Trump has announced Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff.
She is ruthless and effective. I am very glad with this pick. She will be great.
Trump has announced Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador.
This is an alright pick. She is a RINO who is good at public speaking and the role is kinda meaningless so whatever.
Trump has picked Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. This is a good pick imo. Rubio is a China hawk and is very well spoken. He has establishment tendencies but he is shifting more populist these days.
Trump has picked Tom Homan as the next border czar. He has a history of being very strong on the border and has worked at the Border patrol for decades. I love this pick.
Trump has picked Mike Waltz as National Security advisor. This is kinda meh. He has some neo-con tendencies.
Trump has picked Lee Zeldin for head of EPA. This is a good pick. Zeldin is great on policy and he deserves something good for winning us the House in 2022.
Trump has picked Stephen Miller for deputy chief of staff for policy. This is my favorite pick. Miller is the strongest immigration restrictionist in our movement. I feel whitepilled by this.
I saved the worst pick for last.
Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary. Bessent literally worked for Soros Fund Management in the 90s. I really don't like this pick. I don't trust this guy.
Overall I am pretty pleased with the Cabinet so far. Only the Treasury Secretary seems like an actual bad pick to me.
Some of these are still rumored, I think.
Homan seems great, Zeldin and Miller are good as well. Not super familiar with the rest.
I know some people have come around on Rubio, but I still don't like or trust him. He's better than he was, it seems, but he's still Marco Rubio.
I've seen some speculation that the Rubio appointment is a double bluff. Get him out of the Senate so DeSantis can appoint a replacement, then fire him from State in a year or so.
I really hope that happens.
Either way, it would be one less neocon in the Senate.
He's far more dangerous in Trump's cabinet than in the Senate.
Not really. In the cabinet, he can be fired the instant he steps out of line. In the Senate, we are stuck with him for six years at a time, and at the mercy of the Florida voters on whether he gets fired.
Pompeo, Bolton, etc. were undermining Trump's policies from within before they got fired, with leaks, with hiding information and with not carrying out Trump's orders. Firing someone causes disruption, especially if it's Senate-confirmed. They can get away with a lot.
These pukes can sabotage Trump II just like they made Trump I more neoconny than Obama.
The only good reason I can think for this, is that you need people who can get things done in these positions. You can't put Mike Lindell as SOS, even if he could get confirmed. But you have to be able to make sure that they follow Trump and not the globalists - and Trump, I think, does not have the discipline, focus and micromanagement to assure that.
Yes. But they were fired, which left them unable to undermine him further. Anyone in the 2/3 of the Senate that isn't up on the next mid term can undermine him for his entire term with no recourse. The other 1/3 can undermine him for half of it.
Trump can't even confirm his picks or pass any laws without the Senate. As we saw in the past, he can still get some things done even with shitty cabinet members. So again, we are better off having him in the cabinet where he can be fired, than having him in the Senate where he can torpedo any bill he wants to by attaching a neocon poison pill to it.
So it's worth taking in someone to undermine him just that the Senate will... possibly... go from 2/3 undermining him to 2/3-1 undermining him?
Like what, sending weapons to Ukraine, which even Obama refused to do after coup'ing the government there?
I'm exaggerating, but there are real costs to this sort of thing.
If it was 51 neocon psychos and 49 normal people, or even remotely close, I'd agree with you.
I can’t say I’m fond of Rubio. Truthfully, after last time, I have my doubts about if it’s even possible to assemble a non-compromised cabinet, but Rubio seems especially… concerning.
Yeah, Rubio seems like a deep state tradeoff. "You can close the border but you have to take Rubio."
Secretary of State is about foreign policy. Rubio is a neocon extraordinaire who wants to start wars everywhere. He is worse than Tony Blinken. You might as well have appointed Pompeo. So now his SOS and NSA will be neocons. Has he learned nothing from his first term?
Zeldin is also a neocon, but he's at EPA, so who cares?
And that's two House members and 1 Senator taken out so far. There's going to be special elections. The Republicans may lose the race and lose the House majority and shrink their Senate majority to where RINOs have more impact. Some of you think: lose, in Florida? Yes. Democrats lost in Massachusetts after 2008, something they also didn't consider possible either.
I also don’t care for Rubio. Border, Brandon begging for ATF, Cartel, First Amendment, CIA?
I am unable to doompost, despite tribes existing.
Haven't heard where RFK jr is going.
I really hope he's part of the cabinet where he can take on pharma, but I can see Trump throwing him under the bus to make a deal with the deeps.
Maybe they are holding him back for a recess appointment because pharma has so much influence on senators he wouldn't make it through?
Oof I didn't realize this was this bad. Lee zeldin? Rubio? Rinos and insiders oh my. War hawks and instigators.
We wouldn't have the House in 2022 without Zeldin.
Zeldin will be fine at the EPA.
There is nothing wrong with the Zeldin EPA pick.
Rubio, I myself have some reservations about him but he was better than the other person who was in contention for the post, Ric Grenell, who wanted to drone strike Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
What is WRONG with these people?
Is it impossible to find US government officials who don't sound like an international terrorist acting out of air-conditioned offices?
We have never had someone who was not a interventionist/neo-con as Secretary of State for my entire lifetime.
Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo and Anthony Blinken.
Marco Rubio is somewhat better than this rogues gallery at least.
Ric Grenell is much worse than Liddle Marco