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President Trump pocketed $2.2 billion in 2025, with $1.4 billion coming from a cryptocurrency firm he opened with his sons. And here, all along I thought crypto had been tanking for the past year. That’s the catch. If you market crypto, you make money whether the buyers do or not. Bingo — billions! (I also see Trump on TV all the time promoting watches, Bibles, and you name it, with his name or signature on everything.) What’s interesting is that having a crypto business can open the door to bribes. Now, if you’re president, no one can transfer $1 million into your bank account without raising red flags. But if you sell crypto and someone wants to earn some favors from you, all they have to do is buy, buy, buy. Not saying that’s what the Trumpster did, but the interesting thing is that only the president and vice-president, among all federal officeholders, are exempt from having business and/or financial interests outside of office. Even JD Vance made $7.5 million in 2025, due to his publishing genius. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — poor woman — had to share her insider secrets with her husband to win in

The Gordie Howe Bridge — named after Canada’s hockey great — connects Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, Michigan. Financed completely by Canada, the bridge now sits idle because Donald Trump says he wants part of the action — for the U.S., of course. The shutdown has Michigan politicos blaming Trump’s involvement with the proprietors of the current Canada-Michigan bridge. The Moroun family, owners of the decrepit Ambassador Bridge, reportedly made a $1 million donation to a Trump PAC. Meanwhile, Trump says the Gordie Howe Bridge stands to make “astronomical” sums from tolls, and the U.S. should have 50 percent ownership, though we paid zero for its construction. The president has now tied the opening of the bridge to negotiations for the renewal of the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade. His administration is using the bridge as a bargaining chip to push Canada for major concessions on unrelated trade friction points, including: Canadian tariffs on U.S. dairy products. The absence of U.S. steel in parts of the bridge’s early construction phases. The placement of American alcohol products on Ontario retail shelves. My View: If Trump wants 50 percent of the revenue, he should reimburse Canada for 50 percent of the

Unlike the constable in “Casablanca” who was “shocked, shocked!” to learn that gambling was going on at Rick’s nightspot, I am actually not “shocked, shocked” that the Supreme Court has upheld the scam interpretation of the birthright clause in the U.S. Constitution. Actually, had the writers of the 14th Amendment been more careful in their wording, they might have conveyed what they truly meant — that all children of slaves born in the U.S. are natural citizens. (Note: the constable wasn’t shocked either, just caught with his legal pants down.) The key element in the 14th Amendment, which contains the much-ballyhooed birthright-citizenship clause, is the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” As Marc Levin points out on his FOX television show, the children of illegal aliens are subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries, not strictly the United States, thereby excluding them from automatic constitutional citizenship. Now, those haughty TV commentators who now throw the SCOTUS ruling back in Donald Trump’s face should take a look at history, specifically at the federal Civil Rights Act passed in 1866, which was the basis for the 14th Amendment. As Justice Clarence Thomas (the best thing to happen to the Supreme Court