Welcome to today’s one-minute briefing. In his New York Times column, Frank Bruni highlights a stark contrast between everyday Americans and the Trump family’s lavish ambitions. While President Trump suggested “two dolls” might be enough for a child, his son Eric was in Dubai celebrating plans for a “$1 billion, 80-story Trump International Hotel and Tower,” complete with “the tallest swimming pool in the world.”

Bruni argues that the presidency has become “a profit center” for a clan furiously capitalizing on political capital—through real estate deals, extensive merchandising and even a crypto venture that inspired Senate Democrats to draft the End Crypto Corruption Act. As Maureen Dowd aptly put it, the whole operation is “graspy.”

Americans are told to tighten their belts while the Trumps redecorate the Oval Office in gold, host a $50,000 gala dinner for $TRUMP investors, and plan a $45 million military parade. This is Trump’s apotheosis of “all gilt and no guilt,” a display of opulence at odds with the struggles of ordinary citizens.
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