Here’s Who Could Be in Trump’s Cabinet as Transition Team, President-Elect Strategize On Appointments; Obama is Helping Trump with Cabinet Picks (yes, sort of)

Here’s who could be in Trump’s cabinet as transition team, president-elect strategize on appointments:

President-elect Donald Trump — fresh off his emphatic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris — is spending Wednesday with his team in Palm Beach strategizing about how to fill out his second administration.

The Trump transition team has been at work for months and is preparing for an internal “unveiling,” campaign adviser Brian Hughes told The Post — though the discussion among aides this week is expected to focus on process rather than particular nominees.

Sources close to the Trump campaign said they expect a series of Republican Senate victories to ease Trump’s return to power — allowing him greater flexibility to go with his gut and pick cabinet secretaries who align with his populist policies.

Most of the transition work is expected to take place at Trump’s compound at Mar-a-Lago, Hughes said — where allies and advisers have long gathered to bend the ear of the president-elect.

In addition to cabinet secretaries, there are about 4,000 presidential nominees in the executive branch who do not require Senate confirmation — with those picks fleshing out the federal bureaucracy and shaping its configuration.

What we know about the second Trump transition

Those overseeing the process include co-chairs Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Linda McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term.

The transition team also includes once and future first sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Trump is expected to make the highest-profile picks himself — and has spoken ruefully about going along with the recommendations of others during his first term, resulting in aides who resisted or defied his orders. —>READ MORE HERE

Obama is helping Trump with cabinet picks:

Donald Trump’s budding bromance with President Obama flowered anew on Wednesday when the president-elect gushed about his once bitter rival on national TV — and said he’s soliciting his advice about potential appointments.

“We have a really good chemistry together. I really like him as a person,” Trump said on NBC’s “Today” show. “I love getting his ideas.”

The billionaire businessman — who lambasted Obama as “a loser” and worse on the campaign trail — said they even talked about possible appointments to Team Trump.

“I take his recommendations very seriously. There are some people I will be appointing and I have appointed that he thought very highly of,” Trump said, without revealing which jobs were involved.

“I have asked him what he would think of this one and that one. We have a very good dialogue.”

Trump said he was taking the high road because America needs to come together.

His remarks were a marked turn from his harsh rhetoric during the hard-fought campaign against Hillary Clinton and, by extension, Obama.

“He has done such a lousy job as president,” Trump bellowed during a speech in South Carolina in February.

“You look at our budgets, you look at our spending, we can’t beat ISIS, Obamacare is terrible. And you look at everything, our borders are like Swiss cheese, this man has done such a bad job, he has set us back so far.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the relationship would make good fodder for an afternoon TV show.

“This would probably make for an interesting episode of Dr. Phil,” he said. “Not that I’m giving them any programming ideas, but they can take that one and run with it.”

Analysts said Trump could have many reasons for playing up the relationship. —>READ MORE HERE

Source