May 22, 2025 11:07:21 am

“I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” Ramaphosa said in the Oval Office as Trump hosted him for a bilateral meeting and lunch.

“I wish you did. I’d take it,” said Trump. “If your country offered the United States Air Force a plane, I would take it.”

The Pentagon formally announced that the plane had been accepted just as Trump was hosting Ramaphosa.

The gift of a plane estimated to cost $400 million has raised questions of ethics and legality from Republicans and Democrats alike. – Michael Hernandez –

The Trump administration obviously planned the ambush of South Africa’s president as a ruse to distract the American people from the truth. This is by far the most corrupt and soulless regime in the 250 year history of the United States. No amount of lies about ‘white genocide’, or the fast tracking of undeserving Afrikaner ‘refugees’, will ever remove the stain of corruption plaguing Trump 2.0. EVER.

F**K IT: – Staunch MAGA loyalist Tucker Carlson has admitted some of President Donald Trump’s latest dealings with the Middle East ‘seem like corruption.’

The extraordinary diversion from Carlson’s usual praise for the administration came during an interview with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan on his podcast this week.

Ryan had explained that he agrees with most of what Trump says on a daily basis, and praised the administration’s efforts tackling diversity, equity and inclusion practices in the workforce.

But when pressed by Carlson about how overall view of ‘how the administration is going so far’, he paused before ultimately breathing a heavy sigh.

‘F**k it,’ he said. ‘I’m gonna get blasted for this.’

Ryan said he’s been questioning the ‘negotiations going on in the Middle East’ on the back of revelations that a new Trump tower is slated for development in Dubai, and a Trump International Golf Course and Trump Villas in Doha.

‘Did these just get done also with the deals that just happened over there, or was this earlier?’ he asked. ‘That stuff kind of worries me… I want to know what the real motivations are.’

While Carlson clarified that he has no answers to Ryan’s questions, he offered his own startling opinion. ‘It seems like corruption,’ Carlson said. 

Trump has faced mounting backlash from even his most staunch supporters over his handling of business in the Middle East.

FRANKLY RIDICULOUS: And earlier this month, Trump’s son Eric revealed the family are expanding their global property empire to Dubai with a glittering Trump International Hotel & Tower.

The hotel boasts the world’s highest pool atop a swanky 80-story building.

The luxury new accommodation is slated to be completed by the end of 2031, and will offer a combination of tourist hotel rooms and resident apartments.

According to The Independent, prices for a two-bedroom apartment will start at $1million, and include a 10 year ‘golden visa.’

It is unclear what the ‘golden visa’ will afford cardholders, but back in February Trump said he would like to sell ‘gold card’ visas for $5million, offering wealthy buyers residency in the United States.

Separately, the Trump family company struck a deal late April to build a luxury golf resort in Qatar alongside real estate developers Qatari Diar and Dar Global.

The $5.5 billion development is designed as a 7 km-long mega entertainment resort district, anchored by an 18-hole golf course and a Land of Legends theme park. 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it’s ‘frankly ridiculous’ to question if those profits might influence Trump’s governing decisions. – Brittany Chain for DMail.

MEMECON: The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump is hosting a dinner tonight for top holders of his memecoin in his “personal time.”

“The dinner tonight, the president is attending it in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner. It’s not taking place here at the White House, Karoline Leavitt said at Thursday’s press briefing.

The gala is raising questions about the blurring of ethical boundaries between the office and the president’s personal profit-seeking.

Pressed further if anyone in the White House advised the president against holding the dinner, Leavitt told reporters that it was “absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.”

“This president was incredibly successful before giving it all up to serve our country publicly. Not only has he lost wealth, but he also almost lost his life,” Leavitt added.

Asked to explain how the dinner is not enriching the president and his family, the press secretary pointed to his blind trust.

“All of the president’s assets are in a blind trust, which is managed by his children. And I would argue, one of the many reasons that the American people reelected this president back to this office is because he was a very successful businessman before giving it up to publicly serve our country,” Leavitt said. – CNN