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The New Yorker
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced not only two of his most controversial personnel decisions ever but quite possibly two of the most controversial Cabinet choices ever made. He posted on Truth Social that he would name Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, as director of National Intelligence. And then, minutes later, he announced Matt Gaetz, the Florida congressman currently under investigation by his own Republican colleagues in the House for alleged illegal drug use and sexual misconduct with a minor, as his Attorney General. “Perhaps it was no surprise that Trump, with his demands for ostentatious displays of loyalty and his penchant for obsessive television-watching, has quickly assembled the makings of a second-term Cabinet that might be better suited for a Republican reality-show casting call.” Susan B. Glasser writes. But this is a familiar move from the President-elect’s playbook. “Trump’s Cabinet rollout shows pretty definitively his plan for the new Administration: He does not just want to explode the norms of the capital when he returns to it,” Glasser notes. “He wants to stomp on them—and anyone who might be tempted to stick to the old rules that Trump loves to flout.”
It is possible, of course, that Trump’s most dubious picks will be defeated in the Senate, or that Gaetz never even makes it as far as a formal nomination. But the tawdry theatrics involved in the rollout of Trump’s picks for key national-security posts should not obscure an underlying substance that is no less striking for having been utterly predictable: this time, the former President who promised revenge and retribution, who openly admired Vladimir Putin’s “genius” invasion of Ukraine, and whose advisers dream of dismantling the “deep state,” looks like he really wants to follow through on his pledges of disruption. In a new piece, Glasser writes about how Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun: (https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jDntHJ)
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced not only two of his most controversial personnel decisions ever but quite possibly two of the most controversial Cabinet choices ever made. He posted on Truth Social that he would name Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, as director of National Intelligence. And then, minutes later, he announced Matt Gaetz, the Florida congressman currently under investigation by his own Republican colleagues in the House for alleged illegal drug use and sexual misconduct with a minor, as his Attorney General. “Perhaps it was no surprise that Trump, with his demands for ostentatious displays of loyalty and his penchant for obsessive television-watching, has quickly assembled the makings of a second-term Cabinet that might be better suited for a Republican reality-show casting call.” Susan B. Glasser writes. But this is a familiar move from the President-elect’s playbook. “Trump’s Cabinet rollout shows pretty definitively his plan for the new Administration: He does not just want to explode the norms of the capital when he returns to it,” Glasser notes. “He wants to stomp on them—and anyone who might be tempted to stick to the old rules that Trump loves to flout.”
It is possible, of course, that Trump’s most dubious picks will be defeated in the Senate, or that Gaetz never even makes it as far as a formal nomination. But the tawdry theatrics involved in the rollout of Trump’s picks for key national-security posts should not obscure an underlying substance that is no less striking for having been utterly predictable: this time, the former President who promised revenge and retribution, who openly admired Vladimir Putin’s “genius” invasion of Ukraine, and whose advisers dream of dismantling the “deep state,” looks like he really wants to follow through on his pledges of disruption. In a new piece, Glasser writes about how Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun: (https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jDntHJ)
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