Wednesday Afternoon Updates: The Most Corrupt President in History — 7/1/26
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Hi all, Ben here. It’s Wednesday. Before I start, I want to take a second away from all the news to say happy birthday to my Meidas co-founder, and most importantly, my brother, Jordy. So proud of everything we’ve built together, but even more grateful to call you my brother! Remember to like and re-stack to spread the far and wide!
Here’s what we’re tracking today:
Trump’s new 927-page financial disclosure shows over $1.4 billion in crypto earnings alone in 2025, plus 21,000 stock trades across eight accounts
Trump personally bought Micron stock three separate times in March, then this morning announced Micron is pouring $250 million into “Trump Accounts”
Trump held his first press conference aboard the new billion-dollar-plus Qatari Air Force One
Trump says he told acting DNI Bill Pulte to “declassify whatever you want”
Trump claims things are “going very well” with Iran after we “hit them very hard for three nights”
Kevin Hassett is already blaming the Fed’s “libs” for potential future rate hikes
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve keeps hitting new lows
Satellite tracking shows tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz again going dark on the Oman route
JD Vance’s cringeworthy speech in front of the troops
Mike Huckabee called Israel America’s “436th congressional district”
A new emergency declaration waives duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco because domestic production can’t keep up
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Trump’s Qatari Jet Presser
Donald Trump stood in front of his new Qatari Air Force One today to speak to the press. Qatar handed him a $400 million jet, and American taxpayers then spent well over a billion dollars renovating it. This was supposed to be the big reveal, the moment he got to show off his shiny new toy from a foreign government. Instead, a reporter asked him the one question he never wants to answer: how are you profiting off the presidency? His financial disclosures show close to $2 billion between crypto and stock trades, including 21,000 individual trades last year.
We pored through Trump’s 927-page disclosure, and there is a detail buried within that nobody’s talking about yet, and it involves a company that just announced it’s “investing” a quarter billion dollars into something called Trump Accounts. Let me explain.
