Kinda like dictators do, huh? Make sure you have your biggest loyalists and richest men making you richer, following your orders and persecuting your enemies, while covering up your criminal acts.
Fetterman endorses Stefanik for UN ambassador https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5035700-fetterman-endorses-stefanik-un-ambassador/ excerpt: “Always was a hard YES for @EliseStefanik but it was a pleasure to have a conversation,” Fetterman said in a Wednesday post on the social platform Xfollowing the meeting with the House GOP conference chair. more at the link
OP fails to mention all the career politicians who have a net worth of more than a hundred million. You can either appoint wealthy people or you can appoint stupid people like Walz and watch them grow wealthy through corruption.
How many career politicians manage that? There aren't many with that wealth, and the vast majority were rich before government.
At least he is not appointing losers who have never been successful at anything in their life other than at slaving away through the ranks in a semi-communist party their whole life.
speaking of billionaires Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund Meta’s donation comes weeks after Mark Zuckerberg met President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as the Facebook founder seeks to mend ties with the right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/12/meta-donation-trump-zuckerberg/
something he didn't do for Obama nor Biden. CBS is reporting that Donald Trump invited Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration. The attendance of a foreign head of state would be unprecedented and may signal an effort by Trump to court the China’s president even as he threatens fresh tariffs against the country. perhaps, Trump is realizing that many Chinese companies have invested billions in America
speaking of billionaires Trump says he’s meeting with Bezos next week https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5036949-donald-trump-jeff-bezos-meeting/
When you coddle to Billionaires, and have the power to make them richer anyway possible it's a sure way to get millions of donations straight to your pockets. The grift continues. Watch them all start giving Trump their money. After all, in the long run giving Trump a million could multiply into a an extra billion in 4 years of favors that cut their costs and taxes. It's all about the top 1% with Trump, not the working class.
AOC asked those who voted for her and for Trump, "Why, just so I know." And a lot of the responses were, "You and Trump actually care about people / workers / whatever." The disconnect is real.
related Trump sides with dockworkers preparing to strike over automation As a potential port shutdown looms, the president-elect’s statement in support of the union is highly unusual for a Republican. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/12/trump-port-strike-automation/
