Video: Obama didn’t Name Cabinet Appts for Three Weeks; Special Report w/ Bret Baier,

Fox News ^ | Nov 16, 2016 | Bret Baier

[PeteePie]

The press is reporting that the Trump transition team being in disarray because they have only named two cabinet members in the first week. The chart shows what the media won't, that Obama didn’t name anyone for three weeks. W. Bush didn’t for six weeks. Carter took five weeks and other recent presidents took two to four weeks.

[Cboldt]

Here is Obama's cabinet announcement history ...

 Secretary of Agriculture                 Tom Vilsack           Dec 17, 2008
 Attorney General                         Eric Holder           Dec  1, 2008
 Secretary of Commerce                    Bill Richardson       Dec  3, 2008
 Secretary of Defense                     Robert Gates          Dec  1, 2008
 Secretary of Education                   Arne Duncan           Dec 15, 2008
 Secretary of Energy                      Steven Chu            Dec 11, 2008
 Secretary of Health & Human Services     Tom Daschle           Dec 11, 2008
 Secretary of Homeland Security           Janet Napolitano      Dec  1, 2008
 Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Shaun Donovan         Dec 13, 2008
 Secretary of Interior                    Ken Salazar           Dec 17, 2008
 Secretary of Labor                       Hilda Solis           Dec 19, 2008
 Secretary of State                       Hillary Clinton       Dec  1, 2008
 Secretary of Transportation              Ray LaHood            Dec 19, 2008
 Secretary of Treasury                    Timothy Geithner      Nov 24, 2008
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs            Eric Shinseki         Dec  7, 2008

From U.S. Senate: Obama cabinet nominations

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What a non-issue. Of course it is going to be much harder for Trump - he wants to crush the existing power structure, rather than sustain business-as-usual AND grow government which is what every other POTUS has done. Trump has a much more delicate problem; how to eradicate some government and how to transform it in a conservative direction. His opposition will be huge.

Did anybody else notice the far bigger problem in the chart? Assuming it is showing all cabinet-level positions for those administrations, look at the growth!
Carter 12
Reagan 13
Bush 41 14
Clinton 14
Bush 43 14
Obama 15

That is a BAD trend.

[Steve_Seattle]

“W” was forced to delay his appointments because of the ongoing recount fiasco.

[ETL]

Thanks. Great graphic. Yet the liberal snooze media is jumping on Trump for being slow.

[rb22982]

Save for later

[Steve_Seattle]

Headline I'd like to see:

TRUMP WINS; MSM IN DISARRAY

[Pollster1]

Don’t mess up the narrative with facts. The narrative is that Trump can’t win the nomination. Just kidding. He can win the nomination, but he can’t win the election. Kidding again. He can win the election, but he can’t do the job.

Trump can’t do the job. He can’t name a cabinet. Okay, he’s ahead of Obama on naming a cabinet and doing the job, but it’s a different era, so he needs to be held to a higher standard. And, by the way, the huge stock market boom since the election? Obama gets credit, since he’s still in power until January 20, 2017. The sudden boom has nothing to do with the election results. After all, Trump can’t do the job (see narrative above).

[fortheDeclaration]

Exactly!