nice circle

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Seeing as politics is always a bunch of self serving in-crowd of rich folks, I’d really like to see this for the previous few presidents to know if this is a unique thing to Trump.

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I’m too lazy to keep looking, but here’s a small sampling. Ambassador positions to friendly countries tend to go to friends/donors and not worth comparing. DOGE can’t be compared, as it doesn’t exist. Figures are whatever I found at the top of google, not adjusted for inflation or value the years they were in office. Big enough gap that it didn’t matter. Maybe someone else can check Bush?

2013 Obama - $6M

  • Secretary of Commerce - Penny Pritzker - $3.6B
  • Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan - $4.8M
  • Secretary of Interior - Ken Salazar - $2M
  • Small Business Administrator - Karen G Mills - “At least” $705,000
  • NASA Administrator - Charles F Bolden - “At least” $537,000
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Thanks for looking into what I’m clearly too lazy to do! A quick lazy Internet search shows that Biden’s cabinet appears to be mostly “only” millionaires according to this.

That article also compares Biden’s to Trump’s previous cabinet. And references Obama’s. I would like to note that framing this all as “measly millionaire” is so disconnected from the remainder of America.

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The margin between top 1% and top 0.1% is vast, Trump’s admin is the 0.1% wrestling away complete control by any measurement.

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Millionaires seem pretty reasonable, its not surprising for someone who’s presumably had a decades long career to own a house and a bit of savings. If we’re being generous the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is the same as the difference between a millionaire and someone living in the street, in reality the difference is about a billion dollars.

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Gee. I sorta thought trump was rich but his net worth seems so small in this group. I mean laughably small.

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It’s been said for a long time that Trump only tells people he’s a billionaire. He’s gone bankrupt in so many businesses. If he had just put the money he inherited from his father into an index fund he’d be vastly more wealthy.

But now with Truth Social gone public through a corporate front, he is an actual multi-billionaire, the way net worth is measured.

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Alright team, drain the swamp!

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It’s a collection game.

#GottaCatchEmAll #UnitedHealthcare

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