President Donald Trump is making major progress on selecting his cabinet. He expects to have everyone vetted long before he’s sworn in this January. Since naming campaign co-manager Susan Summerall Wiles as his White House chief of staff, he’s been announcing one popular name after another. Each and every one are heavy hitting “MAGA” allies.
Trump fills key roles
Donald Trump is surrounding himself with a whole “new cast of characters” this time around. His advisers won’t be very popular with progressives but MAGA type conservatives are thrilled.
One of the biggest annoyances to liberals is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. The nephew of the former president began his career as an environmental lawyer.
Earlier this year, RFK Jr. was running for president as a Democrat. He had a major falling out with the progressive party over his controversial stance on COVID vaccinations. After horrifying Democrats and “failing to gain traction” with an independent candidacy, Kennedy “dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.”
By the end of the election cycle, he was spearheading the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. Not only will he take on a major role overseeing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Safety Administration, he’s pushing to “remove fluoride from drinking water.”
Trump calls his new chief of staff, Susie Wiles, “the ice baby.” She’ll keep him on track at the office and make history as the “first woman to take on the role.”
She’s been in the trenches since 1980 when she was working on Ronald Reagan’s successful presidential campaign. In 2010 she “turned Rick Scott, a then-businessman with little political experience, into Florida’s governor in just seven months.” He’s a senator now.
World’s richest man
You don’t get to be the world’s richest man by throwing money away. That makes Elon Musk the perfect candidate to run a Department of Government Efficiency. Because he’s also helping NASA rescue their astronauts using his own fleet of spacecraft, Musk will have help running the watchdog panel.
Vivek Ramaswamy will co-chair. President Trump expects quite a lot of help from a House sub-committee led by Marjorie Taylor Greene and a Senate DOGE caucus headed by Iowa Senator Joni Ernst.
Former CIA director and Kansas lawmaker Mike Pompeo could turn out to be the new Secretary of Defense, replacing Lloyd Austin. Not only is Pompeo a “foreign policy hawk and a fierce supporter of Israel,” he scared the Ayatollah silly.
Pompeo was behind “moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.” If he doesn’t get the job, Michael Waltz will. He’s a “Florida lawmaker and military veteran who sits on the armed services committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Richard Grenell, who we like to call “America’s James Bond” is up for Blinky Blinken’s job as Secretary of State. If he doesn’t get that one, he’s up for national security advisor. That post is one which does not require Senate confirmation.
Anyone bold enough to pry open Adam Schiff’s office filing cabinet with a crowbar, to retrieve documents the California congressman stashed away, deserves a cabinet level post with Trump. Tom Homan as Border Czar is another pick which has We the People dancing in the street. He’s got the mass deportation plan already in operation, coordinating with Texas Governor Gregg Abbott to coordinate the rodeo roundup.
