Trump's supporters' worries he's using the Presidency to make billions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : The 800-acre venue boasts 'stunning views of the Potomac River' - but the most impressive view for the guests, all of them cryptocurrency investors, will be of their host, President Trump.
60% : For the record, last week Trump also visited two other Middle Eastern countries - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - where his sons, Donald Jr and Eric, recently flew in to announce billion-dollar developments: a luxury residential tower in the Saudi city of Jeddah and a top-class hotel in the UAE's Dubai.
59% : Gifts often elicit a sense of gratitude and obligation... and so there's a sense that [Trump is] now favourably disposed to Qatar and other countries, enterprises and businesses that invest in him.' The crypto investors who'd 'bought access' to Trump next week had done so by 'putting money in his pocket', he adds.
57% : Funnily enough, Trump used a saying from American golfing legend Sam Snead to defend his acceptance of the Qatari plane.
56% : What is different about a glitzy night with Donald Trump, expected to take place next week, is that the guests aren't being rewarded for services to the US or charity - but for services to the Trump private bank account The 220 guests attending the dinner are doing so because they bought a cryptocurrency token called the $TRUMP 'meme coin' that the President launched days before taking office Plane talking: Trump was recently offered a $400million 'palace in the sky' Boeing 747-8 by Qatar's ruling royal family To get an invitation to the dinner, it's estimated that 'investors' bought around $55,000 worth of the coin apiece, while to qualify for the even more selective pre-dinner reception with the President (and that VIP tour) they had to purchase $TRUMP coins worth $4.3million.
51% : but this week visited the nation and met with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani But a snuff box, even a jewelled one, pales beside the gilded 747 - a mansion with wings boasting a master bedroom, a guest bedroom, two full bathrooms with showers and ten giant-screen TVs - that Trump felt it appropriate to accept.
47% : Since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, every US president except Trump has agreed to sell his investments before taking office or seal them in a blind trust.
47% : Trump, says Painter, has 'crossed a line' by 'taking a $400million plane from a foreign government that was bankrolling Hamas for a decade'. Richard Briffault, a government ethics expert at Columbia Law School, agreed with the view that Trump was flouting the constitution by accepting the Qatar plane.
47% : Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt was dismissive of criticsof his gift from the Qataris and says Trump 'only works with the interests of the American public in mind'.
46% : [a US payment app] for any billionaire CEO or foreign oligarch to cash in some favours by secretly sending him millions of dollars.'
38% : Leavitt was dismissive, assuring the hosts that Trump 'only works with the interests of the American public in mind'.
36% : And the UK, with whom Trump agreed the first post-tariffs trade deal last week, hasn't escaped the controversy.
35% : The White House insists Trump won't keep the plane outright - and therefore isn't acting unconstitutionally - pointing out that it has been given to the US government and will become part of the official Air Force One fleet.
30% : Recalling that the only such controversy during the Bush era was when a national security adviser had to hand over a Rolex watch he was given by the Saudi government, he told the Mail it was both unprecedented and 'quite shocking' what Trump has been able to do.
28% : Questions have been raised after Trump's visit to the Middle East, which included a stop in the United Arab Emirates Trump insists that it is enough for his sons to run the family business instead but many vigorously disagree.
24% : Might they expect a quid pro quo for their generosity? 'The Trump meme coin is the single most corrupt act ever committed by a President,' howled Democrat US Senator Chris Murphy last week The same question is being asked about the Qataris over their recent $400million gift of a luxury jet to Trump (which he delightedly plans to accept) and of the various foreign countries - mostly in the Middle East - that are agreeing billion-dollar property deals with the Trumps or investing even more eye-watering sums in their business ventures.
22% : 'Donald Trump is essentially posting his Venmo
14% : During his first term, Trump himself denounced Qatar as a 'funder of terrorism'.
9% : Read More Qatari prime minister's eyebrow raising claim about $400 million luxury jet gifted to Trump... as even MAGA allies raise alarms Even so, what's happening with the $TRUMP has flabbergasted opponents with Trump facing a rising tide of outrage over allegations of shameless self-enrichment and corruption.
9% : (Congress allowed Franklin to keep it as long as he promised not to allow any of the 408 diamonds to be taken off the box and sold separately.) Trump previously denounced Qatar as a 'funder of terrorism' -

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