This Week in Tyranny: Trump’s $1.7B Self-Pay Slush Fund, Cemetery Defaced, Trans Kids Lose Care

This week, while Trump was in Beijing giving Xi Jinping a foot rub in exchange for a partial soybean order, here’s what was happening at home.Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit transformed overnight into something worse: a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund that Trump will personally control, with no oversight, that explicitly includes payments to “entities associated with Trump himself” and the 1,600 January 6th insurrectionists he already pardoned. Congressman Jamie Raskin called it “an absolute corruption and prostitution of the Judgment Fund.”A historic Black cemetery in Palmetto, Florida, established in 1904, was vandalized with the words “Trump” and “DeSantis” spray-painted in red across 17 gravesites, including the grave of a World War II veteran.A NOTUS report revealed Trump bought up to $1 million in Nvidia stock days before his administration granted Nvidia permission to sell chips to China. He bought $100,000 in AMD before the same. He bought $150,000 in Palantir weeks before Palantir won a new contract with his Department of Homeland Security. This is insider trading by definition.The Trump administration and Texas AG Ken Paxton forced Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in the country, to pay $10 million, fire five doctors who provided gender-affirming care to trans youth, and open the nation’s first “detransition clinic.” 40 hospitals have shuttered their trans youth programs nationwide.The Pentagon abruptly cancelled the deployment of 4,000 American troops to Poland after the soldiers had already started arriving. Republican Congressman Don Bacon called it “an embarrassment to our country.”Plus: DOJ dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after he hired Trump’s personal lawyer. Ryan Zinke wants to delist grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act because the gutted Park Service can’t manage trails anymore. And FBI Director Kash Patel was photographed snorkeling above the USS Arizona memorial.Welcome to the golden age.Sources:https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-cemetery-vandalized-trump-desantis-graffitihttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-stock-trading-nvidia-amd-palantir-corruptionhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-childrens-hospital-detransition-clinic-settlementhttps://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/16/hegseth-poland-troops-cancelled-pentagonhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/kash-patel-snorkeling-uss-arizona-memorial-hawaii Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe