Melissa Power

Technology PR and marketing; Foodie, Mom, PVD dweller. Opinions are my own.

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@oelma__ He looks like a Thor.

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@lady_valor_07 1982

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

On Friday afternoon, a regulator Donald Trump appointed approved a bank Donald Trump's family owns, to issue a coin that makes Donald Trump money, under a law Donald Trump signed.

First time in American history.

Dropped at 4pm on a Friday, because they were counting on you not looking.

Here's what they buried:

The OCC — run by Trump appointee Jonathan Gould — granted World Liberty Trust Co. a national trust bank charter. World Liberty is 38% owned by "an entity affiliated with Donald J. Trump and certain of his family members."

That's not my framing. That's on their website.

"It's just a trust charter, it can't take deposits." Correct. It doesn't need to. That's not the business.

The business is USD1, their stablecoin.

You hand them a dollar. They park it in Treasuries. They keep the interest. And under the GENIUS Act — signed by Trump in July 2025 — they're legally barred from passing that interest to you.

All house money.

Friday's charter lets them cut out their middleman and run issuance, custody, and reserves in-house. Fatter margins. Federal seal. Institutional clients.

Now ask where the dollars come from.

A state-backed Abu Dhabi fund settled a $2 BILLION investment into Binance using USD1. World Liberty told Congress the deal likely would've used foreign currency if USD1 hadn't existed.

Meaning: it was routed through the President's balance sheet on purpose.

As of February, Binance held 87% of every USD1 in existence.

Binance's founder was pardoned. By Donald Trump.

Line it up:

→ He signed the law that built the market
→ He appointed the regulator
→ The regulator approved his family's bank
→ The bank prints the coin that pays him
→ A foreign government pumped $2B into it
→ It sits on an exchange whose founder he pardoned
→ The bank's board is chaired by the son of his Middle East envoy

He disclosed $57.4 million from World Liberty on one filing.

Elizabeth Warren: the first president in history to approve, operate, and supervise his own bank.

CREW: the most egregious example yet of the President's businesses profiting off his government job.

Democrats introduced the Ending Presidential Corruption in Banking Act the same day. It bans regulators from chartering banks owned by the president. It will not pass.

Watch who votes against it anyway.

The OCC says career staff handled the review and everyone met their ethical obligations. Fine. Maybe every signature was clean.

That IS the story.

Nobody has to break a rule when you own the people who write them.

They did it on a Friday because Friday is where things go to die quietly.

Don't let it.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

This should be a national scandal.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the aircraft carrier’s deployment in the Middle East stretches months beyond what their families originally expected.

Think about how desperate conditions have to become for American service members, people trained to endure enormous physical and psychological stress, to reach that point.

The roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the Lincoln have reportedly endured food and water shortages, poor-quality rations, shortages of basic hygiene products, broken toilets, mold and mildew in showers, intermittent hot water, disrupted mail service and brutally long workdays with little meaningful time off.

The ship has spent extraordinary stretches at sea without the regular port calls that normally allow crews to get off the vessel, rest, resupply and simply experience something resembling normal life for a few days.

These men and women volunteered to serve the United States. They understood that military service could mean sacrifice, danger and months away from their families.

They did not volunteer to be treated as disposable.

If conditions aboard one of the most powerful and expensive warships on Earth have deteriorated to the point where sailors are reportedly trying to throw themselves into the ocean, then something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Our service members deserve better than this.

And somebody in leadership needs to answer for how it was ever allowed to get this bad.

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@MerriamWebster Worcester!

[Jean Sylvester @JeanSylvester]

@YourAnonNews @marybeth5025

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Can we get 500 retweets as soon as possible on this incredible new ad highlighting how dangerous Donald Trump is for this country through the eyes of those not yet old enough to vote

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

10 WAYS YOU CAN STOP REPUBLICAN FASCISM

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

A Trump dictatorship is not inevitable. But it is increasingly possible. In this thread I suggest

10 WAYS YOU CAN STOP REPUBLICAN FASCISM.

Please share this 🧵 if you agree and want to help us stop MAGA from destroying democracy.

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@chatelaineri @RIDOTNews @BillBartholomew Closure begins tomorrow at 9am.

https://t.co/tsLTt9NRMv

[SC Media @SCMagazine]

In this commentary, @MEF_Forum's Pascal Menezes says Network-as-a-Service offers a compelling answer to security challenges by delivering resilient networking and security on-demand from the cloud. #cybersecurity #infosec #ITsecurity

https://t.co/i8hyZ6M15U

[HOT TELECOM @hottelecom]

#GallopingIntoTown! Join me at the MEF Global Naas Event – Live! By Loews Hotel from October 2-4 in Dallas, USA. Ready to chat about boosting your marketing efforts or up for a sizzling HOTSeat challenge?

#GlobalNaasEvent #Marketing #Events #HotSeat #GallopingIntoTown!

[Telecom Review Americas @TelecomReviewAM]

@MEF_Forum COO @kvachon151 exclusively talked to #TelecomReview on how the upcoming Global Network-as-a-Service Event (#GNE) serves as a pivotal #platform to share #insights about #secure and #flexible #solutions #NaaS #telecom

https://t.co/XMJIGI3rkC

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@DiaMariesbeat This is terrifying. We don’t have to live like this.

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

#NaaS and #SASE are hot.
"ABI Research reported over 90% of enterprises will consume at least a quarter of network services via NaaS by 2030."

"Gartner ranked SASE as the top trend to most affect infrastructure and operations in 2023."

https://t.co/CsWA4dMIVy

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

As the #NaaS market matures #SDWAN consumption is changing, but it won't disappear. Many NaaS offerings include managed SD-WAN as a feature. https://t.co/CsWA4dMIVy #SDWAN #NaaS #WAN #networking

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

@KelsKusterer How fantastic!

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

#Standards, such as @MEF_Forum's industry-first #SASE standard, should be a consideration when choosing a multi-vendor SASE solution. Check out this @networkcomputin article from @fastforwardbob for additional insight. https://t.co/CHijzHO4Ej

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

Exciting times ahead for #enterprise #networking! In this @MEF_Forum #ExecutivesAtTheEdge podcast, @ConsoleConnect 's CTO, Paul Game, talks enterprise #cloud revolution and the power of #NaaS in the future of enterprise connectivity.

[MEF @MEF_Forum]

How has #NaaS evolved given the enterprise-workload shift from on-premises data centers to cloud service providers? @ConsoleConnect's CTO, Paul Gampe joins us today on #MEF's new #ExecutivesAtTheEdge podcast, check it out!

🎙️ Listen now: https://t.co/ZkBijarpHD

#MEFPodcast

[Melissa Power @MelissaTechPR]

Welcome to #MEF @etisalatUAE!

[MEF @MEF_Forum]

🎉 Please welcome @etisalatUAE as a new member of the #MEF community! Etisalat by e& has joined MEF to leverage MEF 3.0 #certifications and to participate in the MEF #NaaS initiative.

➡️ Learn more about joining MEF: https://t.co/LmJAuV2ESM