Donald Trump Jr to ban certain people from his new DC club ‘Executive Branch’

Ahead of the official opening of Donald Trump Jr.’s Washington, D.C. club, reports made clear which swamp creatures need not apply.

As the political paradigm in the nation’s capital shifts increasingly toward the America First agenda of President Donald Trump and MAGA supporters, so too is the culture in and around D.C. shifting to accommodate them. This includes a new club for a June opening in the Georgetown neighborhood for movers and shakers to rub elbows, so long as they aren’t “a fake news reporter or even a lobbyist …”

Such was the assertion of David Sacks, chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, when he addressed how exclusive the membership at the Executive Branch club would be, with fees as high as $500,000.

“To the extent there are Republican clubs, they tend to be like more Bush-era Republicans as opposed to Trump-era Republicans. So we wanted to create something new, hipper and Trump-aligned,” he explained on the “All-In Podcast” earlier in May.

He also made clear the club will be free of worry that the next person over at the bar is a fake news reporter or even a lobbyist who we don’t know and we don’t trust,” as all media members are banned from the Executive Branch.

Those weren’t the only restrictions placed on joining the establishment, which includes co-founders in Trump Jr., Sacks, banker Omeed Malik, Alex and Zach Witkoff, sons of U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and Chris Buskirk, who co-founded the conservative political advocacy group Rockbridge Network with now-Vice President J.D. Vance.

“You have to know the owners,” a spokesperson for the club told the New York Times. “This is not just for any Saudi businessman,” as members want a place “where they’re not annoyed.”

In reporting on the restrictions and comparing them to other clubs were corporate media talking heads mingled with members of Congress and the government, the Times described, “The expectation is that the president will drop by now that he no longer has the Trump International Hotel, where he spent nights in his first term holding forth in the steakhouse and providing fodder for journalists on alert in the lobby.”

“Executive Branch, which has taken over the sprawling space of a defunct bar called Clubhouse, will have what members say is modern décor inspired by Aman New York, a luxurious hotel and private club that opened in 2022. There are to be no prying outsiders,” added the newspaper.

Noting that the expectations are for the membership to be less than 200 people, the latest report from the Gray Lady came on the heels of a story that included the club as one of the “breathtaking” ways the Trump family had allegedly exceeded other first families in the “scale and scope of … presidential mercantilism.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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