Summary
Donald Trump has exempted himself from key ethics guidelines required under the Presidential Transition Act, which he signed into law in 2020.
By rejecting federal funding for his transition team, Trump avoids donor limits and disclosure requirements, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and transparency.
Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and government watchdogs, warn that Trump’s refusal to submit an ethics plan undermines accountability and could open the door to corruption.
This move marks a break from precedent and has sparked alarm over potential personal enrichment during his presidency.
Alarm! Concern! Criticism! Hand-wringing!
Furrowed brows!
we are well past the point of hand-wringing. this calls for a strongly worded letter
What are you doing about it?
Lowly me? Preparing to !Resist@fedia.io
I’ll have to look into that.
The news outlets will SLAM him for this!
indeed they will
Could open the door? The door was ripped from its hinges already.
Can things stop. I just… Want things to stop now.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
“Americans expect and deserve a president who prioritizes the nation’s well-being over personal gain,” she added.
Yeah!
“They will not tolerate a president who abuses the powers of his office to line his own pockets.”
Weeeellllllll…
Im not so sure we deserve a decent leader atp
The one thing we can absolutely be sure of is that this dispicable con-man will do all that he can to enrich himself, without regard for any limiting principle or structural restraint.
Its not a question of “if” he “may” be corrupt, but only how brazen the supposed patriots in the Republican party will let him be as he does it.
There once was a man from Jamaica, Who liked to sling pieces of paper. The tropical sun was a topical one, And the walri could see it much deeper.
Can someone explain this to me
Recite it in concordance with Jamaican patois phonology, and it rhymes.
Is there more to it than rhyme? It makes no sense to me. 💩🧠💩😅
Him not signing an ethics pledge is probably the most honest move he did in his lifetime.
Stop with the precedent. Decorum and tradition means nothing and only Dems keep falling for it and setting themselves arbitrary barriers.
HuNtEr BiDeN!!1!
Trump is like “lol, I can’t spell that”.
To the people who will wake up tomorrow pretending this is going to be buisness as usual. Fuck you. That’s all.
Now he did it. IT’S DONE. WE GOT EM. Donald will finally feel the FULL FORCE of our justice system telling him that they are VERY CONCERNED.
Mark your calendars everyone, we have a new holiday.
😂
I really hope the segment of poor people that voted for him suffer greatly under his regime. They need to learn a hard kind of lesson they seem to be unwilling to learn any other way.
Did you just become one of the “hurting the right people” crowd?
Ot doesn’t work on them anyway. They just blame someone else.
I don’t think you understand the psyche of people voting for him, even if Trump personally came to their house and stomped on their balls they would vote for him.
It won’t make any difference to their future votes if they suffer, it’ll just be suffering.
I still don’t really know a good way to pry people away from his cult of personality or convince them of the truth but suffering for the sake of itself is not good.
They already are… Look at the states and counties that vote red. Leaders in education and life expectancy they are not. Great in poverty with a dearth of opportunity they are. Over the decades these places have been ravaged by big business. Then business moved overseas and opiates moved in.
What do these people do? In a flash of absolute genius they vote in the guy whose administration is filled with tech bros. The problem is the tech bros all think these people are trash and are happy to see them occupied by video games and drugs.
So clearly the immigrants working for low pay are the reason the economy is fucked. The solution must be the administration whose only legislative accomplishment was a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. Because the economy can’t possibly be fucked because as a society we’ve given to the top 1% all of the gains in productivity since the 1980s.
This is not it. What an abhorrent and sadistic take.
Here’s a handy tip for the future: if you find yourself writing a sentence that goes “I really hope […] poor people […] suffer greatly”, maybe reconsider posting it.
The […] Is doing some heavy lifting.
That’s like saying that “I hope the black people that killed my parents suffer greatly” shouldn’t be said. You can’t just " I hope […] black people […] suffer greatly" it.
No one is immune from propaganda.
It’s funny how Brazil (a country that’s seen the consequences of authoritarianism) is handling their own attempted coup vs the U.S., we are basically welcoming Trump back after everything he’s done.
After the coup attempt he should have been barred from office and arrested. This is such a ridiculous timeline.
Societies get the leaders they deserve.
I guess… he barely won the popular vote, and didn’t pick up any significant amount of new voters. I wouldn’t say the basically half of voters who voted against this deserve it.
This is the part that hurts the most.
I canvassed, I rallied, I pushed people to vote. I did what I could to ensure the fascist didn’t win again, but he still did. Enough of my country either didn’t care, found some excuse to not vote for her, or wanted him to to be president.
I was denied a chance at a primary, but I was excited for Kamala. There is no person who can sit and represent 300 million people and make them all happy, but she was more on my side than not, and I’m willing to push for ‘better right now’ and then push for ‘better later’ too as distinct events.
As part of the now vocal minority, I don’t relish what is to come. I didn’t ask for it and I don’t want it; but lumped in with ‘Americans’, we sure seem to.
Yeah, it sucks. I really wish we would have dealt with the issue when he planned a coup iinstead of basically letting him walk all over everyone back into power.
The 80 million people who didn’t vote deserve it.
Man, no wonder we go to war with people all the time. Can’t even not wish harm on people simply for not voting. Is it frustrating, sure, but i don’t wish harm on people over it.
I hate that sentiment and especially wording, but there is sadly truth behind it…
Raise alarms? Could open the door to corruption? Undermine accountability?
Where the Hell have these people been? And anybody who is shocked by these headlines needs to come out from under their rock. None of this is new or news. It’s SOP.
As for accountability and watchdogs? Can you be any more lip service? What is anybody going to do? Ever? They had four years to make Trump and team accountable. Hasn’t exactly worked out.
Wake me when September (2028) ends.
