Where the Hell Did All That Inauguration Money Go (Again)?
You’d think after the last go-round, folks would’ve learned. But here we are—2025, and Trump’s back in office, back in gold-plated glory, and back to doing what he does best: raking in money like it’s leaves in fall… then acting like he forgot where he put it.
This time, they pulled in $212 million for the inauguration.
Two. Hundred. Twelve. Million.
That’s double what they raised in 2017—and it looked the exact same: some flags, a band, a stage, and Trump flapping his gums like he’s preaching to the Book of Trump, Chapter 45.
Where’d all that money go?
Good luck getting a straight answer.
Once again, a “planning committee” was formed, and wouldn’t you know it, the cash started flowing to Trump properties like water from a busted pipe. Hotels, golf resorts, “consulting” gigs for family friends. Even a catering invoice for $80,000 from a steakhouse reportedly owned by a cousin of Eric Trump’s foot masseuse or something. You can’t make this up.
A big chunk of the cash was supposed to go to “patriotic education initiatives.” Know what that turned out to be? A series of online videos featuring Don Jr. in a blazer, yelling about the Founding Fathers while selling supplements.
And what really pisses me off? I know damn well that money came from regular folks. HVAC techs like me. Teachers. Truckers. People who actually believe in America—who scraped together a donation thinking it would go to something meaningful. Instead, it went to gold-plated toilets and limos with MAGA license plates.
Look, I get that inaugurations cost money. There’s security, staging, porta-johns, the whole works. But two hundred million dollars? I’ve seen Fourth of July parades with more substance run on ten grand and a Boy Scout budget.
And yet again, when the press asked where the money went, they got silence. Or worse—some press secretary shrugging through a spray tan, saying “we’re looking into it.”
Let me tell you what it looked like from Idaho: a scam.
A big one. With flags.
I know some of y’all reading this still got Trump signs in your yard. And I get it—you’re tired of Washington screwing over regular people. But if you think this guy’s different, ask yourself one question:
Why does every dollar you give him seem to disappear?
At the end of the day, this ain’t about right or left. It’s about right and wrong. And if we don’t start calling this crap out, they’re just gonna keep doing it—louder, richer, and with more flags.
Me? I’m not giving them a dime.
I’ll keep fixing air conditioners, raising my daughter, and telling the truth as I see it.
If that makes me the enemy of the state, well…
at least I ain’t the guy pocketing $212 million and calling it patriotism!
