Not sure if this is the right forum but.
Sec of State. Gingrich? Chritsie. Vince McMahon.
SecDef:?
NSA:
I see Christie as a Chief-of-Staff, a lapdog type deal. Conway a press secretary, Carson as Surgeon General or someone dealing with Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare, etc.
Nah, this is the one position he reaches across the aisle for a union guy - the head of the bricklayers union!
I think John Bolton will return, possibly as Secretary of State. The Republicans who stood up to him ten years ago are gone. (Yes, I know Trump ostensibly campaigned against that kind of foreign policy. It’s coming back anyways. Even if it’s not Bolton himself, it will be someone else like him. The architects of the Iraq catastrophe will be back and Trump’s repeated statements about Iraq being a disaster will be forgotten by this afternoon.)
Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. Rudy at DHS. Or maybe the reverse. Big oil executives for Energy and Interior. Hedge fund guys for both Treasury and Commerce. A charter school executive for Education.
I think Chris Christie is too damaged, so he’d have to be something that isn’t confirmable, like National Security Advisor or Chief of Staff. Probably nothing, though. He’ll leave this whole campaign with not one thing to show for it, not even his dignity.
Turns out these guys might be too mainstream for Homeland Security. I’ve read murmurs about either Joe Arpaio or that wacky sheriff from Milwaukee. I have my doubts (maybe they’re just hopes) that Arpaio would sail through the confirmation process, though. Maybe just a few too many skeletons in that closet.
Can we get Wayne LaPierre to head the ATF?
And how bitter is it going to be for Ginsburg to know that President Trump will pick her replacement?
Isn’t Arpaio in his 80s?
How difficult is it to head up a new Department of Deportations anyway? All he has to do is say “Mexican? Deported”.
Made the RNC chair his Chief of Staff. An olive branch to the Establishment?
That can only happen if she drops dead. People talk about her being old, but what health problems does she have that make everyone so sure she’ll die soon?
She’s 13 years older, but he’s overweight, about to enter a high stress job, and men have shorter life expectancies, so who knows, maybe she’ll be around to attend his replacement’s inauguration.
Maybe, but that’s all he is. When the Priebus-Bannon duo was announced, most of the reaction treated Priebus as the smart choice and Bannon as the scary choice, but Priebus isn’t actually reassuring. He has no experience in actual government. Someone like Trump needs to have access to people who know how the federal government actually works.
Why, do you think Cliven Bundy will turn it down?
According to the New York Times, the transition is not proceeding without hitch. Christie was given the top job, then fired along with his supporters. (It seems Christie once sent Ivanka’s father-in-law to jail.) Mike Rogers was a key foreign policy advisor but got the boot when it was noted that he headed a committee that cleared Hillary of the Benghazi Massacre.
Rudy Giuliani is likely to be Secretary of State, an appointment which would cause uproarious laughter in an SNL skit, but tears seem more appropriate at Trump Tower — this is all really happening. :eek:
And
I kind of said this as a fatalistic worst-case scenario, but several outlets are now reporting that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has indeed been offered this post.
“Kakistocracy: (Ancient Greek) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens.”
Get used to this word being used a lot.
If Arpaio is convicted of criminal contempt of court next month, that would probably be enough to peel a few Republican senators away to vote with the Democrats and reject his nomination. Arpaio’s public statements about his defense strategy, mainly from his attorneys, vary between open defiance and excusing his and his office’s conduct as simple incompetence. Neither really help his case for an even higher office.
I was wondering when he would start in with the rallies. He was jonesing, needing his adoration fix. I wonder if he’ll come to Minneapolis again, to remind us of the dread threat of Somali radicals right here in our very midst!