Matt Hussmann

East Potomac Park in DC could be one of the best neighborhoods in the entire United States, but instead this land will have 20 people playing golf on it during business hours. Let's get our priorities together!!!

President Xi giving Trump rose seeds after him and Melania destroyed the White House rose garden with a giant concrete slab is unbelievably petty and I love it.

Se ha hablado mucho de que Zohran Mamdani ha terminado, en tan solo 132 días, con un agujero presupuestario de 12.000 millones en Nueva York. Pero, ¿cómo lo ha hecho? Pues muy sencillo. No lo ha hecho recortando derechos, como suele hacer la derecha, sino gobernando mejor. Ha eliminado gasto innecesario, ha negociado mejor con el Estado y ha hecho que quienes más tienen —incluidas las grandes fortunas inmobiliarias— paguen lo que les toca. Y, además, ha anunciado una inversión de 122 millones para la escuela pública y la contratación de 1.000 docentes más. Porque, a diferencia de lo que hacen Trump o Ayuso, que destinan dinero público a privilegios y negocios de unos pocos, el socialismo trata de gobernar para la gente. Gobernar para la gente y hacer que el dinero público vaya a derechos, a escuelas o a sanidad. Mientras unos recortan, otros ensanchan.

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VERY SMART!!! Important read on what ought to be a critical litmus test for politicians.

Heading to Kentucky! 🇺🇸

🚨NEWS: Mamdani just committed $122 million to hire 1,000 new teachers in NYC public schools. Melania Trump wants to replace teachers with an AI chatbot called “Plato.” One mayor is investing in the humans who teach your children. One First Lady wants to replace them with a machine. Different visions. Different values.

This is huge. The Canadian Labour Congress, the largest labour body in Canada, representing more than 3 million workers has just voted to cut ties with Israel's Federation of Labour. Congrats to those who made this happen - let's keep going.

Bro is flying

In a sense, this is fundamentally what socialism is: a response to question of whether society should be subordinated to the interests of capital or vice versa. Only capitalist psychopaths and their brainwashing victims would argue for the former.

Guys. That's the point.

In the thirteen years since I launched the Shannon Joy Show, I have never endorsed or actively helped a single national candidate. But today I am making an exception to my rule … for Thomas Massie. Please read ------>

Israel the victim??? If narcissism were a crime, this could be added to the lot to be considered by the court.

This is a masterclass on why China is rising and the United States is decaying: “In America, you can change the political parties but you can’t change the policies. Billionaires in America control all policy making. China is a vibrant market economy but it is not capitalist. Billionaires in China can’t control policy and capital does not have enshrined rights. In America, capital itself has risen above the nation. In the last 66 years China is being run by one single party, yet the political changes that have taken place have been wider and broader and greater than any other country in modern history.” This is why it is far better to have one party that serves the people than two parties that both serve corporations and billionaires.

When people compare the US and Chinese economies purely based on GDP numbers, as an economist I laugh a little. GDP has become the world’s favorite economic scoreboard because it is politically convenient. But the problem is that GDP often measures activity, not necessarily economic well-being, resilience, or productive reality. A country can have people drowning in debt, paying absurd healthcare costs, juggling three jobs, unable to buy homes, stressed about retirement, and still produce a gigantic GDP number. Congratulations. The spreadsheet is thriving while the population is exhausted. GDP also heavily rewards financialization and consumption. If money changes hands, GDP gets excited. It does not necessarily ask whether that activity improved long-term economic stability, industrial capability, or quality of life. This is why I keep saying that PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY MATTERS. America cannot manufacture everything at scale anymore. China can. Almost everything. From solar panels to drones, EV batteries to ports, textiles to robotics, industrial machinery to high-speed rail systems. That is economic power. Then there is the purchasing power reality people ignore while obsessing over nominal GDP rankings. Many Americans today are working multiple jobs just to survive rising rent, healthcare costs, education debt, and inflation. Many Chinese urban families maintain relatively comfortable lifestyles with one stable job, supported by modern infrastructure, public transportation, lower service costs, and a culture of savings rather than permanent debt consumption. Economists are supposed to analyze systems honestly, not emotionally. GDP is useful, but treating it like the ultimate measure of success is like judging someone’s health purely based on body weight. It tells you something. Just not enough. Real economic strength is about whether your society can produce, build, transport, innovate, scale, afford life, and maintain long-term stability without burning out its population in the process. That conversation is much more uncomfortable than posting GDP charts on social media, which is exactly why we should probably have it more often.

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am visiting China this week in a personal capacity as a supportive son. Normal people visit their mothers in a personal capacity. Normal people attend funerals in a personal capacity. I do it beside sixteen CEOs, five billionaires worth $870 billion, and a 500-aircraft Boeing order being finalized with Beijing during the trip. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Mastercard. Visa. Tim Cook. Larry Fink. Stephen Schwarzman. In a personal capacity. I am also the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. My qualifications for this role include mowing lawns on my father's golf courses, laying tile at his properties, and serving as a boardroom judge on The Apprentice from 2010 to 2015. I have no documented experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain, or Bitcoin mining. My stake in American Bitcoin alone was worth $548 million by September 2025 — eight months into my father's second term. We purchased 16,000 Bitmain mining rigs for $314 million. Bitmain is Chinese. Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing. Beijing is where I am visiting in a personal capacity. In March we bought 11,298 more. The terms were "unusual" — hundreds of millions in equipment for "future considerations." I'm not sure what "future considerations" means in this context, especially when your father sets the tariff rate on your supplier's home country. I can tell you it is not a "conflict of interest." It is a "supply chain relationship." On May 12, the day I boarded this plane, my father announced a trade agreement with China. Tariffs on Chinese goods dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent. That is a 115-point reduction on the country that manufactures my equipment, announced the same day I flew there. I did not know. I did not ask. I did not need to ask. My family owns 60 percent of World Liberty Financial. We receive 75 percent of every token sold. The New Yorker's running total is $4.2 billion. Politico documented $12.9 billion in trading volume. Let me tell you about our team. My brother Barron is our "DeFi visionary." He was eighteen years old. His prior experience is being tall. My brother Don is "Web3 Ambassador." His prior experience is selling condos and shooting elephants. I handle "strategic planning." My prior experience is tile. My brother-in-law Jared received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund six months after leaving the White House. The fund's own advisory panel flagged his "lack of private equity experience" and called the due diligence results "unsatisfactory." They gave him the money anyway. My sister Ivanka received Chinese government approval for 16 trademarks during my father's first term. The categories included handbags, sunglasses, perfume, baby blankets, and voting machines. Voting machines. From China. While her father was president. That is not "corruption." That is "brand diversification." My father spent four years on Hunter Biden. Four years. The charge: Hunter sat on the board of Burisma for $83,000 a month with no energy experience. My father called it the greatest corruption in American political history. He withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation. He was impeached for it. He did it again. A special counsel was appointed. Total cost to taxpayers: millions. Total Hunter earnings: $11 million over five years. Let me do the math my father never did. Hunter Biden made $6,027 per day. My family makes $8.75 million per day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. We earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours. Hunter had no energy experience. I have no crypto experience. Hunter sat on one board. I run the operation. Hunter met one banker for a coffee. I sit on Air Force One beside $870 billion negotiating with the country that manufactures my equipment. But here is the part that makes me proud. We launched a cryptocurrency in my father's name. It peaked at $73. It trades today at $2.43. Retail investors lost 95 percent of their money. We collected $400 million in transaction fees regardless of price. We hosted a dinner — the top 220 holders gained entry by holding enough of my father's coin. The top 29 received a champagne toast with the President of the United States. Price of admission: approximately $3.28 million in tokens. A public school teacher earns $3.28 million in 47 years. We call that "community engagement." Not "selling access." Access is what Hunter Biden sold for a cup of coffee. Three days before I boarded this plane to Beijing, our team moved $12 million in memecoin assets to custody platforms. Routine. Unrelated. Everything is unrelated to everything. In a personal capacity. On January 24, 2025 — four days after the inauguration — my father fired seventeen inspectors general in a single night. Without explanation. Without notice to Congress. Seventeen. The people whose job is to look. He removed them all at once and no one replaced them. There is no inspector general for a son's "personal capacity." There is no disclosure form for love. There is no ethics office for a champagne toast priced at $3.28 million. He didn't bend the guardrails. He fired the people who hold them. He built that. I fly in on it. $4.2 billion at cruising altitude. Every thirty hours, another Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden got a special counsel for a cup of coffee and a board seat that paid less per month than one champagne toast with my father costs per million. I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. I am the Web3 strategic planner at World Liberty Financial. I am visiting the country that manufactures my mining rigs, approved my sister's trademarks, and funds my brother-in-law's private equity firm, on a plane beside $870 billion and a president who spent four years calling $11 million treason. In a personal capacity. As a supportive son.

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

The revolutionary movements of the 20th century understood something the Western left is still struggling with: The question is not how to reform the system. The question is who controls the resources. Hồ Chí Minh, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Allende, Sankara: they were not primarily arguing about governance style. They were arguing about who owns the land. Who controls the minerals. Who keeps the surplus. Who decides what gets built with it and for whom. These are not abstract political philosophy questions. They are accounting questions. And every time a Western progressive redirects that conversation toward procedural democracy, human rights frameworks, good governance indicators, they are, intentionally or not, moving the conversation away from the accounting question. The accounting question is the one the empire cannot survive being asked clearly. So it surrounds the question with other questions. Important questions. Real questions. Questions about press freedom and electoral integrity and judicial independence. All of which matter. And all of which, deployed at the right moment, serve to make sure the accounting question never gets a clean answer.

Le porte-parole du ministère iranien des Affaires étrangères, Esmaeil Baqaei : À tous les êtres humains décents — quelle que soit leur religion, leur ethnie, leur nationalité, leur race ou toute autre distinction, Aux musulmans, aux juifs, aux chrétiens, aux sikhs, aux hindous, aux bouddhistes et à tous les autres croyants, Et à ceux qui ne suivent aucune religion formelle mais qui adhèrent profondément aux valeurs universelles de paix, de justice et de dignité humaine : Les États-Unis et Israël ont lancé cette guerre d'agression le 28 février 2026, pour la deuxième fois en moins d'un an, alors que l'Iran et les États-Unis étaient engagés dans des négociations diplomatiques. Ce n'est pas simplement une guerre pour le territoire, les ressources ou la géopolitique. C'est une guerre qui déterminera le sens même du « bien » et du « mal » de notre époque et pour l'avenir. Ce qui a été déchaîné contre notre nation pacifique n'est pas juste un autre conflit. D'un côté, se trouvent ceux qui se délectent de violer toutes les lois de la guerre et la décence humaine fondamentale — ceux qui tuent pour le sport, qui massacrent des enfants pour tourmenter leurs familles, qui tirent les missiles les plus récents sur des salles de sport féminines juste pour tester leur pouvoir destructeur. C'est une guerre entre ceux qui se vantent de torpiller des navires non armés « pour plus de plaisir », et ceux qui vont jusqu'à des extrêmes pour protéger des vies innocentes. C'est une guerre entre les menteurs professionnels qui inventent des justifications pour les atrocités, et un peuple fier qui défend sa patrie et la dignité humaine en s'appuyant uniquement sur sa propre force et sa détermination. C'est une guerre entre ceux dont les décisions sont assombries par un compromis moral, et ceux qui agissent avec une conscience claire. C'est une lutte déterminante pour l'avenir de l'humanité. Elle décidera si les acquis durement gagnés de la civilisation — les droits de l'homme, l'état de droit et la moralité fondamentale — survivront ou seront balayés. Nous devons choisir : Acceptons-nous un monde gouverné par des maîtres d'esclaves modernes — arrogants, dominateurs et irresponsables — qui gouvernent par la coercion, les mensonges et l'extorsion ? Ou défendons-nous un monde fondé sur le respect, la justice, la paix et la dignité humaine ? La conscience de l'humanité n'est pas encore morte. Mais en des temps comme ceux-ci, le silence est une complicité avec le mal. Si vous rejetez la voie de la barbarie et de la domination, alors trouvez le courage moral de parler, d'agir et de vous tenir du bon côté de l'histoire — avant que le monde ne sombre dans un abîme d'illégalité et de soumission. Le choix est le vôtre.