The Czar of cryptography of the White House of President Trump, David Sacks, said that Executive Branch, the next private club aligned by Trump to Georgetown which costs up to $ 500,000 to join, will be free from Washington initiates and any concern “that the next person at the bar is a false press journalist or even a lobbyist”.
Gareth Banner, director of the parent company of the new Ned Elegant club in the city center, said that members of her club are a “top 5% in their sector”, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat in New York.
The Metropolitan Club of the Old Guardian, whose former members include six American presidents, has “Martini Fridays in the Library” and “Trap & Field News” in the club’s bulletin. The Cosmos Club, which encourages camaraderie among what it deceives as “the greatest minds of our time”, displays photos of members who won the Nobel Prize, among them the late Henry A. Kissinger.
In a Washington in 2025, political and ideological differences, the four clubs increase, have waiting lists or both. Although they have various levels of snobbery and exclusivity, the executive branch is an aberrant value due to the price of its access to the White House and its enrichment of the Trump family.
But the four clubs reflect the sorting of the city establishment in separate corners at a turbulent time.
“Everyone is so disoriented and depressed and without attachment,” said Sally Quinn, journalist, author and authority on the social washington who was married to the late Benjamin Bradlee, editor -in -chief of the Washington Post. “It’s comforting to know that there is a place where they know your name, you will see your friends and you can always get a table. And that’s a lot. “
