In one line: The Trump administration is the United States executive branch under President Donald Trump in two non-consecutive terms, from January 2017 to January 2021 and from January 2025 to the present.
The leader and the people under the leader
Roster as of September 29, 2026. Offices and office-holders change; this page is a dated snapshot.
Photo: Daniel Torok, official White House photograph, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Donald Trump
President of the United States · 2017 to 2021 and 2025 to present
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Head of state and head of government, vested with executive power under Article II of the Constitution.
In their words
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
“It is the policy of the United States to: (a) secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech; (b) ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen;”
“One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It’s in the nature of the job, and I understand that.”
“And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. [...] Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.”
All 26 quotes from Donald Trump, and 2 often attributed but not verified
In the archive: MAGA and the Resistance: grassroots organising for and against Trump, 2016-2021
White House
Photo: Emily J. Higgins, official White House photograph, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) JD Vance
Vice President of the United States · 2025 to present
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Presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes and succeeds the President if the office falls vacant.
In their words
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”
“We’re effectively run in this country—via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs—by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
“I think it's ridiculous that we're focused on this border in Ukraine. I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
All 7 quotes from JD Vance, and 1 often attributed but not verified
Photo: Molly Roberts, official White House photograph, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff · 2025 to present
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Directs the White House Office, the President's personal staff.
In their words
“He has an alcoholic’s personality”
“Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities”
“I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this. First she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”
No public-domain or openly licensed portrait with a verified federal source found. Nearest: source (marked public domain on Commons, but its source is an X post whose photographer is not identified). Steven Cheung
Assistant to the President and White House Communications Director · 2025 to present
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Directs the White House Office of Communications, which coordinates the administration's public messaging; the press secretary's post has been vacant since 27 August 2026.
In their words
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony”
“You must be truly f–king stupid if you think we're not transparent.”
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.”
All 4 quotes from Steven Cheung, and 1 often attributed but not verified
Photo: Daniel Torok, official White House photograph, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy · 2025 to present
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Coordinates policy development between the White House Office and the executive departments.
In their words
“I also want to be clear we’ve heard a lot of talk about how all the branches of government are equal. That’s the point. They are equal. There’s no such thing as judicial supremacy. What the judges did, both at the ninth and at the district level was to take power for themselves that belongs squarely in the hands of the president of the United States.”
“The powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.”
“Jim, it's actually -- I have to honestly say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It's actually -- it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind --”
Cabinet
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Marco Rubio
Secretary of State · 2025 to present
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Leads the Department of State, the executive department responsible for foreign relations and diplomacy.
In their words
“The post-war global order is not just obsolete. It is now a weapon being used against us, and all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive and in this room today.”
“We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away.”
“Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil.”
In the archive: The State Department's Global Engagement Center (2016 to 2025)
Photo: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Scott Bessent
Secretary of the Treasury · 2025 to present
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Leads the Department of the Treasury, which manages federal finances, collects taxes and administers financial sanctions.
In their words
“this is the single most important economic issue of the day. This is pass-fail, that if we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity. And as always, with financial instability, that falls on the middle and working class people.”
“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire. Given President Putin's refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia's two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin's war machine. Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump's effort to end yet another war. We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions.”
“For at their core, sanctions are not acts of aggression, they are instruments of peace. Their purpose is not to condemn nations or people to indefinite isolation, but to create the conditions that can hasten a change in behavior.”
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense (secondary title: Secretary of War) · 2025 to present
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Leads the Department of Defense, which Executive Order 14347 of 5 September 2025 also permits to be called the Department of War; the statutory name is unchanged.
In their words
“VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”
“Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. Likewise, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world, it’s a bad look.”
“This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris. As I’ve said before and will say again, we are done with that shit.”
Photo: Ryan M. Biller, U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Todd Blanche
Attorney General · August 2026 to present (acting from April 2026)
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Leads the Department of Justice, the chief federal law-enforcement and litigating agency, which includes the FBI.
In their words
“The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation relating to the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified, information from the Intelligence Community relating to Tren de Aragua (TDA). We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at the New York Times. The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact, law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA terrorists from this country.”
“Yes, it is a moot issue, meaning there is no weaponization fund. The weaponization fund is dead. It's not moving forward.”
“So, I wasn't celebrating it, I was merely stating a fact, which is that the January 6th defendants did receive a very generous pardon or commutation from President Trump, every one of them, on January 20th.”
Photo: Tia Dufour, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Markwayne Mullin
Secretary of Homeland Security · March 2026 to present
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Leads the Department of Homeland Security, which covers border and immigration enforcement, the Coast Guard, disaster response and cybersecurity.
In their words
“I would have probably jumped over the dais at that point. You have to be called out on it. If not, this guy continues to get away with this stuff. And it's silly, it's stupid, but every now and then need to get punched in the face.”
“I've already answered this question for you. I said we will not enter a home or a place of business without a judicial warrant, unless we're pursuing the individual that runs into a place of business or a house.”
“We have a saying in our family, you're never going to change anything you're willing to tolerate. That's how we live our life and that's how we move forward. And regardless of what's in front of us, we always take it on as a family and I'm not scared of a challenge. I am scared of failure.”
Independent agencies
Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Kash Patel
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation · 2025 to present
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Directs the FBI, the Justice Department's principal federal criminal-investigation and domestic-intelligence agency.
In their words
“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections [...] Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”
“It's not an enemies list. That is a total mischaracterization”
“I have no interest, no desire, and will not, if confirmed, go backward. There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI, should I be confirmed as the FBI Director.”
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Jay Clayton
Director of National Intelligence · August 2026 to present
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Heads the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which coordinates the U.S. intelligence community and advises the President on intelligence.
In their words
“The mission of the Director of National Intelligence is clear: To ensure that the Intelligence Community, along with the policymakers and institutions it serves—but especially the President, our military leaders, and Congress—receive the best possible intelligence in a “timely, objective, and independent” manner. That obligation will be front of mind every day.”
“I am not an election denier. Joe Biden was certified.”
“Donald J. Trump was certified as President in January 2025 by the electors presenting before Congress.”
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) John Ratcliffe
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency · 2025 to present
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Directs the CIA, which collects and analyses foreign intelligence for the President and other policymakers.
In their words
“As DNI, I dramatically increased the intelligence community's resources devoted to China. I openly warned the American people that from my unique vantage point as an official who saw more intelligence than anyone else, I assessed that China was far and away our top national security threat.”
“While I enjoyed my time in Congress, I enjoyed more my time as DNI, an opportunity to be apolitical, and look forward if confirmed as CIA director to continuing to do that. It's absolutely essential that the CIA's leader be apolitical.”
“CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years.”
Photo: Federal Communications Commission, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Brendan Carr
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission · 2025 to present
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Chairs the FCC, which regulates broadcast, cable, satellite and wireless communications and licenses broadcast stations.
In their words
“Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.””
“As Congress, the Supreme Court, and the FCC have all made clear, broadcasters are different than every other distributor of media. Specifically, broadcasters are required by both the Communications Act and the terms of their FCC-issued licenses to operate in the public interest.”
“Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
“Look, there’s calls for Kimmel to be fired. You could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this. Again, the FCC is going to have remedies that we can look at. We may ultimately be called to be a judge on that.”
“Congress has instructed the FCC to enforce public interest requirements on broadcasters. The FCC should do exactly that.”
In the archive: Government pressure on platforms and broadcasters ("jawboning"), 2020-2026
Photo: Federal Trade Commission, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Andrew Ferguson
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission · 2025 to present
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Chairs the FTC, which enforces consumer-protection and antitrust law, including rules on advertising.
In their words
“Tech firms should not be bullying their users. This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how these firms may have violated the law by silencing and intimidating Americans for speaking their minds.”
“Specifically, the proposed decision and order prohibits Omnicom and IPG from entering into or maintaining any agreement or practice that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on their political or ideological viewpoints. To be sure, coordinated action by advertising agencies against politically disfavored publishers is tantamount to an agreement not to compete on quality—but obtaining such a ruling in litigation could take years.”
“It is inconsistent with American values to deny law-abiding individuals the ability to run their legitimate businesses and feed their families because they attracted the ire of rogue American officials, overzealous activists, or, more worryingly, foreign governments seeking to control public discourse.”
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