The Wall Avenue Journal editorial board on Wednesday accused Donald Trump and his household of “profiting off the presidency in ways in which demean the workplace” and warned the way it might finally backfire on Republicans.
In a scathing editorial, the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper contrasted the Trump household’s burgeoning fortunes through the president’s second time period with the financial pressures at present confronted by many People.
“People inform pollsters they don’t assume they’re getting forward financially,” the board wrote. “However President Trump and his household are having no hassle, judging from his 2025 monetary disclosure report launched Tuesday. The Trump clan is cashing in on the Presidency in large and sketchy methods.”
The editorial pointed to Trump’s seismic leap in revenue in 2025, pushed largely by almost $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, in addition to profitable enterprise offers involving his sons and different agreements which have boosted the household’s wealth.
“Assuming all of that is authorized, it’s nonetheless an unseemly show of utilizing the Presidency for household revenue,” the board wrote. “It’s laborious to consider the Trump boys would be capable to do the identical offers if Dad wasn’t within the Oval Workplace.”
The board argued “there will probably be political prices—for Republicans. If Democrats take again the Home or Senate this November, they may have a subject day probing the Trump household offers.”
“Prices of GOP corruption will resound via 2028. This can feed the left’s class warfare and facile narrative that billionaire ‘oligarchs’ are getting wealthy off authorities,” it added.