President Donald Trump seemed really bummed on Friday over the reaction to the Department of Justice’s billion-dollar “Anti-Weaponization Fund” ― and wondered why he wasn’t being praised for his selflessness.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, the president griped about the lack of appreciation he’s getting for not going through with his $10 billion lawsuit against his own government, and instead allowing the DOJ to create what it calls “a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”

Trump noted that he “gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward, and insisted he “could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune.”

He then noted that “instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!”

Despite Trump’s claim of selflessness, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s belief that Americans “want their tax dollars spent on things like that,” few others support Trump’s “slush fund” for his supporters, er, Anti-Weaponization fund.

Various GOP lawmakers admit having a problem with the fund, which Georgetown law professor David Super says “undermines almost all parts of the Constitution simultaneously.”

“Patently unlawful,” is how one former DOJ official described the bill to HuffPost. “What the memo is contemplating is patently unlawful.”

Considering that on Friday The New York Times called Trump’s fund “an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order,” it’s no wonder that his brazen appeal for praise was brutally ridiculed on social media.

“I could have kept the whole $2B that I plundered from the taxpayers for myself. Instead, I was kind enough to give some of it away to folks who beat the fuck out of cops!” https://t.co/iBJIrsu1Ku

That's weird; he told reporters he had nothing to do with the fund. Now he's saying he gave up a lot of money "allowing" it. https://t.co/vx8l26EmCD

I could have been even more corrupt and given myself even more money is … quite the defense! https://t.co/TjOHMaaLjb

bank robber seeks praise for leaving a couple gold bars behind pic.twitter.com/md5PBym6YM

Funny, because he told us he had nothing to do with it. Now he wants a thank you? https://t.co/65BgEP6kr0

you see folks, we should be grateful that Trump just didn't take the $10b settlement himself pic.twitter.com/kgQ8sXBbxI

Not content to just rip us all off, he expects praise for it. https://t.co/QxMksNIuR6

Safe to say this isn’t going to stem the backlash. https://t.co/fuWRtOGKDw

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