Posted on 11/17/2016 10:33:18 AM PST by ColdOne
WASHINGTON
Mentioned as a possible pick to head the departments of State or Defense, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won’t serve in the Trump administration, he confirmed to McClatchy on Thursday.
“I will not be the cabinet,” Gingrich said, adding that “I intend to be focused on strategic planning.”
Gingrich did not say whether the decision was his or whether his long ties to official Washington effectively disqualified him from joining President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
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Here’s how I read it.
The Donald is going to work his Cabinet Officials asses off. They will be there to pursue his agenda, not the Republicans or their own.
I wonder if it is because he is talking too much. Trump has, I believe, placed an absolute gag order on discussing what is going on in the selection process.
I think that’s a good thing. Newt’s very smart, and should be advising. But, he’s getting along in years, and might find direct administration exhausting.
He also has a big ego which seems to swell and cause trouble when he has direct power. His original “Contract with America” was brilliant, but several years later, his star had fallen dramatically as far as the public was concerned.
Makes sense. Newt about 95% reliable...but every so often he goes off on one of his “On the Couch With Nancy Pelosi” moments.
It’s best to use him sparingly.
“I will not be the cabinet,” Gingrich said, adding that “I intend to be focused on strategic planning.”
Newt has been saying this for awhile now. Nothing new here for anyone that has been playing attention.
FABULOUS!!
I think Gingrich would have been a better choice than any of the other names being bandied about for Secretary of State. But I’m assuming it was a mutual decision.
Twen Hcirgnig
Yes, everything is there to make a great Newt Gingrich.
Sadly, too often what he is comes out jumbled.
When that happens, policy gets harder to pass, the press has a field day, and the jerks on the Left point to him saying even people on our side agree with them.
Ahhhhh, no thanks.
Trump is one smart cookie
Newt's talent is for strategy and vision and getting it through congress; if he can focus that towards Trumps agenda and not his own he could be great in such a role. Which, by the way, he's been saying he wants since the day after the election. Not a cabinet post.
I know Newt is a bit of a loose cannon but the outrage he showed Megyn Kelly when she called Trump a sexual predator was real and I think Trump appreciated that loyalty immensely. I doubt he'll set Newt adrift like he did Christie. The question is what will he ask him to do?
Newt is a big idea man rather than an administering bureaucrat. He’d be much more useful helping to formulate legislation and strategies for getting it enacted rather than dealing with department red tape.
Newt is a strategic thinker, not a cabinet secretary.
He made it clear that he will not have lobbyists in his cabinet.
Have him run a Department that will be eliminated in 2 years. Education? Energy? State(put it UNDER t e Defense Department.
Trump needs strategic planners who are free to propose changes and actively promote them for him! An entirely different group from administrators! Been there, seen that, under Reagan!
True, and remember - running a cabinet-level bureaucracy is a huge administrative job. Not the place for a big-picture innovative thinker and strategist.
I hope Trump leaves out all the inside the beltway people from his cabinet, and for the most part, from his inner circle. We have to have fresh faces, and fresh ideas, not just recycled neo-con talking points or globalist BS spewers, or PC spewers.
Trump is also going to make them sign a promise not to lobby for five years after they leave.
I think this might be due to the ban on the connection to lobbyists. Remember Newt got slammed by PAC’s about this when he ran for president.
I don’t care to place him in a position like that, after which he’ll talk about his accomplishment, never attributing it to, or even grasping it was truly Donald Trump that had accomplished it.
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