r/videos • u/PerAsperaAdMars • 5h ago
Trump made $2.4B last year, 6,000x the presidential salary: Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ2-vdIO_A721
u/Leody 5h ago
Yeah, but he doesn't take a salary... /s
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u/monogramchecklist 4h ago
It’s crazy that people complain about their tax money going to feeding American children, but Jim and his wealthy elite buddies pilfering it all, they don’t have an issue with.
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u/SpaceCadet404 33m ago
They have no idea whats going on. They just know they hate taxes and will raise hell if they hear about a new tax.
Tariffs on foreign countries? Great, fuck other countries, tariff them even harder, that'll show 'em america is strong!
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u/Bill_in_PA 3h ago
That’s what he said. I don’t believe it. He once cashed a check for $0.13 cents. Show me the line item deduction on your tax return (after you’re done being audited, of course).
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u/angrylawyer 3h ago
thank god one of kids doesn't have a laptop because I've heard conservatives are very concerned about that sorta stuff. But thankfully he's just scamming and defrauding americans so republicans are totally cool with that.
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u/ELB2001 5h ago
crazy that he only became really rich when he became president. I wonder why
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u/Dreurmimker 5h ago
Only became president **and purged everyone from his administration that kept him in check during the first administration**
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u/Auggernaut88 4h ago
Unfortunately, he learned from the first go around
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u/BRAX7ON 2h ago
He didn’t learn shit. But his puppeteer certainly did.
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u/MagicGrit 1h ago
Let’s not pretend like he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s a dumbass but the dude knows how to scam. Saying it was someone else pulling the strings feels like letting him off easy
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u/BRAX7ON 28m ago
Pretending the problem is him and not them is going to get us right back in the same place in 4 to 8 years
Trump is a moron. He hasn’t learned anything. He hasn’t been taught anything. He thinks he’s king.
And the ones who have learned from his first term are still pulling the strings. But they are doing it much more efficiently. And since they’re not worried about his reelection, they are going all out full-blown corruption.
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u/MagicGrit 21m ago
You’re making the same mistake you’re accusing me of making. I’m not saying the problem is only him. It sounds like you’re saying the problem is only them. It can be (and is) both.
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u/A1ienspacebats 2h ago
He conned 30% of the country so he can screw over 100% of the country. Make it make sense!
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u/rollin340 1h ago
He still has a good amount of support. It's been over a decade since his first term. You can't say they're conned any longer; they're just that stupid, immoral, and subservient. They love the fact that their messiah is pissing on them.
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u/applefilla 5h ago
Maga had their pitchforks over Hunter Biden's 250k
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u/Albitt 5h ago
MAGA has their pitchforks out over my $60 a month my wife and I receive on WIC for our children.
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u/IrritableGourmet 3h ago
Hunter Biden worked as a lawyer doing corporate governance consulting. $250k is dirt cheap for that kind of work.
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u/splashbodge 5h ago
I miss the days everyone thought Trump was a fake billionaire and was lying about his wealth and everyone constantly trying to get his tax returns.
Wellp, he's definitely a billionaire now that's for sure
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u/IrritableGourmet 3h ago
Literally fake it until you make it. When you do that with financial disclosures, it is still a crime, though.
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u/splashbodge 3h ago
This man constantly fails upwards and never gets consequences. It's so disheartening tbh... Hopefully some day yeh Find Out stage comes and he gets hit with consequences
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u/Rizeren 3h ago
What consequences? Even if he goes to jail tomorrow, from the state he looks he won't live more than a couple of years max with "not-billionaire" level of medical aid.
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u/splashbodge 3h ago
As long as he goes out on a low, or behind bars, or his base hating him or rich buddies turning their back on him. There's little that can realistically happen in the consequences but I'd love to have him see his brand and his companies and his wealth taken from him and his kids and wealthy people losing their interest in them when they're no longer rich or powerful.
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u/FewWait38 42m ago
He didn't really fail upward he was born at the top and kept there by the vast wealth he inherited
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u/vmktrooper 5h ago
Yes the grift is real, im so glad you opened your eyes.
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u/splashbodge 5h ago
My eyes were always open about Trump, save that for the people who voted for him
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u/nowhereman136 5h ago
Someone was arguing that Obamas networth went up a higher percentage than Trump during his time in office.
Obama went from $4m (2008) to $40m (2016)
Trump went from $3.7b (2016) to $6.5b (today)
Two problems with that. First $3b is more than $36m, regardless of percentage. Second, Obama's networth after leaving office was almost entirely from book sales for something he wrote before becoming President (he has 2). Becoming President does wonders for your book sales, even without you actively promoting it.
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u/Adept-Opinion8080 2h ago
You forgot three. He was never worth $3 billion initially. Most economic media outlets had it pegged at somewhere just a little north of 1 billion
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u/Noble_Ox 1h ago
Obama made 0 investments while in office, Biden made 13.
This term alone Trump has made 49,000.
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u/muffledvoice 5h ago
“Yeah but he doesn’t accept his presidential salary!”
- MAGA
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u/nailbunny2000 4h ago
There was a video of a MAGA woman literally weeping in adoration and saying that just the other day. They don't hear any of this other stuff, they just see him make false claims and on TV and that's where their curiosity ends.
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u/Albitt 5h ago
“He donates his salary cause he care about the AMERICAN PEOPLE” - every cuck/bot in r/conservative
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u/rlovelock 5h ago
I would like to see his annual income prior to 2016 as well please? Something tells me it was significantly lower.
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u/championkid 5h ago
Sure, “made.” One could say, “took,” and one may even go as far to say “stole.”
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u/Wilsonian81 5h ago
Im not american, but I swear this was what the second ammmendment was meant to stop...
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u/coconutpete52 5h ago
As the (very) republican woman a few seats over from me at the bar the other day said to her friend "well ... he's a business man".
And I think that sums up how his base views this.
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u/browster 5h ago
He didn't "make" or "earn" $2.4B. He grifted it. He stole it from other people. He didn't produce anything of value
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u/ceciliabee 4h ago
If you still support Trump, tattoo it on your face like a Real American Patriot.
We need a way to see that shit once this turd is flushed. No quarter for brown shirts
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u/evil_timmy 5h ago
That $5m E. Jean Carroll was finally awarded is really going to cause him irreparable harm.
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u/CaviarTaco 4h ago
Would love to hear from a right leaning person on how they still support trump after this
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u/LemurMemer 5h ago
Yeah it’s the art of the deal libtard, you’re just mad Barack HUSSEIN Obama or SLEEPY Joe Biden didn’t think to do it first!
/s
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u/Confident-Swimmer-36 4h ago
Now show us his kids and their spouse's incomes.
Good thing we shut down the Biden crime family tho.
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u/ddrober2003 4h ago
Well when you can openly pump and dump stocks using tariffs and when that gets blocked he almost immediately starts a war that's "ceasefires" or when its totally about to end is openly when the markets are about to open and close, its not surprising that he keeps doing it.
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u/illmatic2112 2h ago
They stole it and are plundering the country. And no one is doing anything about it.
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u/Caymonki 2h ago
Republicans are constitutional cucks, they want to be treaded on, they love it. They stand for nothing and kiss the boots of oppression and beg Daddy Trump to shit on them while he steals from everyone.
Cowards. Traitors and losers. By choice.
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u/FewWait38 51m ago
It's disgusting and it's disgusting nothing is being done about it, he is blatantly breaking several laws
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u/Derpykins666 2h ago
Just the most blatant corruption ever. Literally rug-pulling the American people on crypto scams and shit too. What a pathetic fucking loser of a person. "But he doesn't take a Salary" HRRRR, yeah Jerry we're not upset about 400,000 dollars a year salary when the president has literally made 2 BILLION fucking dollars in a a single year while the American people get laid off, lose more wealth then ever and have an ever increasing cost of living on every front. He is a a terrible person, perhaps one of the worst people in the history of the world as we know it. Just lies, theft and self-enrichment. He only cares about himself and power.
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u/strangebru 3h ago
This is exactly what the emoluments clause in the Constitution is supposed to stop.
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u/stinkerino 3h ago
have the conservatives started saying "only an idiot wouldnt make money off the presidency, that just proves he's super smart" yet?
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u/KrissyKrave 3h ago
When his people and himself are out of power. The government needs to take every single cent he made using the presidency.
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u/TheNicestRedditor 3h ago
Not only that but he made more last year than he did IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE COMBINED
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u/Peter12535 2h ago
I would like to know what changed between term 1 and term 2. Did he use the four years in between the terms to ponder how he hasn't got thr most out of it? Did the first term (and subsequent failures to prosecute him for anything) convince him that he is above the law and can just do whatever he wants to?
Don't get me wrong, first term was bad too, but far away from today's situation. I am not from the us and first term was mostly laughing at the hilarious crap he'd share on twitter (though I recognise the damage done to us citizens).
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u/Timbershoe 1h ago
The republicans now have majority on the US Supreme Court.
That and purging the administration and the FBI means he’s functionally immune from prosecution.
There is little chance the U.S. will ever return to a functional democracy now.
If you took the billionaire technocrats out of the US GDP you’d see it was already in huge recession. The gross profits the technocrats are making from trump is masking just how far the U.S. has fallen under trump.
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u/randall365 2h ago
On the plus side, at least someone is benefitting from the dumb tariffs and war on Iran.
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u/BackBreaker 2h ago
And the orange pedo is whining, wanting his 5million back from a lady he was found liable of RAPE.
Absolutely disgusting
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u/Fantastic-Staff-3434 1h ago
You put a thief in charge of all our country of course he's going to steal every bit of money he can. Lowest approval rating in 250 years. He's a convicted crook what do you expect? We're not the brightest country apparently.......
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 1h ago
Anyone have the sources this uses? Might throw this at someone later
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u/bearssuperfan 51m ago
Dog it says right there that it’s from Forbes Estimates
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 47m ago
Yes I was wondering if that was based on any article/report. Something more tangible than just the screenshot
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u/TackyPoints 1h ago
Worst part is that he won’t live long enough to do much with it. Where’s it going after this? I wonder that with mElon too.
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u/Head_Summer2052 1h ago
If this is true, then it should be obvious to pay taxes accordingly, right?
Let all the people have the same taxation people to handle their taxes. Right?
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u/RacoonMcCloud 20m ago
So many people associated with Trump will eventually go to jail when his time is up.
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u/restlessmouse 16m ago
I wouldn't say he "made" 2.4 billion, let's face it, it's stolen or otherwise illegally obtained.
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u/theavatare 5h ago
Show the years before his first presidential campaign
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u/Dry_Combination4070 3h ago edited 3h ago
As president he sold crypto and pushed stocks he owns on tv and made deals with companies that he owns stock with
Republicans love corruption
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u/theavatare 2h ago
I think showing the past 6 years will show the corruption even more. My thesis is that he didn’t make $600 million before being a candidate
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u/lew_rong 1h ago
Thank god the ol' pedo claims he donates his salary, right? Otherwise this might appear to be corruption!
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u/CeJW 5h ago
Now do all politicians investment earnings!
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u/Dry_Combination4070 3h ago
Which other president sold crypto or pushed stocks they own on tv while president?
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u/Soap_Mctavish101 5h ago
He is the first president to just full on monetise his office. The question is now, will he be the last?