{"id":77610,"date":"2026-08-19T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-is-full-speed-ahead-in-making-money-off-being-the-us-president-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:55:35","slug":"trump-is-full-speed-ahead-in-making-money-off-being-the-us-president-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-is-full-speed-ahead-in-making-money-off-being-the-us-president-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is full speed ahead in making money off being the US president | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some restraint on Trump\u2019s excesses might be accomplished if November\u2019s midterm elections give Democrats more power <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is essentially unrestrained when it comes to enriching himself during his second term, with no sign of stopping. If anything, he\u2019s ramping things up.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers so far are astonishing. He amassed $2.2bn in 2025 revenues, the Guardian and other news outlets have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/13\/trump-presidency-revenue-wealth\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/19\/trump-money-democrats-midterms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some restraint on Trump\u2019s excesses might be accomplished if November\u2019s midterm elections give Democrats more power Donald Trump is essentially unrestrained when it comes to enriching himself during his second term, with no sign of stopping. If anything, he\u2019s ramping things up. The numbers so far are astonishing. He amassed $2.2bn in 2025 revenues, the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump is full speed ahead in making money off being the US president | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-is-full-speed-ahead-in-making-money-off-being-the-us-president-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump is full speed ahead in making money off being the US president | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}