Rhapsody in red

In Trumpworld, radical selections go down a storm

Chris McGreal

In the American heartland, they’re excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along. Even as leading Democrats decry Trump’s unorthodox cabinet nominations as “agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance”, his supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment. Democrats are fuming that Trump wants to put a vaccine denier in charge of health, former Fox News presenters at the helm of the Pentagon and trans-portation department, and at the prospect of Elon Musk slashing and burning his way through federal bureaucracy. Even senior Republicans have been less than enthusiastic about some of Trump’s choices. The tapping of the former Florida congressman…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 29 November 2024

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