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Considering the White House's market-manipulation and unprecedented insider stock trading in the last year, I would not be surprised if it's part of another corrupt scheme.

For example, pump-and-dumping .si domain names or some other asset which connects to the phrase/acronym.

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> pump-and-dumping .si domain names

That's literally what happened. Thousands of .si domains were bought up before his renaming, and then offered up for millions.

PS: His wife is from Slovenia. I'm sure that's a coincidence...

It's also just a coincidence that his kids, who have no background in technology and no knowledge of programming or cryptography have a crypto coin company that sells, nothing of value, with, basically 0 advertising, and makes billions of dollars, mostly from deals with Gulf Arab dictators, who then get favorable deals with their dad ...

I had to look it up but you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial

Laws really are just as effective as boo-boo band-aids aren't they?

A plead to Slovenian registrars: add a condition that says the annual fee for .si domains doubles every time the owner uses the phrase "superior intelligence".

I find the domain name theory funny/sad and par for the course, but it does seem like an awfully inefficient method of corruption compared to what shitler and his pals have been up to so far, no?

Like going from very successfully robbing banks to robbing convenience stores?

Seems more like a loyalty test to me.

It's absolutely that.

In his speech about it at the UN: "Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do, and maybe I don't. We're gonna find out pretty soon".

It's a "kiss the ring" / fealty thing.

I have always been surprised by the pettiness and vulgarity of corruption. Sometimes Trump tries to steal $10,000,000,000 from the IRS, but sometimes he hawks branded Bibles for $59.99. I don't understand why someone with more money than he could spend in a dozen lifetimes regularly humiliates himself for a few grand.

Once you have a certain amount of money it’s a sickness to just want more.

It doesn’t matter if it’s $10B or $59, more is more

The answer might be that he’s actually far less successful than he claims.

That’s the reason why he won’t let anyone see his tax returns.

He shutdown his court case against the BBC rather than open the books to the lawyers.

This is a bloke that failed at running casinos. A business where suckers just hand you their money. And he failed.

He just “ain’t right good” at business but has the ego of The Big Lebowski.

Completely agree about his business ventures and entire career. But his presidential grifts, and those of his family, do look highly effective and successful. Compared to those, a domain name pump-and-dump seems outright pathetically inefficient.

Nancy Pelosi isn’t in the White House?

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