Trumps use of the word scam shows he’s illiterate.
Everything is “fake” or a “scam”, scams aren’t just people lying or bullshitting. For a Scam to take place there needs to be an element of manipulation taking place to convince an individual or people to send payments to a scammer, think romance/friendship scam, impersonation etc.
Protests cannot be a scam, criticism cannot be a scam. What can absolutely be defined as a scam is trumps efforts to extract donations from his fan base, and I’m using the word fan because these people are 100% fans of him as individual.
He and his team recently sent his base emails saying they are SO CLOSE to being in the top 5000 patriots in the country, all it could take is another $25 and you could be a top patriot, donate thousands and you could be in the top 25 patriots in the country.
Clear manipulation to extract money from people, maybe it’s just my job that makes me view it that way but if I had a customer at work saying this is why they were sending a large payment I’d never be letting them do it.
Even after personally making billions he and his little gaggle of ghouls still feel the need to manipulate more money out of their supporters but they will NEVER see it as the manipulation and scam that it is.
Worlds fucked, that’s all.
Posted Jan 14, 2026, 3:11 AM UTC