Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video]

It's usually been 'get elected to the house and make a million on the side, elected to the senate and tens of millions on the side, elected president make a billion'

By 'on the side', I mean things like book deals and ant the time legal insider trading. As pfor making a billion after being elected president in the past it was foundations you've set up and receive donations to, not directly like trump. I think the Clintons were probably the most extreme even taking it I remember a billion dollar donation from Saudi Arabia. But nothing comes even close to trump.

It has been a tradition that using public office to make money was looked down upon, but it certainly appears that has gone by the wayside.

We currently witness Suharto levels of self enrichment.

I don't know if he is daytrading now. Every day in the recent week it was "an Iran deal is imminent" during the day and "we'll bomb them" after market closure, followed by Iranian denials that a deal was ever imminent.

Usually not up front.

No, Trump's administration is straight up criminal.

The guy has made ~3500 stock trades in the last 3 months, and there's a pattern of him publicly pumping stock by mentioning a company in a tweet or public statement.

The problem is, the framers of the Constitution believed the American people would never elect someone so criminal and unfit, so the President is exempt from many criminal laws, including those that would stop this.

Trump is orders of magnitude more financially motivated and self-interested than any other US president in history.