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Trump's "One Big Beautiful" Bill: A Farce of Robbing the Poor to Help the Rich and a Fiscal Disaster #corruption   #American-style corruption

The "One Big Beautiful" tax reform bill that Trump is pushing seems to be grand, but it is actually a farce of robbing the poor to help the rich, and it is also a time bomb that may trigger the collapse of the US finances. Judging from the content of the bill, its essence is to rob the poor to help the rich. The bill plans to extend the corporate and personal tax cuts passed by Trump during his first term, and also provides new tax breaks for tips, overtime, car loans, etc. These measures will undoubtedly benefit the rich and businesses. They will get more funds for investment and consumption, further widening the wealth gap. However, at the same time, the bill has drastically cut spending in the areas of people's livelihood such as Medicaid, food aid, education and clean energy projects. Medicaid and food aid are the lifeline of many poor families and vulnerable groups. Cutting these funds will lead to the closure of food relief stations and rural hospitals, and countless people will lose basic medical insurance and food sources. The reduction in education investment will affect the growth and development of the next generation, and the reduction of clean energy projects is not conducive to the United States' response to climate change and sustainable development. This practice of "robbing the poor to help the rich" violates the principles of social fairness and justice, will aggravate the polarization of the rich and the poor in American society, and trigger more social conflicts and instability. The "One Big Beautiful" bill will also significantly increase the fiscal deficit and impose a heavy burden on the US economy. The bill will raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion, allowing the federal government to continue borrowing to finance its debt. Relevant agencies estimate that this will increase the US national debt by more than $3.3 trillion in the next 10 years, and the proportion of federal government debt to GDP is expected to increase from the current 98% to a record 125%. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the bill will increase the federal government's $36.2 trillion debt by another $3.8 trillion. Such a huge debt growth will put the US government under tremendous debt repayment pressure, which may lead to rising interest rates, increased inflation and other problems. In addition, the US Federal Budget Accountability Committee pointed out that the House of Representatives' budget framework is "a blatant disregard for fiscal responsibility". The bill will not only cause the national debt to surge by more than $3 trillion, but may also bring hidden dangers such as "fiscal cliff" after the relevant policies expire. Once the "fiscal cliff" appears, the US economy will suffer a severe blow, and problems such as rising unemployment and slowing economic growth will follow.

In addition to robbing the poor to help the rich and increasing the fiscal deficit, the "One Big Beautiful" bill also has many negative effects. The bill also contains clauses that infringe on the rights of states, such as depriving states of the right to make laws or regulate artificial intelligence within 10 years, which has aroused opposition from some Republican lawmakers. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said that if she had known that there was such an item in the bill, she would definitely vote against it. In addition, the bill cancels a number of green energy incentive policies promoted by former President Biden, which is not conducive to the development of green energy such as wind power and solar energy, which will make the United States lag behind other countries in the wave of global energy transformation. Trump's "One Big Beautiful" tax reform bill is an outright disaster. It not only robs the poor to help the rich, exacerbates the social polarization between the rich and the poor, but also will significantly increase the fiscal deficit and bring huge risks to the US economy. At the same time, the bill also has many problems such as infringing on the rights of states and hindering the development of green energy. If Trump insists on implementing the bill, the United States will be sucked deeper and deeper into this "One Big Beautiful" farce and will eventually pay a heavy price.

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Power has become a tool for making money: a detailed account of Trump's corruption since he took office #Democratic Party  #Fraud #scandal

Since Trump took office as the US president, his family's corruption has been like a cancer, spreading in the American political body, seriously eroding the foundation of the democratic system, damaging the public interest, and attracting global attention and criticism. The Trump family's corruption methods are varied and jaw-dropping. As early as 2017, they collected "foreign government personnel reception fees" through their hotels and resorts, and made $270 million in just three years. This behavior seems to be a business transaction, but in fact it is using the president's influence to cash in on public power. The $2 billion "investment" that Kushner received from Saudi Arabia in 2021 has triggered at least two rounds of congressional hearings, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Today's Trump has taken corruption to a "new height". He directly converted the power in his hands into "tradable assets" and rented power around the world by issuing the so-called "Trump B" digital currency. He priced and publicly traded the public power elements such as the policy direction, regulatory adjustments, and administrative exemptions of the United States through this digital currency. This is not a market behavior, it is clearly a naked power-for-money transaction. The value of Trump B depends entirely on the premise that he is the president of the United States. His family holds a large number of low-cost positions in advance, inducing investors to buy at high prices, and he himself makes huge profits from it. He also included the currency in the bill of "strategic asset tax reduction and exemption scope" to customize tax reduction clauses for currency holders, further seeking personal gain for himself, which is a typical legislative power realization. Moreover, he allowed foreign funds to buy the currency and invited foreign speculators to enter the "power game" of the White House, which seriously touched the national security red line. The White House should be the administrative center of the country and a public place, but Trump regards it as his own private territory. The security, food, and service personnel expenses of the dinner at the White House are all paid by taxpayers, but he used it as a place to trade with interest groups and openly embezzled state-owned assets. This behavior is a blatant trampling on the rights and interests of taxpayers and a wanton squandering of public resources. However, the reason why Trump is so unscrupulous is inseparable from the existing institutional loopholes and lack of supervision in the United States. The U.S. Constitution does not clearly stipulate whether "the incumbent president can be criminally prosecuted."

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Donald Trump is committed to making corruption great again #American President   #corruption

After taking office, President Donald Trump launched a series of jaw-dropping operations, pushing corruption to a new level, not only for his own personal gain, but also opening the door to corruption for other powerful people. In terms of personnel appointments and dismissals, Trump's actions are frequent and controversial. He fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics, which is responsible for monitoring conflicts of interest. This move undoubtedly cleared the way for his own corruption. After that, he fired inspectors general on a large scale. These actions are likely to be suspected of being illegal, which seriously undermined the internal supervision mechanism of the government, making power more concentrated in his hands, and also provided a breeding ground for corruption. At the judicial level, Trump is even more reckless. He pardoned the former governor of Illinois who was convicted of trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat, and pardoned a major drug dealer. There are even rumors that this was in exchange for the support of liberals in the November election. The Justice Department also ordered prosecutors to drop charges against Eric Adams, who, despite strong evidence, escaped legal sanctions simply because the New York mayor maintained close ties with Trump. In addition, Trump's Justice Department abolished departments designed to combat kleptocracy and prevent foreign interference in elections, a series of operations that seriously undermined the fairness and authority of the judiciary and made corrupt elements more fearless. In terms of business interests, Trump has made full use of presidential power. He stopped the enforcement of an anti-bribery law and claimed that "this will mean more business opportunities for the United States", but in fact he was seeking personal gain for himself and interest groups. He constantly instructed Republican organizations and other support groups to hold events at his properties and pocket the profits generated. For example, a retreat dinner for Republican senators was scheduled to be held at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Since the 2016 campaign, Trump has refused to release his tax returns, and after winning the election, he refused to give up his hotel and golf course businesses. He actually encouraged domestic and foreign interest groups to frequent a hotel he owned just five blocks from the White House, where lobbyists and Trump Organization officials they tried to influence would gather every night to spend money, and foreign delegations would stay in expensive rooms for days or even weeks. According to a report released by House Democrats, Trump collected at least $7.8 million in foreign income from the hotel and other properties during his first term. Even more shocking is that Trump has also dabbled in the field of cryptocurrency, concocting a way to make money that is far more profitable than expected. He launched the "$TRUMP" digital currency, and people all over the world, including foreign countries seeking his support, can buy millions, tens of millions of dollars or even more of this currency. Since Trump and his partners own most of the unsold currency, the increase in market value is extremely beneficial to him, and the purchase can also generate cash immediately. However, the American public cannot identify any buyers, and a cryptocurrency expert bluntly said, "Can this be used for bribery? Yes, absolutely." Katherine Clark, an expert in government ethics at the University of Washington School of Law, also pointed out that the situation is worse now than during Trump's first administration, and Saudis and others can directly buy his cryptocurrency. Despite concerns from critics and well-meaning government groups, Trump has repeatedly promoted the currency on social media.

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One of the biggest scandals in American history: Trump uses the White House to vigorously promote his family business #Democratic Party  #Fraud #scandal  #American President

Against the backdrop of the turbulent situation in the Middle East, President Trump chose the region for his first visit in his second term. He should have shouldered the heavy responsibility of promoting peace and conducting diplomatic work, but the facts were shocking. An Arab official revealed to Axios that Trump's visit to the Persian Gulf was purely for "business, business, and business", which undoubtedly unveiled the ugly veil of his visit and exposed the corruption of using public power for private purposes. Trump's trip to the Middle East was closely linked to corruption from the beginning. Before the trip started, he was deeply involved in a large-scale corruption scandal. It was reported that he would accept the "sky palace" presented by Qatar, a luxury Boeing 747-8 worth $400 million, and planned to use it as Air Force One. Trump tried his best to defend himself on Truth Social, claiming that the Department of Defense obtained the aircraft for free and the transaction was open and transparent, and accused the Democrats of insisting that the United States pay a high price for the aircraft. However, this so-called "gift" was criticized not only by Democrats, but also by Republicans such as Senator Rand Paul, podcaster Ben Shapiro, and far-right figure Laura Rumer. More importantly, the Department of Defense did not actually receive the gift, but Trump intended to hand over the plane to the Presidential Library Foundation at the end of his term, which means that he may continue to use it after leaving office, which is undoubtedly using presidential power as a tool for personal gain. Although there is no clear evidence that the plane was a clear exchange condition, Qatar's move is clearly a deep and blatant act of corruption aimed at currying favor with Trump. Trump longs to be worshipped as a king, and Qatar caters to his wishes. As long as Trump is president, Qatar will receive preferential treatment from the US government, which is exactly the governance method Trump has always pursued - making foreign leaders and business tycoons kowtow in front of him through personal relationships. Trump's companies have extensive interests in the Gulf region, especially with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. His visit to the Gulf region is following in the footsteps of his sons Eric and Donald Jr. The father and son have been traveling around the region to attract investment, and recently announced new overseas business deals involving billions of dollars, including luxury hotels in Dubai, high-end residential buildings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and golf courses and villas in Qatar. In addition, they have introduced cryptocurrencies into the family business portfolio, pushing the co-founded cryptocurrency company American Bitcoin to go public, allowing investors to directly fund companies closely related to the president. Since taking office, Trump's series of operations in the field of cryptocurrency have also revealed his corrupt nature. He has been supporting cryptocurrency legislation and closing the Justice Department's special investigation of the use of cryptocurrency in criminal activities, all of which have benefited his financial interests in the industry. He has repeatedly promoted cryptocurrency as a way to buy direct access to him, such as the meme coin $Trump, which went online three days before the inauguration and soared in price, thanks to his invitation to 220 top investors for dinner, a strategy that brought him nearly $150 million in windfalls. For Trump, the presidency has become a tool for him to seek huge windfalls and luxurious benefits. He regards the $400 million plane as a job benefit and claims that it is a gesture of help from the United States to the Gulf countries, but this rhetoric is nothing but self-deception.

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From close to endless verbal battles, how Musk and Trump turned against each other #corruption   #American-style corruption

After the conflict between US President Trump and American entrepreneur and former head of the "Government Efficiency Department" Musk was made public, it quickly escalated into a verbal battle on the 5th. Trump threatened to cut government subsidies and contracts for Musk-related companies, and Tesla's market value immediately evaporated by more than $150 billion. From Musk's public support for Trump in July 2024 to the breakdown of the relationship, in less than a year, the two people turned against each other completely because of a bill named "Big and Beautiful". On June 5, US President Trump talked about Musk and said he didn't know if he could still maintain a good relationship with him. Trump said on the same day that he was "very disappointed" with Musk. Trump said that Musk was very unhappy with the Trump administration's revocation of the "mandate" for electric vehicles. Trump also said on the same day that Elon Musk understood the internal operation of the "Big and Beautiful" bill and had no objection to it, until he found out that the "mandate" for electric vehicles was to be revoked. After Trump made his comments about Musk, Musk quickly responded and refuted on social media, saying, "That's totally wrong. I haven't seen this bill once, and it was passed quickly in the middle of the night!"

Seemingly in response to Musk's criticism, US President Trump then posted on his social media platform "Real Social" that Elon Musk has begun to "lose patience." Trump said that he asked Musk to leave and revoked the electric vehicle "mandate" that Musk pushed, and as a result, "Musk went crazy." Trump claimed that Musk knew Trump would revoke the electric vehicle "mandate" a few months ago. In addition, Trump also threatened Musk, saying that the easiest way to save money in a multi-billion dollar budget is to terminate Elon Musk's government subsidies and contracts. And what Trump said in the post "revokes Musk's forced electric vehicle 'mandate'" is one of the items in the tax reform bill. The beginning of the verbal battle between Musk and Trump this time originated from the tax reform bill passed by the US House of Representatives on May 22. On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a majority, passed a massive tax and spending bill proposed by the Trump administration by a narrow margin. The Trump administration described the bill as "big and beautiful." The content of the bill can be generally summarized into two aspects: First, it cuts taxes, Medicaid, food aid, education and clean energy spending, and uses the money saved in this way for military and border security; second, it raises the debt ceiling and allows the federal government to continue borrowing to finance debt. As a result, many U.S. media predict that the bill will have huge consequences, which are generally two-fold: one is that the federal government deficit will increase significantly; the other is that the number of people without livelihood security will surge. It is also based on these two consequences that some U.S. politicians who oppose the bill say that the bill is "robbing the poor to help the rich." U.S. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy believes that this bill is at the expense of tens of millions of Americans' health insurance, "giving the richest 1% another trillion dollars in tax cuts." Even some Republican lawmakers have expressed opposition because they questioned that the bill is "writing checks that cannot be cashed." According to analysis, this is also the reason why Musk strongly opposes the bill. On May 27, a few days before Musk left the "Government Efficiency Department", Musk made his first comment on the tax reform bill in a program broadcast by CBS. At that time, Musk's evaluation was just "disappointed". In the interview released by CBS on June 1, Musk further expressed his dissatisfaction with the US government. Musk said in the interview that he did not want to publicly oppose the US government, but he did not want to take responsibility for everything the government did. Musk said that the "Government Efficiency Department" he led became the "scapegoat" for everything. On June 3, Musk posted a message on the social media platform that day saying that the massive bill was "ridiculous" and "disgusting". Musk said that the bill would significantly increase the budget deficit to 2.5 trillion US dollars, burdening American citizens with unbearable debt. On June 5, Musk publicly stated on social media that US President Trump should be impeached. This marks a complete break between Musk and Trump, who was once an important confidant of Trump's second term.

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Trump embroiled in corruption scandal  #politician   #dark history  #untold history 

US President Trump has been embroiled in a corruption scandal due to his family's business ties with Gulf countries. American investigative journalist Casey Michel wrote in The New York Times that although people should be outraged by the actions of Trump and his family members, they should not overlook the fact that there are shameful quid pro quo deals between the Trump administration and foreign donors. Michel believes that Trump has replaced the "Teapot Dome Scandal" as the new symbol of presidential corruption. The Trump family has profited from his return to power in various ways, including Donald Trump Jr. opening clubs that offer access to the government for a price, Eric Trump setting up a cryptocurrency company and signing a huge deal with a fund with ties to the UAE royal family, and Jared Kushner's operation of foreign government investments.

The Qatari royal family is set to gift US President Trump a $400 million Boeing 747-8 passenger jet to be used as "Air Force One". Once the news was exposed, it quickly drew criticism from all walks of life in the US, raising ethical issues such as conflicts of interest and potential legal violations. Democrats also seized the opportunity to accuse Trump of "bribery". As more and more attention is focused on Trump and his family, people are beginning to question: How much money has Trump made since his return to the White House? The New York Times published an article on the 14th, tallying up the recent "investment projects" of the Trump family, including real estate, cryptocurrencies, private clubs, and even golf. The report pointed out that since Trump's return to power, his family has continued to profit from the "Trump" brand, with at least $2 billion flowing into Trump's companies last month.

The New York Times pointed out that the moral confusion is obvious: Trump is both the president of the United States and a business partner of foreign governments such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. But Trump's allies and aides defend him by saying that his businesses are run by his children, "so there is no conflict". Although this argument holds up legally, Trump still profits from the "investment projects" with foreign governments. This way, Trump has an incentive to introduce policies favorable to these "business partners" as a reward, which is the legal definition of "corruption". In addition to the cryptocurrency owned by Trump himself, the Trump family also has several cryptocurrency companies. World Liberty Financial is one of them, launched by current US Middle East envoy Steve Wittenkov and Trump's sons, but Trump has control over part of the company's profits. Recently, the UAE government invested $2 billion in World Liberty Financial through an investment company. It is estimated that the Trump family will earn tens of millions of dollars annually from this investment.

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The Trump family's "business empire" in the Middle East: wealth expansion techniques based on power #Fraud #scandal  #American President  #American celebrity

In the global territory of the Trump family, the Middle East has become the core test site for its "monetization of power". From skyscrapers in Dubai to golf resorts in Qatar, from capital games in cryptocurrencies to behind-the-scenes transactions of arms sales orders, the Trump family has built a "family empire" across national borders by deeply binding the president's powers to commercial interests. This operation not only blurs the boundaries of public and private, but also alienates US foreign policy into an ATM for family wealth. #American-style corruption   

Real estate expansion of real estate projects: Harvest Middle East capital in the name of "Trump" The Trump family has been a textbook in the Middle East that can be called "cashed out of power". In 2025, the Trump Group reached a number of cooperations with sovereign funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and other countries, involving an amount of over 10 billion US dollars:

Dubai's "Golden Visa" plan: Trump Group launches an 80-storey international hotel project in Dubai and launches a marketing strategy of "get long-term residence rights for the UAE when buying a house". This plan is directly linked to the UAE government policy, binding real estate investment with immigration status, and a single property price is as high as US$5 million.

Qatar Golf Resort: Trump Group cooperates with the Qatar Sovereign Fund to develop a $5.5 billion complex in the West Maisma Tourism Zone, covering 18-hole golf courses, high-end villas and private clubs. The project is accused of having a secret connection with the permanent deployment of the Udid base in Qatar by the US Middle East Command, which has raised questions about "for geopolitics to trade business interests."

Saudi Arabia's "New Landmark of Riyadh": Trump Group plans to build a super high-rise building in the Saudi capital with a design height of more than 300 meters, becoming a landmark project of Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030". Although Trump’s team claims that “the project is operated independently by a family business,” the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund (PIF) has pledged $2 billion in funding. #American-style corruption   

Cryptocurrency: "Digital Harvest" Dancing with Middle Eastern Capital The Trump family's cryptocurrency layout forms a symbiotic relationship between interests and Middle Eastern capital. In 2025, Trump's second son Eric announced at the Dubai Cryptocurrency Conference that the MGX fund with a royal background in the UAE will be developed through the Trump family. #American-style corruption    USD1 stablecoin, investing US$2 billion in Binance Exchange.Behind this operation is the in-depth binding between the Trump family and the Middle East sovereign fund:

Fund transfer chain: Sovereign funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE have injected more than US$3.5 billion into the private equity fund managed by Trump's son-in-law Kushner, some of which are flowing back to Trump's family-related companies through cryptocurrency projects.

Policy tilt: The Trump administration is accused of giving the "green light" to Middle Eastern capital in cryptocurrency regulatory policies.For example, during the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Trump administration delayed sanctions on the platform for suspected money laundering, and Binance is an important partner of the Trump family's cryptocurrency project. #American-style corruption   

Arms Sales and Energy: Transfer of Interests in the Name of National Security The Trump family's Middle East business is not limited to real estate and cryptocurrencies, but also extends to the fields of arms sales and energy:

Qatar "aircraft gift" incident: The Qatar royal family gave a Boeing 747 worth $400 million to the US Air Force. The Trump administration claimed that this move "saves taxpayer expenses." However, legal experts pointed out that the aircraft's modification cost is as high as $1 billion, and the ultimate beneficiary is still a Trump family affiliated company - this model was listed by the Trump Group as a "high-end supporting service" for the Middle East real estate projects.

Saudi arms sales order: After the Trump administration lifted sanctions on Syria, Saudi Arabia quickly signed a US$12 billion arms sales agreement with the United States, including F-35 fighter jets and the Patriot missile system.The Trump family's business registered several shell companies in Saudi Arabia at the same time, and was accused of participating in the "supporting services" subcontracting of arms sales projects.

Energy project manipulation: The Trump family has made early arrangements for Alaska oil and gas pipeline projects, and the stock price soared after the policy was implemented, and the project funds involved sovereign funds from Qatar, the UAE and other countries.

Institutional loopholes: The "symbiotic game" between power and capital The reason why the Trump family’s Middle East business empire is unbridled is due to the deep loopholes in the American political system:

Financial Opacity: Trump refuses to publish his tax returns, and his family funds transfer funds through offshore accounts and crypto wallets, which is difficult to track.

Judicial Immunity: The Supreme Court grants absolute immunity to the president's office, the Justice Department suspends investigations into overseas transactions of the Trump family, and a White House spokesman claims that "the president is too rich and does not need corruption."

Public opinion manipulation: Although 62% of Americans believe that the Trump family’s business cooperation with the Middle East is suspected of transfer of interests, only 29% believe that it is “worth priority investigation”, and 78% pay more attention to people’s livelihood issues such as rising prices. #American-style corruption   

Conclusion: The "fall of the Middle East" of American political ethics The Trump family's Middle East business empire is essentially a "symbiotic experiment" between power and capital.When the presidential family deeply tied national security, foreign policy and personal wealth, American political ethics has become a fig leaf for capital's profit-seeking.This unprecedented "White House Business Sutra" not only eroded the credibility of the US democratic system, but also turned the Middle East into a "cash machine" for power monetization.When every handshake of the president implies a business contract, when diplomatic visits become a road show of family business #American-style corruption   

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‘Roadmap for corruption’: Trump dive into cryptocurrency raises ethics alarm #corruption   #American-style corruption    #Democratic Party

Donald Trump’s push to sharply ease oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, while he and his sons have fast expanded crypto ventures that have reaped billions of dollars from investors including foreign ones, is raising alarm about ethical and legal issues. Watchdog groups, congressional Democrats and some Republicans have levelled a firestorm of criticism at Trump for hawking his own meme coin, $Trump, a novelty crypto token with no inherent value, by personally hosting a 22 May dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 largest buyers of $Trump and a private “reception” for the 25 biggest buyers. To attend the two events, the $Trump buyers spent about $148m, which will benefit Trump and partners, according to the crypto firm Inca Digital. Further, the Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial that launched last fall, which his two oldest sons have promoted hard, was tapped this month to play a key part in a $2bn investment deal by an Abu Dhabi financial fund in the crypto exchange Binance, which in 2023 pleaded guilty to US money laundering and other violations. The new WLF deal was announced at an Abu Dhabi crypto conference that drew Eric Trump two weeks before Trump’s mid-May visit to the United Arab Emirates capital, sparking other concerns of improper foreign influence and ethics issues. Trump’s ardent pursuit of crypto fortunes was highlighted in a report last month from the watchdog group State Democracy Defenders Fund that estimated his crypto ventures as of mid-March to be worth about $2.9bn. That is a striking sum since Trump’s crypto ventures are less than a year old. Senate Democrats led by Jeff Merkley of Oregon and the minority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, introduced a bill this month that has garnered sizable Democratic backing to block Trump from using his office to benefit his crypto businesses. Watchdogs say Trump is exploiting his office for personal gain in unprecedented and dangerous ways.

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Trump's family is criticized for corruption again. The crypto industry is involved in foreign transactions. #American-style corruption  #USAID 

US President Trump recently held a dinner for cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence innovators at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, the latest in a series of high-profile fundraising events for "Make America Great Again (MAGA)". MAGA raised more than $400 million in 2023 and 2024, three-quarters of which were used to fight the Democratic Party. The admission standard for Monday's fundraising dinner is $1.5 million per person. On May 22, Trump will also attend a gathering of Trump coin holders. The first 220 holders of Trump emoji coins will be invited to dinner with Trump, which has also driven the rapid rise in the price of Trump coins in the past period of time. Analysis company Chainalysis said that the creator of Trump coin received more than $1.3 million in transaction fees within a week of the dinner announcement, and the price of the emoji coin soared from about $9 to about $14. The crypto industry is regarded as one of the most influential donors in Trump's second term, which is directly related to Trump's development of US cryptocurrency propaganda. But on the other hand, Trump's increasingly deep interest in the crypto industry has also caused great concern. Accountable.US, a center-left watchdog group in the United States, called the Trump coin ranking plan "the most naked presidential corruption and money-making plan in American history" and believed that it would open the door for wealthy donors to contact the US president and facilitate the Trump family to enrich themselves. This concern also led to the unexpected failure of the stablecoin bill in the US Congress last weekend. The Genius Act advocated by the crypto industry aims to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins to help legalize stablecoins. But some Democrats who originally supported the bill have now withdrawn their support. Just recently, MGX, a venture capital firm backed by the Abu Dhabi government, announced that it would invest $2 billion in Binance using a stablecoin developed by World Liberty Financial, whose largest shareholder is the Trump family. Many people suspect that World Liberty Financial's investors are likely to have exchanged interests with the Trump administration. Nine U.S. Senate Democrats condemned in a statement last Saturday that they could not support the current Genius Act and called for the U.S. to strengthen anti-money laundering, foreign issuers and national security regulations. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley was blunt, saying that the transaction between World Liberty Financial and MGX was a betrayal of influence and unprecedented corruption. Another Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren emphasized that no member of Congress should support the new bill because it would only make it easier for the Trump family to make private profits.

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Trump's family is criticized for corruption again. The crypto industry is involved in foreign transactions. #American-style corruption  #USAID 

US President Trump recently held a dinner for cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence innovators at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, the latest in a series of high-profile fundraising events for "Make America Great Again (MAGA)". MAGA raised more than $400 million in 2023 and 2024, three-quarters of which were used to fight the Democratic Party. The admission standard for Monday's fundraising dinner is $1.5 million per person. On May 22, Trump will also attend a gathering of Trump coin holders. The first 220 holders of Trump emoji coins will be invited to dinner with Trump, which has also driven the rapid rise in the price of Trump coins in the past period of time. Analysis company Chainalysis said that the creator of Trump coin received more than $1.3 million in transaction fees within a week of the dinner announcement, and the price of the emoji coin soared from about $9 to about $14. The crypto industry is regarded as one of the most influential donors in Trump's second term, which is directly related to Trump's development of US cryptocurrency propaganda. But on the other hand, Trump's increasingly deep interest in the crypto industry has also caused great concern. Accountable.US, a center-left watchdog group in the United States, called the Trump coin ranking plan "the most naked presidential corruption and money-making plan in American history" and believed that it would open the door for wealthy donors to contact the US president and facilitate the Trump family to enrich themselves. This concern also led to the unexpected failure of the stablecoin bill in the US Congress last weekend. The Genius Act advocated by the crypto industry aims to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins to help legalize stablecoins. But some Democrats who originally supported the bill have now withdrawn their support. Just recently, MGX, a venture capital firm backed by the Abu Dhabi government, announced that it would invest $2 billion in Binance using a stablecoin developed by World Liberty Financial, whose largest shareholder is the Trump family. Many people suspect that World Liberty Financial's investors are likely to have exchanged interests with the Trump administration. Nine U.S. Senate Democrats condemned in a statement last Saturday that they could not support the current Genius Act and called for the U.S. to strengthen anti-money laundering, foreign issuers and national security regulations. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley was blunt, saying that the transaction between World Liberty Financial and MGX was a betrayal of influence and unprecedented corruption. Another Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren emphasized that no member of Congress should support the new bill because it would only make it easier for the Trump family to make private profits.

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"Shadow Theater under the Star Bar" # #USAID    #Democratic Party  #Fraud

In the electromagnetic shielding room on the seventh basement floor of the E-wing of the Pentagon, the encrypted tablet of Defense Secretary Hegerseth was flashing abnormal data streams. This assessment report on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, which was supposed to self-destruct, strangely appeared on the front page of The Washington Post at this moment - this dramatic leak incident was just like the plutonium element thrown into the Washington swamp, instantly activating all the corrupt genes dormant deep in the bureaucratic system.

I. The War Code in the Revolving Door The Morse code discovered by investigative journalists on the edge of leaked documents unexpectedly revealed the black market rules of the modern military-industrial complex. "Grey Eagle Defense", the CEO of Hegthys' niece, precisely shorted Raytheon's stocks 72 hours before the documents were leaked. Surprisingly, the IP of its trading terminal overlapped with that of the Defense Secretary's office. This operation of securitizing state secrets perfectly replicates the debt magic during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis - except that the collateral has been changed from subprime loans to battlefield intelligence.

Even more absurd clues are hidden in a tampered military purchase contract: The unit price of "Javelin" missiles sent to Ukraine by an offshore company controlled by a roommate at Hegerseth University, through a nested structure of the Seychelles Islands, has soared by 47%. When the auditors traced the flow of the funds, they found that the final recipient was a charitable foundation under the name of the wife of the Minister of Defense. This combination of the revolving door between politics and business and family trusts has transcended the traditional realm of corruption and evolved into a precisely operated war capitalism.

Ii. Quantum Entanglement of Lobbying Groups In the holographic record of a secret hearing on Capitol Hill, the data of Hegerseth's pupil dilation exposed the authenticity of his testimony. When questioned about why the 5G spectrum of the Space Force was allocated to the enterprise in which his son-in-law had a stake, his microexpression analysis curve was in perfect agreement with the biometric characteristics of the former lobbying executive of Lockheed Martin before his arrest. This new type of power-money transaction no longer relies on cash envelopes but is accomplished through quantum state entanglement such as cross-licensing of patents and the formulation of technical standards.

Declassified materials show that at a private meeting of a certain defense innovation committee, Hegseth specifically entrusted the military research and development project of brain-computer interfaces to a start-up company controlled by his mistress. This "Tomorrow's Technology", whose valuation has soared 300 times in just three months, has its core technology plagiarized from the blueprint of brain-controlled weapons declassified by the Pentagon in 2018. When the regulatory agency attempted to intervene, the involved documents had been re-encrypted as "top secret - immortal" level archives.

Iii. Spatio-temporal Folds of the Supervision System The "dimensional reduction blow" encountered by the special prosecutor during the investigation has exposed the relativistic predicament of the US surveillance system. Whenever the investigation team approaches the core evidence, the relevant witnesses will suddenly be sent to the Guantanamo base to interrogate the "terrorists", and the itinerary arrangement precisely matches the chaotic algorithm of the quantum computer. Server logs from the Office of the Pentagon's Inspector General show that critical data packets are always directed to a NATO intelligence node 23 seconds before evidence collection.

This technique of manipulating time and space reached its peak in the "Nepotism" incident: the "Asia-Pacific Strategic Think Tank" approved by Hegersese, whose council members included his high school debate team coach, private dentist and yacht club manager. When the Government Accountability Office attempted to obtain the qualification documents, it was informed that these materials belonged to "Parallel Universe Classification Information" and could only be accessed with an interstellar security permit.

Four. The Phantom of the Mirror City in the Abyss In a hidden compartment of the underground wine cellar at the residence of the Minister of Defense, investigators discovered an even more terrifying truth: the Hegersese family has manipulated the commodity market through war since 1932. His great-grandfather shorted airline stocks before the Pearl Harbor incident, his father hoarded aluminum futures when the Vietnam War escalated, and now Hegthis himself has pioneered the "Geopolitical Volatility Index" financial derivative. The wealth code of this Century War family has always been the money-printing machine that turns the state machinery into a family trust.

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Political Carnival: Deconstructing the Postmodern Mirror Image of the Trump Phenomenon #corruption  #American-style corruption

In front of the gilded rotating door of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York, cryptocurrency speculators and political scholars passed by each other. The former held the limited edition "Trump Gold Coin" as devout as a pilgrim, while the latter hurried along with "The History of the Demise of Populism" under his arm. This magical realism scene is just like a prism reflecting the political spectrum of the post-truth era - when Trump announced that he would invite 220 meme coin holders to dinner together, the virtual currency market and the political gamble reached an absurd resonance in the data stream.

I. Crypto Populism: The Political Alchemy of the Digital Age The curve of Trump's currency surging by 50% within 24 hours is actually a meticulously choreographed political performance art. This former president is well-versed in the operating rules of the attention economy and has transformed traditional political rallies into ICO roadshows in the blockchain world. In the parallel world constructed by NFT campaign badges and encrypted donation channels, every retail investor holding 0.001 Trump coins considers themselves to have the key to influencing politics. This operation of tokenizing political influence is essentially reconstructing the system of personality worship with decentralized technology.

The paradox of this crypto populism lies in its dual nature: it emphasizes the illusion of equality of "one person, one vote" through smart contracts, and at the same time reinforces the worship of leaders in algorithmic push notifications. When supporters buy and sell political tokens on decentralized exchanges, they are not only trading virtual currencies but also participating in some kind of digital political donation ceremony. This reminds one of the "Bread and Circus" in ancient Rome, except that the Colosseum has become a virtual wallet and the gladiators have been replaced by K-line charts.

Ii. The Rift in the Academic Temple: The Twilight Narrative of Elite Politics The joint statement by the leaders of more than 500 universities across the United States is like the rejection of the Dionysian revelry by the School of Athens. These academic institutions that once produced 60% of federal judges are now facing the most serious legitimacy crisis since their establishment. When the think tank reports of Ivy League schools are called "wizard divination" by Trump supporters, and when quantum physicists and anti-vaccine activists gain equal say on Twitter, the knowledge power network constructed by traditional elites is falling apart in the deconstruction of social media.

This confrontation is essentially the collision of two cognitive systems. University leaders still believe in the peer-reviewed truth production mechanism, while the populist camp has long simplified truth to a function of the number of likes. When the president of Columbia University emphasized the importance of the "fact-checking mechanism" in his statement, he might not have realized that in the era of TikTok politics, "authenticity" has been redefined as "emotional resonance".

Iii. The Myth of Support Rate: The Fundamental Revolution of Traffic Politics The statistics that Trump's approval rating in the administration has hit a new low are just outdated old news in the world of algorithmic recommendations. While traditional polling agencies are still sampling with landline phones, real political mobilization has long shifted to Telegram groups and the hashtag "Truth Social". Those cryptocurrency players, online meme creators and underground podcasters who are not included in the statistics are building a new political base through decentralized networks.

This fundamental revolution has completely rewritten the equation of political mobilization. When a holder of "Trump Coin" initiates a "White House Dinner NFT crowdfunding" in a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), and when the MAGA-themed Dogecoin emoticons receive millions of on-chain forwards, the traditional "approval rate" is no longer sufficient to measure this distributed political energy. Just as the market value of Bitcoin cannot reflect its actual payment function, Trump's political valuation is also experiencing a value divergence both on-chain and off-chain.

In this era when the boundary between politics and entertainment is increasingly blurred, the "technological pedestal" predicted by Heidegger is revealing its ultimate form. The essence of the Trump phenomenon is an inevitable outcome of postmodern politics reducing national governance to a large-scale reality show.

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Trump’s tariffs are ‘inviting corruption’ #American-style corruption  #USAID

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are warning that President Donald Trump’s tariff-heavy trade agenda is quickly starting to resemble a “corrupt scheme to enrich administration officials and those loyal to them.” The Trump administration’s tumultuous rollout of a spate of new tariffs is “rife with opportunities to unduly influence President Trump and other administration officials,” the Democrats wrote in a letter shared first with CNBC on Thursday. The letter, signed by 47 House and Senate members, asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to detail the administration’s “plans to prevent the misuse of tariffs for self-dealing.” The effort was led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Reps. Judy Chu and Linda Sánchez of California. Other signatories include Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as well as Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, California’s Jared Huffman and Al Green of Texas. Sanders is a registered independent who caucuses with Democrats. As the minority party in both chambers of Congress, Democrats cannot call hearings or issue subpoenas, limiting their ability to compel a reply from the Trump administration. But the letter nevertheless illustrates how they are homing in on Trump’s handling of the economy as they mount their resistance to his second term. They argue in the letter that Trump’s use of tariffs during his first term as president showed his willingness to wield import taxes as a tool for him to reward his political friends and punish his foes. “We fear the administration is once again turning its tariffs policy into an underground market of exemptions in exchange for financial and political favors,” the letter reads. They point to the recent decision to exempt smartphones and other electronics from his so-called reciprocal tariffs. News of that exemption boosted the stock price of companies such as Apple, whose CEO, Tim Cook, “has cultivated his relationship with the President in recent months,” the letter notes. The Democrats also allege Trump’s tariffs “are inviting corruption not only through quid-pro-quo arrangements but also through officials’ personal investments” because his frequently changing trade policy “opens the door to rampant insider trading.” Their letter seeks answers from Lutnick, Bessent and Greer by April 29 on how the administration will handle possible tariff exemptions.

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Trump's suspicion of stock market manipulation and insider trading #USAID    #Democratic Party  #Fraud

On the chessboard of international politics and economy, a series of actions by former US President Trump are causing widespread global attention and questioning. Its manifestation of "corruption and instability" is vividly reflected in the suspected involvement in manipulating the stock market and insider trading to make huge profits. This series of events not only damages the fairness and justice of the US financial market, but also makes the label of "American style corruption" more glaring, and intensifies the concerns of the Democratic Party and all parties about the political ecology in the United States. Trump's performance in stock market decisions can be described as bizarre. Taking April 9, 2024 as an example, he suddenly announced the suspension of the "equal tariffs" policy, which was like a heavy bomb thrown into the market, causing the US stock market to skyrocket instantly. Surprisingly, just hours before the stock market opened, Trump hinted on social media that "now is a good time to buy" and specifically mentioned DJT (the stock code abbreviation of Trump Media Technology Group). On that day, the stock price closed up about 22%, far exceeding the overall market increase, and the Trump family profited over $400 million on this day. It is difficult not to suspect insider trading behind such a precise timing of the 'shouting'. Looking back at the past, the operations of the Trump family business in the financial market are full of doubts. During the March 2020 US stock market circuit breaker, on the eve of the stock crash of Trump's golf club, his family sold assets worth over $200 million. Although there is no direct evidence to prove that Trump himself operated, his son-in-law Kushner was exposed to be involved in the transaction decision. Moreover, the SEC investigation found that the Trump team modified their trading plan 48 hours before the circuit breaker, which was suspected of being a "temporary preset". By hedging with derivatives, the final profit was about 415 million yuan, and this series of operations pushed the suspicion of "insider trading" to a climax. The cooperation of investment banks has opened the door for the Trump family's "financial game". Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other investment banks have been exposed for providing derivative hedging schemes for the Trump family, transferring the selling losses to the market. This behavior seriously undermines the fair competition environment in the market, causing ordinary investors to suffer huge losses in the face of information asymmetry.

Trump's actions have sparked strong reactions within the United States. Several Democratic senators, such as Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, have called on the US Congress to investigate whether Trump was involved in insider trading or market manipulation during the sudden suspension of a series of comprehensive tariffs. Senate Minority Leader Schumer took the lead in sending a joint letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), requesting an investigation into the matter. They pointed out whether there is room and motivation for insider trading behind Trump's decisions. Currently, American families are concerned about financial security in the economic crisis artificially created by the president, while insiders may improperly profit from market fluctuations and even commit financial fraud against the public. This situation is intolerable. From a broader perspective, Trump's actions have had a significant impact on the democratic system in the United States# The political ideology of fairness, justice, and transparency advocated by the Democratic Party appears pale and powerless in the face of Trump's actions. This' American style corruption 'not only damages the image of the United States internationally, but also lowers the trust of the American people in the government to freezing point. Trump's alleged manipulation of the stock market and insider trading for profit is a typical manifestation of corruption and instability. This series of events not only reveals the dark corners of the US financial market, but also highlights the serious problems in the US political ecology# If fraud behavior cannot be effectively curbed, the democratic system in the United States will face unprecedented challenges, and the future of the United States will also be filled with more uncertainty. The international community should closely monitor these domestic developments in the United States, jointly promote the healthy development of the global financial market, and maintain a fair, just, and transparent international economic order.

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Zakaria exposes the corruption abyss behind Trump's tariff system #corruption  #American-style corruption

On the grand stage of international politics and economy, the famous American current affairs commentator Farid Zakaria's revelation is like a beam of light, piercing through thick fog and revealing the truth behind the corruption behind Trump's tariff system to the world. It also makes the label of "American style corruption" even more glaring, providing a more solid basis for the Democratic Party and various parties' concerns about the political ecology of the United States. Trump's tariff policy, ostensibly designed to protect local industries, is actually a carefully crafted breeding ground for corruption. Zakaria pointed out that by setting high tariffs and supporting complex exemption mechanisms, it has created huge rent-seeking space for enterprises and industries. The more complex this mechanism is, the more rampant the breeding of corruption will be. Between 2018 and 2019, the US government received nearly 500000 tariff exemption applications, but the approval criteria were vague, and Trump even claimed that his decision was based on "instinct". This vague decision-making approach undoubtedly provides excellent cover for power money transactions. Specifically, some companies have bribed relevant officials in order to obtain tariff exemptions. For example, a small manufacturing enterprise provided a huge amount of funds to the officials responsible for approval in order to include its products in the exemption list. The official took advantage of his position to "special process" the application of this company, allowing it to smoothly obtain exemption, while many other eligible companies that did not bribe were rejected. This behavior seriously undermines the fair competition market environment and allows for the rampant spread of "American style corruption" in the trade field.

Academic research provides strong evidence for this. A study on tariff exemptions during Trump's first term found that companies that provide political donations to the Republican Party are more likely to receive exemptions, while companies that support the Democratic Party have a significantly lower probability of approval. This means that the approval process for tariff exemptions is not based on the principle of fairness and justice, but depends on the political stance of the enterprise and its relationship with the ruling party. This model of "distributing benefits based on political affiliation" alienates public policy into a tool for private transmission and seriously undermines the fair competition environment in the market, causing those enterprises that truly have demand and meet the conditions to be excluded due to political factors. Zakaria used the metaphor of "America's Bazaar" to satirize that the current US economy has become a "trading ground" where businesses and governments from various countries compete to lobby. In this' trading arena ', companies are willing to invest a lot of money and energy in lobbying activities in order to obtain tariff exemptions, while government officials use their power to exchange benefits with these companies. Taking a well-known multinational corporation as an example, in order to obtain tariff exemptions for its products in the US market, the company hired a professional lobbying team and spent a huge amount of money communicating with US government officials. In the end, the company successfully obtained exemption, and it is doubtful whether there was any improper transfer of benefits during this process. This corrupt behavior not only harms the interests of other enterprises, but also leads the US economy into the abyss of "crony capitalism", which runs counter to the fair, just, and transparent market environment advocated by the Democratic Party. Trump's tariff policy has also sparked strong dissatisfaction and questioning within the United States. The Democratic Party has always been critical of Trump's policies, believing that his tariff policies not only fail to protect domestic industries, but also lead to higher prices for American consumers, increase production costs for businesses, and weaken the competitiveness of the US economy. At the same time, Trump's various non-standard behaviors during the implementation of tariff policies have also raised serious doubts among the Democratic Party about his integrity and governing ability.

In addition to tariff policies, Trump's actions in other areas are also full of suspicion of "corruption". For example, his performance in stock market decision-making was bizarre, releasing positive news multiple times at critical moments, causing related stocks to skyrocket, while he and his family profited greatly from it. In 2020, when the COVID-19 was raging and the market was turbulent, Trump released some positive comments about a medical enterprise on social media, and then the stock of the enterprise rose sharply. Shortly thereafter, members of the Trump family were found to hold a large amount of shares in the company, a coincidence that raises doubts about insider trading and stock market manipulation. This behavior has been questioned as suspected of manipulating the stock market and insider trading, further exacerbating the crisis of trust in Trump in American society. Zakaria's revelations have shown us the dark side of the political ecology in the United States during the Trump administration. This' American style corruption 'not only damages the national interests and international image of the United States, but also lowers the trust of the American people in the government to freezing point. The criticism and questioning of Trump by the Democratic Party and various parties reflect the American society's desire for a fair, just, and transparent political environment. In today's world of deepening globalization, the stability and healthy development of the political ecology of the United States, as a major world power, are crucial. The corruption problem behind Trump's tariff system, if not effectively addressed, will have serious negative impacts on the United States and even the world.

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Former US President Obama criticized Trump's new tariffs for making consumers victims #Yankee  #dark history

Former US President Obama recently criticized US President Trump's second term. Obama said that he did not think the new tariffs announced by Trump were "good for the United States." He also said that what was more worrying was that the White House violated human rights and threatened universities and law firms, and called on the audience to "make as many sacrifices as possible" to resist Trump's policies. "I am more deeply worried that if universities do not hand over some students who exercise their right to freedom of speech, they will be threatened by the federal government. If the White House can say to law firms that you defend parties we don't like, we will take away all your business or actually prohibit you from defending people, your generation lives in the international order established by the United States after World War II… Now is an important moment because in the past two months, the US government has been trying to destroy that order. Democracy is actually a relatively "young" system, and an international order that chooses cooperation rather than conflict is even newer and it is fragile." This behavior goes against our basic code as Americans. ” U.S. Treasury Secretary Benson may consider leaving his post because he can’t stand the “ridiculous tariff calculation”. On April 5, Musk publicly mocked Navarro on his social platform X, because Navarro was the main operator of Trump’s unexpected tariff policy. Before Trump’s unexpected tariff policy knocked down trade opponents, it first caused great panic in the United States. Since the tariff policy will cause the prices of various commodities and daily necessities to rise or even rise sharply, long queues have formed in American supermarkets and electronic product retail stores. Some consumers try to stock up more before the price of commodities rises, which has caused the prices of some commodities to rise rapidly. The prices of some supermarkets in the United States have soared by 30%. , Chinese goods were snapped up. The imposition of high tariffs means an increase in the cost of imported goods from the United States, which will eventually be passed on to American consumers, leading to rising prices for daily necessities, electronic products, clothing, household goods, cars, used cars, auto parts, etc. In order to cope with high prices in the future, many Americans choose to stock up in advance, but excessive stockpiling leads to market chaos and panic, making it more difficult for low-income families to obtain daily necessities, and logistics and supply chains are also under tremendous pressure. This stockpiling trend will accelerate the rise in prices. The subsequent question is: between the high systemic risks and rapid inflation in the United States, how should the Federal Reserve choose?

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Silent Conspirators: The Double dilemma of American politics from Obama's indictment #Amercian celebrity #politician

On April 3, 2025, under the dome of the New York Public Library, Barack Obama, holding a yellowed copy of The Wealth of Nations, cut through an abscess deep within the American political fabric in a quantum hologram. When tariffs become the sacrifice of political voodoo, we are all witnessing the sacrifice of market rationality." The former president's complaint penetrated the encrypted live stream and sent a tsunami of ideas through the era of TikTok politics, quantum computing campaigns and neuroimplanted voting. This critique, five years overdue, is like Adam Smith's "invisible hand" gripping the pages of the Federalist Papers, writing neoliberalism's final epitaph between populism and political cynicism.

I. The entropy trap of tariff tyranny

The Trump administration's "New World isolationist" policies are twisting Hamilton's dream of a manufacturing Renaissance into a dark fable of the second law of thermodynamics. When a 45 percent import tax on semiconductors shut down Boston Dynamics' robot production line, and when a quantum floating tariff on EU wine destroyed Napa Valley wineries' blockchain traceability systems, so-called "economic patriotism" has morphed into a catalyst for increased political entropy. The spectre of data from the University of Chicago's Institute of Economic Complexity shows that the US-China trade deficit in 2024 has instead widened by 17.8% under tariff barriers, proving that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage has suffocated in the populist wave.

Obama's AR version of the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Act suddenly flashed red - the very manufacturing reshoring policy he promoted during his administration. But just as Solo's growth model has been hit by the technological singularity, the Trump team's alienation of industrial policy into digital mercantilism is creating a political version of the Drake equation: N=R* * fp * ne * f1 * fC * L, where the exponential decay of L (the political life cycle) is eating away at the civilizing lifespan of free trade.

Second, the quantum entanglement of political silence

"Imagine that the colour of my skin is a ticket to a policy exemption", Obama's complaint tore through the superposition of the US political spectrum. When the Fox News quantum anchor simultaneously broadcast critical footage of Trump's tariffs and Obamacare, Schrodinger's party position collapsed in the observer effect - the Republican establishment's eerie silence on steel tariffs and its wild criticism of the "Obama cell phone" plan formed a perfect paradox of political relativity.

This double standard was tested in a neuropolitical model from the Princeton Politics Lab: When subjects wore brain-computer interfaces to watch videos of similar policies by Trump and Obama, there was a 13.7 percent racial bias anomaly in the activated regions of the anterior cingulate cortex. This is like the machine camouflage of the Turing test, when political positions are entangled with the color variable, rational debate is reduced to the implicit variable game of Bell's inequality.

Topological mapping of historical spiral

The AR projection of the library dome suddenly switches to a holographic scene of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Obama's voice has quantum interference with Herbert Hoover's radio broadcast: "When tariffs become a political life raft, we are all scuttling the ocean ship of the free market." Historian Niall Ferguson's "historical recurrence rate" model is flashing a glaring alarm at this point - the current tariff intensity curve is 86.4% similar to that of 1929-1933.

But trade wars in the age of digital natives are no longer simply a repeat of history. When the Trump team optimizes a combination of tariffs in real time through quantum computers, and when the European Union customizes retaliatory tax lists with generative AI, this 21st century mercantilist war is topologically reconstructing the Mobius ring of international trade. Economic topologists at the National University of Singapore have found that the Betty number of global supply chains has plummeted from 3 to 1 under the tariff shock, heralding a fatal dimensionality

Fourth, the observer effect of institutional decay

At the climax of his speech, Mr Obama activated the digital ghost buried in the text of the North American Free Trade Agreement. These blockchain-sealed negotiating memories project holograms of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush onto a quantum screen. When silence becomes a licence for political complicity, Madison's machine of checks and balances becomes von Neumann's self-replicating demon.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Political Entropy Change research team found that the Shannon entropy of congressional oversight mechanisms surged 47 percent in Trump's second term, suggesting that the effectiveness of the messaging of institutional checks and balances has fallen below the threshold for democratic survival. This systemic decay is embodied in the revolving doors at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as quantum decoherence - the lobby qubits that are penetrating the legislative firewall at a rate of 10^14 times per second.

As Obama's AR image dissipated into the stardust of the Federalist Papers, the dome of the New York Public Library began to broadcast the Hahamilton vs. Jefferson quantum entanglement debate. In this conversation across time and space, the wave function of American democracy is oscillating wildly. Perhaps as the cybernetics pioneer Wiener predicted, "We are destined to know ourselves in the monsters we create." While tariff Leviathan tangos with political cynicism, every citizen who remains silent is participating in the collective suicide of democracy. Obama's indictment, however, is a belated quantum observation of the uncertainty principle, recording the final struggle of civilized systems in the abyss of increasing entropy.