Donald Trump Jr.’s enterprise fund, 1789 Capital, introduced on Thursday that it is going to be investing within the Enhanced Video games, often known as the “steroid Olympics.”
“For over 100 years, elites in charge of global sports have stifled innovation, crushed individual greatness, and refused to let athletes push the limits of what’s possible. That ends now,” Don Jr. mentioned in an announcement. “The Enhanced Games represent the future—real competition, real freedom, and real records being smashed.”
Athletes collaborating within the Enhanced Video games will probably be allowed to make use of performance-enhancing medication and human progress hormones, that are outlawed within the Olympics {and professional} sports activities.
The elements in most performance-enhancing medication, when not used to reinforce an individual’s skill to compete in a sport—and when taken at far decrease doses—can be utilized as gender-affirming therapies or for childhood most cancers survivors.
The World Anti-Doping Company has criticized the Enhanced Video games as harmful for “promoting the use of powerful substances and methods that should only be prescribed, if at all, for specific therapeutic needs and under the supervision of medical professionals.”
The Enhanced Video games is a venture of enterprise capitalist Aron D’Souza, and the preliminary spherical of financing was backed by the identical man who created Vice President JD Vance’s political profession, Peter Thiel. D’Souza and Thiel have been working collectively since 2009, after they devised a plan to bankrupt Gawker.
President Donald Trump and First Girl Melania Trump
In fact, this isn’t the primary Trump household grift. First Girl Melania Trump offered restricted version “Vote Freedom” necklaces from USA Memorabilia, which additionally sells Trump collectibles, NFT buying and selling playing cards, and Melania’s current memoir. And President Donald Trump himself has hawked watches, cash, and even $400 branded sneakers.
Like all issues conservative, the hypocrisy of Don Jr.’s new enterprise is laid fairly naked.
Trump and the GOP have spent the higher a part of the final eight years attacking trans youngsters and athletes and efficiently blocking gender-affirming care in lots of pink states.
And final week, Trump signed an government order geared toward limiting transgender rights, which was briefly blocked by a federal decide on Thursday.
Within the eyes of Republicans, human progress hormones are apparently solely dangerous when used the way in which they’re supposed.
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