Theyve been coaxed out of their mansions and off their yachts by President Trump to make America great again for the very, very rich. The worlds leading online source of ebooks, with a vast range of ebooks from academic, popular and professional publishers. Meet the Billionaires Who Run Trumps Government. Mr. Monopoly, that mustachioed fat cat with the Taftian profile, was about as close as most Americans got to a New York City billionaire until candidate Donald Trump started flying his jet to their cities and villages last year. Now they are practically an everyday sight, because President Donald Trump has coaxed a pack of them out of their penthouse triplexes, yachts and private jets to either join his Cabinet or sit on his councils and advisory boards. Trump voters know theyve had a government for billionairesthats one reason theyre so madbut to have one by billionaires means the Mighty Oz is now setting the nations agenda, and there is no curtain. Anybody with 1 billion in net worth possesses a tranche of wealth greater than the gross domestic product of 6. So what can a president give to these men who have everything And what can they do for him and to the rest of AmericaThe answer may be found in the most famous line from the Italian classic novel The Leopard, about the decaying Sicilian aristocracy Everything must change so that everything can remain the same. The best gift Trump can give his rich friends from Manhattan is to appear to be shaking up the system while leaving their myriad tactics for manipulating and amassing capital unaffected by federal regulation and higher taxes. Less than three months into his presidency, Trump is well into that agendaquietly deregulating the financial industry, stripping Barack Obamas climate change rules from fossil fuel producers and promising to lower taxes on the very rich. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. A billionaires takeover of the U. S. government was not one of Trumps signature campaign promises, but in retrospect it was obvious he wasnt going to bring in the sustainability MBAshe doesnt know any. Instead, he set up a government of, by and for his peers or men the famously insecure Trump wishes to call his peers. His Cabinet of millionaires and billionaires is the richest in American history. The New York billionaires, though, have more in common with Russian oligarchs and Nigerian petro magnates than with almost any other Americanswhether they are flipping burgers at Mc. Donalds or performing heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic. They have been sold to the public as men who will help Trump run the country like a business, in which the public is the consumer. After careers in which they put growing their colossal bank accounts ahead of the interests of small towns, working stiffs and the common weal, there is no reason to believe they will worry about how predatory lending or letting Obamacare explode affects real people. Trumps billionaires are not government hating ideologues like the Koch brothers or mega donor Robert Mercer. They are more like what Trump used to beunaffiliated centrists. And their agendaand now the countrys agendais defined by those matters that affect their wallets. Trump holds a meeting with members of his cabinet including Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 1. Washington, D. C. Trumps cabinet. Michael ReynoldsGetty Pity the Poor, Misunderstood BillionaireThe rich arent rich anymore, says society writer David Patrick Columbia. My friend inherited hundreds of millions. She said to me, Im not rich anymore. They didnt lose their money, but these other people make billionssome of them make a billion dollars a year. And thats all they really care about. Agent Amy Tompkins. Alison Achesons eighth book, 19 Things A Book Of Lists for Me, will be published in Fall 2014. Her works are for all ages, from picture books. No Easy Target. By Iris Johansen. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, an explosive thriller featuring fan. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Flipping Book Publisher Corporate Culture' title='Flipping Book Publisher Corporate Culture' />This 49storey glass tower is a hive of highstakes speculation that looks more like stockbuying than property purchasing. Jill Mahoney and Matthew McClearn analyzed. All those guys love talking about how much money they have. Its what they like to do. Asme Pcc 2 2011 Download. Most of the billionaires Trump has lured to D. C. are, like him, members of the 1. They got rich off of emerging financial tactics crafted to take advantage of Ronald Reagans great gift to Wall Streetripping up the regulations put in place after the Great Depression. Trump adviser and corporate raider Carl Icahn net worth 1. Michael Douglass Greed is good character in Wall Street. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross 2. Stephen Schwarzman 1. Stephen Feinberg 1. Wall Street decreed that social responsibility and businessthe Jimmy Stewart banker modelwere antithetical. The New York real estate developers now advising the presidentSteven Roth net worth 1. Richard Le. Frak 6. Trump in a mosh pit with politicians, city regulators, 5. New York skyline and the surrounding areas malls, golf courses and housing developments. Whether they earned their money in investment banking or New Jersey strip malls and high rises, Trumps billionaires have much in common with the rest of the New Yorks 1 percent. They dont pay much in taxes, and most dont think they should pay much more. They loathe government regulations, and they are ferociously competitive. They all know each other. They finance each other. And they all compete with one another, says Holly Peterson, journalist, author of It Happens in the Hamptons and daughter of Peter Peterson, one of the New York billionaires who is not in Trumps camp. They sniff each other like dogs. But none of them areagain, like the presidentburrowed into New York high society. In 1. 98. 3, when Paul Fussell wrote his book Class A Guide Through the American Status System, examining class in the U. S. from top to bottom, he described how one sign of top status was inherited wealth, and another the discreet display of that wealth. Those rules dont apply anymore, at least not in New York society. Trump and his billionaires are elaborately and publicly rich, and while some of their dads were wealthy, they didnt all start out that way. Schwarzman, the chairman of Trumps Strategy and Policy Forum, is the son of a Pennsylvania dry goods store owner, and he now divides his time between a 3. Park Avenue triplex, a Hamptons estate and villas in Palm Beach, Florida, and Jamaica. He is famous for blowing millions on his birthday bashes. Icahn went to a public high school in Far Rockaway, long before he bought himself a 1. With the exception of Ross and his 2. New York Public Library Schwarzman or embossed in brass on the soaring buildings that house their companies. Trump famously smashed precious historic Bonwit Teller buildings architectural elementscoveted by the Metropolitan Museum of Artto bits because to preserve them would have delayed work on Trump Tower by two weeks. Roth once left a massive eyesore of a hole in midtown Manhattan for nearly 1. New York billionaires are sometimes known for their noblesse oblige or devotion to civic causes, but not this crew. They are social circuit philanthropists. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg the eighth richest man in the world, net worth 4. New York City while he was in office. New York billionaire Peter Peterson, Schwarzmans former partner, put 1 billion into an economic think tank. And, along with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and 4. Giving Pledge, in which all promised to donate the majority of their wealth to charity. Schwarzman gave the New York Public Library 1. The New Yorker for stinginess. He has given, but not remotely what he could, sniffed one anonymous critic in that article. Financial writer James B. Stewart has described how Schwarzman had trouble booking a prime table in the Grill Room at the Four Seasons, a high society lunchtime scene. Schwarzman asked his then partner, Peterson, about it, who explained, It takes more than just money. Trumps billionaires, while the richest men in New York City, are a tier below the cultural financial establishment, the aristocracy. I think the nature of all these guys is that they are not a part of a power or moneyed establishment, says one Manhattan private equity investment banker who knows most of them. You can be very, very rich without being terribly important here. Its not like Trump has assembled a cabal of pathbreakers who disrupted the 2.