David Kirkpatrick on Trump’s Immense and Shameless Profiteering
The Al Franken Podcast
The Al Franken Podcast
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Trump family has long been associated with shameless cash grabs, but we have reached new levels of corruption by using his office for their money-making schemes: international real estate deals, Trump-branded merchandise, and cryptocurrency.
David lays out the long list of ethical implications involved and calculates the staggering amount of money Donald Trump and his family have made off of his presidency.
READ David's piece “The Number” in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number
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| 1:24.5 | Hey, everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change. My guest is New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick, who penned a monster article back in August about how the Trump family is profiting from the White House. And it's worse than you thought. The scale is amazing. It's in the billions. |
| 1:46.4 | Just since he was sworn in January, it's all in the piece. The online store where you could buy |
| 1:53.6 | the God bless the USA Bible, the Trump organization's lucrative real estate deals in the |
| 2:00.3 | Gulf and around the world, |
| 2:02.6 | but most of all, cryptocurrency. |
| 2:06.2 | David and I talked a few weeks ago, but I've been holding this one so I could give Peter |
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