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POLITICS GETS WIRED
WIRED
|November - December 2025
IT'S BEEN ONE year since Donald Trump took back the White House.
Much has changed in the United States: The White House's Rose Garden has been paved over, and the Oval Office is covered in gold. As I write this, National Guard soldiers are swarming Washington, DC. In Southern California, meanwhile, ICE cops disguised as construction workers are nabbing day laborers in Home Depot parking lots. Crypto is now king in this country, especially if you're the president or one of his sons, who are amassing millions or billions from, in my view, some of the most corrupt financial schemes imaginable. If you read WIRED, you know. You can feel our democracy short-circuiting, with every AI-generated edgelord meme posted on official government accounts.
This story is from the November - December 2025 edition of WIRED.
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