George Santos Is Making More Money on Cameo Than in Congress

Nikki McCann Ramirez
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Step aside campaign funds, George Santos has a new cash cow to fund his OnlyFans habit: Cameo.

According to Semafor, the former congressman, who was expelled from government on Friday, is already on track to dwarf his old congressional salary of $174,000 simply by making videos on Cameo.

For a mere $400 (a marked increase from the original price of $75) Cameo users can purchase a short, personalized video from the “Former congressional ‘Icon’!💅🏼.” While Santos should probably be hunting for a new job — or at least preparing for his impending criminal fraud trial — he has instead spent his first few days of unemployment threatening revenge on his former colleagues and imparting his sage wisdom on the un-Botoxed masses.

“Botox keeps you young, fillers keeps you plump,” Santos chimes in one Cameo clip, miming a kiss for the camera in the process. “If you have haters, that means you’re doing something right girl!”

In another video, purchased by Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to troll his indicted colleague Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Santos advised Menendez to make the haters “put up or shut up.”

In response, Menendez told reporters that he doesn’t think Fetterman’s donors “would appreciate him enriching George Santos.”

Dozens of fan-purchased Cameos aside, since his ouster from office, Santos has been raking in all the exposure he can get. In just a few days, he’s agreed to set up an interview with satirical commentator Ziwerekoru “Ziwe” Fumudoh, HBO has already purchased the rights to adapt a book exploring his meteoric rise and fall into a film, and SNL delivered him a political eulogy parodying Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.”  
While the former “Republican It Girl,” may no longer have an office in the Capitol, he may have a bright future as Cameo’s biggest star. It could all depend on whether ring lights are allowed in prison.

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