Good morning. The president of the United States spent his Sunday posting AI images of nuclear explosions and political enemies swimming in sewage — while skipping his own faith rally to golf. His acting attorney general went on Fox News and telegraphed a plan to challenge the midterms before a single vote has been cast. And a new investigation shows Trump was trading bonds in an AI company in the days before his own administration handed that company a federal contract. It’s a lot. Let’s get into it.
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Trump Traded Bonds in an AI Company Days Before His Own Administration Handed It a Government Contract
The president of the United States bought bonds in an AI startup in the days before his administration announced the company had been selected for a federal program. He sold them the day after the announcement sent the stock up nearly 20 percent.
The company is CoreWeave. The program is Trump’s so-called Genesis Mission, a White House initiative to harness AI in scientific research. The Department of Energy announced CoreWeave’s participation on December 18. In the week before that announcement, Trump’s financial disclosures show he purchased CoreWeave bonds worth up to $1 million. The day after the news broke, he sold those bonds in a transaction that falls in a bracket of $1 million to $5 million — a much higher range than what he bought them in. The exact profit is impossible to determine because the disclosures use ranges rather than specific figures.
Whatever he made, it didn’t slow him down. He bought more CoreWeave bonds worth up to $5 million the same day he sold, and added further purchases the following month.
The White House referred questions to the Trump Organization, whose spokesperson said the president’s investments are handled by independent financial managers and that Trump receives no advance notice of trading activity. That may be true. It may also be a convenient explanation for a pattern that, in any other administration, would have triggered a federal investigation.
This is the same president who has spent his second term gutting AI regulations, handing oversight rollbacks to the same tech sector in which he and his family hold substantial investments. Sources say Trump has personally made more than a billion dollars since his re-election. His family pulled in roughly $1.55 billion from crypto token sales alone.
The Founders wrote the Emoluments Clause into the Constitution because they’d watched European courts rot from the inside, where ministers grew rich off the powers of their own offices while the public paid the bill. They put that protection into both Article I and Article II so no American official could turn the machinery of government into a personal brokerage account, and what we’re looking at here isn’t a loophole in that design, it’s the precise danger it was built to stop.
The conflicts are not subtle. They are just largely going uncovered.
Raw America Reports from Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Christian Nationalist Event
Raw America capitol reporter Luke De Cresce at the Rededicate 250 event at the National Mall on May 17, 2026
Raw America’s own Capitol reporter Luke De Cresce was on the ground in Washington Sunday for Trump’s right-wing Christian event, which was carried out with our tax money.
It was called “Rededicate 250,” and it was billed as a prayer event tied to America’s upcoming 250th anniversary. But in reality, it was a nine-hour Christian nationalist rally held on the National Mall, funded with taxpayer money and organized with a very clear government endorsement of religion. Luke was there all day. Nine hours is a long time to stand in the sun watching the federal government violate the separation of church and state.
Here’s the main problem with Sunday’s event: The First Amendment doesn’t just protect your right to worship how you choose. It also prevents the government from endorsing one religion over others. When federal agencies decide to mandate or announce an endorsement of a specific religious worldview, it stops protecting democracy and starts threatening it.
This wasn’t a nondenominational civic gathering. The entire nine-hour arc of the event reflected a particular strain of Christian nationalism that’s been gaining ground inside this administration for years. These are people who wrongly believe America was founded as an explicitly Christian nation and that government should operate on that premise.
The taxpayer funding piece is what makes it especially troubling. Every American, regardless of their faith or lack of one, contributed to this event. Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, Hindu Americans, atheists, agnostics. Their tax dollars went to fund a religious revival on federal land organized by an administration that increasingly treats Christian nationalism not as a fringe movement but as a governing philosophy.
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The President Spent Sunday Posting AI Fever Dreams While His Own Faith Rally Happened Without Him
Trump skipped a White House-backed event “rededicating” the nation to God on Sunday to spend the afternoon at his golf club in Virginia. While thousands gathered on the National Mall for a nine-hour faith rally the administration helped organize, the commander-in-chief was on the fairway.
He has now played golf for 106 of his first 483 days in office. That is roughly one in five days of his presidency spent on a golf course.
What he did between holes was more alarming. Trump spent his Sunday afternoon flooding Truth Social with a barrage of AI-generated images of himself commanding a futuristic space station, directing satellite battles, and pressing a red button as a mushroom cloud rose behind a screen labeled “TARGET DESTROYED.” He posted the nuclear imagery twice. He also posted AI images of Obama, Biden, and Nancy Pelosi swimming in a sewage-filled reflecting pool, Gavin Newsom as a zombie, and himself strutting through a formation of robotic soldiers.
He also posted a clip that cuts from himself golfing to Sen. Bill Cassidy explaining his vote to impeach Trump after January 6 — just before a golf ball strikes Cassidy in the head. Cassidy lost his primary the night before to a Trump-backed challenger.
Pelosi’s office responded that Trump was “spending his time golfing and posting deranged AI images” instead of lowering costs for Americans.
The men who wrote the Constitution deliberately took the war power out of one set of hands and gave it to Congress in Article I, because they understood that the gravest decisions a nation makes should never rest on the moods of a single man. Every president from Truman onward has treated the weight of that arsenal as something close to sacred, and watching it turned into weekend content tells you less about the technology than about what’s happened to the seriousness this office was supposed to demand.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on any of it. There was no comment needed. The images spoke for themselves.
The Acting Attorney General Just Telegraphed the Plan to Steal the Midterms
Todd Blanche appeared on Fox News Sunday and said, without evidence, that there is “a ton of evidence” the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. He then said the administration is “very focused on finding out whether the right people voted.”
The right people.
Former AG Bill Barr found no evidence of widespread fraud. Trump’s own cybersecurity director said it was the most secure election in American history. None of that appeared to matter to Blanche, who delivered what analysts are calling a two-part roadmap for midterm interference.
The first part: use the DOJ’s fixation on “the right people” as cover to disenfranchise minority voters at scale. The administration has already been working with Republican-controlled state legislatures in deep-red states to redraw congressional maps that reduce minority representation in Congress.
The second part is darker. By resurrecting 2020 fraud claims now, the administration is laying groundwork to challenge the midterm results if Democrats win the House or the Senate. The pre-emptive delegitimization campaign has already begun. Blanche just handed it a megaphone on national television.
The Supreme Court is expected to play along. MAGA-aligned justices and sympathetic state courts are already assisting with redistricting efforts designed to limit Democratic representation heading into November.
When a sitting official starts deciding whether “the right people” voted, he’s reaching back into the oldest and ugliest American playbook there is, the one of poll taxes and literacy tests that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was written to bury for good. And the deeper danger is the one he only hinted at, because the peaceful transfer of power that John Adams handed Thomas Jefferson after the election of 1800 has always depended on the losing side agreeing to lose, and an administration pre-arguing that any defeat must be fraud is quietly telling you it no longer accepts that bargain.
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