Trump's transition was supposed to be a show of force. What happened?

[Dulcinea]

(Politico) Over the last 24 hours, Donald Trump lost his pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration. His choice for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is struggling to gain support from Senate Republicans. The president-elect is now even considering his onetime rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis, to lead the Pentagon.

And these shake-ups to his not-yet-formed administration come after former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as Trump’s choice for attorney general.

All told, the setbacks are raising new questions about Trump’s power over his party, whether Republicans would submit to any and all of his demands — and the expectation that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, would bring order to Trump’s transition and White House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-faces-setbacks-tries-fill-153741125.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CONTROL&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20241204-0&bt_user_id=%2Ba8PNGnZRamRrUUmmuErNC25IkhF1FEtBVtFXDki%2FHlXUQo4jJgGhFf2XlVubl%2BJ&bt_ts=1733344731099

[Klarkashton]

1. He has his BVDs wrapped around his ankles and he's

stumbling around knocking the whole goddamn thing over.

good!

[magicarpet]

2. trdumpee thought his sdmin nomination were going to be a cakewalk.

No need to be background checked or senate confirmation.

Djt was going to slip all these misfits, clowns, drunks, snd pedos in there under a contrived emergency appointment scheme. Where his nominees could serve two years absent any senate confirmation.

The senate then balked after seeing the buffoons and clowns Team trDumpee intended to fill his cabinet with.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's not about power, force, or strength. It's about competence, and the total lack thereof.

His picks for Cabinet and agency positions lack the experience and depth for the agency they're being asked to lead. The DEA pick was wise to bow out. Smartest of them all so far.

[Blue Owl]

4. More like a shitshow of farce

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Well, it's been a long since a Republican

said “no” to Trump. I believe that he believed they’d rubber stamp his nominations.

[lastlib]

6. It turned into a show of farce. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Hire a clown. Expect a circus.

Some people never fucking learn.

[Aussie105]

8. If you drew a Venn diagram with just two circles . . .

With Trump sycophants in one and potential competent Republican candidates for various government jobs in the other, they would not overlap.

Therein lies a problem for the good old US of A.

[Martin68]

9. What happened is exactly what was expected: total chaos. It's just Trump-as-usual 24/7. What else did anyone

expect?

[generalbetrayus]

10. Maybe some Republicans have finally come to the realization that if Orange Julius Caesar

keeps his promise to become a dictator on "Day One" that every Senator and Representative will be escorted out of the Capitol building and sent on their way by the Proud Boys after OJC orders all the Capitol police be fired and physically removed by US Army loyalists to him.