The Winners in Trump’s America Are Not You and Me

It’s corporate executives, the Epstein class, fascist thugs, and of course the corrupt president himself.

The United States, you may have heard, is the “hottest” country in the world. It’s a phrase that President Trump often deploys to sell his presidency, and he did so again in Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address. “What a difference a president makes. A short time ago, we were a dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. The hottest.” We’re “winning again,” experiencing “a turnaround for the ages.” If his meandering, nearly two-hour speech had a theme, this was it: America is back, baby—thanks to Trump.

That’s certainly true if you are a corporate executive or a substantial shareholder at a company that raked in massive benefits from last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It’s even truer if you’re a businessperson with strong ties with the administration. Just look at David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, who attended last night’s State of the Union address and whose effort to build a massive Trump-friendly media empire is still alive—thanks, of course, to his connections to Trump.

Things are also going quite well for you if you’re a member of what Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff recently termed “the Epstein class.” This is a banner moment for the rich and powerful who behave as though the rules—financial, legal, moral—do........

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