Trump? "I'm dreaming of a White Cabinet, with every Christmas Card I write?"
No Cabinet this white and this male since 1989
And we have Rick Perry who said he wanted to Destroy completely "The Department of Energy" and we also have Pruitt who also said he wanted to destroy the EPA. So, this might be the end of both agencies during the next couple of years.
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White males dominate Trump's top cabinet posts
Rex Tillerson in 60 seconds 01:08
Story highlights
- Trump's cabinet picks for the most senior positions are all white males, a first since 1989
- He has selected women and minorities for other positions
(CNN)By
selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state,
Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed that his four most influential
departments will, if confirmed, be led entirely by white males for the
first time since George H.W. Bush's first cabinet was approved in 1989.
Tillerson,
who faces headwinds even among Senate Republicans, would be the
nation's top diplomat, while retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has been
tapped to run the Defense Department, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the
pick for attorney general and ex-Goldman Sachs banker Steve Mnuchin will
be nominated to run the Treasury Department.
All
four are white. The first round of top appointees in the Obama
administration included an African-American man -- Attorney General Eric
Holder -- and a white woman -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Colin Powell, then a retired general, became the only person of color in
former President George W. Bush's top four when he was nominated and
confirmed as the first African-American secretary of state.
Of
Trump's 17 choices to date -- excluding his vice president and senior
White House staff -- 13 are white, of which 11 are male. None are
Latino. By comparison, 11 of the the corresponding positions in Obama's
first cabinet were white -- with seven males and four females -- along
with a Latino labor secretary and three African-Americans, two of whom
were women.
Trump's lone
African-American choice, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, will run the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, which primarily deals with
city planning. Of his four female appointees, the highest profile is
billionaire Republican donor and "school choice" activist Betsy DeVos.
Fast food titan Andy Puzder will run the Labor Department and
billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross is the choice for Commerce
secretary.
Trump has selected three women of color
to top positions. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is
Indian-American, is the pick for US ambassador to the United Nations.
The Taiwan-born former Bush administration Energy Secretary Elaine Chao,
the first Asian-American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, has
been tapped to guide the Transportation Department. And Seema Verma, the
daughter of Indian immigrants, has been selected to run the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services -- what should be a key role in the
Obamacare fight.
Top national
security posts in the Trump administration will also be held exclusively
by white men. In addition to Mattis, another retired Marine general,
John Kelly, is slated to take over the Department of Homeland Security,
while Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo is likely to be confirmed as the next CIA
director. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a top Trump aide and
senior staffer, will round out Trump's senior security staff.
Former
World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, another GOP
billionaire donor, will not require Senate confirmation to take over as
administrator of the Small Business Administration.
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