“In less than a week after he was expelled from the House for his myriad of scams and general scumbaggery, Republican now-former Long Island Congressman George Santos has earned a shit ton of money cranking out Cameo video greetings at now $200 to $300 each, Semafor reports. The wording of their story is slightly dicey but it appears he’s already just in the last few days earned more than the $174,000 annual salary he would’ve made had he survived a full year in Congress, according to screenshots Santos sent to Semafor that were verified by Cameo’s CEO,” wrote National Zero on December 6, 2023, just five days after Santos’s expulsion from the House.
The explainer of what Cameo is was probably in an earlier article so in brief it’s a service that allows, for example, users to spend $1,500 to buy a circa 1 minute personal video message recorded by that Shark Tank douchebag Kevin O’Leary, or $699 for one by Jean Claude Van Damme, or $450 for one by Chuck Norris, and so on… Oh shit, “🔥 Only 9 videos left at this price,” says Norris’s page.
“The videos take less than a minute to crank out and if Santos did a few thousand that’s a pretty realistic sum. The demand is obviously there too, as Georgie boy definitely seemed a little fatigued when Senator John Fetterman used Santos to troll scumbag colleague ‘Bobby from Jersey,'” the article continued and let’s skip ahead to noting they’re “a novelty that people are into right now because Santos just got expelled that will fade and then probably spike again when he goes on trial in the spring.” Yeah he just pleaded guilty, surrendered in July 2025, and did three months before other felon Trump commuted his seven and a half year sentence because fuck you, America.
But the “novelty will fade part” actually kind of nailed it because Georgie’s vids are now $100, thought supposedly that’s just a “President’s Day” sales price down from the usual $300. Still too much, but would, say, $10 be a worthwhile price if you could surprise a politics junkie friend with a video of George Santos saying “Happy Birthday Sarah!” and to party it up like “Kitara”?
Who among you would honestly turn that down?
What if it was Corey Lewandowski? You know, the guy who sexes up dog-murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and has a completely made up badge to not go with the gun that lawyers in the department refused to provide him with. The criminally insane freak who’s been fired no fewer than three distinct posts in the Trump-MAGA political ecosystem, one of the times for sexually harassing and menacingly groping a GOP donor’s wife named Trashelle. There any ironic humor to be found in a $50+ personal video or marketing ROI for a $500+ “business video”?
At least 173 people have either ironically unironically paid him to record the videos since 2019, on which the stupid Daily Mail reports that other Trump regime officials are pissed that Corey’s still putting out these videos while working as a “Special Government Employee” at DHS.