Trump Begins Compiling Administration As MAGA Loyalists Line Up For Jobs

November 7, 2024
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - NOVEMBER 6: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump comes out to address the crowd after being declared the winner during an election night party at the Palm Beach County Convention Cente... WEST PALM BEACH, FL - NOVEMBER 6: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump comes out to address the crowd after being declared the winner during an election night party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida on November 6, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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November 7, 2024

The presidential election was called fairly quickly this year, launching President-elect Donald Trump’s team into transition mode within hours of the polls closing.

Staffers are reportedly trying to iron out the people and policies that will shape Trump’s second White House term. That includes quickly starting the process to vet candidates for posts in his Cabinet and broader administration.

We know some names that Trump touted on the campaign trail: RFK Jr., among them, who was suggested as the possible head of a range of agencies dealing with food, chemicals and medicine.

Follow along today’s updates here:

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The presidential election was called fairly quickly this year, launching President-elect Donald Trump’s team into transition mode within hours of the polls closing.

Staffers are reportedly trying to iron out the people and policies that will shape Trump’s second White House term. That includes quickly starting the process to vet candidates for posts in his Cabinet and broader administration.

We know some names that Trump touted on the campaign trail: RFK Jr., among them, who was suggested as the possible head of a range of agencies dealing with food, chemicals and medicine.

Follow along today’s updates here:

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  1. Avatar for brucea brucea says:

    Cat pic for everyone’s blood pressure. Our son’s cat, Meowaslot, tries out a new seat cushion. (Black cats shed on light colored furniture; white cats on dark. It’s a law, apparently.)

  2. Here we go again. The GOP will take a wrecking ball to everything, and maybe a future Dem administration can rebuild.

    In 2017 Trump inherited the Obama economy, which took many years to create after George W. Bush cratered it. Trump left office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover.

    President Biden had to contend with Republican sabotage, but he somehow got us out of the pandemic. Our death rate was higher than the rest of the world but the upside was the economy came back faster.

    Now the wrecking crew is set to return.

  3. Avatar for dont dont says:

    Biden should provide the trump transition the same courtesy trump provided them four years ago.

  4. Biden made the required speech today. I assume he is expecting the the incoming administration will try to indict him on X (maybe border stuff?), so no f’s let, eh.

    I would really like to see him go out with a bang.

    Speeches from the Rose Garden about anti-fascism
    Send those WW2 info sheets on fascism to every house in America
    Give every new baby a savings bond with details on how it will be worthless if the GOP defauts on the debt
    Make Harris the 47th President on January 7th with Brown-Jackson swearing her in.

    Do not go quietly in to the night, Joe! 9and Kamala)

  5. Of course, there was structural stuff afoot too: global despising of incumbents, persistent grouchiness about certain parts of the economy.

    Also agree the media environment the billionaires have built will be hard to compete with and clearly we must although it may not be possible to do so quickly

    And I would dearly like to know why more than 10MM Biden voters did not show up for Harris; judging by the downballot races, many of them didn’t show up for anyone.

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