Back to Business: How We'll Cover Trump's Second For-Profit Presidency

Good morning--

America voted, by a comfortable margin, it appears, for a return to Donald Trump's for-profit presidency.

While Trump’s business interests have changed over the past four years--good-bye money-losing D.C. hotel, hello money-losing social-media platform--I believe the best way to document the ethical swamp we’re about to be mired in is to track every single conflict as they happen.

To that end, Trump Store dot com is already hawking “47”-themed baseball hats ($55).

As for what that coverage will look like on this end, stay tuned. I’m at Forbes where the money-in-politics team has remained locked in on investigating Trump’s finances (don’t just take my word for it, you can ask Allen Weisselberg). We’ll be fleshing out what that approach will look like in the coming weeks.

Have any thoughts on how to best report on the conflicts on Trump II? I am very interested in hearing them--

• Email z_everson@protonmail.com

• Mobile/Signal 202.804.2744

As for 1100 Pennsylvania, I’m leaning toward relaunching it as a fully free newsletter, consolidating coverage from Forbes and other outlets. I’ll also be sharing observations that may not make it into full articles but are worth noting.

In the meantime, follow Forbes' Trump coverage at the author pages for the money-in-politics team:

• Me

• Dan Alexander

• Kyle Mullins

Please encourage friends and colleagues to subscribe to 1100 Pennsylvania. The more people who are informed about Trump’s commingling of his administration and his businesses, the better.

Thanks for reading.

Best,
Zach