Trump's Appointments So Far

- Vice President: Indiana Governor Mike Pence
- Chief of Staff: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
- Chief White House Strategist: Steve Bannon
- Attorney General: Senator Jeff Sessions
- Housing and Urban Development Secretary: Dr. Ben Carson
- Health and Human Services Secretary: Congressman Tom Price
- Transportation Secretary: Former Labor Secretary (for George W. Bush) Elaine Chao
- Education Secretary: Betsy DeVos
- CIA Director: Mike Pompeo
- National Security Advisor: Michael Flynn
- U.N. Ambassador: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley
- Secretary of the Treasury: Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin
- White House Counsel: Don McGahn

Pence, Price, Chao, Pompeo, and McGahn (and maybe Sessions), extreme right-wingers all, could be considered mainstream Republican choices, people who could have been appointed by Cruz or Kasich or Rubio or Bush.

Bannon, Carson, and Flynn are weird, off-the-wall wingnut picks.

Priebus, Bannon, Carson, Mnuchin, and DeVos have no government experience whatsoever.

Bannon, Carson, DeVos, and Haley are absolutely inexperienced and unqualified for the positions to which they've been appointed.

Carson is a token African-American (perhaps soon to be joined by Sheriff David Clarke); Haley and Chao add ethnic diversity.

DeVos and Mnuchin are the opposite of "draining the swamp"; it's just adding more alligators.



Screwballs waiting in the wings: Rudy Giuliani (UPDATE: removed his own name from the running for a cabinet position on November 29), Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, John Bolton, Laura Ingraham, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Kris Kobach, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Ann Coulter, and Sheriff David Clarke. They likely all will receive something, being hardcore loyalist Trump supporters; all of them will be disastrous wherever they end up. They're mostly washed up politically, with no hope of ever being elected again; I'm expecting Bobby Jindal to come mooching around any minute. And how about the Duck Dynasty guy? Alex Jones, maybe?