By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 18:38:59 | Updated at 2024-11-25 05:58:30
1 week ago
Trump fills out cabinet as divisive picks shock Washington
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 11/14/24 | Frankie TAGGART
Posted on 11/14/2024 10:36:42 AM PST by DallasBiff
All eyes were on Donald Trump's transition team Thursday, after a series of provocative and startling cabinet choices that showed the president-elect's preference for absolute loyalty above experience or expertise.
Trump has been rapidly rolling out his foreign policy and national security picks, but he is expected to shift focus over the coming days to key figures to enact his domestic agenda.
The Republican leader has yet to select treasury and commerce chiefs to help set tax and trade policy, a health secretary to oversee abortion, transgender care and a host of other potential flashpoints, or someone for education -- a department Trump wants to abolish.
He told podcaster Joe Rogan in an interview before last week's presidential election that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring "bad people, or disloyal people."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cabinet; trump; yahoo; yahoooo
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I know AFP(Agence France Presse), but they lost and can't get over that Trump is giving the swamp the finger.
1 posted on 11/14/2024 10:36:42 AM PST by DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
Personality is Policy.
Trump’s picks are a policy Blitzkrieg.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 10:37:19 AM PST by MMusson ( )
To: MMusson
It’s certainly a Declaration of Intent.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 10:38:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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