It took 250 years, but we finally have a chief executive who understands the full money-making possibilities of the Oval

[riversedge]

It took 250 years, but we finally have a chief executive who understands the full money-making possibilities of the Oval Office. Another thing the Founders did not count on. #Happy250th

It took 250 years, but we finally have a chief executive who understands the full money-making possibilities of the Oval Office. Another thing the Founders did not count on. #Happy250th

— Rick Stengel (@rickstengel.bsky.social) 2026-07-01T12:15:50.122Z

[Haggard Celine]

1. I've often wondered what the Founders would say

if they could see all of this. Especially the Trump presidential crime spree. They would be awestruck, of course, but what would they think of this thoroughly abominable halfwit sitting in the highest office in the land? You know, this presidency of his reminds me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, when the crowd chooses by acclimation the ugliest peasant to be the king of their Mardi Gras. That's what Trump is. An evil Quasimodo. And going back to the Founders, I think they would just say we are all mad. But it would be sensory overload for them, I think.

[tanyev]

2. Oh, there were others that understood, but they all had those whatchamacallit things

that Trump doesn’t have. Oh gosh, what are those things called? It’s been so long.

Ethics…..that’s it! And oversight! Former presidents had ethics and a Congress and Supreme Court willing to exercise oversight.