Trump wants Romney for State because "he looks the part?"

[question everything]

Thus said Susan Page (I like her) earlier this morning.

This is also why he selected all those military people; he likes his people to look as.... winners in his biggest losers show? (or whatever the name is).

[madaboutharry]

1. The shallowest man in America.

Someone should tell Trump he doesn't look like a president.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. I've heard this before

I think it's why Romney came to grovel before the king.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Whatever his reasons, Romney is probably the best choice he could make of the people he has

interviewed for the position so far. At least Romney wouldn't be an embarrassment and he might be able to moderate DT on some of his policies.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Does anybody remember Nixon's "palace guards"?

Back in 1970 Nixon thought the White House police looked "slovenly," and had new uniforms designed for them. They were instantly ridiculed. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump came up with something like that, only with way more gold, and hats with big plumes.

The public reaction to the new uniforms was not good. Here’s how Richard Reeves describes it in President Nixon, Alone in the White House:

A couple of days after the State of the Union address, Democrats and the press finally got a chance to mock Nixon. The occasion was a state visit by Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Great Britain — and the official unveiling of new White House police uniforms, inspired by the honor guards Nixon had seen in Europe. The cops were wearing double-breasted white tunics with starred epaulets, gold piping, draped braid, and high black plastic hats decorated with a large White House crest. “They look like old-time movie ushers,” said the Buffalo News. “The Student Prince” said the Chicago Daily News. In the Chicago Tribune, a Nixon friend, columnist Walter Trohan, was more serious, saying the uniforms belonged onstage, calling them “frank borrowing from decadent European monarchies, which is abhorrent to this country’s democratic tradition.”

The uniforms didn’t last long. The black hats were the first to go, and by the mid-1970s, the whole uniform had been abandoned. In 1980, the barely-used uniforms were repurposed as…yes, you guessed it, the uniforms for the Southern Utah State marching band. Apparently, the college beat out rock singer Alice Cooper, who had wanted five of the tunics for his band. The marching band paid the General Services Administration $90 for shipping, plus a charge for cleaning and pressing.

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2013/08/19/richard-nixons-palace-guard/

[LuckyLib]

5. Banana Republic government written all over them.