American shale billionaire from Oklahoma. A backer of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, he persuaded Trump to name Christopher Wright, a fellow shale driller, as America's secretary of energy. In 2025 Hamm convened a secret meeting of oilmen in Tulsa, ostensibly to promote the use of natural gas to power data centres for artificial intelligence; insiders say plans were hatched to tilt federal regulation to favour fossil fuels over renewables. Four members of the cabinet were reportedly present.
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.