When Trump trivializes corruption in the White House: “Nobody is offended anymore”
Qatari planes, cryptocurrency, real estate deals... The White House tenant and his family are reaping unparalleled profits from his presidency, normalizing practices that would once have caused scandal and prompted investigations for ethics violations and conflicts of interest, the New York Times points out.
When Hillary Clinton was first lady, she caused an uproar when it was revealed that she had once won $100,000 after betting $1,000 on cattle prices. Although this happened more than a decade before her husband Bill Clinton was elected president [in 1992], the scandal lasted for weeks.
Thirty-one years later, after a dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, Jeff Bezos agreed to finance a promotional documentary about Melania Trump that was expected to earn her $28 million directly—280 times more than Hillary Clinton's profits, and this time coming from someone with a vested interest in the policies implemented by her husband's administration. Scandal? Outcry? Washington barely batted an eyelid.
The Trumps are certainly not the first presidential family to profit from their time in office, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than any of their predecessors. Presidential commercialism is of a scale and scope that is breathtaking.
The Trump family and its business partners received 320 million
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