April 27, 2025. Last night, a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

It's called Executive Branch, and it's an invitation-only club backed by Donald Trump Jr. and mega donor

Omead Malik. Dasha Burns of Politico reported that it costs more than half a million dollars to join.

The exclusive club is designed to allow top business executives to talk privately with

Trump advisors and cabinet members. Burns reported that the

club already has a waiting list. When then candidate Donald Trump celebrated the administration of

President William McKinley, it was always clear he sought as the triumphant marriage of the very rich

to the U.S. government. It was the era of so-called robber barons,

industrialists and financiers who flooded political campaigns with money to convince voters that

those trying to rein them in were socialists or anarchists, then called upon the politicians

they put into power to pass laws that benefited their businesses.

Behind every one of half the portly, well-dressed members of the Senate can be seen the outlines

of some corporation interested in getting or preventing legislation, the Chicago Tribune

wrote in 1884, or of some syndicate that has invaluable contracts or patents

to defend or push. Last Sunday, a new filing with the Federal Election Commission revealed that

donors delivered an astounding $239 million for Trump's inauguration.

Theodore Schleifer of the New York Times notes that Trump's 2017 inaugural committee

raised $107 million.

The $346 million raised by Trump's two inaugural committees is more than the monies raised by all other inaugural committees

since Richard Nixon's committee raised $4 million in 1973.

While Trump's allies have said the money that wasn't spent on festivities will go to other

projects Trump is behind, including his presidential library. There is no oversight on

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