Summary
Donald Trump faced backlash after launching the $TRUMP cryptocurrency meme coin, valued at billions, days before his inauguration.
Experts, including former ethics officials, called it a major conflict of interest, as Trump has pledged pro-crypto policies while profiting personally.
First Lady Melania also launched her own coin, $MELANIA.
Critics warn the coins, which lack intrinsic value and are highly volatile, could lead to lawsuits and public losses.
Ethics experts described the move as one of the worst conflicts of interest in modern U.S. presidential history.
“America” did not. I’m sick of these articles making it sound like he won big. He didn’t. 1.43% . The smallest margin of victory in 25 years.
His idiot followers have no critical thinking skills and voted for all the lies he told them which they are up. They’re going to be absolutely devastated under his presidency.
They’re not going to be devastated. No matter how much worse off they will become, they will think they are doing better because the mainstream media of Fox and OAN will tell them they are doing better than ever.
They were fighting for toilet paper under Trump.
They won’t be devastated. They’ll continue to watch the same “news” that will tell them how great the country is doing no matter what happens… and then continue to say how awful the Democrats are, and to blame them for individual problems.
I’m sick of these articles
Let’s be very clear that corporate news has failed so spectacularly, they can not recover from this. They will not change, and we shouldn’t give them any benefit of doubt.
You will need to find a different way of getting the news than from CNN / NBC / NYT or whatever it used to be in the before-times.
A plurality of Americans voted for him. It wasn’t even EC shenanigans this time. It wasn’t a huge margin, no, but more Americans who voted wanted him than any other candidate.
This is not the right use of the word “plurality”. A “plurality” voted for Harris as well. Stop trying to disguise what you’re saying.
Trump barely one, and it may have had to do with small segments voting in kind. It was not a landslide nor mandate.
Harris: 75,019,230
Others: 2,877,973
75,019,230 + 2,877,973 = 77,897,203
Trump won a plurality of votes. No, it was not a landslide or a mandate, and I never said it was.
A “plurality” is two, friend.
Words can have more than one definition, friend, and “plurality” has a specific one when referring to voting. I literally linked which definition I’m using.
They’re called “synonyms”, and the way you’re using this word is not one.
That’s not what a synonym is at all. I’m not sure if you’re a troll or just supremely misinformed. I’m going to settle on troll.
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Donald Trump faced backlash…
Yeah, from people who have been crying foul about Trump for years now. Unfortunately his supporters just don’t give a shit. Why aren’t they asking Republican senators and representatives about the president launching his own currency? They’re the dumb fucks that should be offering up backlash but aren’t.
The corporate news sewer spew begins. You can drink all you want, but it never gets any better and it costs a lot to do it.
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Manufactured morons. That’s been the Rs goal since Reagan at the latest.
Could this be the end of the American empire?
With this blatant and chaotic corruption, criminality, exploitation, cheating, and stealing, how could the US stay a world empire? Won’t we just spiral out of control and everything that made us the world leader fade away, die off, emigrate, or become ineffectual?
If cheating is now encouraged by the highest leader and law of the land, why wouldn’t it spread everywhere in our system?
I’m not hopeful. Scary times!
Really? Strump and Smelania?
Heh, yup. Whole lot of suckers about to be robbed of their last dollar in the next few years.
I don’t have a problem with people launching meme coins for fun. They’re consenting adults, if they want to risk thousands of dollars on a meme, that’s their choice. But an elected official who has the power to pass laws regulating cryptocurrency doing it? Yikes.
You have to be an expert to realize that?
Melania coin? Absurd.
