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Melania's low profile masks a lucrative White House side hustle

alternet.org · 7h · first reportShare

Little attention is being paid to the ways first lady Melania Trump has found to cash in on her position in government. While President Donald Trump's grift reveals something new almost weekly , businesses linked to his company, run by his heirs, are being handed huge government contracts . But Mrs. Trump's ways of making money off of the White House are staying quiet. The Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote on Saturday morning that the move is all part of "Trump’s shameless Art of the Steal." This week, Trump launched a television ad campaign, paid for by U.S. tax dollars , promoting himself and his "One, Big Beautiful Bill," set to a song that continues chanting "Love me, love me" in the background. While there's Trump's cryptocurrency, there's also the first lady's. "She launched $MELANIA, a memecoin that had an initial market capitalization of about $1.7 billion, but quickly plummeted by about 95 percent," the editorial board recalled. But that only came after invest