Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are perfect examples of why this administration feels less like a government and more like a grift in broad daylight. How convenient that Trump’s top negotiator seems mainly interested in negotiating a softer landing for his own portfolio, while son-in-law Kushner daydreams about turning Gaza into a private Nassau for the yacht set. Jared used to be able to have sex with Ivanka, something Trump has long wanted to do, so he's got the upper hand here.
All kidding aside about the Trump family psychodrama, the big joke is how American foreign policy has been handed to men the Iranians (and everyone else in the region) plainly do not respect.
Sitting across the table from a vacuous real‑estate heir and a golf‑course crony who cannot speak the language, grasp the history, or follow the subtleties of the culture, they see exactly what we see: marks who stumbled into power and are frantically trying to convert it into beachfronts and balance sheets.
For Tehran’s political class, this kind of envoy is an insult disguised as diplomacy. Trump is too stupid to take the relationship seriously enough to send people who can read Farsi, let alone navigate a thousand years of regional memory.
The contempt is baked in; you can almost hear it in the way Iranian officials describe “businessmen” and “advisers” who show up with PowerPoints and pipe dreams about Trump Gaza Resorts, never noticing that every word, every mistranslation, and every clueless aside will be used against them (and us) in the future.
Remember, Americans. These idiots are our representatives.
A conflict of interest is bad. A conflict of interest hidden inside an uncertified ethics process is worse. Now, the public can’t even tell where accountability ends and the private balance sheet begins.
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And since Trump's unofficial presidential policy is "The buck stops with somebody else", you can't even move the accountability uphill - Trump and his DOJ will just bat it down like a misanthropic orange tabby with its tiny syphilitic paw.
The insider trading percs alone are worth giving up his dignity and reputation, I guess. Trump has a very real talent in picking morally bankrupt people to fulfill his endless list of wishes, and he hasn't been wrong yet!
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are perfect examples of why this administration feels less like a government and more like a grift in broad daylight. How convenient that Trump’s top negotiator seems mainly interested in negotiating a softer landing for his own portfolio, while son-in-law Kushner daydreams about turning Gaza into a private Nassau for the yacht set. Jared used to be able to have sex with Ivanka, something Trump has long wanted to do, so he's got the upper hand here.
All kidding aside about the Trump family psychodrama, the big joke is how American foreign policy has been handed to men the Iranians (and everyone else in the region) plainly do not respect.
Sitting across the table from a vacuous real‑estate heir and a golf‑course crony who cannot speak the language, grasp the history, or follow the subtleties of the culture, they see exactly what we see: marks who stumbled into power and are frantically trying to convert it into beachfronts and balance sheets.
For Tehran’s political class, this kind of envoy is an insult disguised as diplomacy. Trump is too stupid to take the relationship seriously enough to send people who can read Farsi, let alone navigate a thousand years of regional memory.
The contempt is baked in; you can almost hear it in the way Iranian officials describe “businessmen” and “advisers” who show up with PowerPoints and pipe dreams about Trump Gaza Resorts, never noticing that every word, every mistranslation, and every clueless aside will be used against them (and us) in the future.
Remember, Americans. These idiots are our representatives.
To know Trump is to take part in the grift that is now part of everyday government business.
A conflict of interest is bad. A conflict of interest hidden inside an uncertified ethics process is worse. Now, the public can’t even tell where accountability ends and the private balance sheet begins.
⠀
And since Trump's unofficial presidential policy is "The buck stops with somebody else", you can't even move the accountability uphill - Trump and his DOJ will just bat it down like a misanthropic orange tabby with its tiny syphilitic paw.
Anybody in little dicks orbit are just like him. Lying, self serving assholes! End of!
The insider trading percs alone are worth giving up his dignity and reputation, I guess. Trump has a very real talent in picking morally bankrupt people to fulfill his endless list of wishes, and he hasn't been wrong yet!