I have a lot of regrets about Donald Trump.
In 2016, I spent way too much time covering the transition and reading way too much into Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks: Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State), Michael Flynn (National Security Advisor), Nikki Haley (Ambassador to the United Nations), Rick Perry (Secretary of Energy), John Kelly (Department of Homeland Security), “Mad Dog” Jim Mattis (Secretary of Defense), Reince Preibus (Chief of Staff). Steve Bannon also briefly served as Chief Strategist in 2017 before losing power.
In retrospect, the first Trump administration was a carousel with an unprecedented level of turnover as various people came and went through a revolving door. Michael Flynn didn’t make it two months. Steve Bannon hardly lasted a year. Rex Tillerson lasted a year. Nikki Haley lasted two years. Donald Trump had a bitter falling out with Jeff Sessions who only lasted two years. In contrast, Joe Biden appointed Alejandro Mayorkas to DHS and Antony Blinken as Secretary of State and they have served throughout his entire term as president, even as they presided over multiple disasters like the border, Ukraine and Gaza. Joe Biden disappeared and let his underlings run the show. Trump enjoys firing people.
Here are my thoughts on Donald Trump’s emerging Cabinet:
1. Kristi Noem at DHS – Thomas Homan is the Border Czar and Stephen Miller is running immigration policy. Noem is just a figurehead who will do whatever she is told to do.
2. Michael Waltz as National Security Adviser – I’m old enough to remember when Michael Flynn and John Bolton had this job. Trump basically ran his own foreign policy. He ordered the withdrawal of troops from Syria. He negotiated the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He became best buddies with Kim Jong Un. He sided with Putin against the FBI at the Helsenki Summit. Even with John Bolton whispering in his ear like Wormtongue as National Security Adviser, we didn’t go to war with Iran.
3. Marco Rubio as Secretary of State – I don’t remember much about what Rex Tillerson did as Secretary of State. He was replaced by Mike Pompeo who was a far worse neocon. In spite of this, Pompeo was not able to maneuver us into a war with Iran for the sake of Israel.
4. Elise Stefanik as Ambassador to the United Nations – No one gives a shit about the United Nations anymore and least of all Israel. Israel demonstrated this by blowing up Hezbollah’s leadership and its genocide in Gaza. I don’t remember anything that Nikki Haley did as UN Ambassador.
5. Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator – Once again, I don’t remember Scott Pruitt who served in this role in the last Trump administration.
I will say this.
Insofar as Donald Trump screwed up bigly in his first term, his three biggest mistakes were empowering and deferring to Jared Kushner and Ivanka, empowering the generals (“Mad Dog” and Kelly) and allowing Reince Preibus and Mike Pence to staff his incoming government. I don’t see that happening again.
Note: I’m waiting to see who Trump picks as Attorney General. This choice actually matters.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Howard Lutnick is worse than Jared Kushner, Elise Stefanik is worse than Nikki Haley, and Marco Rubio is worse than Mike Pompeo.
Marco Rubio is RESPONSIBLE for the Venezuelan migrant crisis that Trump campaigned against. Rubio and Menendez drafted the legislation which invited the Venezuelansinto the US.
Collectively, Haley, Bolton and Pompeo held office, but accomplished virtually nothing. Marco Rubio also failed to overthrow the government of Venezuela
HW,
I hope it works out … for us
Where the hell is col. Macgregor ?
He’s the most sensible of any potential appointee.
I’ve seen this before, in 1995, when Gop took over the House, and the Tea Party. The liberal establishment will finally be stopped, didn’t happen all we got were tax cuts for rich and wars. I hope it’s different this this time.
The inner government has methods to hijack any populist cause and twist it into their agenda.
Agreed and well said Hunter.
You didn t say anything about trump s chief of staff – a DEI first ever woman chief of staff
WTF was that ?
With ties to pharmaceutical lobby groups. Which means RFK won’t get to do anything meaningful. So much winning!
It’s hard to pass Trump off as anti-interventionist when he repeatedly picks candidates who favor an interventionist foreign policy. Notice that he just used Tulsi Gabbard and didn’t consider her for secretary of state. Or he could have chosen Rand Paul. I think my predictions are coming true. Trump will not be the next Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul.
It’s hilarious to me because Brad has a hard on for Trump, and things he’s gonna be so much better than Harris. The delusion is real with him.
I do believe Trump will be a lot better than Kamala Harris. I’m looking forward to covering it.
I get seeing Trump as the lesser of two evils, although I’m not 100% sure I share that position. What I don’t get (and I’m not accusing you of this) is thinking Trump is Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul. He’s not.
The reality is that you want to “win” so badly that you set the bar so low just so you can be embraced by mainstream CONservitards. When Trump proves his incompetence then you will change ideologies/support to the next popular fad in the radical right. Same shit different day.
No, the reality is that the Jewish Question used to be one issue among a bundle of issues that we cared about like race and immigration, but lately that seems to have changed. Some activists insisted on turning the Jewish Question into a single issue litmus test cause. Their position is that “nothing else matters” and that we should engage in politics, or disengage in politics, solely on the basis of their pet issue.
This has forced everyone else, myself included, who have always been more motivated by other issues and who are not obsessed 24/7 with Jews to move on. I agree that Jewish influence is a problem, but I also believe that other issues like immigration are important. I’m sorry, but I care a lot more about that than “anti-Zionism.”
He will be more like Dubya.
Picking all swamp creatures, again. Great!
Ridiculous, these are exactly the type of people we said would be running things, which is why whites should never have supported Trump. Hunter Wallace is now supporting the same people as Ben Shapiro, this pretty damns him as nothing more than a total fraud.
If you are pro white you HAVE to be anti Trump.
How many White people agree with you?
Oh wait … that’s right. After all these decades, it is still virtually zero because you don’t care about the same things
Whoever said the majority was absolutely correct every time?
H.L Mencken was unquestionably accurate when he wrote that democracy is the pathetic belief that collective wisdom can be obtained by individual ignorance, and “Democracy is theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Of course, the MAGAtatds are cheering for the corpse of America, while the cultural marxists are cheering for the maggots.
It’s all so tiresome.
For over 75 years, you have been trying to do “National Socialism” and have had zero success in this country. I think that is because virtually all White people care about other issues a lot more than Jews. Maybe you should try talking about something other than Jews and Israel all day, every day, year after year?
” think that is because virtually all White people care about other issues a lot more than Jews. ”
NSDAP was about a lot more than jwz.
White Americans have never cared about the NSDAP
“White Americans have never cared about the NSDAP”
Because they don’t know a damn thing about it.
NSDAP was about jobs for 7 million unemployed.
NSDAP was about feeding people on the verge of starvation.
NSDAP was about getting heat for millions freezing.
NSDAP was about leveling jwzish owned slums where people were dying of black mold and TB.
NSDAP was about cars for all workers, vacations, health care, free education for all students, mortgage forgiveness for couples having children.
NSDAP had the Messerschmitt 108 designed so any family wanting an airplane could have one.
NSDAP was about getting rid of this stupid standard gauge and building super efficient 3 meter rail system.
NSDAP, building a national highway system, which America copied.
We don’t live in Germany in the 1930s
“White Americans have never cared about the NSDAP”
4 million Americans joined the German American Bund.
“We don’t live in Germany in the 1930s”
You’re right.
“Whoever said the majority was absolutely correct every time?”
The very reason the Founders restricted voting to white male property owners.
1) white for obvious reasons
2) male, because men aren’t as compliant to social fashion as women. Not so easily swayed by sentiment and deceitful words.
3) property owners, they have skin in the game and aren’t transient Interlopers, shows ambition and stability.
And how have White people fared over those decades?
Apart from the sellouts – terribly (to state the obvious). Declining in every measurable way. Our enemies openly rejoice and celebrate. As November noted, most MAGAtards cheer for the rotting corpse, while Church of Woke (why needlessly insult Marxists with the comparison?) cheer for the buzzards, maggots and blowflies.
It’s barely a week after the election so it’s far too early to tell much about anything at this stage. There are some obvious swamp creatures named (the five listed above by HW) and others who are evidently not owned by the blob (Miller, Hegseth – not an MIC plant, the CIA pick, and some others). Trump will not be sworn in until January 20. It will be interesting to see what he does in terms of repealing Joey Shitpants’ EOs – the first of which enabled the invasion on the basis of “climate change”.
At the end of the day, it comes back to what whites choose to do with the reprieve they’ve been granted, as I noted just after the election. That is more important than whatever Trump does or does not do.
“. Joe Biden disappeared and let his underlings run the show. ”
Biden was never in charge, he just reads his script.
Biden literally read the script to the point of even saying “period” at the end of the sentence he uttered.
> Biden was never in charge, he just reads his script.
Can’t even do that, or avoid soiling his diapers. A literal retarded ventriloquist dummy. Stage 2 dementia at least. Anyone who things Biden is in control of anything is almost as retarded as he is – or lying.
“A literal retarded ventriloquist dummy”
Just how the chosen like ’em.
(((Darren Beattie))), a raging Zionist, has a website called Revolver News, allegedly right wing, but actually pure (((AstroTurf))), and he just released a post endorsing the homosexual, Yale/Skull and Boneser, Council on Foreign Relations member (((Scott Bessent))) for Treasury Secretary.
Treasury is one of the Big Four cabinet positions. This Bessent may face some opposition at the confirmation hearings, which is why his fellow tribesman Darren Beattie is running interference for him.
I am expecting Mike Rogers at DOD. This is a war cabinet.
Tulsi has been mentioned for Sec of Defense. She would hopefully push back against the warmongers. But this is all pretty discouraging so far.
Bessent and his husband, former New York City prosecutor John Freeman, have two children.
Here are some pictures of the couple with their “son” from 2012. That kid should be rip for boning by now.
What is the nature of the beast? The beast persecutes and torments the weak and the innocent.
https://awww.patrickmcmullan.com/search/?person=5b3ef51a9f929066765c36b5
You didn’t get Mister Rogers. Instead it’s an unexpected choice – Pete Hegseth. Apparently one of the few left in the military brass who is not an employee/lobbyist for the MIC. This seems to be a choice of someone who would actually ensure Trump’s orders are followed more than anything else, despite some past statements indicating a failure to understand China, among others. Rather than a perfumed princess a la Lady G, he’s an actual soldier who is suited to lead other soldiers and maybe purge the ranks of the Church of Woke, foreigners, fifth columnists and other traitors-in-waiting. The kind of person who would lead in defending against a foreign invasion, for example.
Yea, yea, what did I tell yuh?
Birds of a feather…
Barring Complete socioeconomic collapse, the system won’t fundamentally change.
Don’t look for it, ain’t gonna happen.
People won’t listen, they’ll continue to play duopoly/lesser-of-two-evil/uniparty politics disappointment after disappointment.
Only Mass unemployment, hunger and homelessness can teach people.
Most people are thick.
Why would the elite (which includes Trump duh) want to change things?
They have the most to lose and the least to gain from radically changing trajectory. They are the real conservatives, conserving the system; neoliberal imperialism.
HW,
Just admit buyer’s remorse. You arer painting yourself into an extremely koshercon corner.
I don’t have any buyer’s remorse.
I’m sick and tired of being told by activists that nothing but Jews and Israel matter. It has convinced me that the obsession with that issue has become an obstacle and albatross to politically mobilizing White people to accomplish anything else.
Do you care about immigration? Sorry, we can’t talk about that because we got to sit around and obsess about Jews all day.
Do you care about, say, Southern heritage? Sorry, we got to sit around and talk about the Jews all day.
Do you care about anti-White discrimination in government and corporations? Sorry, we are focused on obsessing over the Jews all day.
Do you care about our trade policy? Sorry, we are going to sit here and talk about the Jews all day and how smart it is to never do anything because we got to think some more about what Israel is doing in Lebanon.
“Do you care about immigration? ”
Well, that is rooted in the 65 immigration act, we know who was behind that.
I agree, the jp isn’t Everything, but it is the bulk of most critical issues.
You’re right, the jp doesn’t resonate with 98% of Americans, but that isn’t because the issue is invalid, it’s because people are mostly brainwashed by 80 yrs of propaganda.
HW takes the most reasonable course available with the current options.
Western white people just aren’t bright enough to value race or see the centuries old social trends and errors.
There is so much wasted latent potential in WHITE folks that is being flushed down the sewer. We could be so much more.
“BRAZEN Antisemite!” Piers Morgan CALLS OUT Dan Bilzerian
(Piers Morgan gets KICKED OUT by Dan Bilzerian)
Morgan was born as Piers Stefan O’Meara in Reigate, Surrey on 30 March 1965, the son of Vincent Eamonn O’Meara, an Irish dentist from County Offaly.
The Irish are the Tribe of Dan. And the Tribe of Dan are practitioners of Idolatry. The Irish worship the jews over god almighty. Whatever you do, do not follow this people, the Irish, they are leading us to hell.
Will Lutnik choose (((Alan Derschowitz))) as USAG?
Derschowitz is a friend and ally of zion Don, frequent visitor to Epstein’s Island, and would be 100% as aggressive if not more than Merrick Garfunkel’s DoJ at unconstitutionally prosecuting anyone and everyone that mentions jewish supremacy in Washington, DC, and all 50 states and American territories.
Palantir CEO (((Alex Karp))) is standing by and ready to use every technology available to accomplish that objective.
“Derschowitz is a friend and ally …”
Also a strong advocate for child porn,”I’m not hurting anyone when I watch it”.
Both Fox News and the New York Times seem ok with these picks, so I’m glad the two mouthpieces for the two viewpoints can finally find some common ground. Your cautiously careful optimism is very careful and that means good stuff.
I’m just glad Romney finally got his chance to implement his polices. If it wasn’t for those Demonrats we could have had Romney a long time ago.
Finally the 4D chess we’ve all been waiting for
We need to encourage the EPA to undo all of the useless regulations that destroyed small body trucks. Make Chevy S10s great again
Pragmatism is key.
You can’t have everything.
@Hunter,
Trump also just picked Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense. Pete breaks the mold for Secretaries of Defense. He probably is more interventionist than you would like, but he isn’t a neo-con, military industrial yes man, but rather someone who believes we need to focus on rebuilding our military, ending Wokeness in the military and using military only in support of clear national interest.
At any rate, as you already noted, even when there were far more and much more military interventionist in Trump 1.0, there was little expansion of military conflict outside of light foot print specop campaigns to roll back ISIS. In the end Trump began the negotiation to pull out of Afghanistan in the face of many of his generals. Trump is pretty close to what you want on the foreign policy front.
So, the Dems’ Hitler unveils his “fiendish” plans for all to see.
These crazy beyond loony Red Commie Leftists aren’t going to tolerate Hitler grabbing the controls of this democratic nation (they believe is all theirs) without a fight.
So, suddenly Biden “dies” in office and Harris is sworn in as President but she wants to also go along with this peaceful transfer of power to Hitler. Then she suddenly “dies” in office and Speaker of House is due to take over. But he definitely won’t do the job and suddenly “dies” while he is taking the oath of office. And this repeats itself down to their only hope to stop Hitler — Merrick Brian Garland — the believed mastermind behind all this lawfare to keep Donald Trump from becoming President again and put him in prison with sentences adding up to 100s of years of prison time. And President Garland miraculously comes through and puts Hitler in prison with sentences adding up to over 2,000 years. So before the year 2024 is out the Dems have finally stopped Hitler and saved democracy.
And to make sure this never happens again they then immediately “elect” President Garland “democratic” Dictator for life (sort of like the ways Bernie Sanders was “voted” out and Kamala Harris was “voted” in to be the Democratic candidate for President — Commie Democracy — Commacracy) to keep democracy alive as long as possible. And they all lived happily ever after — THE END.
Just sayin’…
Secede Now!
May God Save the South!
Here’s another thing which presents a serious problem for Trump even assuming his motivations are honorable. As PC Roberts notes, there are around 4000 appointments which must be approved by the Senate. Even though the Gay Old Pedoburo has a nominal majority of creatures in that worse-than-useless swamp-pool, most are of the Cheney/Bush/GOPe variety (Lady G and his lawn-jockey Mr. Tim being fine exemplars). Trump is going to have to learn to be more like Koba the Dread in dealing with such scum. Hopefully he’ll have Epstein’s list handy and use it accordingly to destroy those who work to derail him. The Art of the Deal does not work with such people. Brutal examples make them get the point more effectively.
The most Kippah administration ever?
Si se puede!
Kwannies of the Kwanstain always get played.
Bomb bomb Iran.
Bet your bottom shekel on it.
The sodomite sewerpipe will be carried away beyond Babylon for Remphan worship.
As I said on X, I have set my alarm clock for “war with Iran.” I don’t want to be disturbed until the ground troops are going into Tehran.
your above post…
“Hunter Wallace
November 13, 2024 at 1:09 pm
No, the reality is that the Jewish Question used to be one issue among a bundle of issues that we cared about like race and immigration, but lately that seems to have changed. Some activists insisted on turning the Jewish Question into a single issue litmus test cause. Their position is that “nothing else matters” and that we should engage in politics, or disengage in politics, solely on the basis of their pet issue.
This has forced everyone else, myself included, who have always been more motivated by other issues and who are not obsessed 24/7 with Jews to move on. I agree that Jewish influence is a problem, but I also believe that other issues like immigration are important. I’m sorry, but I care a lot more about that than “anti-Zionism.””
for me they aren’t the _only question_, but they are probably one of the most important questions – for us Whites