Trump the Campaign Trail Showman Returns, Taps Mattis for Defense Secretary

“Hey, in the great state of OH we didn’t have the upper echelon of politician, did we?”

Asked what he would do on his first day in office, Trump told Fox News he may address his campaign pledge to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, though he did not go into specifics. Federal law stipulates that generals must be retired for seven years before leading the Pentagon, but Mattis is expected to get a waiver from Congress.

Donald Trump, who is on what he calls a “thank you” tour, saluted his supporters in OH and made a surprise announcement that he will be offering the position of defense chief to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis.

That decision came after Trump, during the long presidential campaign, publicly called on the company to retain the jobs in Indianapolis and threatened to punish American companies that move operations overseas with stiff import tariffs.

“We didn’t break it”. He jokingly warned the Cincinnati crowd to “not tell anyone”.

On Wednesday, Trump said he would nominate former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin to lead the Treasury Department.

A dig followed against Ohio Governor John Kasich, a Republican who challenged him in the presidential primary and then refused to endorse him against Clinton.

“I will say this, it was very nice, your governor, John Kasich, called me after the election, he said congratulations, that was incredible”.

He boasted about his wins in Midwest states that typically vote Democratic saying: “We didn’t just break the blue wall, we shattered it”, and also veered off script to belittle a protester saying she was removed from the stadium “to go back to mommy”. Speaking of his experiences in Afghanistan, Mattis said in 2005 that “it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them”. Trump said, as the crowd uniformly and loudly chanted “Lock her Up!” Trump named Wilbur Ross, a billionaire known for his investments in distressed industries, as his nominee for commerce secretary. Today we made history and now the real work begins that is the second reason that I’m here today, I’m going to discuss the action plan to make America great again. They haven’t. If you’re genuinely interesting in being an effective critic of the next president, acting like Adolf Hitler is pounding at your doorstep every time Trump tweets something might not be the most effective plan in the long run.

“Stein is not an aggrieved candidate, she can not possibly win, and she is putting the participation of every single MI voter in jeopardy, for no reason, at an exorbitant cost to the MI taxpayers”. But that doesn’t make this the era of Trump; it means we’re still in the era of Washington, D.C. Freak out accordingly.

The president-elect embarked on his “Hunger Games”-style victory tour to bask in the glory of his unexpected win and say, “told you so” to everyone who ever doubted him – which actually makes for a number of people”. Breaking news, Donald Trump has won Florida.

Trump also invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a ‘ very engaging, animated’ phone conversation, according to a Duterte aide.

“I was proud to stand up and endorse [Trump] and vote for him, and the reason he’s going to be the next president is because of all of you out here who did the same exact thing”, he said.

Trump also used the rally to double down on bedrock campaign themes.

“It’s not just going to go to swing states”, Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg Politics said earlier this week on MSNBC.

Trump said little on foreign policy, except to criticize the $6 trillion spent on wars in the Middle East. In February, the heating-and-air-conditioning company said it would close the plant and send jobs to Mexico.

While the rally lacked some of the fury and seething sense of revolt that marked the final days of the election campaign, it was if nothing had changed since Trump became President-elect. “When you put rich people in charge, the economic policy will look more like what rich people would want”.