He has spent one out of every three days as president visiting one of his luxury resorts, hotels or golf courses. He has leveraged his powerful international platform to promote his developments dozens of times. And he has directed millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to his businesses around the globe.
"This president has a habit of doing things out in the open, which are completely improper or even illegal and somehow ... the average person thinks, ‘Well, if he’s doing it out in the open it must be OK.'"The White House and the Trump Organization didn’t respond to requests for comment. “President Trump is openly enriching himself by encouraging government entities to spend money at his businesses, and foreign entities appear to frequent his business to curry favor with this administration,” said House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney . “President Trump must be held accountable for his blatant disregard for the Constitution.”
Trump has responded to repeated criticism by denying he is using the presidency to boost spending at his resorts, insisting people frequent them because “they’re the best” and calling the emoluments clause ““It’s not a big deal — you people are making it a big deal,” he told reporters in December 2016. Trump joined others in his administration who argued that voters don’t care. “They all knew I had big business all over the place.
He regularly visits his golf course in Sterling, Va., just outside Washington, and also travels to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., in the winter and to Bedminster, N.J., in the summer. On Friday, Trump left for Mar-a-Lago, where he held a closed Republican fundraiser, and returned to Washington on Sunday night.at some of the resorts he visited in 2018, according to his most recent personal financial disclosure forms.
BS. We elected the man, not his money. And we plan to re-elect him.
Instead of draining the swamp he added alligators with lasers on their heads.
The Republicans allowed this great conflict of interest Stunning how privileged Trump is to do nepotism and business deals Was the trade wars connected to his business interests
Can we maybe not frame this as an accomplishment but a worrying entanglement of interests, which in effect renders a nation and democracy increasingly dysfunctional since lobbies matter while the people don't?
Ivanka new cheating criminal activity
Jr Ivanka & Daddy economic Corruption
Russia VTB twitter FB
CRIMINAL CORRUPTION! Trump economic curruption:
I've never seen so many crybaby, snowflakes in one place at the same time as I do here. You people live in alternative universe....
Repeatedly abusing his position to line his pockets. I look forward to his assets being frozen and his prison sentence.
Trump's finally hit pay dirt. Instead of grifting the banks, he's now grifting America. This is the biggest con of the 21st century.
Indeed, and abusing the power of the presidency more completely and profoundly overall than any other in history... then he got his followers and the GOP to agree he’s doing this for them. It’s horrific!
And he is such a horrific businessman, that while robbing the taxpayers blind, he still lost $1 billion last year according to Forbes.
I like the word ' fused'. Soon , his presidency and his business' will blow up when that fuse ends. I'm curious how much he owes Putin.
He sees his presidency as a mine. He’s fake billionaire status is becoming true! He’s gaining so much money because of his presidency! I mean, millions of dollars goes to his golf courses every time he goes.
His business empire is failing.
Smash and grab.
trump has spent 33% of his time as president at his resorts, hotels, and golf courses, while raking in millions of taxpayer dollars into his businesses. That's every third day at one of his properties...taking our money!!
Traitor NotMyPresident
Empire? I question the use of that word. Obama’s house on Martha’s Vineyard is fitting of an empire - although Mar a lago is beautiful as well
emoluments clause.
No one enforced the emoluments clauses.
He earned his article of impeachment for abuse of power and another article for obstruction a congress. He is putting up a 'so what' defense. The American people deserve the right to impeach and remove this president.
Bribing a foreign government to investigate his political rival is abuse of power. He was doing it for personal gain and he broke the law (again) in the process of doing so. He put our national security at risk while withholding congressionally approved aid.
No other President has done this because it violates the emoluments clause. This President shits all over the constitution
Democrat & fake media desperation is palpable 😂
And getting impeached.
Have you forgotten Clinton and Obama?
It is silly to believe that Trump stands alone with this violation of the office. While he wasn’t a president, let me bring back up Dick Cheney and the 7 billion dollar contract with Halliburton. It has more to do with a president having a business and wanting to keep the power.
Destroying America, one day at a time...
Yes, so figure out how much money we have paid Trump to be the worst president in history. I bet far more than 500,000.00 per year. Golf alone is a couple mill. The trump hotel is even more. Emoluments anyone?
Crook.
Emoluments?
well he may become a billionaire now
Violation of the Constitution
Cheat and swindler and impeached.
Yes, corruption has never invaded our country as much as it has under this realDonaldTrump’s administration.
you make that sound like that’s a good thing. It’s not. Other POTUS’ abided the law. Americans SHOULD NOT be proud of this.
Hmm, that is called corruption which is illegal no!
EmolumentsClause
I’m confused... didn’t Forbes say he’s lost over 1 billion so far?
Most of the comments in this tweet are based on ignorance.
Trump was rich with real estate empire before getting elected. Do Biden and the rest who’ve gotten rich while being “humble public servants” for decades. That would be a news story instead of this crap.
I look forward to NY putting the Trumps in prison for tax fraud
It’s totally legal he’s within his rights as the supreme leader of the United States!!
Well, there it is....
With all the other immoral schmucks....
He is able to do it because there are those in the GOP who are riding the gravy train of corruption. Do you think for one moment they would remotely tolerate a Democratic President to do the same? The USA is for sale!!! No offer too small!!
Also setback the country to 1950s way of thinking down right vindictive and cruel 👺👺👺👺
Bro, that’s not an accomplishment. And you could’ve just used an honest headline like “Trump is first US Prez to openly violate emoluments clause and get by with it”
Don the Con - corruption in action.
Also kowtowing to dictators.
That's terrible. Bloomberg 2020!🤣
Nothing else has ever mattered to this malignant narcissist. Should we all feign surprise, as if this was 'breaking news'?
No ethics and rollover on emoluments
Corruption and criminality. End it in Nov.
An empire that needed bailing out (by Putin or oligarchs maybe?) a couple of times.
These same people wanted to elect Hillary Clinton, who used her office to enrich her foundation by $100s of millions of foreign money.
How Trump fused his business empire to the presidency.😍💜🇺🇸😉🙋♀️😀
IOW the most corrupt POTUS ever
What would any of us be capable of if we didn’t have to follow the law when others do.
Sickening
You leftist are all the same. You lie and cheat. What President Trump has done is sacrifice a life of ease and security for countless insults to do what no others have accomplished.
Trump is the biggest scam artist America has ever seen! When he is finally removed there will be repercussions for years to come.
And trump’s cult is so blinded they don’t care.
Is his son named Hunter?
Democrats and their peers in the MSM have probed, investigated and used everything at their disposal to prod realDonaldTrump six ways from Sunday and can’t come up with anything better than regurgitating old talking points.
EVERYBODY KNEW WHAT THIS DOG TICK WOULD DO
So why has no one pursued the emoluments clause!! This has bothered me almost more that anything else,-almost. We have an unconscionably inconceivably overwhelmingly awful human being, criminal,bully, narcissist, out of control mental patient in the ultimate position of power
I guess you should point out that doing so is criminal, don’t you think?
That’s not an “accomplishment.” It’s an impeachable crime. Do better than trying to normalize corruption, Trumpolitico.
Greed is good in Trumpville.
The whirl wind news cycle I have just witnessed this morning has convinced me that This Ahole will serve a second term. May God have mercy on the meek.
hahahahaha
I worry about planes seeing cash to a third country, as arranged by Jarred Kushner ....
Hahaha. The Clintons made the White their Business
More dishonest leftist media complex propaganda attacks against the President.
puke
Absolutely appalling that someone so unqualified and inept was nominated by Republicans. In 3 years respect for America has dropped to 1920’s level. Because of Republicans America has dragged backwards into the 1950’s. dumpgop
Of course it doesn’t fit your narrative but he’s given us the worlds best economy, record stock market, record low unemployment, rising wages, rolled back regulations, China trade deal, 2 stellar SC picks, etc., etc., etc.
What bs.
You mean like obama did by being in bed with medical and insurance lobbyists and passing a bill that requires the purchase of insurance? Like baby bush and his oil cronies, dhl, blackwater, and Kbr military contracts and owning parts of the companies? I can go onto congress too!
My fear is the economic impact yet to come. The Trump cult will continue to artificially pump up this economy with huge amounts of borrowed funding. When the next government has to fix it, they, not the Trump cult, will be blamed.
This right here is enough to be REMOVED, indicted and placed into prison. My fingers crossed one day he’ll wear orange.
Sen_MimiStewart A direct violation of the constitution.
y’all out here praising him for doing crimes.
And to Anita Kumar. More accusations without proof from liberal hacks. We don't condone what Trump does just because it's him. We see that what he has done, is doing is for the benefit of ALL Americans and that you liberals are trying to destroy America. Actions vs. reactions
Evidently the Emoluments Clause means nothing
And the Republicans pretend that none of this happens. He steals from the tax payers every time he uses our plane to go to his POLITICAL CAMPAIGN rallies and charges us hundreds of thousands of dollars playing golf with Secret Service in golf carts and hotel rooms.
Wow. You are good. You found this out after you did research to exonerate the Bidens or before? You are FakeNews incarnate
Yes, he has.
POLITICO is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the democrat party. They get their stories approved by the democrats before publication. They are populated by corrupt to the bone yellow 'journalists' Just fake news....all the time.
In three years in the White House, Donald Trump has accomplished something no president before him has done: NOTHING
What about the millions going into his pocket from all trips to places he owns that we pay for. John Oliver lookalike Munuchin needs to get in front of congress and testify under oath.
And it's not something to aspire to and be proud of.
President Trump has accomplished more in his first 3 years in office than all of his predecessors. He is the greatest President in U.S. history.
Question is - WHERE ARE THE elected Republicans? Oh yes, they all officially TrumpFARTS!!! No DECENCY, no MORALITY left in the Republican Party! They ALL CORRUPT or support Rep president CORRUPTION!
Everybody KNEW he was going to do this. A person who’s never given a 💩 about anything but himself and his self interest was not going to change, especially when he’s head of the most corrupt party. GOP
Deplorable and unconstitutional.
George Washington did
That was his intention from the beginning. Monetarising the presidency. Why’d you think he’ll stick at it for as long as possble, other than his huge ego.
Oh come on. He’s the LEAST corrupt than ALL his predecessors
America has nobody to blame but itself for letting it happen and letting it continue.
I don’t know why you are jumping up and down about this - he said in the first week of his Presidency he was going to do this!
And more worryingly he was allowed to get away with it.
Trump is unfit for president ConflictOfInterest 25thAmendmentNow ImpeachAndRemoveTrumpNow
😴😴😴😴
As expected!
FakeNewsMedia