Political outsiders from Las Vegas waitress to richest man in the world are pitching in.
The president-elect has snubbed Washington advisers in preference for business outsiders and influencers with massive social media followings.
His advisers are said to range from captains of industry to a Las Vegas waitress Trump says was the inspiration behind his proposal to stop taxing tips.And the setting for the new power players in government is not the back corridors of the nation’s capital but the curtained-off rooms at Trump’s It’s a “positive type of startup culture,” one person involved in the transition meetings told Politico, adding that Trump and his team are “pulling the best people into the room to give ideas, regardless of titles.“There’s a lot of different factions. There’s a lot of people calling Trump. There’s a lot of people who thought one thing was set in stone and are finding out that’s not the case, and the chessboard is going to be shuffled a lot in the coming weeks,” added another insider.
Musk is said to be a dominant influence and, says Politico, has been in the room during Trump’s calls with world leaders.The Trump team is determined to avoid the mistakes at the start of his first term when a procession of candidates was paraded in front of the cameras going in and out of Trump Tower in New York.mock White House Situation Room
, complete with banks of TV monitors, as they sift through “digital dossiers” of candidates for about 40 Cabinet positions and agency leadership roles.
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