Appointment nominations are coming in fast and furious . Some of them are folks you recognize .....many not. There are too many of them to comment on . I found this Forbes article that lists and makes short comments on all to date.(Forbes is subscription but found the article posed on another site )


Trump’s Cabinet And Key Jobs: Herschel Walker Picked For Ambassador Role (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-cabinet-and-key-jobs-herschel-walker-picked-for-ambassador-role/ar-AA1tTwRM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b53f3c5a985b4bcab9dae601afc0e814&ei=50)

Trump's new Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave marching orders to all his nominees. Stay off of social media.


While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself…
Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel….’
Exclusive | Trump team orders 'all intended nominees' to stop posting on social media ahead of Senate confirmations (https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/us-news/trump-team-orders-all-intended-nominees-to-stop-posting-on-social-media-ahead-of-senate-confirmations/)




It makes sense. They have to answer to Senate inquisitors ;not the Dem trolls or other "influencers" who try to get them to post things that end up being controversial.

There will be enough challenges getting some of his appoints approved .

Yep. Now if they can just get Mr. Trump to stay off of social media. Social media has the terrible quality of allowing people to "speak" with very little thought put into it.

His staff appears to be both culturally and ideologically diverse . That doesn't matter to me per se . It does end the talk of them being a bunch of white guy clones.
I'll start with the latest . Trump named Tammy Bruce to Sec State communications .
She has been a long time talk show and TV personality. Before that she headed National Organization of Women (NOW) . She is also a lesbian.

Mark Cuban once said that Trump doesn't surround himself with strong intelligent women.
Tell that to Susie Wiles his incoming Chief of Staff. Tell that to his Press Sec Karoline Leavitt who will be the youngest to serve at that position. Tell that to native Hawaiian Tulsi Gabbard becoming the National Intelligence Director .Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is to be the next Surgeon General. Attorney General Pam Bondi DHS Kristie Noem.UN Elise Stefanik .Agriculture Brooke Rollins . Education Linda MCMahone.

Marco Rubio will be the first Hispanic Sec State . Scott Bessent for Treasury is going to be highest ranking gay cabinet member (Sec Treasury out ranks Mayor Pete at Transportation). He is also a former Soros protege . HUD Scott Turner (African American) NIH Dr Jay Bhattacharya (born in India) FBI Kash Patel (parents from India )

There are others at assistant level But you get the idea.


Diversity of ideology . He is has RFK JR (HHS) Lori Chavez DeRemer (Labor ) is pro-union .

BTW Once Trump takes the oath he runs the Executive Dept .... right Wrong. While Joe's appointed officers leave with him . The swamp critters remain . Most if not all of Trump's appointees who need Senate confirmation will not be in the government on January 20 . Swamp critters are in charge of the agencies until then.
That makes the order of succession critical.

In an act of spite, Joe did a midnight change of succession to 11 agencies Friday night .

I'll post a couple of them

Executive Order Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice | The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/03/executive-order-providing-an-order-of-succession-within-the-department-of-justice/)

Executive Order on Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Homeland Security | The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/03/executive-order-on-providing-an-order-of-succession-within-the-department-of-homeland-security/)

These changes ensure that the people Joe's handlers want in control will be running the agencies in transition.

The above are critically important because the Trump appointees will require security clearance before they can do their jobs; and these agencies clear security clearances.

Joe is doing everything in his power to intentionally sabotage the incoming administration. How do we know this is true ? Yes the above agencies are critical to American security . But does it really matter who is in charge of the US agency for Global Media(USAGM) ? And yet Joe changed the order there also.
Memorandum on the Designation of Officials of the United States Agency for Global Media to Act as Chief Executive Officer | The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/03/memorandum-on-the-designation-of-officials-of-the-united-states-agency-for-global-media-to-act-as-chief-executive-officer/)

Could it be that Trump picked Kari Lake to run Voice of America ?

I doubt if Trump or anyone on his transition team was consulted .

In another act designed to handcuff Trump ;Joe made an executive order banning drilling in off shore waters for gas and oil for 625 million acres that covers the entire Atlantic Coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, the West Coast and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea . His order is for a 10 years

Biden permanently bans offshore drilling in 625 million acres of ocean, making a Trump reversal difficult | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/business/biden-offshore-drilling-ban-trump/index.html)

So Trump can just reverse the decision Right ?
Not necessarily . Trump reversed a similar emperor order in 2017 and envirowackos sued. A liberal judge ruled against Trump
Court Affirms Protections Against Drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic - Earthjustice (https://earthjustice.org/feature/inside-legal-case-judge-nixed-trump-attempt-drill-arctic-atlantic)

Joe says we already produce enough gas. Of course You can tell by the price of gas and oil
Gas Prices Starting to Rise Again in the New Year (https://wjon.com/gas-prices-starting-to-rise-again-in-the-new-year/)

Trump won overwhelmingly saying drill baby drill. But Joe don't care what you think.

Susie Wiles knives out on the whole Trump team . Who knew she was a trojan horse? Her betrayal is one that will surpass those of both John Bolton and Steve Bannon combined.

Trump clearly has a history of hiring people that hate him. In this case ;she kneecaps pretty much the entire administration.

Above I quote her telling the staff to stay off social media . Meanwhile she arranged a series of multiple interviews with Trump hating 'Vanity Fair ' .

Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) | Vanity Fair (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-1)

She said that Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality”
She said that Trump believes "that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
She claims that Trump promised her he would end his campaign of retributions ;but continued it after their agreed upon day.

She says Pam Bondi whiffed on the Epstein files . I agree with that ,but why is she saying it ?

“First she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”

She called Vance a conspiracy theorist .

She called Musk a drug abuser . She tried to walk that back . But Vanity Fair has the tape and released it . She vehemently disagreed with DOGE

“Because I think anybody that pays attention to government and has ever paid attention to USAID believed, as I did, that they do very good work”........
"When Elon said, ‘We’re doing this,’ he was already into it. And that’s probably because he knew it would be horrifying to others. But he decided that it was a better approach to shut it down, fire everybody, shut them out, and then go rebuild. Not the way I would do it.”


Oh yeah and OMB director Russ Vought a “right-wing zealot”

Trump can't say he wasn't warned about her.

DeSantis tried to bury her. Now she’s helping Trump try to bury him | The Seattle Times (https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/desantis-tried-to-bury-her-now-shes-helping-trump-try-to-bury-him/)


And in a fateful set of moves that preceded Trump’s bringing Wiles back into his fold, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted her from his camp, persuaded Trump to sack her and tried to blacklist her in GOP circles.
Meet Susie Wiles, the operative trying to guide Trump through four indictments to the White House (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/meet-susie-wiles-trump-four-indictments-white-house-campaign-manager-rcna140514)

Trump's team has no choice but the circle the wagons around her for now. Not so bold prediction . She will resign of be fired early in 2026 ,and will end up being a talking head on the liberal alphabet soup networks sticking a shiv into Trump like Bolton . Oh yeah ;her hit piece book about her Trump years will be released before the midterm campaign season.

Of course she is not ready to abandon ship yet . She defended herself on X

Susie Wiles on X: "The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the" / X (https://x.com/susiewiles/status/2000943061627548148?s=46)

But she had 11 sit-downs with Vanity Fair. Either she is dumber than dirt or she intended to prepare the ground for her post-Trump career . We all know she aint dumb . If she is right that it is a hit piece full of lies ,I expect to see her lawsuit against them shortly .

Another defector . Don Bongino is leaving FBI in January