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Originally Posted by otatop
I'm bored at work so I crunched the numbers on this, we've paid all previous Presidents a whopping $21,700,000.
Trump has 100% grifted that much already.
Ivanka got 200 mill out of whatever deals they did in Saudi Arabia. Jared was selling US Visas to Chinese oligarchs for 500k to 1.5 mill a pop. Mar-a-Lago memberships doubled to 200k each on Inauguration Day and then he forced leaders and entourages to meet there. Trump's been running an Emolu-fest out of his DC hotel. We know about the 36 Chinese trademarks from Xi. He profits from his rallies, collected millions of unaccounted for cash (from locations such as empty lots LOL) at his Inauguration...and we can top it off with two known facts about Trump: 1) His history shows notoriety for getting some kind of commission for himself whenever he brokers a deal. Even as POTUS he has been exposed on several occasions for personally getting something, but he doesn't seem to care. Maybe because conflicts of interest aren't illegal for the President, and he had Sessions write up some bogus legal argument for why Emoluments don't apply to him. 2) Trump has had so many meetings since January 20th; most notably industry CEOs who were asked to give their "input" for his policies, or leaders around the world to whom Trump probably gave his "input" for their policies.
After the first 6 months, I would be willing to guess he pocketed a minimum of $100 million for himself.