Trump Media & Technology Group, which is behind the Truth Social app and controlled by the president’s family, aims to raise $2 billion in fresh equity and another $1 billion via a convertible bond to spend on cryptocurrencies, the Financial Times reports.

If you want a private conversation with President Trump, all you need to do is donate $5 million to his super PAC MAGA Inc., the New Yorker reports.

“In President Trump’s first term, the Pentagon opposed his desire for a military parade in Washington, wanting to keep the armed forces out of politics,” the New York Times reports.

“But in Mr. Trump’s second term, that guardrail has vanished. There will be a parade this year, and on the president’s 79th birthday, no less.”

“The current plan involves a tremendous scene in the center of Washington: 28 M1A1 Abrams tanks (at 70 tons each for the heaviest in service); 28 Stryker armored personnel carriers; more than 100 other vehicles; a World War II-era B-25 bomber; 6,700 soldiers; 50 helicopters; 34 horses; two mules; and a dog.”

“President Trump highlighted the sacrifices of military veterans during a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery,” the New York Times reports.

“But he also used his remarks to valorize himself, taking credit for bringing the Summer Olympics and soccer’s World Cup to the United States during his second term and boasting about his plans for a military parade next month in Washington.”

Washington Post: On Memorial Day, Trump honors fallen soldiers and celebrates political wins.

President Trump offered this Memorial Day message:

“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve, and through judges who are on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again — all protected by these USA-hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick and very dangerous for our country.”

“Hopefully the United States Supreme Court, and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land, will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.”

“President Trump’s White House crypto czar, David Sacks, says that Executive Branch, the upcoming Trump-aligned private club in Georgetown that costs as much as $500,000 to join, will be free of stuffy Washington insiders and any worry ‘that the next person over at the bar is a fake news reporter or even a lobbyist’ who ‘we don’t know and we don’t trust,'” the New York Times reports.

“The expectation is that the president will drop by now that he no longer has the Trump International Hotel, where he spent nights in his first term holding forth in the steakhouse and providing fodder for journalists on alert in the lobby. Executive Branch, which has taken over the sprawling space of a defunct bar called Clubhouse, will have what members say is modern décor inspired by Aman New York, a luxurious hotel and private club that opened in 2022. There are to be no prying outsiders.”

Evan Osnos: “In a matter of weeks, the flood of cash swirling around the White House swamped whatever bulwarks against corruption remained in American law and culture. There have always been wealthy donors, of course. But a decade ago no one on earth had more than a hundred billion dollars. Now, according to Forbes, at least fifteen people have surpassed that mark. Since Trump first took office, Musk’s net worth has grown from roughly ten billion dollars to more than four hundred billion.”

“The ultra-rich have captured more of America’s wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the Gilded Age. Scholars who study inequality as far back as the Neolithic period struggle to find precedents.”