Bringing the Receipts: Watch Trump Silence Reporters with List of Insane Government Waste Even They Don't Try to Defend
If you pay close attention, you will see that President Donald Trump is beginning to connect the dots.
With the assistance of Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X and leads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, the president has cast a national spotlight on an issue that observant Americans have long recognized but lacked the means to quantify or address. He has done so in a manner that helps awaken those still unaware to the reality that federal officials have committed crimes, not mere mistakes, for decades.
Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, the president fielded a question regarding Musk’s role in government. In response, he provided an in-depth, nearly eight-minute-long statement filled with concrete examples of the shocking inefficiencies and unjustifiable expenditures Musk’s DOGE team has uncovered.
Along the way, Trump also made remarks that hinted at corruption on a staggering scale.
The president zeroed in on two primary concerns: Social Security and foreign expenditures.
For instance, he pointed out that the current Social Security records indicate 3,472,000 individuals between the ages of 120 and 129. In the subsequent age bracket, 130 to 139, the system inexplicably lists 3,936,000 individuals.
Then, he dropped the first indication that he suspects large-scale fraud.
“I wonder if people are getting paid with all this,” he remarked.
For nearly two minutes, the president continued in this vein, citing additional anomalies, such as 879 individuals aged 200 to 209 and even one case of a 360-year-old person appearing in the Social Security records.
Trump then shifted his focus to reckless spending, much of it allocated overseas.
Over the next five minutes, he highlighted 19 specific expenditures that, based on this historian’s calculations, amounted to $1.378 billion.
Additionally, he made three statements that should leave the Washington, D.C., establishment in shock.
The president started by pointing to over $600 million funneled into progressive projects and unnecessary initiatives in Africa, specifically mentioning Uganda and Mozambique, along with tens of millions directed to Colombia and Cambodia.
Then, he issued his first pointed challenge to the establishment.
“Thirty-two million dollars to the Prague Civil Society Centre, which is a very liberal group of people,” he noted. “Wonder how much of that money came back to the people that approved it.”
Wonder how much of that money came back to the people that approved it. That question strikes at the heart of the matter—the answer could unveil the depth of the D.C. establishment’s corruption.
Trump pressed on, listing over $500 million in funding allocated to Serbia, Moldova, India, and Nepal.
“Listen to these numbers,” the president urged. “This is all fraud.”
All fraud.
He then moved swiftly through a list totaling nearly $100 million designated for Nepal, Liberia, Mali, South Africa, Asia, Kosovo, and Egypt.
Finally, he delivered his conclusion.
“We have a very corrupt country,” the president stated.
A very corrupt country.
Readers can watch the president’s full remarks (and verify my calculations if they wish) in the YouTube video below.
A careful review of the footage leads to two undeniable observations.
First, some of the reporters present appeared completely disengaged from the president’s comments.
Three journalists in the front row, including the one who posed the question about Musk, spent two minutes either texting or scrolling through their phones while Trump detailed the irregularities in the Social Security system. Two additional reporters in the back intermittently checked their phones, while others did maintain their attention on the president.
When they assumed he had finished speaking, they all raised their hands.
In other words, they displayed little interest in the evidence Trump presented. They seemed eager to move on to their next prearranged question.
The mainstream media exists primarily to reinforce establishment narratives and shield establishment figures.
Second, and most significantly, the president has begun drawing broad but crucial connections.
Americans have always understood that government waste exists. However, until now, we have never had a president openly question how much taxpayer money “came back to the people that approved” certain expenditures abroad.
We have long been aware of fraud, but never before has a president so explicitly labeled specific financial transactions as “all fraud.”
And while at least half of Americans have suspected their politicians and bureaucrats of criminal activity, we have never had a president outright declare that “we have a very corrupt country.”
In short, as the Trump administration starts attaching names to these payments and potential kickbacks, we will finally get a clear picture of how numerous public officials, both elected and unelected, have amassed wealth through government service. Then, a true reckoning can begin.
We have never been closer to seeing these dots fully connected.