It’s All About the Money

Jim Fritzen
2 min readMar 23, 2024

It’s not the economy stupid

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There is a consensus that Donald J. Trump is a con man, a grifter, a present-day Johnny Hooker.

Whether true or not, I love it when the grifter gets grifted, don’t you?

Donny, do you need money? Look to those you’ve made wealthy. Not the billionaires. You enhanced their wealth through your tax cuts. You did not make them wealthy.

I am talking about the media, fake or otherwise. I am talking about Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, Jesse Watters, Joe Scarborough, Ari Melber and Sean Hannity.

Let’s just say, the cable news world, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax. Add the podcast world as well. You provide endless fodder for all of them, and they are all getting — “risk free rich”.

They jump on your coattails, or the length of your ties and cling to every word.

Howard Stern is the self-proclaimed “King of All Media”.

Mr. Trump, you are “The Master of All Media” and cable news networks and their pundits are getting “risk free rich” on your antics.

A couple of examples. Carlson didn’t get rich wearing a bowtie on CNN. He did at Fox. Mark Levin’s syndicated radio show, where he shills for anyone with a checkbook, saw his wealth increase when he started touting Trump. The MSNBC/CNN…

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Jim Fritzen

The Cost Guy, life observer and proudly apolitical seeking truth in a World that spins.