The Nine Worst Trump Scandals of 2025

Bombs over Latin America: It gives Wag the dog if you ask me. The administration, seemingly eager to recapture neocon military gains, has soft-launched its latest The war for regime change in Venezuela carrying out indiscriminate attacks on ships in the Caribbean and Pacific waters off the coast of Central America. These attacks, carried out without any congressional oversight and on the dubious premise that the boats were full of fentanyl bound for the United States, were are deadly in themselves. And here is the news that the military was ordered to strike an already damaged boat in a double tap attack the killing of survivors raised the specter of war crimes – and in the sense that even many Republicans doesn't seem ready to approve.

Trump's Binance pal gets pardon: Changpeng Zhao started this year disgraced former CEO of Binancethe world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, serving jail time for what the Biden Justice Department put it, for “failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program,” violating the Banking Security Act and allowing money to flow freely to a variety of bad actors, including “terrorists, cybercriminals and child abusers” But Zhao, who lost the right to manage Binance, wanted to return. So he used his connections to Trump's family and inner circle to secure a pardon that would allow him to be in charge again. In turn, Zhao turned his attention to World Liberty Financial, using Binance's leverage to enrich Trump's private crypto fund. Tim Noah from TNR was positively apoplectic about the dubious arrangement.

Chips to China: Speaking of Tim Noah and apoplexy, it's probably not so great that one firm, Nvidia, has come to have such god-like, market-moving power. Its outsized importance to the global economy led Noah to name it as one of the major pillars that was set to collapse when it played out Trump's potential stock market crash back in October. But Trump is doing everything he can to improve Nvidia's fortunes: This year, the president broke with long-standing national security tradition and announced that he would allow the company to sell its H200 chips to China. How New York TimesDavid Sanger markedThe deal – the fruit of “intense lobbying” by Nvidia CEO and White House gadfly Jensen Huang – raised a fundamental question: “If the chips on which the world's most advanced technologies are based could be sold to the United States' chief technology, military and financial competitor, where would the new line be drawn?” However, that's probably the least of Trump's worries: the deal also guaranteed that “25 percent of all sales proceeds would go to the United States,” another example of the current administration's affection for fascist corporatism.