Donald Trump’s Wall Street side hustle is starting to look like a full-time job. During the first three months of 2026, the billionaire president pocketed tens of millions of dollars through 3,700 investment trades involving companies with direct ties to his administration.

The president has never pretended to be an ordinary American, but a recent “truth bomb” has opened him to criticism that he doesn’t grasp the economic strain of his war with Iran.

President Trump claimed Thursday that China plans to “invest hundreds of billions of dollars” in the companies run by the CEOs he “surprised” Xi Jinping with during their high-stakes meeting. “Those business people are here to make deals and to bring back jobs,

Trump would also have the power to remove commission members without cause, and the panel would face no obligation to disclose how it awards the funds.

Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.

Renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are nearly $12 million over Trump’s initial budget and the White House ballroom could cost $1.4 billion, up from $200 million.

Court-appointed federal attorneys filed a blistering brief Wednesday arguing that President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS may be unconstitutional, since Trump effectively controls both sides of the case.