# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/121 "2024-11-13T20:54:23Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Of course, if he gets them to let him do recess appointments, that won’t matter. Thune won the election for Majority Leader. He’s McConnell’s protege and I don’t see him yielding that much institutional power. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/122 "2024-11-13T21:03:02Z")
I think it’s Matt Gaetz for Attorney General which has broken me. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/123 "2024-11-13T21:05:07Z")
Wonder where Joe Rogan will fit in. ---
**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 13, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/124 "2024-11-13T21:05:28Z")
The upside is Trump is choosing grandstanding clown villains instead of competent villains. The grandstanders are much likelier to twirl their mustaches, and much less likely to get the concentration camps actually up and running. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/125 "2024-11-13T21:08:51Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I think it’s Matt Gaetz for Attorney General which has broken me. I would have guessed Solicitor General 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/126 "2024-11-13T21:09:32Z")
I can’t help but wonder if [**Mark Burnett**](https://shop.shakeandco.com/book/9780063139909) has a hand in casting this Worst Reality TV Series Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/127 "2024-11-13T21:11:42Z")
So they are more like “Hogan’s Heroes” Nazis? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/128 "2024-11-13T21:19:29Z")
Moderating: As there is already a P&E thread discussing cabinet appointments, let’s merge this one into it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/129 "2024-11-13T21:20:29Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I think it’s Matt Gaetz for Attorney General which has broken me. It’s Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence Director that made me literally a little sick. ---
**Author:** ![MulderMuffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldermuffin/32/2862_2.png) [@MulderMuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MulderMuffin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/130 "2024-11-13T21:34:50Z")
It could have been Ken Paxton for Attorney General, which arguably would have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/131 "2024-11-13T21:37:30Z")
I just can’t anymore. Good luck, everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/132 "2024-11-13T21:45:16Z")
Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gaetz… I wonder if the main qualification to be appointed to Trump’s cabinet is for him to have _kompromat_ on you? ---
**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 13, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/133 "2024-11-13T22:10:54Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > I just can’t anymore. Good luck, everybody. If you want out, I heard today that a cruise ship company is planning a four-year voyage. Possibly long enough to avoid much of the insanity? ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/134 "2024-11-13T22:19:05Z")
seen elsewhere : “He’s treating his cabinet appointments like it’s his Myspace ‘Top 8’”. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/135 "2024-11-13T22:37:16Z")
This is like a parody cabinet, something the Onion would put together as a joke. Child rapist and trafficker? Make him attorney general. Russian asset? Director of national intelligence. It’s almost unbelievable. If it were fiction, I would lose my willful suspension of disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/136 "2024-11-13T22:43:34Z")
Is there any way that getting all these buffoonish Keystone Kops together could ever possibly be a **good** thing, in that maybe they won’t destroy the country as badly as a band of devious criminal masterminds could? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/137 "2024-11-13T22:45:06Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Wonder where Joe Rogan will fit in. The Fear Factor guy? You’ll find out when you get to the camp! Ever play a real life version of “Would you Rather”? 😁 Now Trump is just fucking with you. Gaetz is an unbelievable scumbag. I like how his DUI got glossed over. That shit doesn’t even happen here in Wisconsin, the Drunkest Place on Earth ™. ---
**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 13, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/138 "2024-11-13T22:57:31Z")
From the New York Times > Representative Max Miller, Republican of Ohio, told reporters that many members of the G.O.P. conference were shocked at the choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, but mostly out of happiness that the Florida Republican might no longer be a member of the chamber. For years, Gaetz has instigated battles within the party that culminated in his successful effort to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speaker’s post last year. And Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, seems to be pushing back, “If I wanted to make a joke, maybe I would say now I’m waiting for George Santos to be named.” But will Republican senators actually not confirm? I doubt it. They’ll just roll over and accept him. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/139 "2024-11-13T23:14:38Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I think it’s Matt Gaetz for Attorney General which has broken me. Every low-info Trump voter: “Who’s Matt Gaetz?”. Followed immediately by “what is the attorney general” and “what is the department of justice”, “what is the judicial branch”, and finally “are eggs cheaper today?”. ---
**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 13, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/140 "2024-11-13T23:18:50Z")
Rubio seems like a strange pick among the rest. I can only imagine that he was thinking he might use his inclusion to help sell the idea of skipping the Constitutionally obligated Senate approval step. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rubio gets [dropped](https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799.md?page=8)