But since Mr. Trump's victory, he has looked to Goldman Sachs veterans to stock his administration.
As the president becomes increasingly agitated about the border situation, Mr. Miller is said to be aggressively pushing to stock the administration with like-minded hard-liners.
Experts say Trump's inability to stock his administration with experienced officials can diminish the impact of his orders; it takes committed, loyal advisors to oversee the laborious rule-making processes at government agencies.
Most presidents initially stock their administrations with cronies and ideological purists.
He campaigned against Goldman Sachs as a symbol of corruption and is now stocking his administration with Goldman bankers.
Trump has also stocked his Administration with ideologues hostile to Social Security, Medicare, public schools, regulation, labor unions, affirmative action, and any other efforts to tame the free market.
He is not quite a classic big-business conservative, either, although he and corporate America vibrate to the same tuning fork and he has stocked his administration with former C.E.O.'s.
And his ties to Wall Street underscore how Mr. Trump, despite campaigning against the wealthy global elite, has stocked his administration with Wall Street lawyers and bankers, particularly from Goldman.
The president was suitably wary of American overextension, hyper-militarization and leading with democracy promotion, but he stocked his administration with regime change zealots, whom he did not empower to do what they were clamoring to do, but whom the Kremlin and others could point to and say, Aha, they are the real U.S. policy.
