“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.
Trump had proposed the creation of a government efficiency commission as part of a slate of new economic plans that he unveiled in early September. At the time, he said Musk had agreed to lead it if he were to secure a return to the White House.
As Trump is picking his staff one Truth Social post a day, a lot is going behind the scenes with his transition team, who is adopting a very different approach in his second term. Trump told Rogan the “biggest mistake” of his 2017-21 presidency was “I picked a few people I shouldn’t have picked”.
According to reports, everything is takin place mostly out of public view at Mar-a-Lago where Trump and team huddle with a team of players. It’s not just Elon Musk who is assisting Donald Trump–there are other important players Donald Trump Jr, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Charlie Kirk and then a random assortment of advisers.
Who is helping Trump in selecting his new staff?
According to a report in Politico, Trump and his transition advisers are reviewing candidates from a room at Mar-a-Lago. The room has long tables and a few televisions where Trump is being shown media clips and bios of the candidates.“There’s a lot of different factions. There’s a lot of people calling Trump. There’s a lot of people who thought one thing was set in stone and are finding out that’s not the case, and the chessboard is going to be shuffled a lot in the coming weeks,” said one person with knowledge of the transition.
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A person involved in transition meetings described the affair as a “positive type of startup culture,” where Trump and his team are “pulling the best people into the room to give ideas, regardless of titles.”
“There’s positive energy, creativity, openness to ideas,” the person said.
“Trump’s transition co-chairs are Lutnick and Linda McMahon, but there are Elon Musk, Vice President-elect JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kennedy. There’s also a rotating cast of conservative influencers like Charlie Kirk and Vivek Ramaswamy, according to four people with knowledge of the meetings,” Politico reported.
Trump’s personal friend Steve Witkoff is there and then Trump is calling up friend and allies to take their opinions, the report said. It was Trump Jr who shot down any discussion of Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley for any official roles as he made it clear that his father would only take loyalists as his staff.
Why Charlie Kirk is helping Trump?
It is pertinent to note that Trump Jr and Charlie Kirk have been friends for quite sometime now. “Trump called Kirk on Wednesday after his victory. And in the last week Kirk weighed in publicly in favor of two of Trump’s staffing picks before they were announced: Wiles for chief of staff and Stephen Miller for deputy chief of staff,” the Politico report said.
List of people Trump has picked for key positions so far
White House Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles
Deputy chief of staff for policy: Stephen Miller
Border Czar: Tom Homan
National security adviser: Mike Waltz
Homeland Security secretary pick: Kristi Noem
United National Ambassador: Elise Stefanik
Environmental Protection Agency director: Lee Zeldin
Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee.
