Trump is corrupt, vain and greedy – but he’s just taken it to a whole new level

Mihaela Păun

The US president was already creating a $2bn slush fund to give compensation to January 6 rioters. And now new rules mean his previous tax returns and those of his sons can never be audited. It’s marvellous for him – to the rest of us, it is corruption, writes Jon Sopel I f you had to choose one thing that was the perfect emblematic representation of the Trump second term, what would it be? What would it be that is uniquely and unmistakably Trump? There’s the unfinished White House ballroom .