President Trump's Cabinet

[Idris2002]

I'm also thinking that the first big scandal to hit the Trumphouse will be a sex scandal.

And given what we know about him, it won't be a jolly Carry On Up the Profumo Affair thing either. It will be a lot darker. They'll probably have to rename the president's digs "Saville Towers".

 

[teqniq]

Donald Trump transition team descends into chaos

 

[CrabbedOne]

trump is a genius. he has his eyes on the sale of the television rights to the white house and plans a show which will blow the west wing out of the water.

Yes, it'd be like a very dark version of Veep permanently on DEFCON Fucked.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, it'd be like a very dark version of Veep permanently on DEFCON Fucked.

yeh but think of the viewing figures, the advertising revenue, the book and movie tie-ins, the merchandise, the global licensing rights: this could be huge

 

[CrabbedOne]

 

[Idris2002]

trump is a genius. he has his eyes on the sale of the television rights to the white house and plans a show which will blow the west wing out of the water.

West Wing? Beast wing, more like.

 

[bluescreen]

Waste Wing. Nucular.

 

[CrabbedOne]

yeh but think of the viewing figures, the advertising revenue, the book and movie tie-ins, the merchandise, the global licensing rights: this could be huge

Yuge as Trump would say.

Actually some carefully staged reality TV action in the Whitehouse might very well be a Trump tactic. Obama had the cameras in more than once. No stranger than the President Twittering insults.

 

[teqniq]

Donald Trump planning to make Muslims immigrants sign a register

Donald Trump’s policy advisors are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect's transition team has revealed.

Kris Kobach, the secretary of state for Kansas, said the President-elect’s advisors were looking at how to implement a proposal suggested by the billionaire businessman that would force immigrants from Muslim countries to register on a database.

Mr Kobach, who helped devise tough immigration laws in a number of US states and claims to have participated in regular conference calls with Mr Trump’s immigration advisers, also said the Trump administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a US-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval....

 

[Reno]

West Wing? Beast wing, more like.

Worst Wing

 

[CrabbedOne]

Bashar is actually quite perceptive here. A US Presidency is always a beast with many heads.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bashar is actually quite perceptive here. A US Presidency is always a beast with many heads.

you don't get to be an opthalmologist without some degree of perception

 

[CrabbedOne]

Ben Carson in moment of sanity shock!

 

[teqniq]

I suppose this could go on a number of threads, seen outside a bookshop:

 

[teqniq]

There seems to be a whiff of petulance in the air

Trump faces growing tension with key Republicans over national security issues

...A former U.S. official with ties to the Trump team described the ousters of Rogers and others as a “bloodletting of anybody that associated in any way on the transition with Christie,” and said that the departures were engineered by two Trump loyalists who have taken control of who will get national security posts in the administration: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Rogers had no prior significant ties to Christie but had been recruited to join the Trump team as an adviser by the New Jersey governor. At least three other Christie associates were also pushed aside, former officials said, apparently in retaliation for Christie’s role as a U.S. prosecutor in sending Kushner’s father to prison....

 

[bimble]

Transcript here of a wide ranging stream of consciousness / talk by Bannon back in 2014. Not reassuring reading.

"On the social conservative side, we’re the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we’re winning victory after victory after victory. Things are turning around as people have a voice and have a platform of which they can use."

"Look, we believe — strongly — that there is a global tea party movement. We’ve seen that. We were the first group to get in and start reporting on things like UKIP and Front National and other center right. With all the baggage that those groups bring — and trust me, a lot of them bring a lot of baggage, both ethnically and racially — but we think that will all be worked through with time..
The central thing that binds that all together is a center-right populist movement of really the middle class, the working men and women in the world who are just tired of being dictated to by what we call the party of Davos. A group of kind of — we’re not conspiracy-theory guys, but there’s certainly — and I could see this when I worked at Goldman Sachs — there are people in New York that feel closer to people in London and in Berlin than they do to people in Kansas and in Colorado, and they have more of this elite mentality that they’re going to dictate to everybody how the world’s going to be run.."

This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World

 

[DaveCinzano]

fact-checking

What are you, some kind of card-carrying communist?

 

[teqniq]

 

[CrabbedOne]

Another likely purge; that'll probably take out anybody who speaks Arabic or has ever muttered "inshallah" in a meeting.

 

[CrabbedOne]

Pam Geller in pinstripes.

 

[Idris2002]

This won't have an insanely destructive effect on US power at all.

 

[Supine]

Worst. Reality Show. Ever.

Getting good ratings though

 

[CrabbedOne]

Interesting divide.

Bannon's right, the smell of innovation in Silicon Valley is curry a lot of it halal. It's not just the CEO's the real brains all the way down to testers are often Asian. But then Jews were at the forefront of intellectual life in Germany before it went all Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. Tough call for a Master Race minded fella: Aspiration V Aryan Nation. On the other hand Trump's America is still mostly about letting no scruple get in the way of making a buck.

 

[bimble]

Maybe they'll compromise and introduce quotas, for how many not properly American types can go to university, or be CEOs.

 

[CrabbedOne]

 

[Raheem]

I have an image Putin in his office occasionally sending an email to Trump with a name and a job title, then sitting back in his chair and congratulating himself that this one was even better than the last one.

 

[bimble]

 

[little_legs]

I'm wondering now how much of his vaunted CV would survive a good hard fact-checking?

BBC is on it: 19/11/2016, Profile - BBC Radio 4

 

[CRI]

 

[CRI]

He thinks it's a game show. We're all totally fucked you know.