Most presidents wait until they leave the White House to cash in.

President Trump takes a different approach.

Crypto deals, hotels, golf courses, 747s, everything is on the table.

If there's a way to make money off the presidency, he's on it.

Tonight, we'll talk about all the ways Trump is treating the White House and Mar-a-Lago as places to help make him richer than he already is.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

So here's a partial list of deals and moves Donald Trump has done that would have sunk

any other president.

He's accepted a $400 million plane as a gift from a Middle East autocracy that hosts both

Hamas and the Taliban and also may be the home of a new Trump hotel.

He's dined with top investors in one of his cryptocurrency projects and reportedly promised

to promote the crypto industry from the White House.

He's pardoned prominent Republicans and reality TV stars, including a man convicted of securities

fraud, who, with his wife, donated $1.8 million to Trump's re-election campaign.

For good measure, by the way, he commuted the sentence of the leader of the murderous Chicago

criminal organization, the gangster disciples.

Trump's family is charging half a million dollars to join a private club in Washington, D.C.

He's building a golf resort in Vietnam, a country seeking tariff relief for $1.5 billion,

and a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chiman City,

a fact Ho Chiman himself would have undoubtedly found darkly amusing.

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