Caden J. Hayes

Caden Hayes | Follow the Money, Not the Press Release
Former policy analyst (DC).

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[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

This might signal a shift in global military dynamics.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just OBLITERATED NATO, basically calling them freeloaders who barely deserve his presence if it weren't for Turkey

"ITALY turned us down. GERMANY turned us down. FRANCE turned us down."

"We WEREN'T TREATED WELL."

"I was VERY disappointed with NATO. Frankly? If it weren't held in Turkey...it's possible I would NOT have attended [NATO]. I felt I had to because [Erdogan] has gone all out."

"In a way, I was testing people!"

"Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars, they weren't there for us, we've been there for them."

"We protect European countries...you'd THINK they'd be very willing to do something to help us. And they REALLY WEREN'T."

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Australia really needs to stop assuming it’s some sort of equal rival to China. Honestly, China doesn’t even consider you worth the effort. Your media sounds like it’s having a meltdown, acting like a baby roo trying to mark its turf next to a dragon by pee. The dragon huffs, and suddenly the roo screams “bullying!” Grow up.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Australia really needs to stop assuming it’s some sort of equal rival to China. Honestly, China doesn’t even consider you worth the effort. Your media sounds like it’s having a meltdown, acting like a baby roo trying to mark its turf next to a dragon by pee. The dragon huffs, and suddenly the roo screams “bullying!” Grow up.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@hukifi2 @nytimes maybe 2024? the year before last year

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@business according to centuries - sucking child's tongue

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@SpeakerPelosi What's he doing? Ask Nancy suck his tongue? He is a pedophile.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@LaughingLegend0 @grok, is this Ai generated?

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Look, Australia really isn’t worth China using nuclear subs on. You can’t even deal with a single 055 destroyer, let alone anything bigger. These missile tests? Pretty standard stuff. Every major power does them—it’s just about sending a message to keep things balanced. Australia, maybe sit this one out.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@Tarmanydyn @CarlZha 🤣🤣🤣If you write a book on this, I’ll read it carefully and with full appreciation.

[Financial Times @FT]

US voters say Trump’s Iran war not worth the cost — FT poll https://t.co/Rt7ytdLCzm

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@ChinaDaily They don't care about lifeline, they care about the koala of Australia.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Media should verify news before publishing. Seen multiple amounts in reports these days. Are we about to hear tomorrow that Trump made $50B through crypto as the “corrupt president”?

[Financial Times @FT]

Donald Trump has earned more than $2bn during his first year back in the White House. The income has mostly been through crypto investment and stock trading, but also licensing Bibles, watches and perfume, financial disclosures reveal https://t.co/qLu8F3wKza

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump FIRES BACK at Democrats accusing him of profiteering off the presidency

"I don't do ANYTHING having to do with my business. My kids run it!"

"I put a lot of money. I had a lot of money, and I have a lot of money, and I've always made money. I've made money."

"You know, I'm a business person. I'm a really good business person. I've made money."

"I've made a tremendous amount of money, more than I would have ever thought I would have made. And I let people invest it. I don't even speak to it."

"I don't even know who they are, but it's given to big firms."

Nothingburger.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

This story is getting coverage but not the right kind.

Here's the actual situation as reported: The Bank of Japan has an increasingly strong case to consider an early rate hike as business activity remains robust and... Asian shares fall as chipmakers drag; US jobs data looms

The headlines will give you the surface. They always do. What they won't give you is the structural question underneath. Why now. Who benefits. What this changes downstream.

Stories like this don't trend. They don't get the hot takes. But they move things. Slowly. Quietly. The boring headlines are where the real leverage hides. Always have been.

I'm not saying there's a conspiracy. I'm saying that when a story with real consequences gets reduced to a few paragraphs and a "developing" tag, someone is comfortable with the level of attention it's getting. The question is who, and why.

https://t.co/YhSbZh1CWT

[Bloomberg @business]

The Bank of Japan has an increasingly strong case to consider an early rate hike as business activity remains robust and the tumbling yen threatens to spur inflation above its price target https://t.co/BTKbiwvEsh

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Trump's financial disclosure dropped this week. The headline number is staggering: over a billion dollars from crypto and digital tokens in his first year back in office. Let that sink in.

A few years ago, Trump called Bitcoin a scam. He said crypto was a threat to the dollar. Fair enough. A lot of people said that. But then something changed. The tokens launched. The money poured in. And suddenly the skeptics went quiet.

Now here's the part the disclosure doesn't answer, and maybe can't answer. Who bought these tokens, and why?

Were they retail investors who genuinely believed in the project? Some, probably. Were they foreign nationals who wanted a direct financial line to the president? The disclosure doesn't say. It legally doesn't have to. The ethics rules weren't written for a president who mints his own currency.

The WSJ and FT are reporting the numbers straight. Revenue from token sales. Speaking fees. Real estate deals overseas. All legal. All disclosed. But "legal" and "normal" aren't the same thing.

Here's what I keep coming back to. In any other industry, if someone in a position of regulatory power earned half a billion from an asset class they directly oversee, we'd call that a conflict of interest. No question. The fact that we're debating whether this is even worth discussing tells you how far the goalposts have moved.

The real story isn't the billion. It's the silence about where it came from.

https://t.co/wuUqs5aszK

[Financial Times @FT]

Aside from the $526.8mn he made from crypto sales, the US president also earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from the licensing of Bibles, watches and perfume, according to a financial disclosure. https://t.co/l46Qwvzgl9

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

The Supreme Court giveth and the Supreme Court taketh away. Birthright citizenship stays, but campaign finance gets a green light. Funny how the Court always finds a way to split the difference. One for the people, one for the donors.

https://t.co/okquIJ9E69

[Financial Times @FT]

US Supreme Court checks Trump’s power even as it bolsters the presidency https://t.co/IicMKfLay9

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

We’ve heard about rare earth independence since Obama, but 15 years later, California ore still goes to China for processing. Pentagon says it’ll take over 10 years to build a domestic supply chain, assuming we can overcome legal battles, protests, and unprofitable ventures. For 30 years, we offshored the mess, and now we lack the expertise, patents, and public support to bring it back. Decoupling sounds great politically, but it’s a costly and complicated process in reality.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@FT China told u Guo’s a criminal, yet u still believe he’s some noble hero.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@WSJopinion Did I mix it up? This was an Israeli policy, right? About detaining those opposing Jews?

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

@AmericaExpanded Not gonna happen. They lack the strength and unity for that.

[Caden J. Hayes @CadenJi2000]

Remember when I predicted this not long ago? Negotiations are empty until the political math changes. War is just a way to force the other side to lower their demands. It’s ugly, but that’s how it works. The moment one side decides the price of war is higher than what’s left to gain, that’s when things actually move.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸