Donald Trump’s cabinet, richest and most militarist ever

This video from the USA says about itself:

19 December 2016

As President-elect Donald Trump’s economic team forms, it continues to be highly favorable to a key billionaire hedge fund donor who backed his candidacy when most on Wall Street wouldn’t touch him.

Read more here.

Dutch site De Correspondent has an article on Donald Trump’s nominees for the United States government.

It is a cabinet with the most generals ever since the United States Civil War.

It is a cabinet with most billionaires ever. Their collective wealth is at least 50 times greater than with George W Bush‘s millionaires’ cabinet (which was criticized then as unrepresentative). A combined net worth of more than $14 billion (as many positions have yet to be filled, this will very probably become much more). 17 of Trump‘s cabinet picks have more money than a third of American households combined.

Vincent Viola, a commodities speculator and owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, is the sixth billionaire in the Trump administration: here.

President Trump’s top aides have hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and income: here.

Four Trump White House aides have personal fortunes averaging half a billion dollars apiece, according to disclosure forms released Friday by the administration. The combined wealth of all 27 officials who hold the position “assistant to the president” or higher, comes to as much as $2.3 billion: here.

Trump wants to make America great again with frequent military parades: here.

Looks like the Defense Department is about to shell out some cash to rent space in Trump Tower.