President-elect Donald Trump is quickly filling his cabinet, and it’s a mix of Washington insiders and political outsiders supporters are comparing to President Abraham Lincoln’s famous “team of rivals”
And Trump’s pick for Transportation Secretary has rivals furious — because it’s a minority woman, blowing away critics’ feeble attempts to paint his choices as somehow racist.
Trump announced Tuesday that Elaine Chao was his choice for the Cabinet post. “Secretary Chao’s extensive record of strong leadership and her expertise are invaluable assets in our mission to rebuild our infrastructure in a fiscally responsible manner,” Trump said in a statement released by his campaign.
Chao, 63, was labor secretary under President George W. Bush and the first Asian-American woman to serve in a president’s Cabinet. She also is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, which might be of some help if Trump is to fulfill his promise of generating $1 trillion in infrastructure spending.
Her record as secretary of labor suggests she’d have a light hand when it comes to safety regulation as head of the Transportation Department and would seek to shift responsibility from the federal government to states where possible.
Trump also nominated Steven Mnuchin to be the nation’s 77th treasury secretary. He has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump’s inner circle: head of Trump’s campaign finance operation.
Mnuchin is also a Washington outsider.
As treasury secretary, Mnuchin would be the administration’s chief economic spokesman, serving as a liaison not only to Wall Street but also to global investors, a critical role given the trillions of dollars in treasury bonds owned by foreigners. In addition, it would be his job to sell the new administration’s economic program to Congress.
Mnuchin will also oversee a sprawling bureaucracy that includes the Internal Revenue Service and the agency that issues millions of Social Security and other benefit checks each month. Treasury also runs the agency that wages the financial war on terrorism.
Analysts said Mnuchin’s years of experience on Wall Street and in managing an investment firm gave him real-world skills that likely appealed to Trump, a business executive who has also never served in government.
“Mr. Mnuchin is highly successful, and he’s well-known in financial circles here,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands.
Not only do Trump’s latest picks not fit with Democrat’s liberal ideals, but they don’t fit into these sore-losers’ desperate narrative that Trump’s picks are a bunch of white supremacists.
Senator Harry Reid blasted Trump’s pick as Stephen Bannon as, “a champion of white supremacists.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren argued that instead of draining the swamp, Trump is, “inviting the biggest ugliest swamp monsters in the front door.”
But by ignoring the diversity of Trump’s cabinet picks and accosting them as racists, the Democrats are the ones promoting division at a time when our nation desperately needs unity.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Ms. Chao is also Mrs. Mitch McConnell. Of course that had nothing to do with her appointment in the Bush and now Trump administrations. Right? Trump isn’t going to be perfect, however he is 100% better than Hillary. Yesterday, he helped Carrier workers keep their jobs in Indiana.
Lets hope that Chao does a lot better job than her husband.
Putting all ‘else’ aside–the woman is eminently qualified for the position! She was chosen for her qualifications, as she should be!! This was something I ‘picked out’ of all that Trump was saying while on the ‘campaign trail’ that I liked. We didn’t hear enough of it during the ‘mud slinging’ sessions, unfortunately! Still, he’s shaping up to be the candidate I thought he’d be. Waiting for this whole thing to be ‘finalized’!!
AMEN!!!
Donald Trump is the best this country has ever seen. Have you ever seen anyone who won despite so much adversity, I have a list of 21 major opponents that he had to defeat to win POTUS.
true. it’s like a miracle. David against Goliath. May God bless Trump and our country!
Trump made the deal with carrier before he was even sworn in as president. Strange the president we have did after nearly 8 years has accomplished nothing.
THAT Cuse Barry was too busy playing with those balls!
Sure he did. He got men into womens’ bathrooms!
Th god bless you Trump will do best job just wait and see
Don’t forget her daddies company was tied to trafficking cocaine. Add to that working for a Bush and I say so much for draining the swamp, unless he means to drain it into his cabinet.
It is going to be rough for a while. 16 years of office for dems destroyed America. just because Bush made it in, Nothing was corrected much.
we can only pray for this land God gave us to live in and do the best we can
for the future. Put your seat belt on because the change will be a beginning
ride/ Go Trump!!!!!
Nepotism of a different shade is still nepotism …
Big announcements…maybe……………very good….not really!
Nepotism is ok when they own their own company. When they use the government as their private hiring club then it’s wrong. Massachusetts is notorious for that. Most good state jobs here go to relatives of past or present officials or to those who check off the right affirmative action box.
Yeah, and you can see how ‘successful’ that has been! Lived in Mass most of my life. Taxes and living expenses finally ‘crushed’ our family and we were forced to leave in order to ‘survive’. Best thing that ever happened to us!! Worked 20 years for the USPO there and I know exactly what you’re saying!!
R U KIDDING. HAVE A FAMILY LIVING DER. WANT TO MOVE OUT BUT ALAS, D PENNIES THEY HAD SAVE SINCE D ADVENT OF D MOTHER OF “OBAMA CARE” AIN’T ENOUGH FOR MOVING OUT.
THEY R STACK DER WATCHING THEIR GOVT MAINTAIN A SAFE PLACE FOR CRIMINAL MAGOTS LIKE WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN CA.
M BRY INTERESTED WHAT D TRUMPETMAN WILL DO TO DIS “STATES WITH CRIMINAL MAGOTS RELEASE TO THEIR STREETS”
FOR NOW MY SUGGESTION IS HAVE A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE N JOIN D DRAINING OF D SWAMPS. THAT WAY UR WAIT WILL SHORTER N UR PEACE OF MIND IS ATTAINED.
So far so good. Contrary to the gliblibs’ philosophies, the Donald so far has showed a propensity for deeds speaking louder than words. Just imagine where we would be if Hillarious was calling her shots. The less we hear about her he better. She’s toast but her worst days are yet to come. The most ugly would-bes are headed for oblivion (Elizabeth Warren for example. And her majesty Nancy P. and how ’bout Harry the pugilist?)
And ELIZABETH WARREN remarked about some one being UGLY. I believe she said “the biggest, ugliest swamp monsters” I marveled at her terminology and thought, MY GOODNESS, SHE’S LOOKING IN A MIRROR.
E. W. M sad c did not have d courage 2 tell HRC get d HELL OUT OF D WAY as U WILL NEVER HAVE A CHANCE 2 BEAT D TRUMPET. D FIGHTING CHANCE WE HAVE AS DEMO- RATS IS TO “ALLOW SANDERS FOR D PRESIDENCY WITH ME AS VICE” N REMAIN IN D “STATE DEPT” TO CONTINUE FILLING UP UR FAMILY FOUNDATION.
COMMERCIAL AIRLINES WILL NOT ALLOW U TO FLY DUE TO “EXCESS BAGGAGE”. D AIR PLANE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LIFT D GROUND.
Congratulations to President Elect Trump for surrounding himself with the most qualified people for each position unlike our current “Coward-in-Chief” who only surrounded himself with only yes people and sycophants.
As Will Rogers said long ago “Politicians go in on promises and go out on alibis.” The man who promised to drain the swamp is feeding the neocon alligators and continuing construction of the welfare/warfare surveillance state where personal liberties are crushed & rich banksters get richer. The glass ceiling at the Treasury Dept remains in place; goyim need not apply for the top post, just as at the Fed. Reserve. Mr. Rothschild is grinning like a shit-eating rat.
Come on tex rebel. Sounds like you only know sound bites. But you don’t really have an understanding of anything do you. Who knows. Maybe you are just a paid troll.
To me Trump is doing a phenomenal job and working on all fronts effectively. Even though he continues to fight the globalists and their paid for protests, the MSM that continues to lie at even more hysterical levels. Trump just keeps performing like I have never seen before.
If Trump continues to be successful for the American people, the Commieonazicrats, aka Democrats, may be in a very hard way when the mid term elections come. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving ball of slime.
Tex Rebel, or as he or she chooses — tex rebel — must’ve gotten his name from that time when he/she crapped his/her own pants.
I do hope he/she is wrong about the welfare, et al, state.
wow we will see if the swamp is drained or fed all in good time but change is what we needed and its what we will get yahoooooooooooo get the clintons out off office and behind bars
McConnell is a rino and can not be trusted. He has betrayed the republican party and should be replaced and ousted . He will influence his wife this is a conflict of interest. Perhaps traitor mitch should resign and let his wife serve. Because of her relationship to mitch she end up being a poor choice. But anyone that Trump appoints will be better than what Hildabeast would of done
Just maybe she is stronger than the rhino Mitch
I would like to see the following things happen.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disgrace-americans-many-other-countries-crime-against-john-lozinski?trk=pulse_spock-articles
GOOD INFORMATION John, Sadly , many thousands are riding the free gravy train pulled by the hard working wage earners. We see and hear about these rip off artists and realize that it is only the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully Trump will clear some of the trash.
I am one of the untold numbers who have never applied for, nor received one dime of money I did not work for. This absolutely includes Social Security. I worked for that. It is NOT a Federal Government hand out.
John-
i agree with guntoter. Too bad i’m too poor to hire you…so far. Trump might make it past the swearing-in date, yet! If he does, and his changes get past the satanic, globalist, OWG/NWO obstructionists he’s certain to face, we may still have a chance.
When Trump says “we sent our jobs overseas so that other countries could have a thriving middle class,” he wasn’t whistling Dixie; when he said that foreign nationals live like kings off the money spent on their oil, he’s not lying. He remembers when many-if-not-most Americans lived like kings, and hopefully, wants to see those days return; to restore the years eaten by the locusts, and even exceed that state of being.
But Americans must do their part.
One of my favorite sayings(from James Madison): “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; those who mean to be their OWN governors, therefore, will arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.” ‘Course, it’s up to us to figure out what KIND of knowledge, then APPLY it…knowledge sitting in your brain ain’t a-workin’ for you – or anyone else, either! When you ain’t workin’, you’re broke – in every sense of the word. AND, you become dependent, ergo more “governable” by those who have neither the wit, nor the intelligence, nor the compassion to do so. America was founded on INdependence, and independence brings with it power, strength, and true liberty – part and parcel of which is responsibility. Those who are dependent are irresponsible. They become snowflakes who often get dere widdle feewings hoited, and do their best to join the “sue crew” so they can retire(instead of using what intelligence they have to gain more so they can live free). Who need “cry rooms” and play-dough and coloring books to whine in or whine over.
Tex Rebel, or as he or she chooses — tex rebel — must’ve gotten his/her name from that time when he/she crapped his/her own pants.
I do hope he/she is wrong about the welfare, et al, state.
They already have a monster in the swamp there and her name is Elizabeth Warren . She is a two headed cry baby that can’t get her way. She is almost as needed as bad as hillary. Maybe when they drain the swamp just maybe the lying Liz Warren will go out with the swamp water
The Democrats ceased being a party led by rational people a long time ago. Ms. Chao will do a great job in her position.
The biggest fears for Democrats are: 1.) President Trump will make America great again, 2.) President Trump will bring in a competent team to fill his administration, 3.) President Trump’s track record will reveal that he treats everyone alike, 4.) President Trump will run for reelection during a time of great prosperity and peace, and 5.) President Trump and his team will resolve many of these conflicts around the world.
Amen to that! America and her people deserve respect for we are the greatest country in the world! Thanks to the greatest generation, and our forefathers.
Mnuchin an “outsider”?? You mean the guy that spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs?? Just what planet are you living on?? If he’s an “outsider”, then I’m the messiah.
non insider just the best people avaiable.
I want to make a comment about those liberal sanctuary cities that protect illegal criminals from being deported. I praise President Trump when he stated that he will stop all government aid to those cities. What if these protected criminals commit a crime outside these sanctuary cities, who will take the blame and responsibility?
The sanctuary cities STILL take the blame for protecting them. If I or a member of my family were injured by an illegal alien, I would sue the government of the nearest sanctuary city–or maybe all of them.
President-elect Donald Trump will make history not only for this country but also for the world!
Congrats on the Carrier deal. Make America Great Again!
Very good article. My prayers are with President Elect Trump, as he pulls together a cabinet of talented people who love America. Ms. Warren’s comment about swamp monsters is a matter of perspective and goals. Thank you, Donald Trump for loving freedom and this country. When we are united, we can reach out to others.
I am sick of the word RACIST—damn dems call everyone a racist when they do not get their way they are the racists and they should shut the fuck up –they all need swirlies–pay no attention to people who use racist–it is old and does not spark attention anymore—–everyone is prejudiced in one way or another
Now we need to clean up our schools & universities and get rid of all these Socialist teachers that started to infiltrate our schools in the 60’s.
AMEN! AMEN!! AMEN!!! to that. Our schools are doing the SAME thing to our kids as the Fakestinians are doing to their’s…brainwashing them. They turn out to have the same values and demented thinking processes as the Democrats with whom we just fought so hard a battle. If the states don’t start draining the swamp of these liberal, godless teachers (not all – some are very good, but few of them) our children and this country will eventually be so corrupted and lost it will no longer be recognizable. Hoping President Trump guts or completely renovates the NEA.
I sent my 6 kiddos to trade school and they make more than these college grads. Two of them are small business owners. I think trade schools are the way to go until we replace 90% of the college (heathen) professors.
DRAIN the Swamp, Chao is of the Swamp unless Open to Admin ideas for change,
will DoT undergo reforms under Chao or Stay as IS.
Drain the swamp, no more Insiders & Please
NO Ryan, McCain, Romney for any Positions in Govt unless Low level positions IE Ryan is Cong Ryan
NOT House Speaker.
Chao? She is Chinese. Trump really wants to put someone in charge of our infrastructure who is Chinese? Are you crazy? You know the connections they have in China? Does he know she is connected with XiJinPing? Why am I not surprised after the nation elected a Muslim Islamist Sunni Terrorist President named Bark Hussein Obama . A guy like Bush who covered up 911, and betrayed Israel. Buy their fu-king Oil, so they can fund terrorists against Israel, and instead demonize Iran, who are actually the good Muslims, if you want to compare Sunni vs. Shia Muslims. Trump surely doesn’t know the skinny.
So far, President – Elect Trumps nominations look promising. (No reasonable person expects perfection.)
Haven’t we all made grievous errors in the past? A lesson to all the “trolls.” What goes around comes around. Let he/she who is without sin cast the first stone.