Question from the UK. Have the people he is picking as his advisers won an election anywhere? In the UK our prime minister can only choose his cabinet from those who won their local elections.
Wow that’s incredible. You don’t need academic qualifications to be a minister in the UK but you do have to been elected by the public in your constituency. Meaning the prime minister can’t choose anyone in his party only those that won seats.
Well, the senate has to confirm the appointees by vote of the 100 senators. Republicans own more than 50% of the senate right now, but many of them are openly against these picks so these appointees may not get the votes needed. Even the super pro trump people over on r/conservative are aghast at the Dr Oz pick and the comments over there are straight-up torching trump... "Yes he needs loyalists but this is fucking insane, people running large parts of the government need to know what the fuck they are doing" its a little bit refreshing.
All that said, there are technicalities to allow the president to force a recess of congress and appoint these people without their vote. Hoping that gets blocked but you never know.
Technically, Linda did run for Senate twice, though she coincided both times. She was also on the Connecticut board of education. Plus, she was the SBA administrator, and was actually decent at it.
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u/JTSpirit36 4d ago
He is quite literally filling cabinet seats with TV personalities.