With less than a month left in his tenure as president, Donald Trump has been scrambling to install his favorite allies in plum governmental positions. Mere days before Christmas, he released another list of appointees assigned to “key administration posts” (read: cushy and prestigious board and council memberships).

It’s no great leap of logic to recognize that Trump is making these appointments to reward his greatest supporters, NYU professor Paul Light explained to the Associated Press. Every administration does it to some degree, he says, but nobody does it quite like Trump: