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Proof Trump is the most corrupt president ever

After days of defending the “gift” of a luxury jet worth $400 million from Gulf oil barons—there can be no denying it. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America.

THE PROOF: While the plane has (rightly) gotten a ton of press, Trump has used every opportunity the presidency has afforded him to get him and his allies richer and richer.

For example, it’s no mistake that Trump chose the enormously wealthy gulf states as his first trip back in office. The trip has enabled Trump to shore up already existing business deals and strike new ones.

• Two weeks before the trip, Trump got $5 billion to build a luxury golf resort in Qatar.

• During the trip, in addition to the plane, the new dictator of Syria said he’d let Trump build a skyscraper in Damascus if the U.S. dropped sanctions.

• And Trump will end his trip in Abu Dhabi, which just last week announced a $2 billion investment into Trump’s cryptocurrency firm.

THERE’S MORE: But the goods aren’t just for Trump—money is also flowing to his allies.

• The Saudis agreed to buy $142 billion in arms from the U.S., a major boon to the military-industrial complex, which has spent millions getting Trump and his allies elected.

• The Saudis also approved Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service for use in their kingdom.

In fact, Trump is hoping to bring home $1 trillion in deals for his fellow oligarchs from this one trip alone.

BOTTOM LINE: As historian Anne Applebaum has said, kleptocracy is autocracy’s twin. And while we may be slowing Trump down on the authoritarian front—it’s full speed ahead towards kleptocracy.

GO DEEPER: The Washington Post spoke to several historians on how Trump’s corruption is reaching historic levels.

🗞️ Making News

Georgetown scholar freed by judge says ICE treated him like a ‘subhuman’

A federal judge ordered the release of Badar Khan Suri yesterday, an academic at Georgetown University arrested for daring to question Israel. Outside the detention center, he detailed how ICE treated him like a “subhuman,” kept completely in chains and in unhygienic facilities. Full story from NBC News. 

GOP advances massive tax cuts for the rich

House Republicans continue to push through a federal budget that will slash the social safety net, impacting millions of working-class Americans, so the wealthy can get a big tax break. The budget, working its way through the committee process now, would cut Medicaid and food stamp programs, and even raise taxes on low-income Americans in 2029—the year Trump leaves office. Full story from Common Dreams.

RFK Jr. says people shouldn't take medical advice from him

File this under, “no sh*t Sherlock.” The vaccine denier—who is the nation’s top public health official—told a Congressional hearing that he doesn’t think the public should take medical advice from him. He also defended proposed Republican cuts to Medicaid. Full story from The Guardian.

Gavin Newsom now wants to cut health care for undocumented workers

Continuing his shameless shift to the right—ostensibly to help win support in 2028—California Gov. Gavin Newsom now wants to cut health insurance to poor, migrant workers who are undocumented. California was among the first states to extend this benefit on the road to universal healthcare. But now that there’s a budget crunch, poor people will pay the price. Full story from the AP.

➡️ Question of the Day

Yesterday we asked, given the revelations in a new book about his health, how will President Biden be remembered?

A minority agreed with our reporting. Capthon voted negatively and said, “Gaza. Afghanistan. The Border. Inability/refusal to stem the growing power of Trumpism. Biden was only OK, at best. However, if he had stepped aside and not run again, he might be remembered more positively.”

However, most readers said he’d be remembered positively.

Sixcats voted positively and said, “Biden did great things for the people of this country. To say he handed the presidency to Trump suggests you can predict the future, which no one can. It could have gone that way anyway. I have great respect for Biden and he had a competent staff around him to keep things going.”

Some people took issue with us even raising the question. One reader said, “Shame on you for doing this right now. He was a wonderful human that happened to be our president. Yes, he should have stepped down sooner. But most of us slept well at night. We are living a nightmare now. Please let the man be.”

TODAY’S QUESTION: Do you think ICE should be abolished? Tell us why or why not after you vote.

IN DEPTH

UnitedHealth sued—for not being cruel enough

UnitedHealthcare was just hit with a giant lawsuit — because shareholders say the company isn’t denying enough claims.

THE DETAILS: The healthcare giant is being sued by its own shareholders as its stock price plummets.

• Investors allege the company moved away from “profit-boosting strategies” like the highly criticized practice of denying claims at an above-average rate.

After the high-profile killing of its CEO last year, the company started approving more healthcare claims as public outrage made its cutthroat tactics harder to pull off.

• That could cost non-working shareholders money—so they filed suit.

Investors say they were misled because the company failed to disclose the public backlash forced it to ease up on denying claims.

• That decision to pivot, they say, made it impossible to hit profit targets—and UnitedHealth lied by pretending it could still deliver.


UnitedHealth didn’t revise its 2025 earnings forecast until April, when it finally acknowledged a shift in corporate strategy. The stock plummeted over 22% that day.

The company denies all wrongdoing and will fight the lawsuit. 


BIG PICTURE: This lawsuit isn’t just grotesque—it’s revealing. Wall Street’s beef isn’t that insurance companies deny care. It’s that UnitedHealth may have stopped doing it without telling investors first.

• It’s a stark look at how America’s health insurance system values profit over people—and how even baby steps toward reforms get punished if they threaten the bottom line.

BUT BUT BUT: This is how the system is designed. It’s capitalism at work—and it’s why we need different systems of ownership, like worker co-ops.

That would replace a small group of profit-seeking shareholders with groups of workers who are all equally invested in a company’s success, and all equally benefit from a company’s success.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Remembering “the catastrophe”

Today is Yawm al-Nakba (Arabic for “the day of catastrophe”)—a day to remember the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinian people from their native lands after the founding of Israel in 1948.

In the Nakba, over 700,000 Arabs were expelled or fled their homes after Zionists—most from Europe—declared their own nation on stolen Palestinian land.

More than 400 Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated or destroyed.

Today, millions still live in refugee camps born of that catastrophe. The struggle for justice continues—even as Israel and the U.S. wage a genocidal war on those who refuse to disappear.

GO DEEPER: The Palestinian catastrophe, explained

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• Elon’s Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?

• Dems troll Trump with provocative banner over Mar-a-Lago

• How Democrats actively expedited class dealignment

• A major public transit union may go on strike tomorrow

• Why 1,000 Starbucks baristas are also going on strike

• AOC schools Republican colleague: “I will not yield to disrespectful men”

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• Read the tweet from a Republican account that caused a total MAGA meltdown