The convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser Malignant Fascist has been busy enriching himself as his "Justice" Department continues to cover up the crimes of America's elitist "Epstein class," of which he's the most prominent member. This is a good a summary of the grand theft being perpetrated by the MF while his crimes go unpunished, courtesy of Heather Cox Richardson:
On February 13 and 14, President Donald J. Trump’s representatives
filed three applications with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office to trademark his name for future use on an airport. As trademark
lawyer Josh Gerben of Gerben IP noted, the application also covers
merchandise branded “President Donald J. Trump International Airport,”
“Donald J. Trump International Airport,” and “DJT,” including “clothing,
handbags, luggage, jewelry, watches, and tie clips.”
Because of
the trademark filing, Gerben notes, any airport adopting the Trump name
would have to get a license to use the name, potentially paying a
licensing fee. Gerben emphasizes that while it is common for public
officials to have landmarks named after them, “never in the history of
the United States” has “a sitting president’s private company…sought
trademark rights” before such a naming.
In October, Office of
Management and Budget director Russell Vought withheld billions of
dollars Congress appropriated for a tunnel between New York and New
Jersey under the Hudson River, saying he wanted “to ensure funding is
not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.” Trump told Senate
minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that he would release the funds if
Schumer would agree to name Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C.,
and New York City’s Penn Station after him.
After a Florida state lawmaker proposed putting Trump’s name on the Palm Beach International Airport, Jason Garcia of Seeking Rents
today reported that the Florida legislature is currently pushing
through measures to change the name of that airport to the “Donald J.
Trump International Airport.” The amount of money proposed in Florida’s
budget to make the change is $2,750,000, but Garcia notes this is likely
a placeholder: the budget request is for $5.5 million.
The
Trump grab for an airport named after him is just the latest grift in a
presidential term that experts so far estimate has enriched the Trump
family by at least $4 billion. That windfall includes merch, political
contributions, and multiple cryptocurrency deals that have led, for
example, to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who manages the United
Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund, buying a 49% stake in the Trump
family’s World Liberty Financial crypto company for $500 million days
before Trump took office. This deal put $187 million immediately into
Trump family entities and at least $31 million into entities owned by
the family of Steve Witkoff, whom Trump had just named his Middle East
envoy. [snip]
Earlier this month, Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, and the Trump
Organization sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury
Department for $10 billion in damages after an IRS contractor during
Trump’s own first term was convicted of leaking their tax information,
along with that of thousands of other Americans who are not suing, to
news outlets. Trump has control over the IRS, and Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent says he will write whatever check he is told to cut. This
move advances Trump’s use of the presidency to enrich himself into the
realm of autocratic rulers who move their country’s money to their own
accounts. [snip]
Jonathan Landay and Douglas Gillison of Reuters reported
yesterday that Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought
took $15 million in unlawfully impounded money that Congress had
appropriated for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which
fed starving children, for his own security detail. Michelle Hackman,
Josh Dawsey, and Tarini Parti of the Wall Street Journal
reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her affair
partner Corey Lewandowski travel in a $70 million luxury 737 MAX jet
with a private cabin in the back.
Over all are the horrors
of the Epstein files, in which Trump’s name appears so often observers
have suggested it is the one place that could legitimately be rebranded
with Trump’s name as the Trump-Epstein files. [snip]
Profiting off his name is only part of why Trump appears to want to
splash it anywhere he can: so far, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a new class of battleships,
and perhaps “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” where the East Wing
of the White House used to be.
It’s also about his legacy. In a
tour of George Washington’s Virginia home, Mount Vernon, in April 2019,
Trump expressed surprise that the first president hadn’t named any of
his property after himself. “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name
on it,” Trump said. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one
remembers you.” [snip]
Trump has made no secret of wanting his image carved onto Mount
Rushmore in South Dakota, where sculptor Gutzon Borglum carved the busts
of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt,
and Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hills of the Lakotas. Beginning his
sculpture in 1927, Borglum chose President Washington because he had
founded the nation, Jefferson because he had launched westward
expansion, Lincoln because he had saved the United States from
destruction, and Roosevelt because he had protected working men and
helped fit democracy to industrial development.
But Trump’s
interest in being added to Mount Rushmore does not appear to be related
to a desire to advance the interests of the American people. In
September 2025 the IRS granted tax-exempt status to the Donald Trump
Mount Rushmore Memorial Legacy, making it a charity that can accept
tax-free donations. (our emphasis)
Nothing the MF does is related to advancing the interests of the American people, either domestically or in foreign policy. Other corrupt, hubristic tyrants in history sought to be remembered through monuments dedicated to themselves, but our moron madman has no claim to anything of a truly historical nature except his historically corrupt, racist, destructive, un-American terms in office, with his despicable cover up of the Trump-Epstein files at the foundation of that steaming pile of excrement.
The day can't come too soon when we can obliterate his name from every public place and consign him to his proper place under the ash heap of history.
BONUS: More looting here, here, here, and here, as if more evidence was needed.
(Image: illustration by Oliver Munday; photo by Skynesher/ Getty)
