Jared Kushner, A Party Flop and More Trump Grift.

It's been an epic display of protests, failures and evidence of grifts that even has MAGA weak at the knees.

Even the MAGA faithful are squinting now. I’m sure you can feel it at the gun shows and in the truck stops, the queasy dawn of the hairy eyeball, the flock beginning to grasp that they were never the congregation. They were the collection plate. This week the suspicion became a federal filing. Donald Trump’s mandatory financial disclosure landed at the Office of Government Ethics running 927 pages. Obama’s ran eight. Biden’s ran eleven. Honest men do not need a thousand pages. A thousand pages is not transparency. It is a fence’s inventory, notarized.

Begin with Big Daddy. Forbes had Trump at $2.3 billion when he won in 2024. It now has him at roughly $6.5 billion. Bloomberg says $7 billion. The fortune nearly tripled in under two years, growth the Washington Post called without modern presidential precedent, and not one dollar of it came from building, making, or improving anything. It came from renting out the American government by the hour. The filing shows $2.2 billion in income f…