By Michael Woyton
It is difficult to know where to start with the convicted felon’s first few nominations for top posts in his second administration.
One nomination after another seems puzzling, but that was the way it appeared to be during Donald Trump’s first administration. In addition, during the first administration, it seemed the nominees were hell-bent on destroying whatever department they were chosen for.
This time around:
There’s Kristi Noem, the dog-shooting South Dakota governor, who was nominated for Homeland Security secretary.
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There’s Rep. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, who condemned the violence and destruction at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as unacceptable and anti-American before she deleted that statement and began seriously kissing up to the adjudicated rapist. She was nominated for U.N. ambassador.
There’s Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was a rabid critic of Trump during the 2016 Republican presidential primary — he made fun of Trump’s tiny hands — and now was nominated for secretary of state.
There’s former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who opposes a cease-fire deal with Hamas and once said there is no such thing as a Palestinian, was nominated to be the ambassador to Israel.
The thing that ties all these nominations together is a statement Trump made demanding — not as president, because he is not yet president — that he be allowed to install all his nominees by bypassing the Senate confirmation process which is in the Constitution.
Trump knows — or his advisors tell him he knows — that the appointments could be considered iffy, and if there’s a way to go around the rules, he will find a way.
Oh, and Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth, who doesn’t believe women should serve in the military, was nominated to be the secretary of defense, overseeing 3.4 million military members and civilians. And Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was nominated to the attorney general. That, my friends, is no joke.
Bring the clown car around.
Lead art: Screen grab from PBS News via YouTube
EDITOR’S NOTE: Post updated at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 to include Rep. Matt Gaetz’s nomination as attorney general.
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