On day one of his second administration, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160 to end birthright citizenship. That was to distract from the Epstein files. He then initiated mass deportations of immigrants. To distract from the Epstein files. At the same time — a multitasking kind of guy — he undermined civil service protections, federal agency integrity, environmental regulations, healthcare, and the economy. To distract from the Epstein files.
Having not distracted enough, Trump usurped Congressional power to impose tariffs to supplement inadequate tax revenues badly sapped through overweening consideration for the wealthy, pirated federal funds to reward allies and punish foes, violated trade agreements, abandoned climate agreements, quit health organizations, let the single last nuclear weapons treaty lapse, and insulted everyone and their mother in the process. Now, he’s tinkering with elections. All in a desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein files? We may have it backwards.
A master exploiter, Trump recognized the Epstein scandal for a blessing early on. With Jeffrey Epstein conveniently dead, the entire focus shifted onto those documents. Trump won reelection vowing to release them and now, president again with a ferociously loyal shrew as attorney general, it has been child’s play to release the documents he wants — and the portions of those documents he wants — at the times he wants. In fact, AG Pam Bondi couldn’t be serving Trump better if she had been groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell herself.
By the time we do see the remaining files1 and realize Trump’s involvement in Epstein’s affairs, it will be too late. American democracy will have been dismantled, our agency as U.S. citizens to do anything about Trump gone, the United Nations anesthetized, climate catastrophe upon us, and the threat of nuclear war — a specter of horror for so long — an imminent threat. Trump will have pulled his heist.
Trump learned the magic of crypto in September 2024 when he established his own cryptocurrency platform, World Liberty Financial.
So how does an aging oaf topple a 250-year-old democracy and jeopardize world stability? We Americans figured it out. Hand that oaf the levers of power — all of them — then get absorbed in the next three million sex-trafficking files that oaf lets us see while he works those levers. And what does Trump do with the levers? What he’s always wanted to do. Loot America to conquer the world. Specifically, capture crypto, demolish democracy, accelerate climate change, and reignite the nuclear arms race.
Trump learned the magic of crypto in September 2024 when he established his own cryptocurrency platform, World Liberty Financial (WLF). Within a month, WLF had launched its $WLF1 token.2 The token experienced a sluggish start, but sales surged the moment Trump won the presidential election. Within months, he had collected $57 million, by mid-2025 the Trump family had netted $463 million from token sales. The $TRUMP meme coin, introduced days before his second inauguration, paid him $322 million within six months, according to Reuters.3 4
A significant step in Trump’s crypto journey came in March 2025 when WLF launched its USD1 stablecoin. As president, Trump pushed through legislation a few months later to legitimize his venture.5 That July 2025 legislation finally put Trump in the business he had always wanted to be in: making his own money.
It works this way: Stablecoins are “stable” because each “coin” is “pegged” to $1. Let’s say some sheik from the United Arab Emirates wants to buy $2 billion worth of Trump’s brand-new USD1 stablecoin. Naturally, the sheik gives Trump $2 billion, and Trump, naturally, says, “Coming right up,” sort of like the time he got a double order for fries.6 Trump turns to his crypto staff, commands them to create 2 billion digital tokens on a blockchain — it takes a few hours, maybe a day if they’re clumsy, new, or DOGE retirees — then has them transferred to the sheik’s digital wallet. The sheik does whatever he wants with his USD1 stablecoins — perhaps uses them to invest in Binance — while Trump stashes the cash with BitGo, who manages the money.7 The sheik can redeem his stablecoins instantly whenever he wants, getting back exactly the $2 billion he paid in. Whatever that $2 billion earned in the meantime at BitGo goes to Trump. On the sheik’s money, Trump has been earning roughly 4%, about $80 million a year.
Trump has so many things the world might want because, as president of the United States, he has so many things to offer.
Although the world has not yet rushed to exchange its money for his stablecoins, Trump is set up and ready for business when they do come around. And there are so many reasons why they would come around. He has so many things they might want because, as president of the United States, he has so many things to offer: forests to fell; wildlife sanctuaries to develop; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildernesses to open up to Chilean mining giants; mountaintops to dynamite just as soon as coal kicks in; hundred-mile water pipelines when states decide to behave.8 Trump has the whole country to offer. And what about that other stuff? That abstract stuff. Legal immunity, for example. More and more people have been joining that club once word got around that a pardon cost no more than a cool million. And then there are entire countries very willing to pay him just to leave them alone. It might be worth quite a lot for Denmark to know Greenland won’t be visited by any more hospital boats.9 Trump already knew what countries would pay and what crippling investments they promised to make in his companies in exchange for more reasonable tariffs. On the other hand, some countries were just dying for his blessing to secure their spot under the sun without getting scorched by him. Yes, there was so much Trump could do for so many for just a few USD1 stablecoins.
He didn’t mind waiting for them to wise up because in the meantime, he was earning handsomely off the current $5.1 billion market capitalization of his USD1. If the 4% return stays anywhere near that ballpark, he’ll continue making $200 million a year off it — ample to cover legal fees for the rest of his life if his supporters ever decide to stiff him.
That makes Trump a happy fellow, doesn’t it? And when Trump’s happy, we his loyal citizens can be content knowing we have the greatest guy, blind to his own gain, devoted only and wholeheartedly to his mission to do good for the United States. We have been assured of this by a perfect Tinker Bell of a woman groomed beautifully by someone to do Trump’s express bidding:10 “The president is abiding by all conflict of interest laws that are applicable to the president. It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.”11 For heaven’s sakes! Did anyone insinuate that? We bask in the knowledge that Trump loves us and the American flag and, above all, American politics.
Trump may not understand what the experts he disdains mean when they say that in a major nuclear conflict, a hundred million people per continent would die within the first half hour.
With the foulness of the Epstein conspiracy pinching its nostrils, it’s understandable that the country cannot process Trump’s orgy of crypto activity, or the deluge of presidential self-dealing, or his repeal of the endangerment finding, or his directive to the Pentagon to purchase coal-generated electricity, or his decision to earmark $625 million in federal funds to revamp aging coal-fired power plants, or his decision to open up 13.1 million acres of federal land to coal mining, or his erroneous call for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing because that’s what Russia, China, and North Korea were doing, thereby firing up nuclear weapons production and reigniting a nuclear arms race.
When it comes to nuclear weapons, Trump may not understand what the experts he disdains mean when they say that in a major nuclear conflict, a hundred million people per continent would die within the first half hour. If someone explained it to him, maybe he would say what he said when security at the Ellipse told him that protestors with guns, knives, spears, and flagpoles would not go through the metal detecters and were therefore not swarming his platform as he had expected. He said it didn’t matter, that “they’re not here to hurt me.” That begged the question of just whom those protesters were there to hurt; apparently Trump knew, saying those armed protesters could march straight to the Capitol from the Ellipse after his pep talk. In any case, Trump doesn’t seem to think a nuclear war would affect him or do anything but boost his businesses.
So why focus on those Epstein files? Figure it this way: Some dark portion of the American public12 doesn’t care how much Trump steals; or how corrupt he is; or if his anti-science, pro-industry policies wipe out the lower species of the world — immigrants included. They, like Trump, don’t grasp how dangerous his flirtation with a nuclear arms buildup is. In other words, they don’t mind being Donald Trump’s victims. What they won’t accept is Trump’s sexual exploitation of minors. Hence therefore, to rid ourselves of a beast called Donald Trump, we must pull on the single thread that will unravel him. That is Epstein.
- How many of those files have been destroyed by now people can only guess, but thanks to the extraordinary fealty of Attorney General Pam Bondi, we can assume the worst of the worst are gone. ↩︎
- Yes, much of the paperwork of Trump’s businesses has been filed through attorneys of his sons, and his sons are listed as presidents and directors of those companies, and Eric insists he never spoke to his dad about any of it. But let’s not be fussy. All Trump companies are created at the behest, advice, and approval of Donald J. Trump, who directs them as well. ↩︎
- https://www.theblock.co/post/358186/trump-made-over-57-million-from-world-liberty-financials-wlfi-sales ↩︎
- https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how-reuters-tallied-trump-organizations-crypto-income-2025-10-28/ ↩︎
- Other competing stablecoins got legitimized as well. Trump saw no way around that. ↩︎
- Trump worked the french-fryer once, remember? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/us-presidential-election-2024-updates-kamala-harris-donald-trump ↩︎
- BitGo, Inc. is a digital asset infrastructure and financial services company headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In December 2025, thanks to Trump-friendly legislation passed in July, BitGo received regulatory approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a federally chartered cryptocurrency bank. ↩︎
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/us/politics/colorado-water-trump-veto.html ↩︎
- https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/21/politics/trump-greenland-hospital-boat ↩︎
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. ↩︎
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sij89ENvZqQ, 1:17 ↩︎
- Gallup Poll announced it is discontinuing its poll of Trump’s popularity because the people who like Trump won’t admit it. That means there are plenty out there, but we cannot count them or ascertain from which sections of the population they hail. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/politics/gallup-poll-presidential-approval-ratings-trump.html ↩︎