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Twelve Days of Griftmas, Bullwerk style

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12-days-of-grift-mas?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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A holiday classic, Bulwark-style. From foreign jets to fake honors, we rewrote The 12 Days of Christmas to keep track of Trump’s greatest hits in 2025.

The 12 Days of Grift-mas, annotated:

1 giant Qatari jet: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5lp4v594o

2 peace awards:

FIFA Peace Prize (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files) 

The Nixon Foundation Architect of Peace Award (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-architect-of-peace-award-nixon-foundation/)

3 Olympic medals: from the LA Olympic Committee (https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trump-has-been-awarded-a-full-set-of-1984-olympic-medals-%F0%9F%8F%85%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8/)

4 Four Rush-Hour films: Recently promised by Paramount, which wants Trump to approve a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-chan-sequel-rush-hour-4-says-whole-lot-trump-economy)

5 golden trophies:

A golden plaque from Apple (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-cook-trump-gift/85555805007/)

A golden pager from Netanyahu (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-golden-pager-intl/index.html)

The FIFA Club World Cup trophy (https://people.com/trump-pockets-fifa-medal-club-world-cup-11774149)

World Boxing Council BC boxing belt from Ukraine (https://www.si.com/fannation/boxing/ukraine-president-zelensky-boxing-gift-that-didnt-land-with-trump)

A golden crown from South Korea (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/asia/trump-south-korea-crown-gyeongju.html)

6 golfing wins: At his own clubs, naturally (https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2025/08/05/donald-trump-golf-tournament-championship/85516763007)

7 pretty portraits:

Saudi (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insane-gifts-saudi-arabia-gave-president-trump/)

El Salvador (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/world/americas/trump-painting-missing.html)

2 from Russia (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/style/russian-artist-trump-portrait-putin-intl and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-putin-photo.html)

Australia (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322)

Egypt (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322)

Vietnam (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322?utm_source)

8 foreign honors: Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, Morocco, UAE, Egypt, Israel, South Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_received_by_Donald_Trump#International)

9 postage stamps: From Poland (https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/Foreign%20Gifts%20Appendix%20I%20-%20Trump.pdf)

10 Epstein years: “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years” - Jeffrey Epstein (https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf)

11 Nobel Noms: Argentinian President Javier Millei, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, U.S. Representative Buddy Carter, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Malta foreign minister, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Pakistan, U.S. Rep Claudia Tenney, U.S. Rep. Bernie Moreno, Rwanda’s foreign minister

12 diet cokes: Trump reportedly drinks about a dozen per day (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html)

Merry Christmas!

 

 

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2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Marble armrests. Who actually thinks of those. It's got to make for uncomfortable seating. Besides wasting taxpayer money...

 

Looks like the tiles/countertops for my kitchen and bathroom. Good grief.

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3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Instead of Commander in Chief, he should be Decorator in Chief. Offer him a job on HGTV or with Chip and Joanna Gaines. Now would make America grate again!

He has experience as a fake businessman on The Apprentice...

I'm on board with this!

Tell him: "You're Fired!!!"

And see if he pouts his way out of the White House and all the way over to HGTV...

"They don't like me... I quit!"

Works for me! I would LOVE him as a failed president with his own HGTV show!!!

I promise... I would NEVER watch it!

But that could be the new go-to TV program for MAGA to watch diligently...

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So, does Trump spending so much time and energy redecorating the White House into a Third World Dictator Gold Leaf motif utterly charm and delight the red hats? If nothing else, it's certainly easy for them to understand.

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