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Trump’s Bold Cabinet Picks Ignite Political Firestorm
Unconventional choices, fierce debates, and the dawn of a new Trump administration
Following his victory in the 2024 presidential election last week, President-elect Donald Trump is already making waves with his Cabinet and advisor selections. To the surprise of no one, progressive media outlets aren’t taking the developments well at all.
Media outlets en masse are breaking down, vacillating between decrying Trump’s cabinet picks as the End of Democracy As We Know It — as usual — and dismissing the importance of cabinet picks altogether.
“The Trump Cabinet picks who seriously threaten democracy,” thundered Zack Beauchamp for Vox for the benefit of terrified progressives.
“And the ones who don’t,” he added, somewhat more soothingly. “Some of Trump’s picks are normal. Others look a lot like choices made by authoritarians abroad.”
“Right, and it is loyal — not just loyal — people who display fealty, MAGA warriors,” CNN’s Jake Trapper practically hyperventilated this week. “That seems to be the constant theme. They are — they are MAGA warriors, they are in your face. These are not uniting people. These are not uniting picks. These are in your face — in your face to the medical community, to the intelligence community, to the military community. That’s what…