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"I still don't have my Cabinet approved," he sighs.In truth, Trump does have much of his team approved.
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Toward the end of his CPAC speech, following a fusillade of anti-media tirades that will dominate the headlines for days, Trump, in an offhand voice, casually mentions what a chore the presidency can be.Trump's choice for EPA director, Scott Pruitt, was a climate-change denier who infamously zeroed out the environmental-enforcement division from the Oklahoma attorney general's office.For secretary of labor, Trump picked a fast-food titan who prefers robots to human workers (robots, he said, don't file discrimination suits! Trump put a brain surgeon in charge of federal housing, picked a hockey-team owner to be secretary of the Army, and chose as budget director a congressman best known for inspiring a downgrade to America's credit rating by threatening to default on the national debt.Last year at this time, Trump was bailing on a CPAC invite because a rat's nest of National Review types was threatening a walkout to protest him. Back then he was introduced to the beat of the O' Jays soul hit "For the Love of Money," and over the course of 13 uncomfortably autoerotic minutes flogged his résumé and declared it a myth that a "very successful person" couldn't run for president. "You know," he says, "the dishonest media, they'll say, ' He didn't get a standing ovation.' You know why? There is no other story in the world, no other show to watch.There was talk of 300 conservatives planning a simultaneous march to the toilet if the formerly pro-choice New Yorker was allowed onstage. He starts to tell that story, when suddenly he spots something in the audience that knocks him off script. A lot of the people can't sit down because they're in standing-room-only sections. " Those of us in the dishonest-media section shoot befuddled looks at one another. The first and most notable consequence of Trump's administration is that his ability to generate celebrity has massively increased, his persona now turbocharged by the vast powers of the presidency.Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin would struggle to make a list of the 30 most loathsome Goldman Sachs veterans.
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