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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up.
Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing Fox News contributor John Bolton as a potential successor.
A leading contender to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is Pete Hegseth, the co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend.
The president named CNBC analyst and former host Larry Kudlow to replace former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn as his chief economic adviser on Wednesday.
Heather Nauert, a former co-host of Fox and Friends, got promoted on Monday from being a spokeswoman for the State Department to acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. She replaced Steve Goldstein, who was fired because he publicly contradicted the White Houses claim that Rex Tillerson knew he was being fired before Trump announced it on Twitter. (Is it any coincidence that Mike Pompeo got elevated from Langley to Foggy Bottom the morning after he aggressively went to bat for Trump on the Sunday shows?)
-- Trumps plot to poach from green rooms is an additional proof point that validates two important themes Ive written about: Trump has debased the value of expertise and supercharged the celebrification of American politics.
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)often on TV.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)as it much of it wasn't already.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)when he fires them? This could be career ending for them. I hope so.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Yeah that will shakes it up more talking a$$holes from Fox.
Zoonart
(11,860 posts)The Ministry of Propaganda.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Trump's base is made up of Fox News viewers. They are used to seeing some of those people Trump is considering presented as experts on Fox News. Every time he appoints someone from there, he builds support from that base.
Both Fox News viewers and Trump supporters are the same people. They're that 30-something percent that is locked into Donald Trump.
Both Trump and his base are idiots. That doesn't seem to matter to Trump, though, probably because he's an idiot.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)Is Bill O'Reilly available? I'm sure he'd fit in somewhere.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)steal.
So dont expect any of his picks to reflect a desire to actually govern.
There is an ENEMY traitor in our WH, if Mueller cant get him out and soon, well...Do we sit back and watch the country be taken over by Putin? You tell me.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is treating this all as one big joke for his amusement and enrichment. He has no loyalty to the country or it's citizens, only his beloved Putin and himself.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,491 posts)So, yeah, most of America is going to sit there and let it happen and they wont even notice until its too late.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)We are sitting here & letting it happen. But I don't know what to do. Everyone who respects rule of law is waiting for rule of law. Those who don't respect it are in charge & taking a wreaking ball to our institutions. Everyday he's in office our republic is in increased peril. I have a hard time seeing a good end to this.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)other half, who are armed to the teeth, do not.
I see a problem coming.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)maybe they should be in charge of the DOT!!!
unblock
(52,208 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I'm constantly surprised at how many people believe a person is highly competent, informed, or correct, merely because they present well on television.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)This. Cant. Be. Happening.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Grrrr
oxbow
(2,034 posts)You see how quickly they all turned on a potus meeting with North Korea. He just wants an administration of sock puppets