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His memecoin alone will make him billions off of the presidency.
Regardless of whether anyone thinks he's intelligent or competent, I think most would agree that he is a conman. I've honestly never seen 70+ million people fall for a con so easily. It speaks volumes to America's education and media landscape.
As soon as you think you're too smart to get conned, you're gonna get conned. I'm positive that nearly all of hist voters think they are too smart to get conned.
But yeah, his are so simplistic and easily spotted, I can't believe people fall for them either. A non-zero amount of people bought and presumably ate Trump Steaks. It's like the steaks from a freezer in a pickup truck; I haven't even seen any of those guys for years now.
I feel like at least some of them would have or should have had a better memory than a goldfish and recall when he fleeced them all for money to "finish the wall" near the end of his first disaster term (don't you love how he no longer mentions the wall anymore?) and realize they got scammed because there's still no border wall but Trump took in like 100M+ and blew it all on legal counsel.
Seriously, out of all the corrupt things he’s done, publicly setting up a way to launder bribes …