Trump’s appointees: military and surveillance contractors and paid lobbyists
Lee Fang, “Donald Trump Is Filling Top Pentagon and Homeland Security Positions with Defense Contractors,” Intercept.com, March 21, 2017, https://theintercept.com/?2017/?03/?21/?revolving-door-military/.
Roger Ailes and harassment allegations
Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham, Paul Farhi, and Krissah Thompson, “The Fall of Roger Ailes: He Made Fox News His ‘Locker Room’—and Now Women Are Telling Their Stories,” Washington Post, July 22, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?lifestyle/?style/?the-fall-of-roger-ailes-he-made-fox-his-locker-room–and-now-women-are-telling-their-stories/?2016/?07/?22/?5eff9024-5014-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?utm_term=.02913c0561b2.
Granting the Corporate Wish List
Trump and plans for a tax cut and slashing regulations
Bob Bryan, “TRUMP: We’re Going to ‘Cut Regulations by 75%’ and Impose a ‘Very Major Border Tax,’?” Business Insider, January 23, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/?trump-cut-regulation-border-tax-imports-2017-1.
White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference,” press release, February 24, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/?the-press-office/?2017/?02/?24/?remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference.
Trump tax plan: breaks and loopholes for very wealthy people
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Patricia Cohen, “Trump Tax Plan Would Shift Trillions from U.S. Coffers to the Richest,” New York Times, April 27, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?04/?27/?us/?politics/?individual-business-tax-wealth.html.
Jared Kushner: “Swat team,” “run like a great American business”
Philip Bump, “Trump’s Idea to Run the Government Like a Business Is an Old One in American Politics,” Washington Post, March 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?politics/?wp/?2017/?03/?27/?trumps-idea-to-run-the-government-like-a-businessis-an-old-one-in-american-politics/??utm_term=.c9d5e5bd7d0b.
Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker, “Trump Taps Kushner to Lead a SWAT Team to Fix Government with Business Ideas,” Washington Post, March 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?politics/?trump-taps-kushner-to-lead-a-swat-team-to-fix-government-with-business-ideas/?2017/?03/?26/?9714a8b6-1254-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.0c5b0edb5d8f
Public Citizen: Trump met with at least 190 corporate executives
Rick Claypool, “Corporate Executives Swamp the White House,” Citizenvox.com (website of Public Citizen), April 14, 2017, http://www.citizenvox.org/?2017/?04/?17/?corporate-executives-swamp-white-house/.
Mick Mulvaney: “Most of these are laws and regulations…”
White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Top Highlights from Sunday’s Shows,” press release, April 23, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/?the-press-office/?2017/?04/?23/?top-highlights-sundays-shows.
Trump: ending programs that protect children from environmental toxins; companies no longer need to report greenhouse gases emissions
Chris Mooney and Juliet Eilperin, “Trump’s EPA Moves to Dismantle Programs That Protect Kids from Lead Paint,” Washington Post, April 5, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?energy-environment/?wp/?2017/?04/?05/?trumps-epa-moves-to-defund-programs-that-protect-children-from-lead/??utm_term=.943aabc37a8d.
Environmental Protection Agency, “Background on the Information Request for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry,” EPA.gov, March 2, 2017, https://www.epa.gov/?controlling-air-pollution-oil-and-natural-gas-industry/?background-information-request-oil-and.
State Department websites: “Winter White House”
Gardiner Harris, “U.S. Embassies Post Article Extolling Trump’s Mar-a-Lago,” New York Times, April 24, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?04/?24/?us/?politics/?mar-a-lago-winter-whitehouse-state-department.html.
Mar-a-Lago club member: “Going to Disneyland…”
Maggie Haberman, “Mar-a-Lago, the Future Winter White House and Home of the Calmer Trump,” New York Times, January 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?01/?01/?us/?trump-mar-a-lago-future-winter-whitehouse.html.
The Ultimate Brand Bully
Victoria’s Secret and Indigenous headdress
“Victoria’s Secret Apologizes for Use of Headdress,” AP via CBC.ca, November 13, 2012, http://www.cbc.ca/?news/?world/?victoria-s-secret-apologizes-for-use-of-headdress-1.1130549.
Transcending the World of Things
Fortune: “that the basic and irreversible function…”
“Government Spending Is No Substitute for the Exercise of Capitalist Imagination,” Fortune, September 1983, 63–64.
David Lubars: “are like roaches…”
Yumiko Ono, “Marketers Seek the ‘Naked’ Truth in Consumer Psyches,” Wall Street Journal, May 30, 1997.
Starbucks CEO: the “third place”
“Our Heritage,” Starbucks Corporation, accessed April 2, 2017, https://www.starbucks.ca/?about-us/?our-heritage.
The Trump Show
Donald Trump: “the show is Trump…”
David Remnick, The New Gilded Age (New York: Random House, 2001).
Trump and mismanaging his Atlantic City casinos
Richard D. Hylton, “Banks Approve Loans for Trump, But Take Control of His Finances,” New York Times, June 27, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/?1990/?06/?27/?business/?banks-approve-loans-for-trump-but-take-control-of-his-finances.html?pagewanted=all.
Donald Trump: “…going to be great for my brand”
Marc Fisher, “Donald Trump: Remade by Reality TV,” Washington Post, January 27, 2017, http://www.washingtonpost.com/?sf/?national/?2016/?01/?27/?deciders-trump/??utm_term=.a5d12ac8e24c.
The Celebrity Apprentice: 120 product placements in April 2011
Nat Ives, “Trump Wins! ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Seizes Product Placement Presidency from ‘American Idol,’?” Advertising Age, May 20, 2011, http://adage.com/?article/?media/?celebrity-apprentice-product-placement-idol/?227602/.
Oligarch Chic
Washington Post: “Trump has earned at least $50 million…”
Kevin Sullivan, “Trump’s Foreign Network: The President-Elect’s Unorthodox Overseas Business Partners,” Washington Post, January 13, 2017, http://www.washingtonpost.com/?sf/?world/?2017/?01/?13/?trumps-foreign-network/.
Trump owns Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago
Office of Government Ethics, “Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report,” Donald J. Trump, May 18, 2016, https://www.documentcloud.org/?documents/?2838696-Trump-2016-Financial-Disclosure.html.
Trump-branded properties: Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, many other Trump properties in India, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, and New York City
Brazil, South Korea, Canada: “Donald Trump’s Many, Many Business Dealings in 1 Map,” Time, January 10, 2017, http://time.com/?4629308/?donaldtrump-business-deals-world-map/.