Trump told reporters he bemoaned the surge of interest in gambling and prediction markets, yet his family, media company and administration have all gotten heavily involved with them. Trump Media announced in October it would make prediction markets available on Truth Social through an exclusive arrangement with Crypto.com, while Trump Jr. is an investor in Polymarket and strategic adviser to Kalshi. The CFTC chair Trump nominated speaks of prediction markets as part of 'America's Golden Age' of finance and the Justice Department and CFTC have sued states like Connecticut and Arizona over their efforts to regulate prediction market sites, with the CFTC contending only it has power to oversee them. The structural irony here is sharp: Trump profits directly or indirectly from the exact phenomenon he's publicly criticizing as a societal problem.