Next week, Trump could make over $4 billion when his media company goes public, removing all doubt about his billionaire status.
And you can stop asking if he would have been better off putting his inheritance in a savings account in the 70s.
I expect Trump to leave a 15% tip for Leticia James and the Democrats because they made his windfall possible by hunting him and censoring him for years. You can call it a bond, not a tip, if you prefer.
h/t Mauser
Donald Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m (£365m) fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue?
Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, is poised to become a publicly listed company, after a majority of shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp voted on Friday to acquire it.
Mr Trump is due to have a stake of at least 58% in the merged company, worth nearly $3bn at Digital World’s current share prices.
It’s an astonishing potential windfall for Mr Trump in exchange for a business whose own auditor warned last year it was at risk of failure.
If Donald Trump is elected president in November, he will have assembled a coalition unlike any Republican nominee in my lifetime.
For decades, GOP success has depended on support from college-educated white voters in the suburbs and non-college-educated white voters in manufacturing centers and rural areas. Republican candidates tried to maximize turnout among this electoral base, while adding a majority of independent voters to the GOP column. Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes used this strategy to great effect. Donald Trump did, too.
For cultural and economic reasons the blue-collar vote is lining up with Trump.
The trend for the past decade has been that the working-class, blue-collar voter goes R. This still sits oddly with many, especially old-time Dems, but it has held sway the past two or three presidential elections.
Donald Trump made it happen in 2016, cobbling together a working-class voter coalition with his energy and man-of-the-people vibe that carried him to narrow victory across the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and put him into the White House. It brought him to within a sliver of victory in 2020, as he succumbed to Joe Biden by the slimmest of margins in those same states and lost the electoral college vote.
In his under-recognized 2007 book Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business and Life, Donald Trump dedicated a chapter to “Revenge.” He wrote: “My motto is: always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.”
Vengeance is a lifelong theme in the Donald J. Trump story, narrated as it is by Donald J. Trump. In 1992, he told the interviewer Charlie Rose: “I love getting even with people.” He’s fond of quoting Alfred Hitchcock: “Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” In January this year, after his primary victory in New Hampshire, he reiterated: “I don’t get too angry — I get even.”
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that Donald Trump can stay on the election ballot in Colorado, handing him a major victory in his quest to return to the White House.
It was a fatal blow for a group of states trying to kick Trump off the ballot and came just 24 hours before 15 states vote on Super Tuesday.
In an immediate reaction Trump declared on his Truth Social network: ‘BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!’
The Supreme Court is expected to announce a decision on whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to hold presidential office on Monday.
The New York Times reported Sunday that the Court announced that it would issue at least one decision tomorrow – which suggested it would rule on Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s primary ballot.
Colorado is holding its presidential primary on Super Tuesday, along with 15 other states and one U.S. territory.
Donald Trump’s federal trial for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is likely to remain on hold for several more months while the Supreme Court takes up his argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president.
In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen.
h/t DS
Elvis has left the building.
So has Trump, and he left victorious.
The “primary show” will have a few encores, mainly on March 5 (Super Tuesday), when multiple states vote, but the outcome is certain. With his decisive win in South Carolina, Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination. He easily defeated his last opponent, Nikki Haley, in her home state.
During the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala in South Carolina, at which he received the “Champion of Black America” award, former US President Donald Trump declared US President Joe Biden “a very nasty and vicious racist,” and claimed that Biden discriminates between Black and white people.
“Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He’s been a racist,” Trump said. “Whether you like it or don’t like it. I happen not to like it. Biden spent years palling around with notorious segregationist you know that.”
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president.
The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m.
“This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory.
“I have never seen the Republican Party as United as it is right now,” he said.
A poll of registered N.Y. voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intends to vote for former U.S. president Donald Trump in the presidential election in November.
N.Y. Jews now favor Trump to U.S. President Joe Biden 53% to 44%, according to the Siena College poll, released on Tuesday. Jews in the state said that they intend to continue to back Democrats over Republicans 54% to 39% in congressional elections.
BERLIN — It might not be strategic, but at least it’s autonomy.
In one fell swoop over the weekend, Donald Trump freed Europe from the confines of the American security bubble.
“I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want,” Trump claimed to have told a European leader about how he would respond if their country were attacked by Russia. “You gotta pay!”
Why should the freeloaders not pay their share?
There Are Only Two Things That Can Stop the Re-election of Donald Trump
The Biden news cycle is disastrous—and unending: a perfect storm of his failures abroad, disaster at the border, and reasons why sky-high prices nullify the Bidenomics hype.
The bad news is interspersed…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Trudeau is promising a “Team Canada” approach to this impending danger. Editorial comments are being made in the usual places that we should brace ourselves for what amounts to the American renunciation of the Western alliance to be replaced by U.S. non-aggression pacts with Russia and China, which would enable those countries and the United States to carve any spheres of influence for themselves that they wished and demarcate the world at their pleasure. If Canadians had not learned by now that they cannot rely upon their journalists for anything, and especially not a sophisticated analysis of international affairs, the country would be in a mood of acute anxiety over possible impending developments in the United States.
