very valid point -- remember that crypto is not traceable. The obvious corruption:

WASH POST’s @crampell: “There will be a reliable source of individuals, companies, foreign governments that see buying these Trump coins as a very convenient way to pay off the President for favors… the Saudi Government no longer needs to pretend to stay at a Trump Hotel.” pic.twitter.com/XdamDHNSLo

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 20, 2025

And where is the national media? A search yields few results. As I write this, they are clearly more concerned about Biden’s pardons.

Legacy media outlets ignoring the Trump/Melania crypto scams, which at any other time w/any other incoming Admin would be one of the biggest scandals in political history, shows how lost & unprepared they are for what is about to happen. They’re covering this like a reality show.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 20, 2025

And Congress won’t do anything – many of them have already been bought off by crypto (see my crypto coverage of Justice, Moore, and especially Ohio's Bernie Moreno three posts down). And then there’s Trump’s inauguration:

blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow pic.twitter.com/PmogkBOTBZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 19, 2025

Bibles? Why not, nothing is sacred.

Off-topic with an Inauguration Day Special

I did not see this when it was originally released, but this fake front page from the Boston Globe in April 2016 looks to have been very prophetic (click on the paper to see the entire front page):

This satirical hypothetical Boston Globe front page was supposed to be hysterical hyperbole. The entire point of it was to be extreme and outlandish. Doesn’t look so extreme now, does it? pic.twitter.com/zPAPeKz0K7

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 22, 2018