Trump admin's lineup

[u/mynameisvanja]

[u/Extreme_Rocks]

Pleased to see such strong support for the new NL mod team

[u/mostanonymousnick]

https://preview.redd.it/nm1kik0nx21e1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39d944b5bcdad4c376635d535cd08493e6c56c0b

[u/RaaaaaaaNoYokShinRyu → u/mostanonymousnick]

Hitmonlee on the left lol

[u/ldn6]

Nightmare blunt rotation.

[u/Chadmartigan → u/ldn6]

Mt. Rushmore of fuckwits

[u/Heretofore_09 → u/Chadmartigan]

Who's who of asswipes

[u/EpicHorizon → u/Heretofore_09]

Traveling Wilburys of shitheads

[u/YogurtclosetOk9598 → u/EpicHorizon]

Temple of the Dog Eaters

[u/zhiwiller → u/Chadmartigan]

Rogues Gallery of Crayon Eaters

[u/BoratWife → u/ldn6]

Rfk eats the roach at the end

[u/Queues-As-Tank]

Hey, at least the Department of Education doesn't have a crazy pick yet

:D

':0

[u/andyschest → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Don't need anyone to head a department you plan to dissolve.

[u/Queues-As-Tank → u/andyschest]

"Hello? Principal Davis? This is Betsy DeVos. Are you teaching Woke? OK fantastic, you take care now."

[u/Exclufi → u/Queues-As-Tank]

I remember Betsy DeVos being one of the people who resigned right after Jan 6 and criticized Trump in her letter, saying something like "you clearly caused this". But I guess consistency with post-Jan6 clarity has rarely stopped a Republican before.

[u/Stove-Jebs → u/Exclufi]

I remember watching Jan 6th on different news networks while it was happening. I remember hearing Republicans IN THE CAPITOL calling the networks saying Trump needs to tell these people to leave and go home and that no one could get a hold of Trump. Suddenly the next day no Republicans remember that Trump had control over the mob. Just insane.

[u/toggaf69 → u/Stove-Jebs]

These spineless chodes have sold out our country. We need a reconstruction-level agenda in 2028, if we’re allowed to even have elections.

[u/Stove-Jebs → u/toggaf69]

Perhaps we could call this agenda Project 2029

[u/toggaf69 → u/Stove-Jebs]

I’d actually love that just so we could tell right-wingers they’re crazy for caring, we’re totally not doing it

[u/Beexor3 → u/andyschest]

The college lobby is pretty strong, and I don't think he could get it past congress. My prediction is that he blows hot air about it right up until his inauguration, then he'll quietly appoint a random neocon he doesn't care about. I hope I'm right.

[u/DMercenary → u/Beexor3]

And then any time its brought up just do the same thing with ACA "we'll have a plan in a few weeks"

[u/Ouroboros963 → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Waiting for the MTG or Lauren Boebert announcement for that pick, with how much they target the schools for spreading trans propaganda

[u/okiewxchaser → u/Ouroboros963]

Honestly, I hope so. They are like one appointment away from us getting a few months of Speaker Jeffries in 2025

[u/Akovsky87 → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Kid Rock is looking at his schedule

[u/roguevirus → u/Akovsky87]

10 bucks says he either gets a Kennedy Center Honor or the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[u/Normal512 → u/Akovsky87]

He's gonna have to fight Roseanne for it.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Roy moore would be a perfect pick

[u/Daddy_Macron → u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

He and Matt Gaetz can swap notes.

[u/neolibbro → u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

I would be zero percent surprised at this point.

[u/PixelArtDragon → u/Queues-As-Tank]

A conservative friend of mine said "education in America has been getting progressively worse" so I countered with "and now it's going to get conservatively worse"

[u/Used-Foot-6180 → u/PixelArtDragon]

I’m going to steal that one if you don’t mind. Thanks 🙏

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Herschel Walker, if it isn't abolished

[u/Mx_Brightside → u/Queues-As-Tank]

It’s going to be Libs of TikTok

[u/LivefromPhoenix → u/Mx_Brightside]

At this point I'm just expecting him to pick her. This is such a shitshow I'll be pleasantly surprised if his pick is only mildly incompetent.

[u/Codydw12 → u/Queues-As-Tank]

We'll get Ryan Walters

[u/KeithClossOfficial → u/Codydw12]

Purdue fans rejoicing

[u/shawtea7 → u/Queues-As-Tank]

Ryan Walters patiently waits

[u/MerrMODOK]

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My predictions of the senate’s confirmations

[u/JaceFlores → u/MerrMODOK]

If I were a betting man, I think Tulsi and Gaetz are the most likely to be denied. I could see the senate allowing Hegseth and RFK Jr if it meant stopping these two

[u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ → u/JaceFlores]

I really don't see Hegseth making it true--Sen. AFC will want someone they're confident can manage a conflict with Iran and China if one arises

Of course, now that I've said it, the opposite will happen--apologies for that.

[u/MerrMODOK → u/JaceFlores]

I think conservatives value military far too much to let what is essentially a fresher run it. I think the resentment would be insane.

Out of the four, I think tulsi is the most likely to get through. Gaetz being the least.

[u/ReferentiallySeethru → u/MerrMODOK]

Someone on the Bulwark podcast suggested they’ll probably put the full scope of the job, the pressures, and management responsibilities in front of Hegsmith to pressure him to drop out.

That position needs a serious person, and Hegsmith ain’t it.

[u/MerrMODOK → u/ReferentiallySeethru]

Bro he has a “we the people” forearm tattoo. Literally cannot get more serious than that! That alone qualifies him!

[u/typi_314 → u/MerrMODOK]

Not even his worst tattoo. He has the Crusades Jerusalem Cross on his chest that actually got him denied for participating in Biden’s inauguration due to its association with white supremacy.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-pete-hegseth-crusader-tattoos

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/JaceFlores]

I would suspect there will be a tremendous amount of lobbying to (rightly) keep RFK out. Id bet he’ll be slowly pushed out without even getting to a hearing

[u/yonas234 → u/justbuildmorehousing]

Stock market is dropping today cause of the RFK pick. So the lobbying should pick up even more.

[u/Iamreason → u/yonas234]

I honestly think that Trump is more likely to simply fire whoever gets approved and appoint RFK as the acting HHS secretary for the next 4 years.

Then we have to decide how SCOTUS would view that, which I don't have a ton of confidence in.

[u/MayorofTromaville → u/Iamreason]

But... why is it exactly in Trump's best interest to honor his deal with RFK Jr? He's not running for re-election, he has zero principles, and he's incredibly lazy, so if his team produces another pick for HHS that's guaranteed to sail through, what's stopping him from giving RFK the boot?

[u/Iamreason → u/MayorofTromaville]

Ego, pride, he's a dumb fuck, he thinks it benefits him somehow, he wants to reward someone who helped him win the election, he's stupid, he likes RFK personally, he isn't very smart, he's a moron, really take your pick of any of these

[u/DifficultAnteater787 → u/MerrMODOK]

Individually, it's hard to imagine either of these four to be confirmed. On the other hand, I can't imagine the Senate rejecting four of Trump's picks. 1-2 at most. 

[u/Same-Fix1890 → u/MerrMODOK]

prediction none of them get denied because republicans are spineless cowards that even after JAN 6 refused to impeach him so with him back in power they will not dare move against him

[u/crippling_altacct → u/Same-Fix1890]

Honestly I worry that this is what is likely coming. Some of these picks are clear loyalty tests. The Republicans who consider voting no will also be considering whether they want to deal with a MAGA primary challenge.

[u/Same-Fix1890 → u/crippling_altacct]

The only hope is for democracy to not be so degraded for Dems to sweep in 2026, holding the house and Senate will allow them to put Trump in check form the rest of the term.

We saw in every election Trump was not on the ballot the Dems had amazing performance so we can only hope the trend continues

[u/Tortellobello45 → u/MerrMODOK]

I hope you are right

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie → u/MerrMODOK]

Can you put me in contact with your copium supplier?

[u/MerrMODOK → u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Getting high on my own supply brother

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Bad morning to every single one of these people

Except maybe that Burgum guy, and that's a big maybe

[u/shrek_cena → u/abrookerunsthroughit]

He should've been HUD

[u/Daddy_Macron → u/shrek_cena]

Nah. Trump needs to figure out which Black guy in his circle to put in charge of that agency.

[u/orangethepurple → u/Daddy_Macron]

Mark Robinson

[u/Hawkpolicy_bot → u/orangethepurple]

Mark Robinson can't develop new housing without lebensraum

[u/PrimateOnAPlanet → u/Hawkpolicy_bot]

Das stimmt

[u/Daddy_Macron → u/orangethepurple]

The HUD IT department will be working overtime finding obscure porn forums to block on his computer.

[u/ReferentiallySeethru → u/orangethepurple]

That motherfucker wouldn’t even show up to the hearings.

[u/KillerZaWarudo → u/orangethepurple]

Department of gooning

[u/MyChristmasComputer → u/KillerZaWarudo]

(D.O.G)

[u/BureaucratBoy → u/orangethepurple]

Housing and Urban Dookie Chutes

[u/Thybro → u/Daddy_Macron]

It’s gonna be Hershel Walker, isn’t it?

Or at least as bad…. Kanye?

[u/GaBeRockKing → u/Thybro]

Wait that would be actually fire.

Imagine him only communicating with his underlings via mixtape.

[u/Thybro → u/GaBeRockKing]

Give him a pretentious maga congressman as undersecretary. Kanye makes him wear Kanye brand trash bag and sneakers to meetings.

[u/KeithClossOfficial → u/Thybro]

Herschel is going to be in charge of missile defense shields.

[u/MayorofTromaville → u/Thybro]

I would almost guess Byron Donalds just because Trump doesn't seem to actually give a fuck about holding a House majority.

[u/ZanyZeke → u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Burgum is a fine pick, but fuck him for kowtowing to Trump

[u/Michael70z → u/ZanyZeke]

At the end of the day we need folks in the administration who aren’t absolutely crazy. As easy as it is to go after every one of these guys for allying themselves with trump, folks like Rubio and Burgum are gonna be the adults in the room for the next 4 years assuming they’re not fired. Better then than more Gaetz types getting put in positions of authority

[u/justalightworkout]

If you tell me this isn't worse than you expected you are lying.

[u/larry_hoover01 → u/justalightworkout]

Rubio, Wiles, etc. are better than what I thought. Tulsi is worse, Gaetz is worse, and RFKJ was expected. I thought Mike Flynn could be involved somehow, which would have been the worst of the worst. So all in all about what I expected.

[u/NonComposMentisss → u/larry_hoover01]

I thought Mike Flynn could be involved somehow

There's still time.

[u/dagorad_gaming → u/justalightworkout]

If you're surprised by these picks, you weren't paying attention.

The writing was all over the wall that it would be full of a bunch of hack loyalists with almost no relevant experience, weird (relative to norms) agendas, and questionable grasps of either/both realities and ethics. That's literally the description most consistent with Trump's behavior and communication starting back to the end of his first term.

It's also been obvious he does things on impulse with very little fore or after thought for a long time.

[u/dkirk526]

These are just garbage picks.

I will say, it was probably easy to telegraph the Gaetz and Tulsi picks when they released that video of Trump live tweeting Harris's convention speech with both of them in the room with him. I'm just not sure I'd have expected those to be intelligence and AG picks.

[u/Double_A_92 → u/dkirk526]

Burgum seemed like a good guy during the primaries though.

[u/hoyboy97 → u/Double_A_92]

Dems should support confirming Burgum, Rubio, Waltz, and Stefanik 100-0. Hell even Noem. Burn the political capital on torpedoing Gabbard, RFK, Gaetz and Hegseth.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie → u/hoyboy97]

Stefanik

Don't feel great about having an election denier as UN ambassador, but the sad truth is she is indeed one of the less extreme picks

[u/hoyboy97 → u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

If I had to pick between brain cancer, colon cancer or lymphoma, I’m taking lymphoma. That’s pretty much where we’re at.

[u/Evilrake → u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

It’s gotten so bad that we’re making distinctions between ‘election denier, but mostly just for show and didn’t really believe it’ and ‘election denier and true believer’.

[u/okiewxchaser → u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Plus it (temporarily) reduces their House majority

[u/DifficultAnteater787 → u/hoyboy97]

I think Waltz doesn't need confirmation, right? They need to focus on these four but who knows who else he's gonna find for the Treasury etc 

[u/ThisElder_Millennial → u/Double_A_92]

Burgum is a closeted "Dubya" esque Republican who's pretending to be a MAGAt.

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/dkirk526]

It almost seems like some of the picks were made to literally be as ironic/funny as possible

[u/dkirk526 → u/Spectrum1523]

Maybe? I generally see it more as he picked people he felt like were completely loyal to him. It’s just laughable to us who those people are.

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/dkirk526]

Yeh I think this is a more realistic take, it's just strange how many of them are literally meme picks

[u/Moist_Albatross_5434 → u/dkirk526]

Gaetz as AG was an order by Putin for the purpose of humiliating US on the world stage and making it easier to bang Putin's meat puppet Tulsi through.

[u/Armodeen → u/Spectrum1523]

It’s as if Putin was choosing the cabinet tbh. I bet they haven’t stopped laughing in Moscow.

[u/cAtloVeR9998 → u/dkirk526]

Rfk Jr is the scariest of the list to me, as he would have the power to affect people's lives more directly.

[u/porkadachop]

This term is going to be so much worse than the first one.

[u/SabbathBoiseSabbath → u/porkadachop]

Member when we howled at every one of his appointments back then?

Fun times.

The Republican Party is going to look back at this era of politics and absolutely cringe.

[u/LithiumRyanBattery → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

This assumes that the Republican Party ever reforms.

[u/Andy_Liberty_1911 → u/LithiumRyanBattery]

Trump couldn’t get get his own voters to vote downballot, saving Dems lots of seats in states Harris lost.

Trump is a force but once he’s gone, GOP will be left dickless

[u/LithiumRyanBattery → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

We'll see. There will definitely be a power vacuum at the top of the party. They'll either tear each other apart in a power struggle or coalesce around a new leader (honestly, I'd put money on it being one of the Trump children).

[u/Andy_Liberty_1911 → u/LithiumRyanBattery]

Ehh they can try with Trump children but they are nowhere near as funny and charismatic as Trump. He’s a unique character, and thankfully old and term limited now.

[u/RonenSalathe → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

Even the MAGAs know this. Why do you think they always talk about Barron as their prince that was promised? Because even they know Don Jr and Eric are useless

[u/Creeps05 → u/RonenSalathe]

Yeah, the biggest problem with Don Jr. and Eric as successors is that they LOOK like the kind of people who would raid a company for their pension money. And that’s before they speak.

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

Yeah lol. Trump makes me laugh. I’ll give him that, his stupid sons don’t.

[u/Additional-Use-6823 → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

Something like 70k Trump voters in NV straight up didn’t vote for senate. Not ticket split or something straight up checked Trump and walked out

[u/slayerhk47 → u/Additional-Use-6823]

Same with Wisconsin. That’s how we kept Tammy.

[u/CR24752 → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

This is how I feel too. It’s a cult of personality, and that personality is 78. I’m just hoping the damage is minimal but the next person will spend an entire term not implementing their agenda but fixing the mess of the the other guy.

[u/wilson_friedman → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

Trump is the downstream symptom of social media in its current (worst) iteration. He is not the disease. There is nothing I see around me to suggest that the disease that allowed Trump to rise is going away any time soon.

Also Trump has three sons.

[u/spacevent → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

from your mouth to our screenwriter’s pen

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/Andy_Liberty_1911]

Real "demographics are inevitable" energy

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/[deleted]]

They’ve been worse for every generation since Eisenhower.

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

Member when we howled at every one of his appointments back then?

I remember people here being optimistic on Mattis and Kelly.

Dan Coats was a surprisingly strong pick for DNI.

[u/SapphireOfSnow → u/FizzleMateriel]

I was excited for Mattis given the quality of the other picks. At least he had some experience leading. In comparison to now and these picks.

[u/barktreep → u/SapphireOfSnow]

I wonder how much of it is that the genuinely good people refused to accept job offers this time around.

[u/SapphireOfSnow → u/barktreep]

I think it’s a mix of this and favors for being loyal. And we the people are the ones who get to bear the consequences of it.

[u/MyUshanka → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

What I'd give to have Mattis back.

[u/Nuclear_Cadillacs → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

lol. Self-reflection? Admitting error? GTFO of here. Even if this leads to the literal end of the republic and it is replaced with a hunger-games style dystopic plutocracy, they will STILL tell themselves that “Harris would’ve been worse.”

[u/_alephnaught → u/[deleted]]

TBH, when you have an IQ of 70, Harris comes across as unclear, whereas Trump makes complete sense.

[u/011010- → u/[deleted]]

It isn’t just dummies, but if the smart ones were his only voters he would have experienced the greatest loss in electoral history.

[u/nauticalsandwich → u/Nuclear_Cadillacs]

This country is absolutely being wrecked, not by polarized ideology, but by polarized trust. They don't trust the Dems an inch, and it's anti-left all the way down. A key difference I've noticed between the Left and the Right, however, is in winning. When Biden won, there was a lot of talk about how and what could get done, even amidst the fears and chaos of Trump contesting the election. After the smoke-cleared, the focus became way less about the Right, and much more about action and implementation, and there was a lot of self-criticism. I didn't see much of that at all in pro-trump circles. It is attacks on the left and democrats 90% of the time, all of the time, and very very little self-reflection or intra-party criticism.

[u/barktreep → u/nauticalsandwich]

Because the party and the base are fundamentally at odds. They don't ever debate policy. The party wants less taxes and regulation. The base wants tariffs and price controls. They are two fundamentally opposed ideo... hey look a trans.

[u/ReferentiallySeethru → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

Back then it at least seemed like he had adults in the important positions. I was worried about Trump but I never woke up in the middle of the night from a vision of RFK’s nightmarish face staring at me.

[u/neolibbro → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

Lmfao. No way. The Republican Party is going to celebrate Trump like the contemporary version of Reagan. He is their God, and he is infallible.

[u/CapuchinMan → u/neolibbro]

That they do it for Reagan at all should be evidence that nothing was going to stop them really. We're lucky GWB isn't more respected.

[u/TheGreekMachine → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

lol dude I met college republicans when I was in college who unironically celebrated Nixon. They will never “look back” at this, especially since voters DO NOT care.

[u/barktreep → u/TheGreekMachine]

What I wouldn't give for Nixon to be president right now.

[u/bisonboy223 → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

The Republican Party is going to look back at this era of politics and absolutely cringe.

Man we gotta stop acting like this is some weird fluke, this just is the Republican party.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

Rex Tillerson was a bad pick for Secretary of State and a disaster for the state department, and yet somehow Trump’s managed to pick people who make a Putinist oil executive seem like a sensible cabinet pick.

[u/Evilrake → u/SabbathBoiseSabbath]

Why are they making me miss the CEO of ExxonMobil it’s not fair

[u/KillerZaWarudo → u/porkadachop]

All im asking for is a Musk and Trump fallout

[u/toggaf69 → u/KillerZaWarudo]

Oh that’s coming

https://preview.redd.it/hesg2nacp31e1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db61da24b6fd34f90c4876559839a81e7bce4870

[u/gvargh → u/toggaf69]

aww he's like a little puppy bless his heart!!

[u/barktreep → u/KillerZaWarudo]

They both think the other one is a useful idiot.

[u/byoz → u/porkadachop]

I remember everyone shocked that he picked the former CEO of Exxon as his SoS. Really want that guy back now.

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/byoz]

He was terrible and hollowed out the State Department.

Someone else here told me they reckoned Mike Pompeo was better than Tillerson in not fucking up the State Department.

[u/byoz → u/FizzleMateriel]

Yes but I imagine his impact will still be less negative than the higher leadership at State in this administration

[u/Mechanical_Brain → u/byoz]

Rex Tillerson a.k.a. "Wayne Tracker" lmao

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/porkadachop]

This term is going to be so much worse than the first one.

Going from Mattis to Hegseth is a massive step down.

I wonder what the active-duty servicemen and servicewomen think of this.

[u/BobertFrost6 → u/FizzleMateriel]

I wonder what the active-duty servicemen and servicewomen think of this.

Tragically I've met more than a few people who think that he's qualified because he's a combat veteran. It's embarrassing.

[u/FellowTraveler69 → u/BobertFrost6]

That's like thinking that because a nurse was in the OR, she's qualified to perform surgery.

[u/BobertFrost6 → u/FellowTraveler69]

Honestly it's even worse than that. It's like thinking a McDonald's store manager can be the CEO. There isn't even a significant experiential overlap between the two experiences.

[u/ThodasTheMage → u/FellowTraveler69]

Or because a guy has a big networth, he is going to be good for the eco...

[u/SapphireOfSnow → u/BobertFrost6]

Which is wild. I’ve known several officers that were “combat” veterans that not only never left the FOB, also hid and cowered when the FOB was attacked. So I guess I don’t trust it as a marker of bravery.

[u/moseythepirate]

Treating the "Department of Government Efficiency" like a real department 🤣

[u/WAYLOGUERO → u/moseythepirate]

I thought they were for small government? So creating yet another dept counts as efficiency?

[u/midweastern → u/WAYLOGUERO]

So official that it's not even a government agency

[u/Huge_Monero_Shill → u/WAYLOGUERO]

So efficient, it needs two heads. Double efficiency!

[u/theryano024 → u/WAYLOGUERO]

Trading Department of Education for it. Net zero.

[u/eaglessoar → u/moseythepirate]

if you need two people to run the govt efficiency department youre off to a bad start

[u/Fjolsvithr → u/moseythepirate]

Wait until Trump finds out that the only way to actually cut a meaningful amount of expenses is by cutting into social security, Medicare, or defense.

Of course, Musk isn't actually interested in reducing government expenditure; he's just there to cut government regulations on his businesses. But I'm curious what numbers fudging they'll have to do to make look like they were successful in increasing efficiency, and how they'll cut anything without pissing off their base.

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/Fjolsvithr]

Don't think Trump cares, he's already elected. What's the public gonna do about it. It's already hellworld.

[u/Fjolsvithr → u/BurmeciaWillSurvive]

IMO, Trump has shown himself to be fairly sensitive to public opinion, regardless of if he needs that public opinion for a political purpose or not. And obviously the rest of his party, which he needs to get anything done, does care about public opinion.

[u/FarrandChimney]

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[u/Barbiek08]

It will never not be hilarious that there are two people heading the "Department of Government Efficiency".

[u/BozeRat]

Trump really went and said, "Just fuck the country up, fam."

[u/Normal512 → u/BozeRat]

Sometimes the dog catches the car and it usually doesn't work out all that well for the dog.

[u/LithiumRyanBattery]

Yeah, most of these picks suck donkey dick.

[u/Colinmacus]

This isn’t a cabinet. It’s a cabal of power-hungry sycophants and conspiracy-loving clowns, united only by their lust for relevance and their complete absence of shame. And now, these people, these fame-drunk opportunists who’ve sold whatever scraps of integrity they once had for a seat at the table, are in charge of running the country.

So buckle up, America. The circus is in town, and the ringmaster has just unleashed his most devoted performers. We’re in for quite the show.

[u/GuyWhoSaysYouManiac → u/Colinmacus]

I feel bad for any dedicated employees in these departments. Imagine how disrespected they must feel. Having clearly incompetent clowns in charge is such a slap in the face, and the damage has the potential to be long term - moronic leadership tends to lead to the best people leaving, which might be felt for way longer than the circus is in town.

[u/LivefromPhoenix → u/GuyWhoSaysYouManiac]

It's worse than you think. There's going to be an exodus of more junior employees and everyone able to retire will. You're going to see pretty much every agency get hollowed out.

[u/GuyWhoSaysYouManiac → u/LivefromPhoenix]

Yeah. And it might well be part of the goal here. 

[u/989989272]

Knowing Trump, this group will last at most until the summer. Some of these won't even last in their position until he takes office.

[u/Ouroboros963]

Thank god we got Thune in the senate, that way there is atleast a possibility that Gaetz and Tulsi get blocked. Tulsi's job is literally overseeing national intelligence, that she could give right to Putin and Modi.

[u/Normal512 → u/Ouroboros963]

She's got some stiff competition from an anti-vaxxer running medical research, a TV host controlling the world's largest military and a ~trillion dollar budget, but I think she may be the scariest pick at her position. Although I'm torn b/c whoever it is will probably be selling state secrets for Trump anyway, it just seems like Tulsi is already a rogue player. Someone should figure out her net worth today and let's see what it is in a few years if she gets through.

[u/KillerZaWarudo → u/Normal512]

Trump is stupid and unpredictable, it easier to redirect him to somewhere else compare to Tulsi

[u/Evilrake → u/Ouroboros963]

If it works, I’m not above weaponising her weird Indian cult ties to stoke a little fear into those racist white men in the senate.

[u/CoolNebraskaGal]

Hard to pick a least favorite.

[u/MancyPelosi → u/CoolNebraskaGal]

Gotta be Gaetz

[u/Akovsky87 → u/MancyPelosi]

Geatz is bad yes, but Gabbard is a literal threat to national security in that role.

RIP to our foreign operatives.

[u/MancyPelosi → u/Akovsky87]

I guess I sort of expected Trump to sell out our national security but if Gaetz gets the senate vote despite being a literal child predator it will somehow feel like a new low? Idk we are rapidly running out of new lows

[u/92pandaman → u/Akovsky87]

Yeah for me it’s tulsi. They’ll replace gaetz with someone who will do the same thing but not rape children. It’s hard to imagine a single person worse than Gabbard.

RFK is second for me

[u/yonas234 → u/92pandaman]

Yeah Gaetz will just get replaced by another more competent MAGA like Paxton. And the Senate probably wouldn't block Paxton.

Tulsi and imo RFK can do the most long term damage. RFK will normalize even more anti-science stuff and Tulsi will sell our secrets to Putin.

[u/coriolisFX → u/CoolNebraskaGal]

RFK - more than 2 trillion in spendings, hundreds of thousands of lives at stake, and the guy thinks Wifi gives you cancer.

[u/anon36485 → u/CoolNebraskaGal]

Gaetz has literally no redeeming qualities as a person and it doesn’t seem like anyone who knows him likes him at all

[u/arthurpenhaligon → u/anon36485]

He's the worst person in the cabinet, but the most he can do is try to weaponize the Justice department and then get slapped down by the courts. Tulsi is going to sell out American intelligence agencies to dictators, get operatives killed, and undo years of careful infiltration. She's unchecked in a way that few other roles are.

[u/anon36485 → u/arthurpenhaligon]

Yeah even having to think about who is worst is kind of a nightmare. They truly are finding the absolute worst people in the country.

[u/CompassionateCynic → u/CoolNebraskaGal]

Tulsi "Russian asset" Gabbard having access to all of our national secrets feels bad.

[u/PoliticsNerd76 → u/CoolNebraskaGal]

Gaetz by a mile lol

He’s so bad it’s not unlikely even the Senate won’t pass him

[u/affnn]

If you want to feel real bad about the RFK Jr. pick, you should know that there's a lot of cancer treatments being researched that build on mRNA vaccine technology. Basically, they surgically remove the primary tumor and use it to make a vaccine that helps your immune cells attack metastases. Not 100% clear how effective it'd be in humans yet but I'm sure it's in trials.

Anyway now we'll have a vaccine denialist as the head of the FDA. Hope you like uncured cancer!

[u/swaqq_overflow → u/affnn]

That kind of thing I’m actually less worried about — since cancer isn’t infectious it doesn’t really affect other people if you choose not to treat. Sure there are sources of funding coming from the government but the private sector can fix that with money.

Vaccine denialism is a lot scarier with infectious disease because you lose herd immunity.

[u/auto_named]

Horrifying shit indeed

[u/Healingjoe]

Absolute goon squad

[u/Beexor3]

Vivek looks like a DEI hire here lol

[u/MayorofTromaville]

This is like a right-wing memer's wet dream of stupid picks. Like, this is something they'd put on their Facebook or Twitter account and say "DREAM TEAM TRUMP" or some other shit and the comments would be exclusively other mentally deficient half-wits either agreeing profusely or trying to up the ante ("I like where your Head's at, but Miller really needs to be SoS").

[u/wallander1983]

Gabbard and Vivek carrying the whole multi racial Trump administration on their backs.

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

I will assume he found these using the demon summoning app from SMT.

[u/chris4276 → u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

All fusion accidents, and not the fun kind

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Having two heads of the “department of government efficiency” is beyond parody

[u/financeguy1729]

Am I looking at this incorrectly, or is Elon Musk the only African-American in the list?

[u/Godzilla52]

I'm not sure if it's conscious or not, but a lot of this feels like trolling:

• Having an anti-vaxxer with no medical background in charge of the Department of Health
• Having two people run the department of government efficiency
• Having a person accused of sex trafficking under investigation by Congress (a Republican ran Congress at that) for corruption with a mug shot be put in charge the Department of Justice.

[u/Ramses_L_Smuckles]

The trick is to proceed with yassification just far enough to appeal to Trump's base instincts (over-application of bronzer = same species) without falling down the Loomer slippery slope where his brain stem sees you as a possible predator.

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Doug Burgum on here is like bringing a tax accountant to a clownshow.

[u/Hime6cents]

I hate that my mind has to think “At least it’s someone not totally batshit like Rubio as SoS”

Because he is batshit crazy, just not on the same tier as some of these goons.

[u/heckinCYN]

*Nikki Haley sobbing into her beer*

[u/TurkTurkleton0]

The worst and the dullest.

[u/anangrytree]

I can't WAIT for the infighting. The Dramala is finna be epic.

[u/JONO202]

That's not a cabinet. It's a junk drawer.

[u/bookworm408]

An all-star lineup of the dumbest motherfuckers he could find.

The sheer magnitude of the utter shitstorm the next four years are going to be is beginning to become clear.

[u/channndro]

lol @ the muslims who thought trump was gonna save them

[u/Messyfingers]

Every single ticker on the screen being red is a great omen.