Any token, coin, or project using the America First Business Challenge name or likeness outside of $TRUMP is unauthorized and should be treated with caution.Another project intended to promote the use of $TRUMP meme-coins is the Trump Billionaire Club Game.
Monday, July 13, 2026
Falling $TRUMP: Various Contests
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Trump Love for NATO is Albania Deep
Saturday, July 11, 2026
CNN Military Analyst Has Major PEU Conflict
This morning Carlyle Group Vice Chair Admiral James Stavridis told CNN's Michael Smerconish that Trump II would need to go after Iran economically.
Not disclosed in this interview:
1. Admiral James Stavridis' full time job as Carlyle's Vice Chair. This includes mobilizing other senior military leaders on behalf of Carlyle as it pursues high growth defense investments.
2. Stavridis recommendation three weeks into the U.S./Israeli excursion (March):
Admiral James Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO and a vice chair at Carlyle, told Semafor last year that a postwar Iran could be “the big investment opportunity in the Middle East.” An educated population of 90 million people with good demographic trends and a strong national culture — “they believe in themselves as Persians,” he said — could “look like the reconstruction of the Korean peninsula after the end of the Korean War.”
3. The Admiral's ongoing assessments of the Strait of Hormuz as part of his Carlyle Group responsibilities.
There are some clear opportunities that emerge from the geopolitical uncertainty.The first is obvious, which is the impact on energy. We believe the global system will see some level of “rewiring” to include more pipelines and shipping routes that bypass the Strait of Hormuz. There will also likely be opportunities in renewable and sustainable energy technology, even in the era of “drill baby, drill.” The effort to bring more oil from other sources – for example, from Venezuela, the Arctic, and UAE now that they are out of OPEC – will likely increase.A second major opportunity set will be in defense spending, which is rising rapidly in the United States, Europe, and Japan. A premium on new technologies – drones, lasers, artificial intelligence for war, hypersonic missiles, and special forces – is clearly emerging not only from the war in Iran but also from the four-year conflict in Ukraine.Thirdly, given their geographic position somewhat out of the maelstrom of the Middle East and the geopolitical tensions between the west and Iran, we believe India emerges as an attractive investment opportunity. New Delhi seems keen to work with all sides in the current geopolitical environment, and alongside its strong demographics and status as the world’s largest democracy, exploring commercial opportunities there could make sense.
Trump II does not listen to his own military leaders, so why would he listen to Admiral Stavridis? Because Trump watches television. Lots of it.
If someone wanted Trump to consider Stavridis advice, the best way would to make the Admiral look neutral. A Carlyle Group tag would not help, given Trump's antipathy towards co-founder David Rubenstein.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
Everybody is shamelessly pushing their own book, especially Trump II and his disturbing progeny. The role models are long gone.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Lifestyle of the PEU/TechGod Famous
Luxury Launches reported:
Like a modern day Emperor, Jeff Bezos arrived with his wife in Costa Rica aboard his private jet to enjoy the springtime. As the marina was too small for his $500 million Koru yacht he took a helicopter and landed in utmost style on his $75 million support vessel Abeona.
TechGod Bezos is not alone in enjoying the super-yachting world. Private equity underwriters (PEU) have a similar affinity for insanely expensive ships.
Monday, July 6, 2026
Trump's PEU Nemesis
"For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so.”Former President Joe Biden called the Washington Monument "the Rubenstein" after the Carlyle Group co-founder donated funds for its restoration.
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Recent Legendary Weddings
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein beat Taylor Swift to the punch yet again. It was Swift's original music in 2019 but the current situation involved wedding vows. Rubenstein married Carolyn Zucker in a private ceremony described as the best kept secret in Washington, D.C. It happened on June 5th.
Taylor married boyfriend Travis Kelce on July 3rd in a giant ceremony in Madison Square Garden.
Taylor eventually purchased her music back from Shamrock Capital. Carlyle stiffed Taylor like they did the City of Missoula regarding Mountain Water. In both cases they said they were open to selling to the highly interested buyers but profit targets required otherwise.
Taylor eventually got her original music and Missoula got Mountain Water but those deals happened with zero help from Carlyle.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Declaration of Independence Applies Today
The Declaration of Independence speaks to the very situation facing America today.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.A great usurpation is being conducted by our current President. Whatever Trump II sets his sights on he intends to bring it into his domain, alter it at his whim, mine it for whatever monetary value it holds and turn it into a mirror reflecting his greatness. Deal makers make deal fees. Recurrent fees are the best kind.
Behind the curtain, a different system operates—one that increasingly resembles extraction, not governance. Call it the “Epstein class”: a network of financial and political elites insulated from consequence, enriched by proximity to power, and sustained by a permanent cycle of crisis. Endless wars funnel public wealth into private hands. Insider trading masquerades as portfolio management. The Federal Reserve quietly absorbs toxic corporate debt, socializing losses while privatizing gains.America has an unfit ruler who plans to have an extra lengthy July 4th speech in record heat conditions, days after proudly defending his $2.4 billion engorgement in his first year in office.