Is Trump the most corrupt US president in history?

[spidermike007]

He makes Richard Nixon look like a Boy Scout, and he seems to redefine the concept of moral degradation on a daily basis. 

 

He turned a legitimate federal employee designation into a loophole. By giving senior officials such as Elon Musk the title “special government employee,” Mr. Trump avoided requirements that they publicly disclose their financial holdings and divest any that present conflicts before taking jobs in the administration.

 

He ended bans that stopped executive branch employees from accepting gifts from lobbyists or seeking lobbying jobs themselves for at least two years.

 

He loosened the enforcement of laws that curb foreign lobbying and bribery.

 

He dismissed the head of the office that polices conflicts of interest among senior officials.

He jettisoned the head of the office that, among other things, protects whistle-blowers and ensures political neutrality in federal workplaces.

 

He purged nearly 20 nonpartisan inspectors general who were entrusted with rooting out corruption within the government.

 

X, Mr. Musk’s social media outlet, has become an official source of government news. The White House welcomed a reporter from the platform at a recent briefing, and at least a dozen government agencies started DOGE-focused X accounts.

 

As Mr. Musk’s political activities started to repel many potential customers of Tesla, his electric vehicle company, Mr. Trump lined Tesla vehicles up on the White House driveway and extolled their benefits. Then Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged Fox News viewers to buy Tesla shares.

 

DOGE nearly halved the team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that regulates autonomous vehicles. The agency has been investigating whether Tesla’s self-driving technology played a role in the death of a pedestrian in Arizona.

 

The S.E.C. also suspended its civil fraud case against Binance, the huge crypto exchange that pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations and allowed terrorist financing, hacking and drug trafficking to proliferate on its platform. Soon after, the company met with Treasury officials to seek looser oversight while also negotiating a business deal with Mr. Trump’s family.

 

World Liberty Financial, a crypto company that Mr. Trump and his sons helped launch, said it had sold $550 million worth of digital coins. A business entity linked to him gets 75 percent of the sales.

The Trump family has said it will partner with the Singapore-based crypto exchange Crypto.com to introduce a series of funds comprising crypto and securities with a made-in-America focus.

 

The federal government’s “crypto czar,” David Sacks, Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Musk all have connections to the market. (Mr. Musk named DOGE after a memecoin.)

 

A new Trump Tower is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, with plans for two more projects for the kingdom announced after Mr. Trump’s November election victory, all in partnership with a Saudi company with close ties to the Saudi government.

 

It’s all a sorry and sordid picture, a president who had already set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior hitting new lows with metronomic regularity.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

[Tug]

I’m not a presidential historian but certainly within my lifetime no doubt about it.what galls me is he’s getting away with it.

[SunnyinBangrak]

No, that was your man Biden. Funny how back then you were only concerned with covering up his corruption, yet now you pretend to be concerned about corruption? Defies all logic.

[SunnyinBangrak]

10 minutes ago, Tug said:

I’m not a presidential historian but certainly within my lifetime no doubt about it.what galls me is he’s getting away with it.

Here we go again. 4 years of denying the Biden corruption laptop and the reasons Americas enemies were paying 10s of MILLIONS of $$ to the Bidens, you suddenly pretend to be concerned about (imaginary) corruption. 

 

It wasnt Trump that set up 28 LLCs to launder corrupt proceeds from selling out America/treason. Was it? 

[Tug]

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Here we go again. 4 years of denying the Biden corruption laptop and the reasons Americas enemies were paying 10s of MILLIONS of $$ to the Bidens, you suddenly pretend to be concerned about (imaginary) corruption. 

 

It wasnt Trump that set up 28 LLCs to launder corrupt proceeds from selling out America/treason. Was it? 

Ohhhhh the fabulous lap top lmao 🤣 oh how they tryed to get Joe and kept coming up empty…….now on the trump side scam university…..setteled millions in fines…..imbezzled HIS OWN CHARITY millions in settlements…..how many vendors did he stiff?convicted felon sexual assaulter sex pest……yea ok dude ya got me lmao 🤣 

[MalcolmB]

Without a shadow of a doubt.

Nobody even comes a close second.

 

It reflects very badly on the American people who voted for this shameless liar, cheater and sex pest not once but twice.

The selfish me me attitude is disgusting.

 

I see a few Americans out and about, I pretend I can’t speak English. I don’t want to know any of them.

[SunnyinBangrak]

4 minutes ago, Tug said:

Ohhhhh the fabulous lap top lmao 🤣 oh how they tryed to get Joe and kept coming up empty…….now on the trump side scam university…..setteled millions in fines…..imbezzled HIS OWN CHARITY millions in settlements…..how many vendors did he stiff?convicted felon sexual assaulter sex pest……yea ok dude ya got me lmao 🤣 

Yes yes yes Tug. We know. The laptop was Russian disinformation and there was NO REASON that Americas enemies in countries where VP Biden had significant power were paying the family 10s of millions. You have been very clear.

Any posters with credibility going to chime in?😅

[Will B Good]

I find it sad....but in my mind it has reached the stage where the question doesn't even need to be asked, let alone discussed.

[BLMFem]

7 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I find it sad....but in my mind it has reached the stage where the question doesn't even need to be asked, let alone discussed.

You're right. He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. Don Donald, head of the Trump crime family and chief clown of the clown troupe that runs (into the ground) this once great country.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

You're right. He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. Don Donald, head of the Trump crime family and chief clown of the clown troupe that runs (into the ground) this once great country.

 

It is identical to the issue of lying and the absence of moral values.......he has, in the minds of so many, made both irrelevant for those holding the highest offices in the country.

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

and sex pest

haha, sexpats in thailand complaining about "sex pests".

getting desperate much? 

 

 

[BLMFem]

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

haha, sexpats in thailand complaining about "sex pests".

getting desperate much? 

 

 

What has being a sexpat got to do with being a sex pest - or in Trump's case, rapist?

[Will B Good]

4 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

haha, sexpats in thailand complaining about "sex pests".

getting desperate much? 

 

 

 

I guess you do know the difference but have chosen to play dumb......and you seem to be very good at it.

[wasabi]

People may not like what Trump is doing but I see very little corruption. He says what he is going to do and does it. There is no Watergate scandal here, only fake Russian witch hunts, hyperbole and race baiting done by Democrats.

[Will B Good]

4 minutes ago, wasabi said:

People may not like what Trump is doing but I see very little corruption. He says what he is going to do and does it. There is no Watergate scandal here, only fake Russian witch hunts, hyperbole and race baiting done by Democrats.

 

Golden trainers, meme coins, bibles, shorting the markets,10 million in a suit case from Egypt.....yep nothing to see here.

[Hummin]

51 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

No, that was your man Biden. Funny how back then you were only concerned with covering up his corruption, yet now you pretend to be concerned about corruption? Defies all logic.

We will see Trump Jr rich man club flourish playing the bi coin and stock markeds like it was monopoly with special rules. 

 

It is so obvious that you guys knows you are fooled,.but it takes balls to admit 

[MalcolmB]

34 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

haha, sexpats in thailand complaining about "sex pests".

getting desperate much? 

 

 

Trump is just an amateur.

[impulse]

Is Trump the most corrupt US president in history?

 

No.  That dubious distinction probably goes to Joe Biden.  At least in my lifetime.  But thanks for asking.

 

Edit:  Though it's a close race with LBJ.