Susan Glasser: Our Money-Grubbing President
7/2/202651 min
Not only did Trump pocket $2.2 billion last year—vastly increasing his pre-presidency wealth—he shamelessly showed off his new hand-me-down plane from Qatar which Americans paid hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade. Not to mention, there's a massive conflict of interest involved in Trump taking a gift from a country that is directly impacted by his administration's foreign policy decisions. Plus: Vance can't tell a joke to save his life, Trump is the polar opposite of Teddy Roosevelt in almost every way, the Russian casualty count from the war in Ukraine has been catastrophic for the country and potentially destabilizing, and the challenge of celebrating 250 when Trump has inverted the American dream.
Susan Glasser joins Tim Miller.
Show notes:
- Susan's 'Political Scene' podcast
- Tim's July 4th playlist
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First 90 secondsTim Miller· Host0:01
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Bulwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Uh, it is the 2nd of July, twenty twenty-six. Delighted to welcome back to the show staff writer at The New Yorker and host, co-host of its Political Scene podcast. Her most recent book is The Divider, co-authored with her husband, Peter Baker. It's Susan Glasser. What's going on, Susan?
Susan Glasser· Guest0:30
Hey, man, so great to be with you. What a treat.
Tim Miller· Host0:33
Welcome back to the show. Um, not much to talk about. Not a lot happening out there [chuckles]. Not a lot of embarrassments for America on the world stage or anything. Uh, it's hard to decide where to start, but, uh, I, I think I want to hit on corruption 'cause we didn't have the time to get into it yesterday. I think Maggie mentioned it briefly on the pod. But, um, Trump had to file financial disclosures. I guess it's something that the financial disclosures are getting filed, uh, you know? I mean, like, these small victories in this day and age. It revealed just an abs- insane amount of graft and corruption. He brought in at least two point two billion dollars, which is compared to much, much less than that [chuckles] from before he returned to the presidency. Uh, a lot of this money is from crypto. A lot of this money is from foreign countries, including the investment firm tied to the UAE. We're gonna get into the Qatar plane