DONALD TRUMP IS FLYING TO IRELAND TO GOLF AT HIS OWN RESORT AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR THE JET FUEL
September 12th and 13th. Doonbeg, County Clare. Trump International Golf Links Ireland. Owned by Trump. Profiting Trump. Guarded by your tax dollars
He'll slap a fig leaf of "official business" on it first — a quick meet-and-greet with embassy staff — then it's straight to the fairway at a course that already vacuumed up $10,755,683 in golf revenue off the taxpayer-funded motorcade that follows him everywhere
Last time around this exact resort pulled in an estimated $21.5 million for the Trump family in just two years while Trump sat in the Oval Office
His sons run the "day to day" now, they say. Cute. The money still lands in the same family bank account either way
Secret Service footing security. State Department footing logistics. American taxpayers footing the bill for a golf vacation that fattens the Trump Organization's wallet on foreign soil
This isn't a president taking a break. This is a sitting president using Air Force One as a shuttle bus to his own cash register
Every dollar spent protecting him on that golf course is a dollar that could've gone to a VA hospital, a food bank, a disaster relief fund
Ordinary Americans get furloughs, funding freezes, and "tighten your belt" lectures. Trump gets a taxpayer-subsidized golf holiday at a resort with his name on the gate
This is the same family that turned the presidency into a revenue stream in year one and never once looked back
They are not going to stop grifting off this office as long as we let them pay for it
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BREAKING: Trump turned his golf empire into a billion-dollar tax shelter.
Trump made about $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, leaving him facing a projected tax bill of over $500 million, per Forbes calculations.
In December 2025, his company donated the development rights to his golf club in Jupiter, Florida, to a land trust, arguing the course was a natural habitat worth protecting. He kept owning and running the club.
Forbes estimates the write-off could reach around $825 million.
It’s a strategy Trump has used at least five times since 2005:
Bedminster, NJ (2005): Claimed a $39 million deduction on a property he bought for $8 million. The IRS initially valued the write-off at zero before the two sides settled.
Doral, FL: Claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than twice what he paid for the entire resort.
New York and California (2014–2015): The New York attorney general alleged the Trump Organization misled appraisers to inflate both donations.
A month after the Jupiter deal, Trump sued the IRS over the leak of his tax information. His own Justice Department’s settlement bars claims against him over matters that are pending or “could be pending.” Forbes argues that language could cover his 2025 taxes; Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress it doesn’t.
A federal judge ruled in July that the lawsuit was brought to manipulate the judicial process. Trump is appealing.
Among the homeowners whose properties back onto the Jupiter fairways: Eric Trump, and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, who took the job as the deal was being put together.
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Rock, paper, scissors comes from Japan.
We call it janken.
We gave it to the world as a simple, fair way to settle things.
America has never settled anything with it.
My coworker Fukuda found this out in Missouri.
He spent two years at our plant there. Fukuda works in quality control. His entire job is making sure everything happens exactly the same way every time.
On his first day, two maintenance guys, Brent and Dusty, had to decide who would work Saturday.
Both 52. Side by side in that shop since 2007.
Brent said, "Rock, paper, scissors."
Fukuda relaxed. He knew this one. This was home.
"Rock, paper, scissors, SHOOT."
Brent threw paper on "shoot."
Dusty waited. He looked at the paper. Then he threw scissors.
"AFTER shoot," said Dusty.
"CHEATER," said Brent.
They have been having this exact argument for nineteen years.
In Japan, we say "jan, ken, pon," and everyone throws on "pon." Not before. Not after. On. If you throw late, you are not clever. You are a criminal.
In Missouri, there are two schools.
On Shoot.
And After Shoot.
They do not intermarry.
Fukuda started taking notes. It's what he does.
Finding 1: "Best two out of three" has never once been said by the winner.
Finding 2: After "best two out of three" comes "best three out of five." After that comes "best four out of seven." Fukuda pointed out that four out of seven is not a "best of." It's just a majority.
Brent said, "Exactly."
Finding 3: Some Americans say "One, two, three, shoot." Some say "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot." In parts of California, people call the whole thing "rochambeau," and nobody in Missouri will discuss it.
Finding 4: Dusty's family says "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot, SHOOT."
Fukuda asked which shoot was the real one.
"The second one."
"Then what is the first shoot for?"
Dusty thought about it for a while.
"Respect."
Finding 5: Missouri is called the Show-Me State. Fukuda watched more than four hundred games there. Nobody ever showed him first.
Finding 6: Brent's father threw rock. Every game. For 61 years.
Everybody knew.
Nobody ever threw paper at him. Not his wife. Not his kids. Not his grandkids. For sixty-one years, an entire family threw scissors on purpose and lost to a rock.
At the funeral, Brent put a smooth river rock in his father's suit pocket.
"Let him win one more," he said.
In Fukuda's second year, the plant manager called a meeting.
"Rock, paper, scissors is from Japan. We have a Japanese man. Let him decide. On shoot, or after?"
Thirty-seven people came. Somebody brought popcorn.
Fukuda stood up. He chose his words very carefully. He gave them the ancient rule of his country, exactly as it is.
"In Japan," he said, "you throw on 'pon.'"
Silence.
Then Brent threw both arms in the air. "PON IS SHOOT! ON SHOOT! NINETEEN YEARS!"
At the exact same second, Dusty threw both arms in the air. "PON IS THE LAST WORD! THAT'S AFTER! NINETEEN YEARS!"
They hugged. Each of them shook Fukuda's hand and thanked him for finally proving him right.
Fukuda bowed.
Nobody has told them.
The plant manager had a sign made for the shop wall.
OFFICIAL RULING (JAPAN): PON.
It's still up. They still disagree about what it means.
Fukuda came home to Tokyo this spring.
Brent and Dusty did rock, paper, scissors to decide who would get to drive him to the airport at 4 a.m.
Tie.
Tie.
Tie.
Fukuda had taught them what we say in Japan when it's a tie. "Aiko desho." It means "Tie again!" and you go again, right away.
"AIKO DESHO!"
Tie.
"AIKO DESHO!"
Tie.
Fourteen times.
At 3:45 a.m., two trucks pulled up outside Fukuda's apartment.
In Japan, janken ends an argument.
In Missouri, it's how two men stayed friends for nineteen years.
They're currently on best 211 out of 421. Dusty is up by one.
Brent says it doesn't count. It was after shoot.
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There have already been 2 KOL farming incidents in the ARC ecosystem
First, the OTC bridge, where people bought USDC at 60x the real price, then started vamping over 300K USDC after it got shilled by vamp KOLs
Second, trading through some unclear bridge mechanism into a USD platform, handled by one person, while ARC USDC is not even officially live yet
What comes next??? It is obvious that the people promoting this are cancer across multiple chains, They come in, take profit in one day, then leave everyone else stuck there holding losses
Why not just build for the ecosystem instead, and start trading when ARC officially launches its bridge and mainnet announcement?
You are not going to find the next $CASHCAT like this, $CASHCAT started in a fair way, without forcing too much hype
Excessive FOMO is never healthy for a chain ecosystem
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