Trump nominated billionaire Feinberg to be U.S. deputy defense secretary

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire investor Steven Feinberg to be the country's deputy secretary of defense.

"Steven Feinberg will take the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense and help make the Pentagon great again," Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social, calling Feinberg an extremely successful businessman.

He specified that nominee Steven Feinberg is a Princeton graduate who founded his company Cerberus in 1992.

It is noted that he served as chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board from 2018 to January 2021.

Earlier, on December 22, Trump appointed billionaire restaurateur Tilman Fertitta to the post of US ambassador to Italy. He specified that the billionaire is also the longtime chairman of the University of Houston Board of Regents.

Prior to that, on December 21, Trump announced that television producer Mark Barnett had been appointed as the new U.S. special envoy to the United Kingdom. He specified that Barnett will be engaged in strengthening diplomatic relations between the UK and the US, as well as improve trade and investment opportunities between the countries.

On December 15, it was reported that Trump appointed former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Allen Grenell as the head of state's envoy for special assignments.

The election of the 47th president of the United States was held on November 5. In the national vote, Trump received 51% of the vote, while the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris received 47.4%. Later, the politician, speaking to supporters, called himself the 47th President of the United States and said that his goal as head of state considers the cessation of military conflicts in the world.