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Politics
Fred Onyango

Donald Trump Jr. backing a ‘steroid olympics’ where athletes use performance-enhancing drugs to test their ‘upper limits’

Donald Trump Jr. and the merry band of billionaire insiders surrounding the current administration have come up with their latest idea: “The Enhanced Games.” A Las Vegas sports competition where athletes are essentially encouraged to use steroids, growth hormones, adderall, and any other legal performance-enhancing drugs they can find.

The company behind this idea is 1789 Capital. Best known for its investment in Tucker Carlson’s podcast, controversial betting site Polymarket, and almost all companies owned by Elon Musk — all with the stated goal of creating “a parallel economy.” Which would explain why all their decisions have been disruptive and, frankly, political.

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