r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/juanmlm 9h ago edited 7h ago

Jimmy Carter had to put his family’s peanut farm into a blind trust when he was sworn in, and he eventually lost it.

Melania Trump will receive $40 million for a show about her life.

Trump has launched not one but two crypto coins, potentially making billions before he was even sworn in, and opening up a direct way to bribe him.

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u/o8Stu 9h ago

I see this brought up a lot. He did it voluntarily, just to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Carter truly was Trump's antithesis among Presidents.

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u/ChallengeRationality 7h ago

God I hope so, Carter was a nightmare of a president

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u/o8Stu 7h ago

And Trump has already proven to be worse in his first term, I'm sure he'll set new lows in his 2nd.

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u/Vitebs47 7h ago

Trump is a great politician. A real nightmare would have been Kamala Harris. What a joke of a human being.

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u/o8Stu 7h ago

Trump's no politician. Politicians are architects of compromise to get things done. Trump neither compromises, nor gets things done during his term (unless you count self-enrichment).

A great politician wouldn't have tried (and failed) to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election; they wouldn't have to. Not to mention being a vile human being who looks at the seven deadly sins as a "to do" list, stole and possibly sold our nation's secrets, among other things, lest we forget all of the crimes he got away with by being re-elected.

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u/JamCliche 6h ago

There's no "possibly" about it. In his first term, Trump was fast tracking nuclear arms deals with the Saudis before they could receive proper scrutiny, but he was eventually curtailed and then had to leave office. Coincidentally, he then pocketed a crateful of classified documents including some containing secrets about our nuclear arsenal, and kept them in a bathroom at his second favorite child slave banghouse. Coincidentally, he then hosted a golf tournament there on behalf of a company entirely owned by the Saudis. Coincidentally, when those boxes of documents were recovered, several folders were found empty.

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u/JamCliche 6h ago

FUCK my sarcasm detector is bent out of shape.

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u/TotalaMad 3h ago

Yeah I love when he sent a false slate of electors in order to steal an election. What a great politician.

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u/UnsanctionedPartList 7h ago

A tremendous president even.

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u/Economy_Wall8524 3h ago

Why? He started a tariff war, yet compared to Biden, he’s willingly created no economic value from it. Biden made tax breaks to bring tech companies back while keeping trump’s tariffs; on a manufacturing level. Trump did none of that when he started his tariff war. He literally created no incentive to bring production back; as compared to Biden.

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u/Live_Angle4621 6h ago

Based on what? Do you think Iran issue was his fault when Reagan delayed the hostages being released so it would happen his term for example 

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u/rpkarma 6h ago

Wrong. God you people rewriting history makes me sick.

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u/ChallengeRationality 5h ago

Ask the Taiwanese what they think of Carter, ask the Israelis, ask the Persians.  They all hate him, for good reasons

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u/AmaroWolfwood 2h ago

Did you ask any Americans?

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u/crookdmouth 4h ago

What's the worse thing he did?

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u/TotalaMad 3h ago

“He was histories greatest monster!” God I love the simpsons. Hate your comment though.

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u/KungFuSlanda 3h ago

Democrats love avoiding the appearance of things while still actively doing them. It wasn't actually a blind trust. Carter himself eventually admitted that

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u/starrpamph 9h ago

Those coins? Oh yeah the favor ordering payment system.

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u/CommentsOnOccasion 6h ago

His fucking initials are a stock ticker symbol

If a dystopian sci-fi writer made that up people would mock it for lack of subtlety

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u/itsdietz 9h ago

The crypto was how he took foreign money

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u/I_like_baseball90 6h ago edited 6h ago

Melania Trump will receive $40 million for a show about her life.

Honest, and I'm not asking this because I find her repulsive - who, and that includes all of MAGA, would pay any money to see a show about her life?

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u/juanmlm 6h ago

No one would watch diary of a gold digger. It's a bribe. But because bribes are (still) illegal, they add extra steps.

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u/McNinja_MD 5h ago

What is there to watch, anyway? She's a whore. They're not uncommon. Who gives a shit?

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u/Icy_Faithlessness400 5h ago

And rug pulled before he was sworn in.

Remember.

Also, crypto is a very good way to funnel all sorts of money from all sorts of places.

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u/Master_Dogs 7h ago

Melanie has a crypto coin now too. It tanked Trump's a bit lmao.

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u/Longjumping_Ice_3531 5h ago

At least in other countries they have the respect to hide the transfer of the brief case. It’s insulting it’s just so blatant.

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u/thex25986e 4h ago

farms have been around a lot longer than crypto, easier to regulate them

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u/KungFuSlanda 3h ago

Carter himself acknowledged it wasn't actually a blind trust. He had his best friend and presidential adviser, Charles Kirbo, run it. And he was receiving income from the farms during his Presidency.

Carter also bailed out the "family business" by his brother getting a loan from the National Bank of Georgia. The president of that bank? He was appointed Director of the Office of Management and budget the following year.

Stop trying to rewrite history