Brennan Center goes history-nerd savage: Teapot Dome’s $1.4B-in-today’s-dollars looks small next to Trump profits

The Brennan Center compares classic corruption benchmarks (Teapot Dome’s $44M then ≈ $1.4B today) to Trump’s alleged 2025 gains, arguing past scandals “paled” by comparison. The roast writes itself: we used to call this “corruption,” now it’s apparently just “the business model.”