A Kleptocracy To Make Putin Blush -- Tom Sullivan

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/09/a-kleptocracy-to-make-putin-blush/

https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/09/a-kleptocracy-to-make-putin-blush/

Scott Galloway, a podcaster and marketing expert, began his lengthy “Deadline White House” appearance on Thursday by condemning the next-level grift of the Trump 2.0 administration. The Trump family doesn’t use government to rake in money. It uses a front loader. Insider trading in Congress is nothing new, Galloway notes, but Trump’s is next-level. In the three months since the inauguration, the family has “weaponized government” to pull in a billion dollars a month. The U.S. has become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush.”
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/scott-galloway-we-ve-essentially-become-a-kleptocracy-that-would-make-putin-blush-239197253515
Galloway is provocative, if not especially animated.

One might have said that America was for sale before, Galloway adds, but now it’s the whole world. What we can see is just the tip of the iceberg.

Nicole Wallace asked how we got to this place. Galloway explains it in terms of voters who feel left behind by the culture.

“This election was supposed to be a referrendum on women’s rights,” he said, but claims his data shows otherwise. The Democratic Party ignored them, he continued, citing groups that pivoted to Trump in 2024, young men in particular.

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