Bulwark Takes - The 12 Days of Grift-mas

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

A holiday classic, Bulwark-style. From foreign jets to fake honors, we rewrote The 12 Days of Christmas to keep track of Trump’s greatest hits in 2025. The 12 Days of Grift-mas, annotated: 1 giant Qatari jet: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5lp4v594o 2 peace awards: FIFA Peace Prize (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files) and the Nixon Foundation Architect of Peace Award (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-architect-of-peace-award-nixon-foundation/) 3 Olympic medals: from the LA Olympic Committee (https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trump-has-been-awarded-a-full-set-of-1984-olympic-medals-%F0%9F%8F%85%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8/) 4 Four Rush-Hour films:  Recently promised by Paramount, which wants Trump to approve a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-chan-sequel-rush-hour-4-says-whole-lot-trump-economy) 5 golden trophies: A golden plaque from Apple (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-cook-trump-gift/85555805007/), a golden pager from Netanyahu (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-golden-pager-intl/index.html), the FIFA Club World Cup trophy (https://people.com/trump-pockets-fifa-medal-club-world-cup-11774149), World Boxing Council BC boxing belt from Ukraine (https://www.si.com/fannation/boxing/ukraine-president-zelensky-boxing-gift-that-didnt-land-with-trump), and a golden crown from South Korea (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/asia/trump-south-korea-crown-gyeongju.html) 6 golfing wins: At his own clubs, naturally (https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2025/08/05/donald-trump-golf-tournament-championship/85516763007) 7 pretty portraits: Saudi (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insane-gifts-saudi-arabia-gave-president-trump/), El Salvador (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/world/americas/trump-painting-missing.html), 2 from Russia (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/style/russian-artist-trump-portrait-putin-intl and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-putin-photo.html), Australia (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322), Egypt (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322), Vietnam (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gifted-least-3-portraits-himself-foreign-leaders-2019-1616322?utm_source) 8 foreign honors: Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, Morocco, UAE, Egypt, Israel, South Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_received_by_Donald_Trump#International) 9 postage stamps: From Poland (https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/Foreign%20Gifts%20Appendix%20I%20-%20Trump.pdf) 10 Epstein years: “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years” - Jeffrey Epstein (https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf) 11 Nobel noms – Argentinian President Javier Millei, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, U.S. Representative Buddy Carter, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Malta foreign minister, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Pakistan, U.S. Rep Claudia Tenney, U.S. Rep. Bernie Moreno, Rwanda’s foreign minister 12 diet cokes: Trump reportedly drinks about a dozen per day (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html) Merry Christmas!

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Katari jet. On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me three Olympic medals, two piece awards, and a giant Qatari jet. On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me four rush our films, three Olympic medals, two piece awards, and a giant guitarie jet. We're on five now. On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me five golden trophies. Four rush hour films, three Olympic medals, two piece awards, and the giant Katari jet.

On the sixth day of Christmas My true love gave to me Six golfing wins Five golden trophies Four rush hour films Three Olympic medals Two piece awards And a giant Katori jet

On the seventh day of Christmas My true love gave to me Seven pretty portraits Six golfing wins Five golden trophies For rush hour film Free Olympic medal Two piece of wars

And a giant Qatari jet Am I saying Qatari right? Is it Qatari or guttery? I don't know. I don't know. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. On the eighth day of Christmas My true love gave to me Eight foreign honors

Seven pretty portraits Six golfing wins Five golden trophies For rush hour films Three Olympic medals Two piece awards and are refurbished at U.S. expense Qatari Jets. On the nine day of Christmas, my true love gave to me nine postage stamps.

Eight foreign honors. Seven pretty portraits. Six golfing wins. Five golden trophies. Four rush hour films. Three Olympic medals. Two piece awards. And a big ass guitar jet.

The things we do for our art, Dante. This right here, this is more artistic integrity. looks like. On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 10 Epstein years. Nine postage stamps. Eight foreign honors. Seven pretty portraits. Six golfing wins. Five golden trophies. Four rush hour films. Three Olympic medals. Two peace awards. And a big ass Katari jet. On the 11th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 11 Nobel Noms. Ten Epstein. years, nine postage stamps, eight foreign honors, seven pretty portrait, six golfing win, five golden trophies, I'm so off, four rush hour films, three Olympic medals, two piece

awards, and a giant cuttery jet. All right, here we go. Boom. All right, let's hit it. On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, 12 Diet Coke, 11, no, well, non, non, ten Epstein years, nine postage stamps, eight, four, and honors, seven pretty portraits, six golfing wins, five golden trophies, four rush our films, three Olympic medals, two-piece award, and a giant Qatari jet. That's the weirdest rendition of that thing I've ever heard.