“If the cabinet he appointed of billionaires and millionaires is anti-establishment, boy, I would hate to see what the ‘establishment’ looks like,” Sanders said on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. He accused Trump of going back on his pledge to lead an anti-establishment revolution and “drain the swamp”. “I guess they have a few poor millionaires on it but, mostly, it is billionaires,” Sanders said.
Top Democrats and leading ethics and constitutional law experts have also raised concerns about Trump’s selection process.īernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who campaigned for the Democratic nomination and promised that, if elected, he would redistribute the vast wealth of the 1% to poorer families, has dubbed Trump’s top team the “cabinet of billionaires”. The criticism Trump objected to in Des Moines came from a New York Times editorial questioning the Trump administration’s seeming lack of interest in vetting nominees for potential conflicts of interest. “Businesses are driven with one guiding principle – to make the most money – and that should not be the role of the government.”įacebook Twitter Pinterest Secretary of state-designate Rex Tillerson speaks in Washington. “I am always wary of people who say ‘we have to run the country like a business’ – businesses aren’t responsible for defence or caring for the elderly,” he said. The implication was that, under the leadership of Trump, America Inc would finally begin to punch its weight in the market of global diplomacy.Īccording to Peter Henning, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State University, appointing business leaders to top political positions has become the norm in American politics, but Trump’s nominations were “unique in the volume of people with minimal, if any, government experience”. China, was a “big abuser” through artificially depressing its currency to give its exports a boost at the expense of US jobs. He described the Nafta with Canada and Mexico as “the worst trade deal maybe ever” the Iran nuclear pact was a “disaster” and “the worst deal ever negotiated”, and would be “ripped up”.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly returned to the theme of the “terrible deals” cut by previous administrations, from the North American Free Trade Agreement trade deal to the nuclear deal with Iran. And “deal-making” is what the next White House will be all about. For Trump, those figures are simply a confirmation of competence: in Trumpian politics, the richer you are, the better you must be at cutting a deal. His team – if all are confirmed by the Senate – will be worth 50 times the $250m combined wealth of George W Bush’s first cabinet, which the media at the time dubbed the “team of millionaires”. Trump’s cabinet, which is not yet fully filled, is already said to be worth a combined $14bn – the richest White House top table ever assembled. Because now they are negotiating for you, OK? It’s no different than a great baseball player or a great golfer.” Responding to liberal consternation at the sheer wealth of the prospective appointees, Trump told his audience: “A newspaper criticised me and said: ‘Why can’t they have people of modest means?’ Because I want people that made a fortune. As president-elect, Trump has so far nominated a number of billionaires, three Goldman Sachs bankers and the chief executive of the world’s largest oil firm to senior positions. Earlier this month, Donald Trump used a “thank-you” rally in Des Moines, Iowa, to give his supporters further insight into the “deal-making” team he intends to build in Washington.
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