# Donald Trump transition 2016-2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181 "2016-11-09T11:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/1 "2016-11-09T11:32:35Z")
Not sure if this is the right forum but. Sec of State. Gingrich? Chritsie. [Vince McMahon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I). SecDef:? NSA: ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/2 "2016-11-09T11:45:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/3 "2016-11-09T11:55:38Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Sec of State. Gingrich? Chritsie. [Vince McMahon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I). Nah, this is the one position he reaches across the aisle for a union guy - the head of the bricklayers union! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/4 "2016-11-09T12:09:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/5 "2016-11-10T06:41:16Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. Rudy at DHS. Or maybe the reverse. 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. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/6 "2016-11-10T06:44:13Z")
Can we get Wayne LaPierre to head the ATF? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/7 "2016-11-10T07:21:25Z")
And how bitter is it going to be for Ginsburg to know that President Trump will pick her replacement? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/8 "2016-11-10T07:38:53Z")
Isn’t Arpaio in his 80s? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/9 "2016-11-10T07:45:34Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > 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”. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/10 "2016-11-14T03:34:48Z")
Made the RNC chair his Chief of Staff. An olive branch to the Establishment? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/11 "2016-11-14T04:08:13Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > And how bitter is it going to be for Ginsburg to know that President Trump will pick her replacement? 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? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/12 "2016-11-14T04:15:35Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > And how bitter is it going to be for Ginsburg to know that President Trump will pick her replacement? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/13 "2016-11-15T11:54:22Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Made the RNC chair his Chief of Staff. An olive branch to the Establishment? 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. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/14 "2016-11-15T12:39:12Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Can we get Wayne LaPierre to head the ATF? Why, do you think Cliven Bundy will turn it down? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/15 "2016-11-16T06:19:02Z")
[According to the New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html), 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 > [@](#): > > Frank Gaffney [one of Trump’s three top national security advisors) has long advanced baseless conspiracy theories, including that President Obama might be a closet Muslim. The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/16 "2016-11-18T12:52:40Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/17 "2016-11-18T13:42:47Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![ganthet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@ganthet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ganthet)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/18 "2016-11-18T13:54:58Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/19 "2016-11-18T15:19:38Z")
[Trump lawyers aim to delay fraud trial at hearing](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lawyers-aim-delay-fraud-trial-hearing-120851246.html?ref=gs) > [@](#): > > U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego has urged both sides to settle in advance of a trial scheduled to begin on Nov. 28. Trump’s lawyers filed a motion last week asking to delay the case until after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, **saying the presidential transition was "all-consuming.**" [Donald Trump plans ‘victory tour’](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-plans-victory-tour-195433777.html) > [@](#): > > President-elect Donald Trump is hitting the road in the coming weeks for a new round of rallies to celebrate his election, according to his campaign advance-team director, George Gigicos. > > “We’re working on a victory tour now; it will happen in the next couple of weeks,” Gigicos told reporters at Trump Tower on Thursday, per the presidential transition pool report. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181/20 "2016-11-18T15:26:11Z")
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! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-transition-2016-2017/771181.md?page=2)