Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks

[LuFins Dad]

Now do Biden’s… And Trump 1, and Obama…

[jon-nyc]

You compile the list and I will.

[jon-nyc]

Though it’s hard years later. When did I first hear of, say, Julian Castro? Hard to say this many years later.

[LuFins Dad]

Biden -

Agriculture - Tom Vilsack (nope for me)
AG - Garland (yep)
Commerce - Gina Raimondo (nope)
Defense - Lloyd Austin (vaguely)
Education - Cardona (not at that time)
Energy - Granholm (nope, but I feel like I should have)
HHS - Becerra (nope)
Homeland Security - Mayorkas (I think so?)
HUD - Marcia Fudge (nope)
Interior - Deb Haaland (nope)
Labor - Marty Walsh (yes)
State - Blinken (Y)
Transportation- Buttigieg (unfortunately)
Treasury - Yellen (y)
Veteran Affairs - Denis McDonough (N)

[Jolly]

About 12 for me.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Biden -

Agriculture - Tom Vilsack yep. But again, how much of that is present day name recognition and a weak memory?
AG - Garland of course
Commerce - Gina Raimondo (nope)
Defense - Lloyd Austin. Vaguely also
Education - Cardona nope
Energy - Granholm yes and you did too. Michigan governor
HHS - Becerra don’t know
Homeland Security - Mayorkas don’t know
HUD - Marcia Fudge still nope
Interior - Deb Haaland still nope
Labor - Marty Walsh nope
State - Blinken yes
Transportation- Buttigieg of course
Treasury - Yellen as Fed chair and my sister’s boss’s boss
Veteran Affairs - Denis McDonough nope

[Horace]

I knew 8 or 9 from the original list. Vaught just before the bell, as Tucker had interviewed him just before he was nominated.

[Axtremus]

My response in [square brackets]

@LuFins-Dad said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Biden -

Agriculture - Tom Vilsack (nope for me) [yes]
AG - Garland (yep) [yes]
Commerce - Gina Raimondo (nope) [no]
Defense - Lloyd Austin (vaguely) [yes]
Education - Cardona (not at that time) [no]
Energy - Granholm (nope, but I feel like I should have) [no]
HHS - Becerra (nope) [yes]
Homeland Security - Mayorkas (I think so?) [yes]
HUD - Marcia Fudge (nope) [no]
Interior - Deb Haaland (nope) [no]
Labor - Marty Walsh (yes) [no]
State - Blinken (Y) [yes]
Transportation- Buttigieg (unfortunately) [yes]
Treasury - Yellen (y) [yes]
Veteran Affairs - Denis McDonough (N) [no]

[Axtremus]

My responses in [square brackets].

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Which had you heard of before he picked them?

Scott Bessent - no [no]
Pam Bondi - name rang a bell [yes]
Doug Burgham - yes because he ran for POTUS [yes]
Lori Chavez-DeRemer - no [no]
Doug Collins - no [no]
Sean Duffy - no [no]
Gabbard - yes [yes]
Greer - no [no]
Hegseth - no [no]
RFK - of course [yes]
Kelly Loeffler - yes, met her husband back in the day [no]
Howard Lutnick - met him back in the day [no]
Linda McMahon - rings a bell. DJT first term maybe? [yes]
Noem - Yes, dog killer [yes]
Patel - no [no]
Ratcliff - no [no]
Rollins - no [no]
Rubio - yes [yes]
Stefanik - yes, local pol [yes]
Turner - no [no]
Vaught - no [no]
Wright - no [no]
Zeldin- yes local pol ran for governor [no]

[NobodySock]

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Which had you heard of before he picked them?

Scott Bessent - no
Pam Bondi - name rang a bell
Doug Burgham - yes because he ran for POTUS
Lori Chavez-DeRemer - no
Doug Collins - no
Sean Duffy - no
Gabbard - yes
Greer - no
Hegseth - no
RFK - of course
Kelly Loeffler - yes, met her husband back in the day
Howard Lutnick - met him back in the day
Linda McMahon - rings a bell. DJT first term maybe?
Noem - Yes, dog killer
Patel - no
Ratcliff - no
Rollins - no
Rubio - yes
Stefanik - yes, local pol
Turner - no
Vaught - no
Wright - no
Zeldin- yes local pol ran for governor

Regarding Linda McMahon. She is the wife of Vince McMahon, one of Trump's friends as he runs the WWE wrestling which Trump is so fond of.
Linda was picked by Trump in his first presidency to run the Small Business Administration, the agency I spent 17 years working for. Now let's be clear, the SBA is not one of the Right's fondest agencies. Nope, this agency is designed to help the small business entropeneur in their endeavors to become successful business people in this country. They say the bread and butter of American business is the small business. This flies in the face of corporate interests though and as it is no mystery what side of the aisle corporate interests lie, the SBA has always been three letters mentioned by the Right with detest, along the lines of my other agency I work for, the IRS. While McMahon is a huge supporter of Trump and funded his first campaign to the tune of 6 million dollars, she did not take active pursuit in gutting the agency in the three years she was at the helm. I detect a bit of human decency in her over any corruptable culpability. But who knows today, as she is tapped now to be the leader of the Department of Education, the agency that is currently in the crosshairs of this administration to be gutted and elminated. It will be interesting to see how things play out in the months to come with so many tasks on project 25's table.

[taiwan_girl]

I think it is mostly the same for most presidents. The majority of the cabinet candidates are unknown to most people.