You can gauge the effectiveness of President-Elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments by the amount of pants-wetting that they cause in Washington, DC.
In 2016, it was a slow process for Trump to staff his Cabinet and other key positions. Even Trump himself has admitted that a lot of the recommendations that he got in 2016 totally sucked. That’s not happening this time around.
Before anyone gets upset about any of these appointments, you have to realize that there is a deep strategy behind each and every one of them. Let’s go through the list so far.
John Ratcliffe for CIA Director
Ratcliffe was President Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence. Mitch McConnell blocked Ratcliffe from the DNI position in 2018. That’s a good sign. Ratcliffe then became DNI in 2019. He’s a stable, loyal, and plain sort of guy, which is what makes him a great choice to head the CIA. The agency will be working with Trump for the next four years with Ratcliffe in charge, instead of against him.
Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary
Great choice! The media and Senate Democrats are freaking out and dismissing Hegseth as a “Fox and Friends host.” Hegseth is an Army combat veteran who has seen the Global War on Terror up close and personal. He’s served in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. He earned two Bronze Star awards and a Combat Infantryman Badge. He’ll be a very different flavor of SecDef compared to the Raytheon flack who’s been in the job for the Biden regime.
Hegseths’ job will be to harden up and strengthen the military at home while utilizing military force as a last resort under Trump’s economic and diplomacy initiatives. This scares the crap out of bad guys around the world, by the way.
Tom Homan for Border Czar
Completely based. I can’t think of a single better individual for the job than Homan.
Kristi Noem for Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Noem didn’t jump into the 2024 race to challenge President Trump, as many thought she would. This one is a trickier appointment to unravel. Noem will do fine for the job. However, you have to consider the dynamics in the US Senate to understand this pick.
South Dakota will now have to hold a special election to choose a new governor. Sen. John Thune just became Senate Majority Leader as part of an attempted coup to derail Trump’s second term. However, Thune has been talking for the past two years about running for Governor of South Dakota, because he and his wife want to stay closer to home with their grandkids. This gamble may or may not pay off for Trump, but it makes more sense now, doesn’t it?
Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence
This is the single most important position in the intelligence community. A whole bunch of Deep Staters are going to get fired, especially the hidden ones who put DNI Tulsi on the terrorist watch list so they could spy on her.
Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
A lot of MAGA loyalists are kind of upset about the Marco Rubio nomination. It makes total sense when you look at the big picture, however, and you have to consider in light of Trump’s single best nomination, which is Matt Gaetz for AG.
Rubio is a shoo-in for Secretary of State. He’ll have no problem getting confirmed by the Senate. Matt Gaetz is not a shoo-in for the Attorney General position.
Everyone in DC is freaking out about this nomination. Gaetz resigned his position in the House, effective immediately, when his nomination was formally announced. This allows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his replacement.
Rubio is slated to become the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) if he remains in the Senate. He could do a whole lot of damage to the Trump administration from that position. Appointing him as Secretary of State allows Trump to put Rubio on a short leash and keeps him out of the rat’s nest at SSCI. It will be interesting to see who ends up chairing SSCI with Rubio out of the way. (Rand Paul, anyone?)
Once Rubio is confirmed, he’ll resign his Senate seat. In the event that the Senate just freaks out too much about the Matt Gaetz nomination, guess what? Governor Ron DeSantis can then simply appoint Matt Gaetz to fill Rubio’s Senate seat. Either way, Attorney General Matt Gaetz or United States Senator Matt Gaetz is still going to be around to wreak even more havoc on the Deep State.
