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Is Trump So Wrong Because He Wants to Make a Buck Running for President Again?

Mike Weisser
4 min readSep 17, 2022

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If someone told me six months ago that a former President of the United States, any former President would someday become a full-fledged supporter of QAnon, I would have said that it simply wasn’t possible — it simply couldn’t occur.

I mean, if someone as crazily stupid as Marjorie Taylor Greene says she supports QAnon, that wouldn’t be so hard to believe. But a former President? Even a former President named Donald Trump?

And yet, that’s exactly what’s happened. Trump not only actively promotes QAnon on his Truth Social platform, but even shares the group’s images and videos online.

All of which simply confirms what I have suspected about Trump’s use of social media like Twitter and Facebook before he was booted off both platforms and had to start his own social media operation in order to remain online, namely, that the whole social media thing for Trump was simply another way to make a buck without having to risk investing and maybe losing his own dough.

In fact, this is exactly how Trump approached being President as well. Back in 2000, Trump gave an interview to Fortune Magazine in which he said that he might be the first Presidential candidate to ‘run and make money on it’ even though according to the WaPo he lost maybe 50 million…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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