Waiting for the Tgiving slow down to announce picks?

[Anonymous]

Who thinks Trump is purposely waiting until Wed. before Tgiving to announce the controversial picks for cabinet positions? He's so into the marketing and branding of things, it would be like him to put out the info when everyone is busy with travel and turkey.

God help us if he takes Palin for anything.

[Anonymous]

Despite what you might think, or fail to remember, Trump’s timeline of announcing cabinet picks is currently similar to past presidents.
Here is a handy-dandy table to show you that he really should be in no real hurry, despite the media coverage.

[Anonymous]

He first has to ask Obama if he could have the honor and select the Turkeys to pardon. Then, he'll hire them.

[Anonymous]

Election Day +1

2008: The day after the election, the Obama-Biden transition project announce their entire team, including three co-chairs, a twelve-member advisory board, and thirteen staffers, largely drawn from long-time congressional and executive branch Democratic staffers and government officials. The team notes that anyone who lobbied on an issue in the past 12 months could not work on it. They begin vetting potential appointees to office.

2016: Trump does not make any official announcement.

[Anonymous]

Election Day +2

2008: Obama meets with his economic advisory team and announces his White House chief of staff would be Rep. Rahm Emmanuel.

2016: Trump goes to Washington, where he meets with Obama in the Oval office to discuss the transition.

[Anonymous]

Election Day +3

2008: Obama holds his first post-election press conference; these were more innocent times, when an unfortunate joke about Nancy Reagan holding seances in the White House required an apology from the president-elect.

2016: Trump has yet to hold a single press conference with reporters since his election. But there’s action today: Scandal-tainted New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is ousted from his job leading the transition, and the duties are handed over to Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Trump also announces his transition advisory board, which includes three of his children and his son-in-law, and an eight-person staff.
(Pence reportedly wanted to clean up the team, which was largely populated with lobbyists. Yesterday, Nov. 16, one lobbyist told Quartz he was still part of the transition process; the transition has not yet announced who is leading agency review teams.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite what you might think, or fail to remember, Trump’s timeline of announcing cabinet picks is currently similar to past presidents.
Here is a handy-dandy table to show you that he really should be in no real hurry, despite the media coverage.

A little quick research suggests your chart may be inaccurate. Obama announced several picks earlier than the chart suggests. Perhaps the chart is referring to formal nomination dates? Perhaps it's also one of the many fake graphics that float around on right wing websites (like that fake bullshit Hannity circulated about Trump transporting soldiers). Someone should check the details of this one.

[Anonymous]

Election Day +4

2008: Obama makes no major announcements. (It’s Saturday.)

2016: Trump makes no major announcements. (It’s also Saturday.)

[Anonymous]

Election Day +5

2008: Obama makes no major announcements. (It’s Sunday.)

2016: Trump spends Sunday tweeting, then announces Stephen Bannon, the former publisher of the right-wing website Breitbart, and Reince Priebus, current chairman of the Republican party, will be his top adviser and chief of staff, respectively.

Election Day +6

2008: Obama meets with President Bush in the Oval office to discuss the transition. His transition team members begin meeting with the executive branch staffers on an agency level to put the transition in place.

2016: Trump takes a phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin on an unsecured line at his home in Trump Tower. He speaks to several other world leaders on the same line. (During his transition, Obama went to an FBI office in Chicago to speak with world leaders in a secure communications facility.)

Election Day +7

2008: Obama makes a statement on the importance of Veterans’ Day and laid a wreath on a memorial in Chicago. (Trump did not issue a Veterans’ Day statement or attend any memorial events.)

2016: Pence signs a memorandum of understanding that is needed to begin the legal transition process; the document had previously been signed by Christie and was made invalid when he was removed from his position. Trump meets with advisers at his home.

Election Day +8

2008: Obama announces his agency review leaders, and the specific teams of staffers who will review policies and appointments for the Departments of State, Treasury, and Defense.

2016: Executive branch officials say they are waiting for news of the Trump transition’s agency review teams.

Election Day +9

2008: Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett records a video message to the public about Obama’s transition team and ethics rules.

2016: An anonymous Trump spokesperson tells Boston Globe reporter Matt Viser that the agency review teams are being launched. No official announcements about who will be on them have been made.

http://qz.com/839947/how-far-behind-is-donald-trumps-presidential-transition-compared-to-barack-obama-in-2008/?utm_source=qzfb

[Anonymous]

To the poster who feels the need to compare Obama’s transition to Trump’s by posting day-by-day accountings.......

You must be new here. It is customary to site your sources.

So, I will do it for you. http://qz.com/839947/how-far-behind-is-donald-trumps-presidential-transition-compared-to-barack-obama-in-2008/

Perhaps you can share a link in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite what you might think, or fail to remember, Trump’s timeline of announcing cabinet picks is currently similar to past presidents.
Here is a handy-dandy table to show you that he really should be in no real hurry, despite the media coverage.

A little quick research suggests your chart may be inaccurate. Obama announced several picks earlier than the chart suggests. Perhaps the chart is referring to formal nomination dates? Perhaps it's also one of the many fake graphics that float around on right wing websites (like that fake bullshit Hannity circulated about Trump transporting soldiers). Someone should check the details of this one.

First, on Nov. 6, 2008, Mr. Obama named Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. That was the only staff hire announced within the first two weeks after Election Day. Though several other Obama campaign staffers were rumored to be in discussions for formal roles, such as David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs, those announcements didn’t come until later.

On Nov. 19, Mr. Obama announced Axelrod as his senior adviser, as well as his staff secretary, White House counsel and Cabinet secretary. Three days later, on Nov. 22, Mr. Obama’s transition team announced Gibbs would serve as press secretary, Ellen Moran as White House communications director and Dan Pfeiffer as deputy communications director.

As far as Cabinet positions go, the only Cabinet secretary Mr. Obama announced in November was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. On December 1, Mr. Obama announced his picks for several top foreign policy and national security posts, including Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security, Robert Gates as Defense Secretary and Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heres-how-trumps-transition-compares-to-past-transitions-so-far/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the poster who feels the need to compare Obama’s transition to Trump’s by posting day-by-day accountings.......

You must be new here. It is customary to site your sources.

So, I will do it for you. http://qz.com/839947/how-far-behind-is-donald-trumps-presidential-transition-compared-to-barack-obama-in-2008/

Perhaps you can share a link in the future.

I did, right before you posted.