Maddow: Trump Cabinet confirmation process already falling apart

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rachel Maddow marvels at the fact that even with a second chance at it, Donald Trump cannot manage to oversee a presidential transition that isn't chaotic and in poor order, including failing to get the proper paperwork done on his own Cabinet nominees.

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0:00.0	Thanks to you and all for joining us. This is. I'm really happy to have you here.
0:04.8	You know, I just want to speak a little bit bluntly this evening, and I hope you will understand where this is coming from.
0:11.2	But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it would be hard to run a presidential transition.
0:18.8	That could be worse than the last one. The last presidential transition
0:22.3	was the worst one in American history by a long mile. The last one included the outgoing
0:27.8	president inciting his followers to riot and storm the capital to try to keep him in power.
0:32.8	That's a bad transition, right? I mean, the last inauguration had to have thousands of National Guard
0:37.9	troops on hand to protect the proceedings from the threat of more violence from his followers.
0:43.9	At the last presidential transition, the outgoing president didn't even show up for his successors
0:49.0	swearing in. That's a bad transition. The last transition Donald Trump was part of was the worst presidential transition in the history of the country.
0:58.5	And given how disastrously he performed in that last transition, I mean, you have to just assume that this one inherently will be better. It has to be, right?
1:09.4	But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it might be
1:12.0	close. Because this, too, is a terrible, terrible presidential transition. And I think it ought to be
1:20.1	more central to the way that we are talking about what's going on in politics and in our country
1:24.7	and in government at this moment.
1:33.6	Because this is the transition where the president-elect, right, throughout the presidential transition period, has continued to sell his junk, right?
1:38.2	His self-branded watches and sneakers and Bibles, he put out a new inauguration day edition of his special
1:46.5	branded Bible. He's still selling boots. Now he's selling Trump boots and his new
1:54.3	crypto, whatever it is, and his commemorative coins and his commemorative guitars.
2:03.9	He's selling this stuff while he is the president-elect.
2:07.4	Nothing like that has ever happened before.
2:15.0	Nothing that classless and tacky has ever happened to the U.S. presidency before.
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