On Wednesday, his children had seats at the table of one of his biggest policy meetings yet, attended by the country's top tech-industry elites and Trump Cabinet nominees.
Trump smashed the mainstream consensus of political science that nominees need party elite support to succeed.
"I will not permit the insiders and a few party elites to determine who the nominees of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party will be," he said.
Opening the page, I scanned the list of categories—"Best Party, Best DJDJ," "Platinum Ho Award (Biggest Slut)"—recognizing nominees who'd later become nightlife elite, like DJ Junior Vasquez, scene queen Susanne Bartsch, and photographer Patrick McMullan.
Barton and others point out the irony that Trump — who rails against "the elite" and the D.C. swamp — has chosen for his nominees two judges with elite pedigree.
Since the Oscars moved to as many as 10 best picture nominees in 2010, the ceremony's most elite prize is, by many accounts, the one for director.
Unlike the Grammys, whose nominees and winners are chosen by an elite cabal of industry workers and players, the American Music Awards is the year's biggest musical popularity contest.
A council of top church leaders selected a group of about 2,400 bishops and elite lay leaders to winnow the candidates down to three possible nominees, excluding any contender with a trace of controversy about him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, resigned Friday from an elite women's club after Republicans questioned her membership.
In truth, the two most likely Republican nominees both represent a widespread rebuke to party elites.
2. New Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch founded a Fascism Forever Club in elite boys' prep school.
