Talk:List of economic advisors to Donald Trump

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the List of economic advisors to Donald Trump article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Economics Low‑importance

	Business and economics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Economics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Economics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EconomicsWikipedia:WikiProject EconomicsTemplate:WikiProject EconomicsEconomics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Lists Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Politics Low‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Presidents Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject United States Presidents (assessed as Low-importance).

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which has been designated as a contentious topic.

Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

Tip: Anchors are case-sensitive in most browsers.

This article links to one or more target anchors that no longer exist.

[[Senior Advisor to the President#Trump|Sr. Advisor]]
[[Senior_Advisor_to_the_President_of_the_United_States#Trump|Sr. Advisor]]

Please help fix the broken anchors. You can remove this template after fixing the problems. | Reporting errors

Table

I would recommend removing the table of people who attended the technology-CEO meeting. It implies that these people are official advisors to Trump rather than people who met him once. Is is also not clear why the net worth/market cap of their companies is included when the same information is not present for Trump's formal advisors. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 23:24, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the formal advisors were (relatively speaking!) poorer, with the exception quasi-informal Thiel and formal-but-belated Wilbur Ross (both of whom are now on the cabinet or the transition team in formal roles). I would be fine with splitting the article into 'formal advisors' section, and then later have an informal advisors section, if you think that will help. However, even for the 'informal' advisors, my understanding is that the meetings will be repeated regularly going forwards, or at least, that was the implication I remember gathering from the sources. Trump also specifically said (from my own memory again so citation needed) that he was willing to take direct phone calls from the tech-CEO attendees, during the next four years. Or conceivably eight years. As for the reason for listing market cap and net worth, it is explanatory: Tesla Motors and Palantir do not really belong on the list until you consider that the attendees representing those companies were billionaires personally. I also worked up a third chart, not included since not backed by RS, about the various CEOs that were *not* on either of the lists -- there are only a few companies which failed to make the cut, that potentially should have, based on market cap and number of employees and similar measures that wikipedia tracks. One of them was Tillerson of ExxonMobil, but of course he is getting nominated for SecState. Another was Warren Buffett, who only backs non-repub candidates.^{[citation needed]} If you think it is worth adding net worth and market cap for the formal advisors that were with Trump'16 during the campaign, that can be done, but we would need to find some sources. Most of them are not billionaires, and none of them are tech-CEOs; Trump only gained such high-powered advisors after becoming potus-elect. And for course, therefore, most of the post-election meetings discussed in the sources, have the market cap and net worth figures being discussed in multiple articles, and several sources *only* concentrated on that type of detail, because it is unusual for potus to have such direct relationships with megacorporations, in recent history (as opposed to e.g. late 1800s). 47.222.203.135 (talk) 00:24, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page name

This page includes mostly economic campaign advisors, not government advisors to Trump, and the title of the page should probably be changed to reflect that. Politico16 (talk) 18:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on List of economic advisors to Donald Trump. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160805121426/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-campaign-announces-trump-economic-advisory-council to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-campaign-announces-trump-economic-advisory-council

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]