Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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Trump names Kari Lake as choice for VOA director​

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Trump names Kari Lake as choice for VOA director

The politician and former journalist will need approval from a bipartisan board
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Kari Lake says she has no intention of turning Voice of America into "Trump TV"

Kari Lake said it's not her intention to turn the government-funded news outlet Voice of America into "MAGA TV," but that she wants to see a return of politically neutral journalism.

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Kari Lake says she has no intention of turning Voice of America into "Trump TV"

Kari Lake, a former broadcast journalist who unsuccessfully ran for governor and for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, is President-elect Donald Trump's selection to lead Voice of America.
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ZenMode said:
Is there a downside to that for the US?
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It would undermine a key world leadership and influence position, for a start. When Trump tried to do this at the end of his first term:


Biden reversed the decision before it could take effect:

Biden administration renewed support for World Health Organization is 'good news for America and the world,' scientists say

Health experts say reversing the Trump administration withdrawal from the international body is good news for WHO, America and the world.
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BlooVooDoo said:
From a US health perspective, probably not, but we would be losing a lot of influence on global health policy and creating an opportunity for China to step in and wield, further replacing the US as the benevolent actor in developing areas.
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Okay. The first part of your response was very much along the lines of what I was thinking. It wouldn't hurt the US much if at all.

I agree about the second aspect and would probably say that it's a bad idea for us to pull out.
 
ZenMode said:
Undermine because, without the most powerful country in the world on board, they lose legitimacy?
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No, because they would still exist and there would be a vacuum filled by other countries with different agendas than our own. It is cynical, but the U.S. involvement in most international agencies tends to always have a significant upside for projection of U.S. power generally and almost always for U.S. economic interests abroad.
 

Trump picks billionaire financier for deputy defense secretary​

The choice of Stephen Feinberg of Cerberus Capital Management comes as Pete Hegseth continues to face questions in the confirmation process for the top Pentagon post.


“… Feinberg is the co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which has invested in hypersonic missiles and previously owned the private military contractor DynCorp, a company that was acquired by another defense firm, Amentum, in 2020.

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During the first Trump administration, Feinberg led the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which provides the U.S. leader advice on intelligence assessments and estimates and counterintelligence matters. In his announcement Sunday night on Truth Social, Trump said Feinberg is “an extremely successful businessman” who will “help Make the Pentagon Great Again.”

Feinberg, who has been a reclusive Wall Street executive, is likely to be questioned about whether there is any conflict arising from his work in defense contracting matters and whether he is qualified to play such a major role in helping run the Pentagon.

The deputy defense secretary typically manages day-to-day operations of the massive bureaucracy with a combined workforce of more than 3 million service members and civilian employees.

The search for a capable No. 2 took on heightened significance as lawmakers weigh the pick of Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to be defense secretary. …”
 
nycfan said:

Trump picks billionaire financier for deputy defense secretary​

The choice of Stephen Feinberg of Cerberus Capital Management comes as Pete Hegseth continues to face questions in the confirmation process for the top Pentagon post.


“… Feinberg is the co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which has invested in hypersonic missiles and previously owned the private military contractor DynCorp, a company that was acquired by another defense firm, Amentum, in 2020.

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During the first Trump administration, Feinberg led the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which provides the U.S. leader advice on intelligence assessments and estimates and counterintelligence matters. In his announcement Sunday night on Truth Social, Trump said Feinberg is “an extremely successful businessman” who will “help Make the Pentagon Great Again.”

Feinberg, who has been a reclusive Wall Street executive, is likely to be questioned about whether there is any conflict arising from his work in defense contracting matters and whether he is qualified to play such a major role in helping run the Pentagon.

The deputy defense secretary typically manages day-to-day operations of the massive bureaucracy with a combined workforce of more than 3 million service members and civilian employees.

The search for a capable No. 2 took on heightened significance as lawmakers weigh the pick of Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to be defense secretary. …”
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Not sure if there is a new angle here, but I think this selection was announced a couple weeks ago.
 
nycfan said:
politicalwire.com

Trump to Bring Back Mount McKinley

President-elect Donald Trump announced he will bring back Mount McKinley after the mountain was changed in favor of the native population. Said Trump: “We're going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley. He deserves
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This is definitely what all his economically anxious voters have been waiting for.
 
nycfan said:
politicalwire.com

Trump to Bring Back Mount McKinley

President-elect Donald Trump announced he will bring back Mount McKinley after the mountain was changed in favor of the native population. Said Trump: “We're going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley. He deserves
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I expect that we'll see a lot of this kind of culture war shit that plays to his base over the next four years. Probably a lot of mountains, geographic places, military bases, etc. that have gotten new (or, often, their original) names back over the past decade will have that reversed by Trump in the most public manner possible. For example, I would expect that Fort Liberty will almost certainly be returned to Fort Bragg (a Confederate and one of the worst generals on either side in the Civil War), while Clingman's Dome, the highest point in the Great Smokies, which recently was given its Cherokee name of Kuwohi, will likely revert to being Clingman's Dome under Trump.

It will no doubt please his base to see white names being restored in place of Native American or other new names. When Trumpers talk about "wokeism" this is one of the main things they're talking about - how dare they take down statues of Confederate "heroes" or change the names from white folks to all these weird foreign names I don't understand! So reverting the names will be an easy culture war "win" for Trumpers while allowing them to crow that they are striking a death blow to woke culture and making liberals upset. They live for this stuff.
 
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Recall and Court Martial Milley is one of his apparent goals … also plenty of posts about prosecuting Liz Cheney.
 
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