CREW -- Tell Congress to BAN presidential profiteering
Tell Congress to BAN presidential profiteering
- Thu, Oct 1 at 2:33 PM
Mark,
Corruption, profiteering and conflicts of interest have become hallmarks of President Donald Trump’s second term.
His most recent financial disclosure revealed that he brought in at least $2.2 billion from his business dealings in 2025.
That means Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours in 2025. And he made the median American annual income about every 10 minutes.
Trump’s windfall includes more than $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency dealings and more than $117 million from overseas business interests. And it puts him on pace to make over five times as much money during his second term as he made during his first.
This naked profiteering undermines democracy and harms Americans who can no longer trust that their government is working for them rather than the wealthy and powerful who can buy access and influence with Trump.
Unfortunately for the American people, the current set of executive branch ethics laws are not built to handle this level of corruption by a sitting president.
Enacting new laws to prevent presidential profiteering is an obvious response to the countless ways in which Donald Trump has misused and abused his office.
The first step towards a solution is a full and enforceable ban on any future president or vice president from earning outside income while in office.Congress must make it a priority to address President Trump’s dangerous conflicts of interest, and banning his outside income is the right place to start.
Americans need to trust that our government, and especially our president, is working in their best interests, not anyone else’s. Stopping the flow of money from outside sources is a necessity to restore that trust.
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