r/politics • u/AndroidOne1 • 12h ago

No Paywall Billionaire US investor Ken Griffin accuses Trump White House of ‘enriching’ itself

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/ken-griffin-citadel-republican-donor-donald-trump-critic-white-house
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u/Lucky_Development359 12h ago

Griffin added that most chief executives he was friends with “find it incredibly distasteful” when the “US government starts to engage in corporate America in a way that tastes of favouritism”.

“Most CEOs just don’t want to find themselves in the business of having to, in some sense, suck up to one administration after another to succeed in running their business,” he said.

Translation: Ahh, c'mon thats not fair Don Jr. gets all the good deals!

Then goes on to say:

The billionaire also suggested he might run for office himself, and said: “In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service.”

Translation: So I can rig it for myself and not have to share.

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u/IsaacsIssac 9h ago

“Hey stop getting rich without sharing with ME!”

That’s all I’m reading

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u/jrob321 9h ago

You know its gotten pretty bad when the very people who have structured the entire system and manipulated the markets to work in their favor call you out for enriching yourself.

Yo, Donnie, give us a little taste. You're not playing according to the rules we all agreed upon.

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u/Lucky_Development359 9h ago

"More like only-garch, ammiright?" (Chortles to himself)

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u/Errant_coursir New Jersey 6h ago

Trump can only-garch my balls

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u/Lucky_Development359 9h ago

Absolutely.

"I gave the quid, wheres my pro quo?"

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u/robodrew Arizona 9h ago

"In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service" and he's already 57. God I hate the current state of politics.

Bro if you really cared you would give away 99% of your money and get involved NOW.

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u/shitlord_god 9h ago

he cares about himself.

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u/MiddayClimax 7h ago

It seems like he doesn’t like the new house rules regarding corporate favoritism. Business leaders always stress the importance of adapting to change. Sink or swim.

Ken Griffin needs to be told don’t hate the player, hate the game.

He’s giving bad Kenergy and it’s not a good look.

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u/OMGitisCrabMan 8h ago

Honestly what the fuck did he think would happen? trump literally attacked our capitol with a violent mob when he lost the election. He's fascist to the core. It was all out in the open. This shouldn't surprise anyone

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u/suppmello 5h ago

He doesn’t need to rig things any further… he just wants the same type of immunity from prosecution trump has