• Join Puck

    Directly Supporting Authors

    A new economic model in which writers are also partners in the business.

    Personalized Subscriptions

    Customize your settings to receive the newsletters you want from the authors you follow.

    Stay in the Know

    Connect directly with Puck talent through email and exclusive events.

  • What is puck? Newsletters Authors Podcasts Events Gift Puck Careers

Trump’s Perfect Thiel Call & Two FTX Bombshells

Dish on Trump’s furious fundraising request to Peter Thiel, the former lawyer buying up FTX bankruptcy claims, and an explosive lawsuit targeting S.B.F.’s parents.

donald trump
Donald Trump is fuming, feeling as though Peter Thiel “screwed” him after all Trump did for his candidates, Blake Masters and J.D. Vance, during the midterms. Photo: Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
September 20, 2023

Join Puck to listen to this article

A few months ago, Peter Thiel received an unlikely phone call from Donald Trump. It was the first time that the two had spoken in quite some time. About a year had passed since Trump had played kingmaker and delivered, bigly, for Thiel’s two protégés, endorsing Blake Masters and J.D. Vance in the primary during their Senate runs. Vance had even won in the general. And so when Trump got Thiel on the horn, Trump gave him his best Janet Jackson: What have you done for me lately?