What happens to the loyalists after POTUS's term - some of them gotta be worried

What happens to the loyalists after POTUS's term - some of them gotta be worried
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." ~ Aesop By Diego Velázquez - This file was derived from: Velázquez - Esopo (Museo del Prado, 1639-41).jpg:, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18321890

There are really two classes of minions in Trump's circle.

  1. Billionaires
    1. $3.3 billion Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce (Forbes)
    2. $3.5 billion Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education (Forbes combined with Vince McMahon)
    3. $2 billion Steve Witkoff
  2. Not billionaires
    1. $600 million Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury (The Independent)
    2. $100 million or more Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior (Forbes)
    3. $100M - Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy (Forbes)
    4. $15 million Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture (Forbes)
    5. $15 million Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services (Forbes combined with Cheryl Hines)
    6. $10 million JD Vance, Vice President - failed venture capitalist (Fortune)
    7. $9-14 million Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor (Quiver Quantitative)
    8. $5-10 million Pam Bondi, Attorney General (The Street)
    9. $5 million Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security (Forbes)
    10. $5 million Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation (Various)
    11. $3 million Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense (Forbes)
    12. $2 million Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Guru Focus)
    13. $2 million Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor
    14. $1.5 million Doug Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
    15. > $1 million Marco Rubio, Secretary of State - assumed ruler of Cuba (Forbes)
    16. ~$1MM Russel (tear it all down) Vought

These numbers are scraped from the web so they are likely at best directional. Regardless, let's draw a line below $100MM. Let's assume everyone below that line wants to be above that line.

If you have less than $100MM and two thirds of the country hates you

  1. You do not have enough money to protect yourself for the long haul.
  2. You will need to rely on following the Trump clan to whatever offshore haven (like perhaps Qatar) and look forward to being perma-minions.
  3. Or, you need to make money hand over fist with grift while you can count on the grifter in chief pardoning you
  4. You will be willing to suppress mid-terms anyway possible to keep the grift mobile running and POTUS out of jail

If you are in the Gen-Xer contingent like the Millers, Rubio, JD fka Bowman, Hegseth, and two thirds of the country hates you, you still want your turn - waahaaahaaa

  1. If you are the Millers, you strangely want a White Supremacist Christian National state with a bunch less people and more money for yourselves.
  2. If you are Marco, you want to be seen as the savior of the Caribbean and Latin America and either you want the presidency or to support the next president as SecDef and more money for yourself. (Probably would not turn down grand poobah of Cuba.)
  3. If you are JD aka Bowman, your sick father figures from the PayPal mafia and David Sacks want you to continue as a meat puppet for the tech lordlings. You like that idea and will say or do anything to make it happen. You also want more money for yourself. And a new Pope who likes you and Thiel.
  4. If you are Hegseth, you want to lead the very photogenic Christian Soldiers into the great battle of Armageddon, have a skinnier younger richer trad wife influencer, and a feature length movie like Melania about yourself. You also wants more money for yourself.
  5. Not going to bore y'all with more about Noem, Bondi, K$SH etc. The general pattern is you want to remain in power, and continue on a warped quest for white supremacy and Christian Nationalism while getting more money.
  6. You will be willing to suppress mid-terms anyway possible to keep the grift mobile running and POTUS out of jail while you tee of the next non-democratic transition.
Shields up and phasers on <fill in the blank yourself> By Simon Malz - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesmuse/35186204/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91735188

These grifters will be willing to do terrible things during the mid-terms to remain in power. Shields up, phasers on <fill in the blank yourself>