Cabinet Members

Mike Pence
Vice President

• Governor & Congressman
• Lawyer
• Stepped up to lead in the campaign when most Republicans were too afraid of the media and establishment
• Excellent job on the transition
• Runs the risk of being squeezed by establishment forces; a successful team relationship with POTUS will make a significant difference.
• Serious “piratization” could force a switch of profiles.
• Christian

 

Rex Tillerson
Secretary of State

• Business Executive
• Engineer
• Tillerson is one of the strongest Cabinet members, although he may be slow at first because he is new to government. It will take time to transform the State Dept.
• Critical role: helping the team reinvent America’s vision and role in the world, restoring trust with global leaders; rebuilding US “soft power.”
•  Christian

 

James Mattis
Secretary of Defense

• Military
• Mattis has strong qualifications to help restore the core military and to reinvent America’s vision and role in the world.
• Mattis on Torture: “I’ve never found it to be useful. Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better.”

 

Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of the Treasury

• Investment Banker
• Skull & Bones
• Goldman royalty: his dad, Bob Mnuchin, was the head of Goldman’s equity desk for many years.
• Worked on the Goldman team that IMO engineered the soft dollar policy, the suppression of the gold price, the rape of Russia, the housing bubble and the financial coup d’Etat.
• Will Mnuchin use his skills to help rebuild our economy or to “piratize” America? This is a critical question regarding the economic team.
• Jewish

 

Jeff Sessions
Attorney General

• Senator
• Military Reserve
• Lawyer
• Political fights in Washington will increasingly play out through the criminalization of disagreements. Combined with the push to dismantle decades of complex rule-making and significant levels of corruption, Sessions holds one of the most powerful positions.  His recusal on Russia allegations was disappointing — this is no job for scaredy cats. Essential for POTUS to ensure that Sessions emerges as a Titanic Turner.
• Christian

 

Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Commerce

• Investor
• Knows business and industry — he is a doer with a deep roladex who is willing to master the details.
• Likely to be frustrated by what it takes to get things done in DC.

 

Tom Price
Secretary of Health and Human Services

• Politician
• Physician
• It takes real courage to help America get from where we are today to a human health care system.

 

Ben Carson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

• Surgeon
• Business experience
• Success depends on turning the model in the inner city which will shut off the illegal cash flows to the black budget. Will the CIA, DOJ and Treasury be prepared to turn the “red button to green?”
• Ben should make Gary Cohn and Steve Mnuchin his new best friends — and pray that they become Titanic Turners.
• Christian

 

Ryan Zinke
Secretary of the Interior

• Politician
• Business experience
• Military experience

 

Sonny Perdue
Secretary of Agriculture

• Business experience

 

Alex Acosta
Secretary of Labor

• Business experience
• Lawyer
• Prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein

 

Elaine Chao
Secretary of Transportation

• Business experience
• Married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

 

Rick Perry
Secretary of Energy

• Politician
• Business experience
• Military experience
• Piratization could throw Perry into Piggie mode

 

Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Education                                                     ?

• Philanthropist
• Business experience
• Beat up at her confirmation hearings, she tried to slow Sessions down on the Transgender bathroom reversal — not a good sign.

 

David Shulkin
Secretary of Veterans Affairs

• Business experience
• Physician

 

John F. Kelly
Secretary of Homeland Security

• Military experience

 

Cabinet-Level Officials

Reince Priebus
White House Chief of Staff

• Business experience
• Lawyer

Dan Coats
Director of National Intelligence

• Politician
• Business experience
• Lawyer

Nikki Haley
Ambassador to the United Nations

• Business experience
• Governor

Mike Pompeo
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

• Poltician
• Business experience
• Military experience
• Lawyer

Mick Mulvaney
Director, Office of Management and Budget

• Business experience
• Lawyer
• Congressman

Robert Lighthizer
United States Trade Representative

• Business  experience
• Lawyer

Scott Pruitt
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

• Politician
  Business experience
• Military experience
• Lawyer

Linda McMahon
Administrator of the Small Business Administration

• Politician
• Business experience

H. R. McMaster
National Security Advisor

• Military experience

Jay Clayton
SEC Chairman

• Business experience
• Lawyer
• Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell — Goldman’s Counsel

Advisors to the President

Steve Bannon
White House Chief Strategist

• Investment Banker
• Military experience
• Media
• His father worked hard, he works hard. Bannon resonates with the hard working and the productive.

Gary Cohn
National Economic Advisor

• Investment Banker
• Got rich and rose to the top of Goldman Sachs engineering the financial coup d’Etat with Blankfein.
• With Mnuchin, he has the smarts to rebuild the US economy — or to piratize it.
• Of great importance to all of us will be whether Cohn’s inner “titanic turner” blossoms in his new position.
• May experience Washington culture-shock.

Jared Kushner
Counselor to the President

• Real Estate
• Lawyer
• Loyal Son-in-Law
• Orthodox Jewish

Stephen Miller
Counselor to the President

• Politics

Kellyanne Conway
Counselor to the President

• Business experience
• Pollster and campaign manager

Don McGahn
White House Counsel

• Lawyer