President-Elect Trump’s cabinet appointments have felt like an NFL Draft this week. He sure is throwing curveballs!
The dreaded news came that indeed, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been nominated to be Secretary of State. The same Marco Rubio who said that Russia blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. God help us. I don’t know how that guy gets put in charge of diplomacy on behalf of US ALL. He talks a lot of bullshit on cable news but let’s hope he doesn’t pull that when meets Presidents Xi Xinping or Vladimir Putin.
A true wildcard was the appointment of Florida Representative Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. Gaetz is one of the only congressmen to try to force the U.S. to withdraw from its illegal occupation of Syria and Yemen. He has also been a vocal critic of the weaponization of the Justice Department, which he will now lead. He’s not a predictable politician by any means. President Trump says that Gaetz “will root out corruption at the DOJ, and return the Department to its true mission of fighting Crime.”
The President-Elect also nominated former Congresswoman and Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence. This one is a doozy. Gabbard herself was put on a watchlist for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and the Biden administration’s constant war escalation. Now she will be in charge of the people who put her on surveillance lists. Loving this!
It feels like the Wizard of Oz handing out the token items that each campaign loyalist earned on the trip to Oz. Robert F. Kennedy has yet to see his big prize but we are hoping it is head of the FDA, the Department of Health or the NIH! Do it!
