Posted on 11/29/2016 3:28:59 PM PST by Kaslin
President-elect Donald Trump has been busy since Election Day putting together his cabinet in New York City. Here are his choices so far:
Vice President: Indiana Governor Mike Pence
Chief of Staff: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
Chief White House Strategist: Trump Campaign CEO Steve Bannon
Attorney General: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions
Housing and Urban Development Secretary: Dr. Ben Carson
Health and Human Services Secretary: Georgia Congressman Tom Price
Transportation Secretary: Former Labor Secretary for George W. Bush Elaine Chow
Education Secretary: Betsy DeVos
Positions we're still waiting on:
Defense Secretary
Treasury Secretary
Secretary of State
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary
Homeland Security Secretary
Interior Secretary
Agriculture Secretary
Commerce Secretary
Labor Secretary
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Office of Management and Budget Director
United States Trade Representative
Council of Economic Advisors Chairman
Small Business Administration Administrator
NeverTrumpers will love Trump’s picks.
And they were bellyaching all the time about Trump being outside the conservative mainstream.
He’s reached out to them - but I don’t expect Rich Lowry, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol and George Will to recant.
I wouldn’t say boneheaded. I’d say a necessary compromise in order to get the important things passed.
Better than Bush in 1980.
Yes, and they confiscated a LOT of drugs from Chinese ships her/his family owns, too!
Take your pick of articles
“Better than Bush in 1980.”
Hell, I’M better than that!
Thanks.
I wonder if Willard knows Trump’s fav meal is McDonalds ...burger, fries and Diet Coke...
:)
thanks for your perspective.
There is one problem with it, though.
If she is the one with political instincts..was Turtle listening to her for the last 8 years????
He just bought some Senate votes he needs to do what we sent him there to do. Fingers crossed.
“f she is the one with political instincts..was Turtle listening to her for the last 8 years???”
Bet on it. She’s the amnesty whore...and drug shipping CHINESE SHiP OWNER. Her loyalties aren’t with the USA.
I hope you’re right..since REPUBLICANS are too damn STUPID to vote McConnell out!
So you are saying the the man who read us The Snake at least once a week doesn’t know about this already? I remember the angst on the FreeRepublic.com over the pick of Mike Pence for Vice President. That turned out to be an absolutely brilliant move. If you haven’t read The Art of the Deal, you should. We are now in this phase:
Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
And we are also in this phase: Have Fun
I don’t kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn’t change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that’s why I try not to take any of what’s happened too seriously. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what I should have done differently, or what’s going to happen next. If you ask me exactly what the deals I’m about to describe all add up to in the end, I’m not sure I have a very good answer. Except that I’ve had a very good time making them.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 813-818). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
“hey confiscated a LOT of drugs from Chinese ships her/his family owns”
I think she and her family are from Taiwan...and 90 pounds of white powder isn’t very hard to hide in a large container ship...I doubt the family had anything to do with it.
Trump has a plan. It is the best plan in 100 years.
He hasn’t done on thing wrong yet.
Tell me where he would find 4000 blue-blood Conservatives these days. We saw the GOPe and what it was made of, so it’s clear there aren’t 4000 people to fill the slots.
Trump will be implementing his policies, not Elaine Chao’s. She works for him, not the other way around. If she tries some of her past illegal immigrant nonsense, she’ll be observing this administration do it’s work from her home.
Trump is a no-nonsense leader, and he’s dealt with personalities for over 40 years, as a CEO.
This isn’t George Bush. This is Donald Trump.
He doesn’t have two strikes against him. These people haven’t worked for us before, but they were carrying out Bush policy the last time. Now they are going to be carrying out Trump policy.
He won’t stand for Chao going her own way. You can take that to the bank.
I don’t know. It is clear that the Establishment thought that either Clinton or Bush was going to be the next President. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition and no one expected Donald Trump.
Elaine Chao is definitely Establishment, but she is also capable of reading the tea leaves, and surviving in this new environment. President Donald Trump’s history is making great deals that are good for everyone in the deal. He is showing every sign that the past is prologue.
BTW: As Trump’s presidency moves along, remember these people who betrayed our cause in the past. As they do good things now, I want folks to remember that it is because Donald Trump is president, and giving them direction.
Some folks here are forever trying to give one person or another credit, when Trump scores big. I won’t stand still for it.
This is his administration, and whatever good or bad follows, is on him and nobody else, unless it’s crystal clear it was a Ryan or McConnell level infraction.
Is Vice President, Mike Pence, technically a cabinet choice?
Thanks for posting the excerpts. About “delivering the goods” I’d say that he delivered to his supporters, voters by getting elected. Now for the immediate future he has to focus on different type of supporters: those in his cabinet, in the House and Senate, and government critters.
It also can’t hurt to have Elaine ask Mitchy,YOU SAID WHAT TO MY BOSS??? I think having her there is good for business..We keep thinking Trump works like a politician.He works like a businessman..What is good for business...
DO NOT RUST RAND PAUL!™
No not Palin. Her family is quite stinky.
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