Trump's YOLO Cabinet

Donald Trump goes all in on naming his biggest political boosters
to Cabinet posts, whether they're qualified or not (they're
not!). Trump wants alleged sex offender Matt Gaetz for Attorney
General, vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary, dictator
sympathizer Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence,
Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, and Elon
Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for the newly invented Department of
Government Efficiency. Jon and Dan discuss the odds of Senate
Republicans blocking any of these nominations, why Trump picked
them in the first place, and how Democrats can respond without
defending the status quo. Then, Jon sits down with Senator-elect
Andy Kim of New Jersey to talk about how Democrats can listen and
learn after the election, what Kim thinks of Trump's Cabinet
picks so far, and learning to be comfortable with uncomfortable
politics.


 


For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here.
For a transcript of this episode, please email
transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for
information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.