# Executive Branch Club A members-only private club in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., co-founded in **April 2025** by [[Donald Trump Jr.]] with the [[1789 Capital]] partners [[Omeed Malik]] and [[Chris Buskirk]], and [[Alex Witkoff]] and [[Zach Witkoff]], sons of Trump's Middle East envoy [[Steve Witkoff]]. Founding memberships were priced at **$500,000** plus annual dues; the club opened with roughly **50 members** admitted by December 2025. It is the physical-space counterpart of the 1789 Capital / [[Rockbridge Network]] access economy — a place where the president's son, the crypto and defense-tech investor class, and sitting Cabinet officials meet with no press, no phones, and no visitor log. *New York Times* reporter Eric Lipton called it "effectively a [[Mar-a-Lago]] in D.C." ## Founding and ownership | Element | Detail | |---|---| | Announced | April 26, 2025 launch party at the Willard Hotel; reported April 28, 2025 (Axios, CNBC, NBC) | | Owners | [[Donald Trump Jr.]]; [[Omeed Malik]] and [[Chris Buskirk]] of [[1789 Capital]]; [[Alex Witkoff]] and [[Zach Witkoff]] | | President | Glenn Gilmore | | Location | Basement space off Wisconsin Avenue behind the Georgetown Park mall, formerly a billiards bar; discreet street entrance plus a separate underground-garage entrance for VIP members | | Founding fee | $500,000, plus annual dues; lower tiers described as "more reasonable" but unspriced | | Capacity | Fewer than 200 memberships planned (Washingtonian, May 2025); ~50 admitted by December 2025 (Daily Beast, citing the club's own vetting) | | Admission | Referral by an existing member, then vetting — members are screened for loyalty to Trump; all members of the media are barred | | Interior | Two floors — restaurant, bars, boardroom, conference room; ~$10 million in art; design modeled on Aman New York | [[Zach Witkoff]] is simultaneously a co-founder of [[World Liberty Financial]], the Trump-family crypto venture, which puts the same small set of names on both the club's ownership and the family's largest single revenue stream. ## Founding members and the guest list Founding members named in reporting: White House AI and crypto czar [[David Sacks]], investor [[Chamath Palihapitiya]], [[Tyler Winklevoss]] and [[Cameron Winklevoss]] of Gemini, and lobbyist Jeff Miller. By December 2025 reporting added Commerce Secretary [[Howard Lutnick]] and State Department under secretary [[Jacob Helberg]] among members or regulars. The April 26, 2025 launch party drew Attorney General [[Pam Bondi]], FBI deputy director [[Dan Bongino]], DNI [[Tulsi Gabbard]], [[Mehmet Oz]], Secretary of State [[Marco Rubio]], press secretary [[Karoline Leavitt]], and FCC chair [[Brendan Carr]] — plus, despite the no-media rule, [[Laura Ingraham]] and reporters from Politico and NBC. Trump himself was absent, attending the funeral of Pope Francis. In **November 2025**, after the White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince [[Mohammed bin Salman]], the after-party moved to the club: Agriculture Secretary [[Brooke Rollins]], FTC chair [[Andrew Ferguson]], Senators [[Ashley Moody]] and Dave McCormick, [[Mehmet Oz]], Fox hosts Bret Baier and [[Laura Ingraham]], and Trump Jr. with partner Bettina Anderson. Security is described as phones confiscated at the door, facial-recognition cameras, and a round-the-clock Secret Service presence. Later events: a January 2026 after-party for the Melania Trump documentary premiere (Akon performed); an April 2026 Nelly performance the night before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, attended by [[Harmeet Dhillon]], [[Todd Blanche]], and Rep. Abraham Hamadeh among others. ## Why it matters for the KB **It is a fee-for-proximity institution with the president's son as owner.** The [[Trump Family Corruption Ecosystem]] documents the family monetizing access through properties ([[Trump Properties Patronage]]), memecoin dinners, and crypto ventures. The Executive Branch Club is the same mechanism in clubhouse form: a half-million-dollar entry fee buys a room in which the Attorney General, the Commerce Secretary, the FTC chair, and the Agriculture Secretary socialize with the investors whose companies they regulate — with reporters barred and phones seized. [[Andrew Ferguson]] and [[Brooke Rollins]] at the same November 2025 event is the [[Fraud Enforcement Inversion]] and [[Canceled Corporate Enforcement]] pattern in a single photograph. **It closes the 1789 Capital loop.** Malik and Buskirk raise money for Trump-aligned companies ([[1789 Capital]]), run the political donor network ([[Rockbridge Network]]), and now own the room where the administration meets its donors. The Witkoff sons connect it to [[World Liberty Financial]] and to the Middle East envoy's portfolio. **The critics' framing.** Senator [[Adam Schiff]] called it a venue "for insiders, for investors and billionaires to directly line the pockets of the first family"; Rep. Marcy Kaptur compared it to Nero. Ethics scholars quoted in coverage (Diana Kendall, Baylor; John Pelissero, Santa Clara) emphasized the absence of any disclosure when officials meet regulated parties there. Malik's response was that the founders "developed deep friendships and wanted to be able to catch up," that "there aren't a plethora of options that are friendly to Republicans," and that Democratic clubs are never accused of peddling influence. ## See Also - [[Donald Trump Jr.]] - [[Omeed Malik]] - [[Chris Buskirk]] - [[1789 Capital]] - [[Rockbridge Network]] - [[Steve Witkoff]] - [[World Liberty Financial]] - [[Mar-a-Lago]] - [[Trump Properties Patronage]] - [[Trump Family Corruption Ecosystem]] - [[Canceled Corporate Enforcement]]