The Daily Grift: Mar 20, 2026

The Daily Grift

The White House is running a war like a sneaker drop, the Trump family is profiting from the bombs they ordered, and Afroman just proved the First Amendment still works in a courtroom where seven cops had to watch themselves get roasted on a projector screen.


Memes and Body Bags

The White House communications team is producing TikTok-style videos that splice actual bombing footage with clips from Call of Duty, SpongeBob, and Wii Sports. Steven Cheung posted the GTA cheat code for unlimited ammo alongside footage of a real person being blown up.

One video hit 60 million views. They bragged about 3 billion impressions in four days – the same week the Pentagon named two soldiers killed by a drone. The comms director called it “grinding away on banger memes, dude.”

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The War Is a Product Launch

The Pentagon asked Congress for $200 billion to fund the Iran strikes. The president’s sons own $750 million in defense stocks. Eric Trump’s World Liberty Financial bought Raytheon shares hours before the first missiles launched.

The same family making the war is making money from the war. And nobody in Congress has asked a single question about it.

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The Poundcake Verdict

Afroman wore a full American flag suit to federal court every day while seven Ohio deputies tried to sue him for $3.9 million. His crime? Making music videos from his own security camera footage of their botched raid.

The jury sided with the First Amendment. Outside the courthouse, Afroman said “I didn’t win. America won.”

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