Where’s Trump?

Rick Klein: “It’s fair to say that there has been no presidential transition in history where we’ve seen so little of the president-elect, yet so much of the people who want to populate his Cabinet. In other words, President-elect Donald Trump is overseeing his transition much like he ran his campaign – as a freewheeling series of conversations among interconnected circles of advisers who are jealous of each other’s influence.”

“That means Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton and company are incentivized to lobby for top jobs on cable news shows, knowing that the intended audience of one is probably watching – unless he slipped away for dinner, or decided to Tweet about the suddenly discovered genius of the Electoral College. Trump’s calculation, if that’s what it is, is that the messy process won’t matter when it delivers results. It’s time to get used to this, folks.”