Trump's YOLO Cabinet

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump goes all in on naming his biggest political boosters to Cabinet posts, whether they're qualified or not (they're not!). Trump wants alleged sex offender Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary, dictator sympathizer Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for the newly invented Department of Government Efficiency. Jon and Dan discuss the odds of Senate Republicans blocking any of these nominations, why Trump picked them in the first place, and how Democrats can respond without defending the status quo. Then, Jon sits down with Senator-elect Andy Kim of New Jersey to talk about how Democrats can listen and learn after the election, what Kim thinks of Trump's Cabinet picks so far, and learning to be comfortable with uncomfortable politics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Potsave America. I'm John Fabro.
0:22.0	I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
0:22.8	On today's show, Donald Trump's cabinet picks go from mildly amusing to terrifying in the span of a day.
0:29.6	Tulsi Gabbard is Director of National Intelligence.
0:32.5	Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary.
0:35.7	Matt Gates is Attorney General.
0:44.1	And the one that broke just before we started recording, RFK Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
0:45.9	What a lineup.
0:49.0	Man, we are back into it, aren't we?
0:50.0	We are.
0:51.3	Fuck.
0:56.6	If for a change, you want to hear the most hopeful conversation I've had about politics since the election.
1:02.8	Stick around later for my conversation with New Jersey's new senator-elect, Andy Kim.
1:04.3	Love Andy Kim.
1:05.5	Love Andy Kim.
1:09.0	More Andy Kim's fewer, all these other people we're going to talk about.
1:12.4	That's your take today is more Eddie Kim's fewer Matt cases.
1:14.3	That's why people tune in.
1:16.6	Going out on a ledge.
1:17.7	All right.
1:22.2	We're going to have a decidedly less hopeful conversation about these Trump cabinet picks and their confirmation prospects.
1:24.6	Who knew our favorite nominees would be Marco Rubio and Elise Stefonic.
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