# Trump's new cabinet **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799 "2024-11-06T16:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/441 "2024-11-22T22:40:29Z")
Issues with Tulsi gabbard, security, patriotism, treason and all that come up. I am a little surprised that Trump has not come out and said that he cannot do treason against the USA because he now IS the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/442 "2024-11-22T22:47:18Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I think we can trust that Romney won’t be voting for her: Romney’s out as of January 3. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/443 "2024-11-22T23:59:46Z")
Pete Hegseth, nominee for Sec of Defense, is part of a far-right Christian nationalist church that is based out of Moscow, ID. Doug Wilson’s dreams are coming true. In this article, they mention the _Extremely American_ podcast. Season 2 goes over Doug’s religion and way of taking over education and is well worth a listen. Very Project 2025. > **[Trump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian...](https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/11/21/trumps-defense-secretary-nominee-has-close-ties-to-idaho-christian-nationalists/)** > > Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church. > **[Extremely American](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510381/extremely-american)** > > In Season 2 of Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it and install theocracy, taking rights away from the... ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/444 "2024-11-23T00:27:44Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Romney’s out as of January 3. True, but his replacement, John Curtis, seems moderate by today’s GOP standards – maybe very moderate: [‘He is not Mitt Romney and he is not Donald Trump’: Romney’s Senate successor makes an early mark](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-not-mitt-romney-not-donald-trump-romneys-senate-successor-makes-early-rcna181265) As far as the threat of being primaried, I’m hoping that the GOP senators who blocked Gaetz figure that they have already crossed the Rubicon there. AG is, I think, the most important cabinet post to Trump. His priority is to jail his enemies. They know that blocking Gaetz is the betrayal he won’t forgive. So there is no harm in blocking other nominees. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/445 "2024-11-23T08:02:26Z")
I’m curious why Curtis became a Republican. And how long until Trump goes after him. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/446 "2024-11-23T17:00:35Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’m curious why Curtis became a Republican. Probably because he’s from Utah, and aspired to be elected to higher office. It’s extremely difficult to get elected the House or Senate from that state as a Democrat. My guess would be that, even when he was a Democrat, he was to the right of most other Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/447 "2024-11-23T17:17:10Z")
Trump picks an African-American guy to head HUAC, just as before. Here’s a good article about his Treasury pick, who’s the first gay man to be appointed to the job. And they say Trump doesn’t care about diversity! /s > **[Trump nominates Scott Bessent to lead Treasury in flurry of picks](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3mv6l1ypyo)** > > He also announces nominees for labour secretary, housing secretary and surgeon general. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/448 "2024-11-23T17:25:34Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Trump picks an African-American guy to head HUAC Well, that sounds Un-American. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/449 "2024-11-23T17:27:10Z")
I didn’t know the House Un-American Activities Committee was still around or that the POTUS had any authority over it. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/450 "2024-11-23T17:30:42Z")
Dammit teaches me to write off the top of my head. I meant HUD. 😤 Though I could see HUAC being reborn. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/451 "2024-11-23T18:12:35Z")
Also upon rereading that article the fact that his Treasury pick worked for with George Soros is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/452 "2024-11-23T18:34:34Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > his Treasury pick worked for with George Soros is hilarious. The Deep State goes all the way to the top! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/453 "2024-11-23T22:43:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > There’s way too many “theys” there. The people who shot Gaetz down were Republicans. Are they the “they” who smell blood in the water? You’re right–Bannon was about as clear as mud, or perhaps blood, in that citation\*. But it _was_ his most recent, and perhaps it’s fair to interpret it in the light of everything else he’s said (which is that Everyone Had Better Acknowledge Trump as Lord Or Else!) As for whether the Senate will go in the direction ‘_we’ve gotten rid of Gaetz and Trump is already mad so we may as well say what we really think of the others,_’ or instead ‘_we’ve gotten rid of Gaetz and that proves we’re a Co-Equal Branch, so now we can just knuckle-under on all Trump’s other picks_’…well, I’d bet on the second one. \*I believe Steve Bannon is well-known for being, shall we say, chemically impaired a lot of the time. Lack of clarity isn’t surprising. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/454 "2024-11-23T23:38:38Z")
Those who cancelled WaPo are missing out on some great Trumpworld leaks: [“Almost universally, the entire team considers Gorka a clown,” said a person close to the national security transition team. “They are dreading working with him.”](https://wapo.st/3ZlPPuK) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/455 "2024-11-23T23:46:06Z")
Hegseth has _written_ more books than trump has ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/456 "2024-11-24T11:24:09Z")
His Agriculture Secretary pick at least has some minor experience in it, but a major case of sycophancy, as expected. [https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/what-to-know-about-brooke-rollins-trumps-pick-for-agriculture-secretary/](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/what-to-know-about-brooke-rollins-trumps-pick-for-agriculture-secretary/) ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/457 "2024-11-24T12:34:28Z")
An opinion from the editorial cartoonists > **[Views of the World by Cartoon Movement-US for November 24, 2024 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/viewsoftheworld/2024/11/24)** > > November 24, 2024 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/458 "2024-11-24T13:10:45Z")
> [@Kzbre5m](#): > > An opinion from the editorial cartoonists Who’s the one on the left next to Voldemort? I see the Eye of Sauron, the clown from _It_, and the clown from South Africa. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/459 "2024-11-24T13:21:32Z")
The cabinet is kind of irrelevant, because pretty much everything in the execute branch IS Trump. You can’t stop him. Senate technically could but by February we will see it is too late. ### The problem of defining treason when Trump is president I posted this a few places and nobody was willing to debate my idea. The concept that when we have a president who is out to destroy the administrative state, give his donors and backers billions in taxcuts, we can’t really label it treason. Even giving Putin data on Ukraine is not treason. Because in a sense THE PRESIDENT IS THE SAME AS THE COUNTRY. If the voters voted for him to do all this, he is doing his job. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/460 "2024-11-24T13:51:02Z")
> [@TeroSunbear](#): > > Because in a sense THE PRESIDENT IS THE SAME AS THE COUNTRY. If the voters voted for him to do all this, he is doing his job. So if the President one day decides to nuke Estonia just out of the blue, the voters wanted him to do it? Ignorance is no defense, if you really didn’t know what he was planning? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799.md?page=24)