With only a few weeks left before his inauguration, President-elect Trump is fleshing out his cabinet. … Earlier this morning, Trump announced that his pick to lead up the Department of Homeland Security was retired Marine Corps General … Kelly is the third of five rumored generals that Trump is said to be considering for top positions within his administration.…
Playing off of what seems to be a list of odd choices to fill his cabinet, Saturday Night Live focused this week’s cold open on Trump … ’s evolving administration, rather than on Trump, himself.…
“They’re both very talented people [and] I would love to be able to have them involved,” Trump said. … Meanwhile, Trump’s daughter has been present for several of her father’s meetings with candidates for his Cabinet. … Nobody could do better than her,” Trump said, adding that his son-in-law is a “very talented guy.”…
However, unlike many other choices Trump chose for cabinet posts, Tillerson is not getting a collective thumbs up from others in the … Vladimir" is not an attribute I am hoping for from a #SecretaryOfState – MR
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President-elect Trump is dipping into the pool of Democrats to fill some of his cabinet positions. … Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), an early Trump backer, to discuss a potential future in the upper chamber. … Heitkamp met with Trump at Trump Tower earlier this month, and it was said at that time that he was considering her for either Agriculture…
Joe Manchin (D -WV) — himself a possible Trumpcabinet appointee — had intimated that they would attempt to block the bill over 16,500 … John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) December 9, 2016
The spending bill funds the government through April 28th, giving the incoming Trump…
It all started when Orange Coast College Professor Olga Perez Stable Cox decided to use her podium to go on a bigoted anti-Trump tirade … In the video, you can hear the professor call the election of Donald Trump an “act of terrorism,” and Trump himself a “white supremacist … She also went after Trump’s cabinet, describing Vice President-elect Mike Pence as “one of the most anti-gay humans in this country…
Prior to the cabinet selections, it’s been reported that Trump would choose people that he felt would be loyal to him. … No one has been more loyal to Donald Trump, than Rudy Giuliani and you can see where that got him. … We know Trump has no time for low energy people, so perhaps that is what did Rudy Giuliani in.…
The past month has been mildly encouraging with some of the picks Trump has made as he selects his cabinet and other posts. … “Donald Trump should know better.” … Trump seems poised to take on China during his presidency whether he’s warned against it or not.…
The Democratic senator has been floated as a possible member of Trump’s cabinet. … Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters the issue could unite Democrats and Trump. … Reid (D-Nev.) and several of the Democrats who represents states where Trump won.…
There are perhaps two truisms regarding the ascendancy of the Trump phenomena. … The first is something what most of us here at this website know and write about: Trump is no true conservative despite those with … Instead, it is the fact that Trump has changed the rules of the game known as politics and along the way, he has exposed the Left for…
Democrats were hoping Donald Trump was going to fill his cabinet with a bunch of crazies, but instead, Trump has put together a cabinet … so far, has impressed Republicans, conservatives who were wary of what Trump would do and even some Democrats.…
As the names of appointments to the Trumpcabinet continue to roll out, next up would be his pick for Labor Secretary – Andy Puzder … Puzder, who’s the CEO of CKE Restaurants, met with Trump for the second time on Wednesday. … said there will “additional Cabinet information” announced later in the day.…
In that post I noted how the fashionably progressive wing of the media apparently thought it was cute to refer to Trump’s cabinet as … Via the WaPo, Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influence
President-elect Donald Trump has selected … Trump still believe the choices threaten the constitutional fire wall between the civilian government and the military.…
Frankly, if you voted for Donald Trump, but did not vote to keep Pat McCrory as governor, you deserve utter ruin. … On Wednesday morning, Governor McCrory arrived at Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Trump about a potential job with the incoming … That being said, the man has a weighty resume, and would prove more than competent in just about any upper level cabinet position.…
Trump is now viewed favorably by 50 percent. That’s up from up from 33 percent in August. … Americans want Trump to be less confrontational. … The poll found a sharp partisan divide when it comes to those people Trump has selected for his Cabinet.…
Donald Trump has nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the the EPA. … This could very well be the biggest F*** Y** in the history of cabinet appointments. … “Every American should be appalled that President-elect Trump just picked someone who has made a career of being a vocal defender for…
Trump, however, has them feeling their oats. … All the generals Trump has picked are retired and therefore civilians. Much like the dipsticks criticizing their selection. … number of minorities in a cabinet.…
This, of course, has been exacerbated by Donald Trump winning the election on November 8. … If you read the Democrat threats to stymie Trump’s efforts to fill cabinet posts, you find them whinging about Garland as a reason … — never mind that cabinet officers are actually and Constitutionally different from Supreme Court justices.…
So there may have been more than a couple of folks who were convinced that Trump was enjoying a bit of schadenfreude at Mitt Romney … “I’ve spoken to him a lot, we’ve come a long way together,” Trump said. … “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s best for the country,” Trump said.…
North Carolina, home of Fort Bragg and the 82d Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and the JFK Special Warfare Center, Donald Trump … However, because Trump is making a break with precedent and is nominating someone who is forbidden by Title 10 US Code to actually … Tuesday that would streamline confirmation of Mattis next year by fast-tracking legislation to grant him a waiver to serve in the Cabinet…
Senior officials who will be part of the Trump administration are already discussing what so-far-unseen information about the Iran … It has zero chance of surviving under Trump. … Obama is going to leave the White House touting this deal as a game changer and blame Trump when it falls apart.…
I don’t know the reasoning inside the Trump campaign’s infatuation with picking retired flag officers for cabinet level posts but … Generally (pun intended), I don’t have a problem with this beyond the atmospherics of Trump assembling a cabinet of military men. … Donald Trump,” said The Hill; “Though he never mentions Donald Trump by name, Petraeus is clearly talking about Trump,” said HotAir…
Poor Christie was the first Republican candidate to back Donald Trump, and he’s getting nothing out of it. … When he realized he wasn’t up for a cabinet position, he floated the idea of running for head of the RNC.…
that with the flood of fake news sites – some of which only appeared during this election cycle, for the sole purpose of promoting Trump … Kinzinger said Flynn’s appointment as national security adviser is one of the few selections President-elect Trump has made to his … Cabinet that he’s troubled by.…
