Trump’s picks are coming faster now. Forbes ran a roundup story yesterday headlined, “Trump’s Cabinet: Here Are His Picks For Key Roles—Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Pete Hegseth And More.”
Apart from the ones I’ve already told you about, here are the latest lists of announced (not rumored) selections through sometime last night:
A new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE): Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, no introductions needed.
Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth, Fox News host, Army veteran, author of “The War on Warriors,” who was banned from Biden’s inauguration as an “extremist”.
Department of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s anti-lockdown Governor who once put down a training-resistant puppy and a misbehaving goat in the same day.
CIA Director: John Ratcliffe, who triggered dems by declassifying and releasing Hillary’s Russian Hooker Pee-Pee Binder.
White House Counsel: William McGinley, GOP elections lawyer and former Trump White House outside counsel for election integrity. Ahem.
Special Envoy to the Middle East: Steven Witkoff, real estate entrepreneur and Trump loyalist who testified at the President’s New York Trial, where dim-bulb Letitia James ironically called Steven “not an expert” in real estate values.
Envoy to Israel: Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and former evangelical pastor, who’s been on GLAAD’s ‘three minutes of hate’ list for decades.
National Security Advisor: Mike Waltz (R-Fl.), former Green Beret and four-time Bronze Star winner, who once triggered Gen. Mark Milley, causing the general to accidentally smear his lipstick in barely contained rage.
Corporate media is badly freaking out about that list of deplorables, white supremacists, garbage people, and phobics of various kinds. But it sounds good to me so far! Who’s next?
David Sanger, the New York Times’s “National Security Correspondent” and the voice of the deep-state, ran a thoughtful, cautious story about Trump’s growing list of picks yesterday, headlined “Once They Were Neocons. Now Trump’s Foreign Policy Picks Are All ‘America First.’” It was good news for all sane people who yearn for peace, though oddly, Sanger seemed slightly alarmed at an expected shift from Biden’s aggressive military intervention and regime change tactics to Trump’s style of ‘transactional diplomacy.’