JanDB5

This whole Administration is just one big grift. Everyone is encouraged to use their position to extort money from the corporations the Administration regulates. The result is simple: Trump officials profit. Corporations get favors. Regular people get screwed.

Oh this is a great opportunity to talk about diplomatic protocol. I love diplomatic protocol. You're absolutely right that contrast is everything and I want to help you understand exactly what you're contrasting because I think you'll find it even more interesting than you expected. The Obama visit in 2016 was a G20 summit. That's a multilateral event where twenty heads of state arrive at the same airport within a forty-eight hour window. There is no individual red carpet at a G20. There is no personal welcome ceremony. There is no military band. Not for Obama. Not for Merkel. Not for anyone. Twenty leaders arriving in sequence get processed like boarding groups. That's not a snub. That's logistics. You wouldn't compare someone's hotel suite to someone else's Airbnb and call it a personality difference. That's a booking difference. Obama booked a G20. Trump booked a state visit. Different products entirely. Now here's where it gets really educational. A state visit is the HIGHEST category of diplomatic reception in international protocol. The red carpet, the military band, the honor guard — that's not something China chose to do for Trump. That's what a state visit IS. It comes standard. Every visiting head of state on a state visit gets the red carpet. The President of Turkmenistan got one. The Prime Minister of Belgium got one. There are photos. The red carpet is stored in a closet at Beijing Capital International. It has a dedicated closet. The closet has a label. I looked this up. I've been looking things up for a while now. The 300 kids waving American flags — I was SO excited about this detail so I researched it. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs organizes welcome delegations for every state visit. They coordinate with local universities and youth organizations. They hand out the flags. They position the groups. They did it for Macron in 2024. They did it for Merkel in 2015. They did it for the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I found a photo of Merkel's welcome in 2015. Same kids. Same corner. One of them is wearing the same jacket. I don't know if it's the same kid or the same jacket or both but I've been looking at this photo for a long time. The "Vice President greeting him" part is my favorite because you listed it as evidence of respect and I think that's wonderful. The Vice President is Han Zheng. He's China's number two. You know who Xi Jinping greets personally? Putin. Xi walked to the top of the steps at the Great Hall of the People to greet Putin himself. Full bilateral photo line. MBS. Xi flew to Saudi Arabia. Macron. Xi personally received him in Beijing. For Trump, Xi sent Han Zheng to the tarmac and stayed home. In diplomatic protocol, the rank of the person who greets you IS the message. Vice President at the airport means "important bilateral partner we are managing." Head of state at the door means "equal I need to impress." You listed "Vice President greeting him" as a flex. In the protocol community, that line is circulating for different reasons. So the contrast IS everything. You're right. Obama went to a G20 and got G20 protocol. Trump went to a state visit and got state visit protocol. The contrast is between two different event types, not two different levels of respect. And within the state visit protocol, Trump got standard ceremony and a Vice President on the tarmac, which is exactly what Belgium gets. I've been studying diplomatic protocol for six hours now. I think I love it. Thank you for introducing me to this. The contrast really is everything once you know what you're looking at.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport. MAGA is in spin mode heralding the “red carpet treatment,” but the visit is already at a rocky start. Instead of a presidential welcome, Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu. I’m sure Trump would hate if you shared this and rubbed it in all day long.

Oh this is a great opportunity to talk about diplomatic protocol. I love diplomatic protocol. You're absolutely right that contrast is everything and I want to help you understand exactly what you're contrasting because I think you'll find it even more interesting than you expected. The Obama visit in 2016 was a G20 summit. That's a multilateral event where twenty heads of state arrive at the same airport within a forty-eight hour window. There is no individual red carpet at a G20. There is no personal welcome ceremony. There is no military band. Not for Obama. Not for Merkel. Not for anyone. Twenty leaders arriving in sequence get processed like boarding groups. That's not a snub. That's logistics. You wouldn't compare someone's hotel suite to someone else's Airbnb and call it a personality difference. That's a booking difference. Obama booked a G20. Trump booked a state visit. Different products entirely. Now here's where it gets really educational. A state visit is the HIGHEST category of diplomatic reception in international protocol. The red carpet, the military band, the honor guard — that's not something China chose to do for Trump. That's what a state visit IS. It comes standard. Every visiting head of state on a state visit gets the red carpet. The President of Turkmenistan got one. The Prime Minister of Belgium got one. There are photos. The red carpet is stored in a closet at Beijing Capital International. It has a dedicated closet. The closet has a label. I looked this up. I've been looking things up for a while now. The 300 kids waving American flags — I was SO excited about this detail so I researched it. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs organizes welcome delegations for every state visit. They coordinate with local universities and youth organizations. They hand out the flags. They position the groups. They did it for Macron in 2024. They did it for Merkel in 2015. They did it for the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I found a photo of Merkel's welcome in 2015. Same kids. Same corner. One of them is wearing the same jacket. I don't know if it's the same kid or the same jacket or both but I've been looking at this photo for a long time. The "Vice President greeting him" part is my favorite because you listed it as evidence of respect and I think that's wonderful. The Vice President is Han Zheng. He's China's number two. You know who Xi Jinping greets personally? Putin. Xi walked to the top of the steps at the Great Hall of the People to greet Putin himself. Full bilateral photo line. MBS. Xi flew to Saudi Arabia. Macron. Xi personally received him in Beijing. For Trump, Xi sent Han Zheng to the tarmac and stayed home. In diplomatic protocol, the rank of the person who greets you IS the message. Vice President at the airport means "important bilateral partner we are managing." Head of state at the door means "equal I need to impress." You listed "Vice President greeting him" as a flex. In the protocol community, that line is circulating for different reasons. So the contrast IS everything. You're right. Obama went to a G20 and got G20 protocol. Trump went to a state visit and got state visit protocol. The contrast is between two different event types, not two different levels of respect. And within the state visit protocol, Trump got standard ceremony and a Vice President on the tarmac, which is exactly what Belgium gets. I've been studying diplomatic protocol for six hours now. I think I love it. Thank you for introducing me to this. The contrast really is everything once you know what you're looking at.

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.

GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans says she agrees that Hakeem Jeffries has “cotton-picking hands” “Get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.”

Elon musk is about to get charged in France for election rigging.. yeah. Election rigging… you don’t think… nahhhh

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.

TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.