[McGruff]

Old Reince better start polishing his resume. The GOPfather has spoken.

[ScottinVA]

Even Trumpolini the Orange Glorious doesn’t have that kind of power. RNC chairs are elected at committee meetings.

[MamaB]

Great. RP has no business in that job.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Good riddance, too.

[Southnsoul]

Lord, I love this man!

[Just mythoughts]

Maybe Romney can find another job for his ‘prince’. Personally, I want the whole GOPe fired and standing on the street corner with a begging cup, and a sign... ‘will work for food’.

[dragnet2]

On inauguration day, President Trump ought to drive the USS Iowa up the Potomac River for the festivities.

[castlegreyskull]

This is the reason why the GOP oppose Trump. They know that they are going to get canned.

[OrangeHoof]

Rinsed Plebe has done little for us anyway. How often has he been silent as Obama trampled the Constitution?

[conservative98]

Look at all the Cruz supporters coning to Reince’s defense. smh.

[D-fendr]

If Trump is head of the party, the next nominee will be decided by highest number Twitter followers.

:)

[Darren McCarty]

Donald Trump doesn’t have the power to make that decision. It’s not his decision to make.

[McGruff]

[magglepuss]

Replace him with Palin. I would soooooooo love that.

[SamAdams76]

Reince Priebus.

Charles Dickens himself couldn't have come up with a better Dickensian name for a pompous, arrogant, out-of-touch effete elitist.

[moehoward]

Shot/Bow.

[BigEdLB]

Agree Rinse Fleabait needs to polish that resume. He ought appoint someone outside the box as the new chairman. You know who might be good, but Trump would be accused of nepotism of the highest order... Don, Jr.

[OKSooner]

'Twould seem implicitly obvious to me...

Reince can go start himself up a Whig party with all his buddies.

[Amendment10]

The constitutionlly undefined political parties have done great damage to the constitutional republic imo, particularly with respect to ignoring state sovereignty. And constitutionally low-information Trump evidently does not understand this.

Trumps supporters need to get him up to speed on the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.

[Trump-a-licious]

I think he should fire, and if he can’t reassign as game officer in Alaska amost everybody in charge of anything right now ...

[sphinx]

Donald really does need to learn what he's talking about before running his mouth. The RNC Chairman is elected by the RNC members, who consist of the National Committeeman, National Committeewoman, and State Chairman of each of the state and territorial parties. The presidential nominee does not automatically take over the machinery of the RNC, nor does the nominee, or even a sitting president, automatically name the RNC Chairman.

There is indeed a long tradition that the RNC, post convention, will hand the reins to the nominee. This usually involves the movement of a portion of the campaign staff onto the RNC payroll, including some in senior, directing positions. But that is a matter of voluntary deference. The RNC is legally independent of the nominee and in theory could choose not to accommodate him. That would be unusual, but Trump is creating all sorts of unusual situations.