Trump World Network

Association network of Donald Trump and associates pre-2020 inauguration compiled by Buzz Feed News (Templon et al. 2017) .

Usage

trump.world

Format

An undirected igraph graph object.

Vertex Attributes:

• "name": Names of entity.

• "EntityType": Type of entity.

  • Person: Entity is a person.

  • Federal Agency: Entity is a federal agency.

  • Organization: Entity is a business (CORP, LLC, INC, LP, etc.), political organization (advocacy, PAC), religious organization (church, etc.)

Edge Attributes:

• "Connection": relationship type between the two entities

• "Source": url to source of connection.

Source

Data originally published by Buzz Feed News at https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/trumpworld and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z5Vo5pbvxKJ5XpfALZXvCzW26Cl4we3OaN73K9Ae5Ss/edit?gid=1996904412#gid=1996904412.

Details

In January 2017 just before Donald Trump's inauguration, Buzz Feed News published and article asking to "Help Us Map TrumpWorld". They documented over 2,000 people and organizations connected to the incoming Trump administration. They released a public call asking for analysis of this data to help learn more about Trump's business connections and how they may impact his administration.

Nodes in this network are entities such as people, organizations, or federal agencies. And edge is present between two nodes if there is a documented connection between these two entities (e.g. ownership, committee member, familial relationship, employee, business relationship, etc. )

References

Templon J, Cormier A, Campbell A, Singer-Vine J (2017). “Help Us Map TrumpWorld.” Buzz Feed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/help-us-map-trumpworld.

Examples

data("trump.world")
set.seed(39082)
plot(trump.world, vertex.label = NA)