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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's casting call
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Trump's casting call
by digby
The Washington Post reports that Trump is choosing his cabinet members based on how they "fit the role." And this should not surprise us. Since he is an imbecile and completely ignorant of how government works or what these people will have to do,it's the only criteria he has. He literally has no other way of judging people.
The parade of potential job-seekers passing a bank of media cameras to board the elevators at Trump Tower has the feel of a casting call. It is no coincidence that a disproportionate share of the names most mentioned for jobs at the upper echelon of the Trump administration are familiar faces to obsessive viewers of cable news of whom the president-elect is one.
He likes people who present themselves very well and hes very impressed when somebody has a background of being good on television because he thinks its a very important medium for public policy, said Chris Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media and a longtime friend of Trump. Dont forget, hes a showbiz guy. He was at the pinnacle of showbiz and he thinks about showbiz. He sees this as a business that relates to the public.[...]
As Trump formally announced his vice presidential pick in July, he said that Mike Pences economic record as Indiana governor was the primary reason I wanted Mike, other than he looks very good, other than hes got an incredible family, incredible wife and family.
And in picking retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his nominee for defense, Trump lauded him as the closest thing to General George Patton that we have.
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He likes people who present themselves very well and hes very impressed when somebody has a background of being good on television because he thinks its a very important medium for public policy, said Chris Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media and a longtime friend of Trump. Dont forget, hes a showbiz guy. He was at the pinnacle of showbiz and he thinks about showbiz. He sees this as a business that relates to the public.[...]
As Trump formally announced his vice presidential pick in July, he said that Mike Pences economic record as Indiana governor was the primary reason I wanted Mike, other than he looks very good, other than hes got an incredible family, incredible wife and family.
And in picking retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his nominee for defense, Trump lauded him as the closest thing to General George Patton that we have.
more...
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Trump's casting call (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2016
OP
immoderate
(20,885 posts)1. I think only time will tell. Trump might be on to something.
Pick people because they LOOK the part... hmmm... how did they do it before...?
--imm
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)2. Anything to get rid of Bolton
He doesn't like his 'stache
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. More like a porn casting couch call.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. We will find the real truth by
the end of January. Sure appears the Con Job will the real McCoy as he advertised. Hopeless,Hapless,and Hateful.