President Donald Trump plans to accept Qatar jets
President Donald Trump is planning to accept the Qatar royal 747-8 jumbo jet to replace Air Force 1.
emolume noun /ɪˈmɒl.jə.mənt/Payment for work in the form of money or something worthwhile.
In February, I wrote a column for the Free Press. I wondered about the “allness” of many of President Donald Trump’s supporters. For them, the president doesn’t seem to be wrong. It’s a kind of blanket certainty I’ve never felt about politicians in my lifetime. (In fact, it’s too limited. It refers to the leaders of American history and rest.
My reaction to my column has become quite clear. I’m happy that the majority of people I’ve been in touch with have found the column in the money. Even some Trump voters were grateful for giving them something to think about.
There were also people who had problems (sometimes profanity) in my opinion. Of course, they unconsciously helped me make my point. I chose two things that bothered me about Trump 2.0.
At the heart of my column was the challenge of calling for bad behavior when avid supporters of the President saw them.
Friends, such a moment has arrived.
Follow the money – er, code
In that original dispatch I described the emoluments clause, “The section of the constitution prohibiting the president from profiting from the future – “a corrupt, rotten corpses on the road.”
I was talking about the president’s cryptocurrency money play. Incidentally, he’s not one of the people who wrote to diss my column.
Cryptographic schemes only grow within their ugliness. Trump and his family have raked hundreds of millions of dollars – we probably won’t know from anyone – and certainly had a little more money to be squeezed out of this Moras, so the president has launched a race to charge the owners of the top 220 of the coin to pay him and offer private dinners. (“If you don’t play, you won’t win!”)
It is worth noting that the value of the coin fell almost 90% from the high until Trump announced the dinner competition. Finished! Prices rose 58% almost immediately.
It is also worth noting that many Americans have lost collective billions of people trying to jump into this shell game, which defines the world of crypto.
But oh, the beauty of this thing. The value of a coin can bounce back like a neutron, but the transaction fee remains solid. (Fans of the 1983 film “Trading Places” may recall this brief description of Wall Street Traal Gesse.
Meanwhile, the president’s sons travel around the world, pushing forward what is known as the world’s Liberty Financial. It is the Trump family’s crypto exchange, which began just before the 2024 election. From Bitcoin mining to the release of meme coins like $Trump and $Melania, Crypto believes it has pushed a breathtaking $2.9 billion into the Trump family’s safe. (It will soon increase when an Abu Dhabi-backed company announces it will buy $2 billion worth of global free financial products.) It leaves us the country’s leading policymakers on cryptocurrencies standing at the corner of conflict and profits.
It’s magnificent and shameless
All of this suggests that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been on the podium and somehow, “I’m frankly saying that everyone in this room is doing anything for their own benefit.
Leavitt, many people lose money on Crypto, but the president is not one of them.
This will be the sum of this column.
But then…
It’s a bird, an airplane, a conflict of interest
In reality, we don’t know what will happen when the “rotten, rotten corpses” collapses further.
However, everything left behind in the emolations clause of the constitution has been slapped in the mouth by Qatar’s offer to give the president a luxurious jet to be used as an air force.
Now, I will put aside what seems impossible of this offer. (That plane must be torn into a bolt, which could be scrutinized and overhauled for security measures.) But the $400 million gift (which helped the president use himself and cross-reference it for jurists) clearly flies in the face of an outspoken guardrail that comes from the bright guardrail.
The emolations clause states that the president cannot accept money or gifts from foreign governments without the consent of Congress. (By the way, Congress is a still functional government agency. I Googled it to check it out.)
Trump said he must be “silly” to refuse Qatar’s offer. But I tend to think James Madison and the company were in something.
The irony is that the big money and the gorgeous gifts are winks and nods, which are characteristic of the swamp that motivated and motivated Trump voters a decade ago.
I have not discussed any issues of tariffs, immigration, inflation, or policy debate. I’m talking about deep, dark money, dark money being passed in wide sunlight. So, like I did in my first column, I wondered loudly whether the president’s supporters could tell the commander that he was wrong.
America, cash cow
Some card players are known as “tel.” When the president announced that he had reached a trade deal with the UK, he detected a rather strong story from the president. When he outlined the importance of the transaction, he said, “We have a lot of investment over there,” and then began talking about golf courses and hotels.
It took me a while to realize he wasn’t talking about the US. The president’s heart was clearly in Trump, amid praise for the US trade agreement.
Are you good at that?
Devin Scillian is a veteran journalist, author and former Detroit news anchor and has served Detroit audiences for 30 years on WDIV-TV (Channel 4). Sending your editor letter to freep.com/letters may be published online and in print.
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