Arne Haarr

Jærbu og europear, busett i Oslo. Arbeider i medlems- og interesseorganisasjonen Norsk Vann. Tvitrer her for eiga rekning.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am visiting China this week in a personal capacity as a supportive son.

Normal people visit their mothers in a personal capacity. Normal people attend funerals in a personal capacity. I do it beside sixteen CEOs, five billionaires worth $870 billion, and a 500-aircraft Boeing order being finalized with Beijing during the trip. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Mastercard. Visa. Tim Cook. Larry Fink. Stephen Schwarzman.

In a personal capacity.

I am also the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. My qualifications for this role include mowing lawns on my father's golf courses, laying tile at his properties, and serving as a boardroom judge on The Apprentice from 2010 to 2015. I have no documented experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain, or Bitcoin mining. My stake in American Bitcoin alone was worth $548 million by September 2025 — eight months into my father's second term.

We purchased 16,000 Bitmain mining rigs for $314 million. Bitmain is Chinese. Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing. Beijing is where I am visiting in a personal capacity. In March we bought 11,298 more. The terms were "unusual" — hundreds of millions in equipment for "future considerations." I'm not sure what "future considerations" means in this context, especially when your father sets the tariff rate on your supplier's home country. I can tell you it is not a "conflict of interest." It is a "supply chain relationship."

On May 12, the day I boarded this plane, my father announced a trade agreement with China. Tariffs on Chinese goods dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent. That is a 115-point reduction on the country that manufactures my equipment, announced the same day I flew there. I did not know. I did not ask. I did not need to ask.

My family owns 60 percent of World Liberty Financial. We receive 75 percent of every token sold. The New Yorker's running total is $4.2 billion. Politico documented $12.9 billion in trading volume. Let me tell you about our team.

My brother Barron is our "DeFi visionary." He was eighteen years old. His prior experience is being tall.

My brother Don is "Web3 Ambassador." His prior experience is selling condos and shooting elephants.

I handle "strategic planning." My prior experience is tile.

My brother-in-law Jared received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund six months after leaving the White House. The fund's own advisory panel flagged his "lack of private equity experience" and called the due diligence results "unsatisfactory." They gave him the money anyway.

My sister Ivanka received Chinese government approval for 16 trademarks during my father's first term. The categories included handbags, sunglasses, perfume, baby blankets, and voting machines. Voting machines. From China. While her father was president. That is not "corruption." That is "brand diversification."

My father spent four years on Hunter Biden. Four years. The charge: Hunter sat on the board of Burisma for $83,000 a month with no energy experience. My father called it the greatest corruption in American political history. He withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation. He was impeached for it. He did it again. A special counsel was appointed. Total cost to taxpayers: millions. Total Hunter earnings: $11 million over five years.

Let me do the math my father never did.

Hunter Biden made $6,027 per day. My family makes $8.75 million per day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. We earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours.

Hunter had no energy experience. I have no crypto experience. Hunter sat on one board. I run the operation. Hunter met one banker for a coffee. I sit on Air Force One beside $870 billion negotiating with the country that manufactures my equipment.

But here is the part that makes me proud.

We launched a cryptocurrency in my father's name. It peaked at $73. It trades today at $2.43. Retail investors lost 95 percent of their money. We collected $400 million in transaction fees regardless of price. We hosted a dinner — the top 220 holders gained entry by holding enough of my father's coin. The top 29 received a champagne toast with the President of the United States. Price of admission: approximately $3.28 million in tokens. A public school teacher earns $3.28 million in 47 years. We call that "community engagement." Not "selling access." Access is what Hunter Biden sold for a cup of coffee.

Three days before I boarded this plane to Beijing, our team moved $12 million in memecoin assets to custody platforms. Routine. Unrelated. Everything is unrelated to everything.

In a personal capacity.

On January 24, 2025 — four days after the inauguration — my father fired seventeen inspectors general in a single night. Without explanation. Without notice to Congress. Seventeen. The people whose job is to look. He removed them all at once and no one replaced them. There is no inspector general for a son's "personal capacity." There is no disclosure form for love. There is no ethics office for a champagne toast priced at $3.28 million. He didn't bend the guardrails. He fired the people who hold them.

He built that. I fly in on it. $4.2 billion at cruising altitude. Every thirty hours, another Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden got a special counsel for a cup of coffee and a board seat that paid less per month than one champagne toast with my father costs per million.

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. I am the Web3 strategic planner at World Liberty Financial. I am visiting the country that manufactures my mining rigs, approved my sister's trademarks, and funds my brother-in-law's private equity firm, on a plane beside $870 billion and a president who spent four years calling $11 million treason.

In a personal capacity. As a supportive son.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

At the request of Putin, Trump begged Zelensky not to send drones to his his WW2 Victory parade. Zelensky agreed, and posted a declaration:

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨Newly elected Hungarian PM Péter Magyar appeared on the state broadcaster for the first time in over 15 months — and firmly pushed back against the anchor

Magyar: “Before we begin, let me point out how unusual this is. The last time I was invited onto public media was more than a year and a half ago.

It took an unprecedented mandate from over 3.3 million Hungarians for the leader of the strongest party to finally be allowed back on air. We will immediately suspend this lying news service.

After forming the government, one of our first steps will be to shut down this factory of lies and build a truly independent public broadcaster — one where the opposition also has a voice.”

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

A Ceausescu moment for Orban. Amid his own party‘s gathering, his alleged supporters start to chant „russians go home“ - a battle chant of Hungarian rebels in 1956, clearly stating what they think about Orban selling Hungary to Moscow.

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

A group of investigative journalists, including @michaeldweiss, obtained another intercepted conversation between Hungary’s FM Péter Szijjártó and Lavrov.

It appears that Moscow may have been able to access virtually any information it sought from the EU/NATO via Budapest.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous:
1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China.
2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.
3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does.
Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia.
US foreign policy has hit the bottom.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Likely a statement drafted in the Kremlin, JD Vance says almighty "Ukrainian intelligence" is rigging elections in both the US and Hungary.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Statement on the occasion of the visit of the U.S. Vice President to Budapest:
No foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections. This is our country. Hungarian history is not written in Washington, Moscow, or Brussels - it is written in Hungary’s streets and squares.

Five days to go!

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : This is Belt Treatment 🔥

Journalist –– Trump targeted you again with personal remarks. Do you have anything to say?

🇫🇷 Macron –– 🔥"We are talking about war, civilians dying, economies suffering. What I heard is neither serious nor worthy of response. A world leader can't use language he is speaking"

Much needed call out

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@SarahLongwell25: "I couldn't have a lower opinion of Donald Trump and the leadership around him. The way that they are waging this war demonstrates contempt for the American people."

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Since Trump took office, the percentage of Ukrainians being killed and injured has risen. "Negotiations" has allowed the Russians to grow more brutal, hit more civilians, kill more of their own civilians too

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents pulled guns on an unarmed U.S. citizen in a small Minnesota town… then had to be stopped by the local police chief.

This happened in St. Peter, Minnesota. A quiet southern Minnesota town

A local woman was alone in her car, observing and recording ICE activity in her community. She is doing something that is fully protected under the First Amendment… observing and documenting federal agents in public.

ICE notices her watching.

Three federal vehicles begin chasing her, and try to force her to pull over.

They eventually box her car in and three agents jump out of the vehicle in front of her… with their guns drawn… screaming at her to get out of the car.

She refuses, and states her rights.

The agents open her car door anyway, drag her out, force her to the ground, and handcuff her.

This is all happening while she is unarmed, and alone on a country road.

She suffers cuts, scrapes, and bruises as they pin her down.

Her husband then arrives and starts recording. He tells them they don’t have a warrant and cannot search her car. An ICE agent dismisses him outright and says, “I’m not getting into the legality of everything.”

Read that again.

A federal agent, pointing guns at civilians, openly says they are not concerned with legality.

ICE puts this woman into their vehicle and starts driving her toward the Twin Cities, toward a federal detention facility… even though she is a U.S. citizen.

About twenty minutes into the drive, they suddenly turn around after getting a call from a supervisor.

The St. Peter police chief stepped in.

After her husband contacted an attorney and spoke with the police chief, the chief identified the vehicle ICE was using, took custody of the woman, and personally drove her home.

ICE turned her over to local police because what they were doing was so clearly wrong.

This is what is happening in America.

A small-town police chief had to intervene to stop federal agents from disappearing an unarmed woman for observing them.

If ICE feels comfortable pulling guns on unarmed citizens in small towns, chasing them, throwing them to the ground, and ignoring the law entirely, then no town is too small and no one is safe from ICE brutality.

This is what it looks like when federal agents think they’re above the Constitution.

[Ben Pauker @benpauker]

✌️11 of the 25 countries on Trump's Board of Peace are currently banned from immigrant visas to the United States.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The horror of this monstrosity, with the chuckles of the sycophants in the front rows, is even worse close up. Now into total ramble mode. Audience bemused and bored. Speaks like a MAFIA boss on Greenland.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Meanwhile, Trump has forced NATO to argue about Greenland

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

Why would they only share the first frame? Here’s the whole version

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today’s Russian papers on Greenland: “Europe’s at a total loss. It’s a pleasure to watch.” Government paper: “Europe doesn’t need the American greatness Trump is promoting…the Old World's keen to keep Greenland for itself, even at the risk of Nato’s collapse.” #ReadingRussia

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Unhinged

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

This has to be the over reach moment when Europe stops pretending this guy is normal or can be dealt with normally, and they get their act together and fight back. He is an enemy over Ukraine and an enemy over a NATO country, Denmark, whose defence of Greenland has been weakened not by them but by the USA. He is a narcissist who cares only for himself and his fellow grifters and cultists, and his deeply fragile ego. He is a bully who will respect nobody and nothing that fails to stand up to him. I have many American friends and am deeply sorry it has got to this but while he is leader it is not a place we can support in any way. And given the chaos he is causing home and abroad it might be about time his NBF at @FIFAcom Infantino thought about shifting the World Cup to a country that wants people to feel welcome. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 among the many who could step in. But for now he just needs to be told DO ONE DONNY

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

As I wrote last spring: If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—pull down another nation’s flag, and then claim the ground for America—every senior commander has a moral obligation to refuse to accept or support such a command.

https://t.co/14oUnLX13L