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Line up to kiss the ring! How to join the brownnosers sucking up to Trump | Arwa Mahdawi

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As Donald Trump prepares for his revenge tour, world leaders and business moguls are falling over themselves to show the incoming president how much they admire him.

We appear to have entered into a golden age of brown-nosing, writes Andrew Keen .

Keen: The extent to which people are lining up to kiss the ring is remarkable.

Keen says it speaks to Trump 's unapologetically transactional politics: loyalty will be richly rewarded.

Elon Musk , who spent over $100 m getting Trump elected has been tapped to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency .

The South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem , will reportedly lead the Department of Homeland Security .

Pete Hegseth , for example, a Fox News personality and military veteran with no meaningful foreign policy experience has been picked to be secretary of defense.