# Trump's Cabinet of Curiosities **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 10, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367 "2016-11-10T16:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 10, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/21 "2016-11-10T19:16:27Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > So much for any faint hope that Trump was just posturing to get the low-information vote and might actually have an ounce of reason when it comes to governing. The list is unbelievable. It’s like there was a contest to find the worst crackpots in the whole country and Trump corralled all of them. > > This is the worst of the worst – idiots and lunatics, bigots, regressive reactionaries from the 18th century. To make it even more tragically laughable, each one seems to have been picked to exploit their particular unique lunacy – John Bolton for State, of course, since Bolton despises the UN and has nothing but contempt for other countries; Sarah Palin for Interior, of course, since she hates the environment, believes global warming is a hoax, and want to drill for oil everywhere, especially in national parks and wildlife refuges. Expect drilling to begin in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just about as soon as the idiots are sworn in. Trash what’s left of nature, crank up the emissions and trash the planet, and let the Oil Economy begin. > > There is no way that the country will be able to recover from any of this. Trump is planning to sell the National Parks. No way he gets top dollar if they’re covered in oil spills and stripped of trees. That’s for after the sale as I’m sure the sale will include mineral and logging rights. ---
**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, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/22 "2016-11-10T19:20:42Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Shrub’s people were old pros. Evil old pros, in some cases. > > Many of Trump’s are straight from the loony bin. With little political experience. Who, specifically, are you talking about? I see a lot of well-known Republican politicians on the list. People who won elected office, state-wide in many cases. ---
**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 10, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/23 "2016-11-10T19:24:34Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Who, specifically, are you talking about? I see a lot of well-known Republican politicians on the list. People who won elected office, state-wide in many cases. Doesn’t mean they aren’t bull goose loony. Palin as an example. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/24 "2016-11-10T19:35:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Carson is under consideration to be secretary of Education. Creationism, anti vaccine climate change denier, denier of history even. Yep, bull goose loony. This is really a choice that should be an insult to the intelligence of the non deplorable supporters of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/25 "2016-11-10T19:39:04Z")
Wait,Wait! Don’t tell me!.. Ben Carson as head of HHS. Michele Bachmann as head of NSF. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/26 "2016-11-10T19:44:14Z")
I mean, it had been proposed that Trump was a Russian stooge, but even if one just falls for the most likely explanation that Putin helped someone that was simpatico to him, the objective by Putin of undermining America is looking to be a very successful one. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/27 "2016-11-10T19:47:47Z")
Funny how the movie “Idiocracy” now seems like a prescient documentary, innit? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/28 "2016-11-10T19:55:36Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > No, I’m pretty sure he would not want to have anything to do with this. “I think God’s going to sit this one out.” - Punisher “Who are the ones we left in charge? Killers, Thieves and Lawyers… God’s away on business.” - Tom Waits ---
**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, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/29 "2016-11-10T20:09:10Z")
“The sky is falling” - Chicken Little ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/30 "2016-11-10T20:13:50Z")
Why wouldn’t Ben Carson be Surgeon General? ---
**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 10, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/31 "2016-11-10T20:20:59Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Why wouldn’t Ben Carson be Surgeon General? It’s a choice between Dr. Oz or Dr. Mercola. Carson should be the National Hypnotist. “You are listening to my voice. You are getting sleepy.” ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/32 "2016-11-10T20:25:23Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I mean, it had been proposed that Trump was a Russian stooge, but even if one just falls for the most likely explanation that Putin helped someone that was simpatico to him, the objective by Putin of undermining America is looking to be a very successful one. Yes John Bolton at State screams Putin stooge. Lol the hits keep coming. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/33 "2016-11-10T20:28:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s a choice between Dr. Oz or Dr. Mercola." I was thinking Kevin Trudeau. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/34 "2016-11-10T20:29:27Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > “The sky is falling” - Chicken Little ["for the past thirty years the alarmists have been spouting “Chicken Little” climate science. " -Dana Rohrabacher (R) Ignorant reelected. [QUOTE=Skeptical Science] Numerous papers have documented how IPCC predictions are more likely to underestimate the climate response. [/QUOTE] ]([Climate Myths from Dana Rohrabacher](http://www.skepticalscience.com/skepticquotes.php?s=34)) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/35 "2016-11-10T20:34:39Z")
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. 😉 I’ll bet on Pam Bondi getting Attorney General. Trump would need at least one piece of eye candy for his cabinet meetings. $50, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/36 "2016-11-10T20:37:45Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I was thinking Kevin Trudeau. …whom I still confuse with Justin Trudeau. ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/37 "2016-11-10T20:40:11Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > ["for the past thirty years the alarmists have been spouting “Chicken Little” climate science. " -Dana Rohrabacher (R) Ignorant reelected.](http://www.skepticalscience.com/skepticquotes.php?s=34) [Nobody cares](http://www.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/38 "2016-11-10T20:43:37Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Shrub’s people were old pros. Evil old pros, in some cases. > > Many of Trump’s are straight from the loony bin. With little political experience. Actually, this is the best case scenario. If the Orange Lord of Sith surrounds himself with incompetent advisors who have little interest in collaborating with even a Republican dominated Congress and proposing initiatives that can be readily challenged in court, it may tie up a large measure of plans (such as he has any) that are beyond purely executive authority, nullifying the worst aspects of a Trump presidency. And if he is sufficiently at odds with an oppositional Congress, he may reflexively veto measures they pass. Everyone should encourage Trump to aggressively pursue Congressional term limits, putting him immediately at odds with his political base in the legislature. So you should be hoping his advisors are Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Forest Lucas, and others who are polemical, unwilling to compromise, and fraught with scandal and conflicts of interest. You should be afraid if he appoints intelligent advisors like Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich who know how to work the political system and get their agendas through Congress while pacifying Trump in his worst tantrums. In that case, so much for being “the maverick outside the system”; he’ll just be a mouthpiece for the Heritage Foundation agenda that Gingrich started advancing twenty-odd years ago, and will have also shown the extreme wing of the Republican Party is to follow through on bombastic rhetoric and belligerence. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/39 "2016-11-10T20:46:27Z")
Palin for Sec of Education, obviously. Actually, I don’t think she’d want a real job, so we’re unlikely to see her punching the clock in DC. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367/40 "2016-11-10T20:46:34Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Yes John Bolton at State screams Putin stooge. Lol the hits keep coming. > **[In Case You Forgot John Bolton Is Crazy](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/05/case-you-forgot-john-bolton-crazy/)** > > He went on Fox News and had this to say about Iran arming militants in Iraq: "I think this... > [@](#): > > In Case You Forgot John Bolton Is Crazy > [@](#): > > (2008) He went on Fox News and had this to say about Iran arming militants in Iraq: > > > [@](#): > > > > ``` > > "I think this is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we're not going to tolerate this is really *the most prudent thing to do.*" > > > > ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/771367.md?page=3)