Corrupt Trump isn’t even hiding half-billion dollar bribe anymore

By David McElroy · May 12, 2025

Donald Trump is so shamelessly corrupt that he’s not even trying to hide the corruption anymore. And his adoring followers worship him so much that they accept whatever outrage he pretends is normal.

Trump is evil and corrupt, but those followers who enable this evil and corruption are downright obscene. You know who you are.

No U.S. president has ever been brazen enough to openly accept a bribe worth nearly half a billion dollars, but that’s what Trump is doing. And he’s even bragging that the bribe is coming at no cost to taxpayers. What a deal, huh?

Trump announced Sunday night that shady Middle Eastern oil billionaires are giving him his very own Boeing 747. Isn’t that kind of them? They must be really kind-hearted to hand out luxury jetliners without expecting anything in return. And that’s what Trump and his kleptocrats expect you to believe. Are you that stupid?

Here’s the scam. The government of Qatar — a tiny old kingdom run by corrupt oil billionaires — is going to give this luxury airliners to the U.S. government for Trump to use as Air Force One. At the end of his term, this fancy plane will be transferred to the foundation for Trump’s future presidential library — so Trump will continue to have exclusive use of it.

Seriously. That’s the deal. And if you think they expect nothing for this, you’re an idiot.

What do these people want in exchange for this bribe? We don’t know exactly. We’ll probably never know. Trump will quietly do whatever these corrupt sheiks want, though — and he’ll fly around in his personal plane for free, both now and after he leaves office.

Do these sorts of oil despots seem like the sort of men to hand out luxury airliners and ask for nothing in exchange? Are they stupid? No, they’re not.

Are you stupid? Are you willfully blind enough to believe it’s anything other than a bribe?

Trump knows that his adoring followers are willing to tolerate pretty much anything from him. He openly bragged about it as far back as 2016.

“I have the most loyal people,” he told a campaign rally in Iowa. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue [in New York City] and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.”

And he’s right. For the last nine years, his followers have worshipped this evil narcissist and believed every lie that’s come out of his mouth. They’ve watched him violate laws left and right. They’ve justified anything he’s done that was illegal or immoral or unethical. They simply don’t care — as long as he angers Democrats.

Right now, they’re watching Trump and his family make many millions of dollars from crypto scams that they don’t understand. They’re watching as Trump’s sons trot around the globe taking bribes in the form of business deals that nobody would have done unless Trump were in a position to grant favors to his friends and to hurt those who oppose him. They’re watching him tank the U.S. economy by growing the power of government in obscene ways.

If this were any other politician, you’d be demanding that he be sent to prison. You wanted to sent Hillary Clinton — “lock her up!” — to jail for her use of a private email server. (That was illegal and stupid, but it was minor compared to Trump’s crimes.) Now you’re silent and you look the other way when Trump accepts one of the biggest bribes in world political history.

This is not the way real political conservatives act. Real conservatives oppose tariffs and big government controlling who can trade with one another. Real conservatives believe in following laws and doing thing honestly and ethically. Real conservatives hold liars accountable.

There is nothing conservative about Trump. He is a con man. He is a narcissistic liar. He is a criminal. He is evil.

Trump believes he’s above the law — and as long as you keep supporting and enabling this narcissistic liar, he’s right.

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