Donald Trump Jr emerges as key voice influencing father's cabinet picks - report

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump Jr has emerged as the family’s most influential adviser of the moment as his father builds the most controversial cabinet in modern US history, sources close to Donald Trump’s eldest son say.

Trump Jr has in some cases promoted inexperienced loyalists over more qualified candidates for top positions in president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

During Trump’s first administration, as the 45th president, his elder daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, were top level political advisers, while his sons Don Jr and Eric were assigned mainly to run the family business.

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“The reality this time is we actually know what we’re doing,” Don Jr told Fox News earlier this month. “And it’s about surrounding my father with people who are both competent and loyal.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/donald-trump-son-influence-cabinet-choices

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Apparently Junior gave us RFK Jr. and Tulsi.

I wonder who's pulling Junior's strings.

[Turbineguy]

1. Kakistocracy

[poli-junkie]

2. Great. Donnie Coke Head's picking only the best.

[Biophilic]

3. Well, we certainly have the best and brightest looking after the country's and our welfare.

I’ve been saying this for months (years?) and every week they surprise me with even better choices. And if you can’t see the sarcasm I give up. This is just so, well it’s past disappointing or even appalling. It may just be that I’m going to give up trying to think about all of this sanely.

[Irish_Dem]

6. It is getting harder and harder to take, and the wrecking ball is just starting.

[Biophilic]

7. Yup and I need to devise new strategies for dealing with it.

[Irish_Dem]

8. I agree, it is having a big negative impact on us.

We need to find coping strategies.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Low IQ, sociopath, drug addict.

He is the perfect person to be making choices for Trump.

[FakeNoose]

5. Jr. is the one who talks to Musk, and Musk talks to Pootie

See how that works?

[peregrinus]

9. Would be wonderful if Don Jr ODed live on camera

First a little nose bleed as he blathered about opening National Parks up to hunting. Then watery eyes and foam in the mouth. Then convulsions. Then he just keels over.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. The son Trump calls, "Slow."

I call him, “Self-medicated.”

[Joinfortmill]

11. This guy is a hot mess...

From what I read about him years ago, he was slapped around by his felonious father in front of his college friends. He tried to escape his father and was making an attempt at being a regular person, when his father pulled him back. Now, he's the worst of the bunch. A tale of how abuse and identification with an abuser can ruin a person.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. "I wonder who's pulling Junior's strings."

[mpcamb]

13. Jr is room temp IQ at best.

[AZ8theist]

14. A coke-addled IDIOT telling a MORON what to do.....What could go wrong??

[City Lights]

15. A cokehead as a trusted advisor.

That's swell.