Trump considers Romney as top US diplomat

President-elect Donald Trump greets former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in February. Nevertheless, with the way speculation on Trump’s nominees has changed from day to day over the past week, Romney’s chances at this point seem as good as anyone’s. The two rarely traded barbs head-on, but in a tweet almost a year ago, Trump slammed de Blasio as the worst mayor in the country. He said the picture of Trump’s administration would become clearer over the next two or three weeks.

Trump endorsed Romney’s presidential bid but then accused the former MA governor of screwing up a winnable campaign. As recently as March, the outspoken former governor dedicated an entire speech to denouncing Trump’s bid for the White House, in which he declared that “dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark”. Trump fired back by calling Romney a failure, but egos may have been put aside, as Trump has also met with other former GOP opponents in an attempt at party unity. The State Department has said it had yet to hear from Trump’s transition team, raising the prospect of the Republican holding the meeting without any input from career diplomats with deep experience dealing with Japan. The Associated Press, citing a senior Trump official, said Flynn is being offered the national security adviser job that will give him direct access to the Oval Office.

Romney chastised Trump for proposing a ban on all foreign Muslims entering the United States. Romney also tweeted “Best wishes for our duly elected president”.

That’s according to her new biography on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition website, GreatAgain.gov. And another thing: Why would Trump need to coopt Romney, exactly?

Still, Trump transition team member Sen.

New York City charter school leader Eva Moskowitz is out of the running to be education secretary for President-elect Donald Trump.

November 17, 2016: Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail, not to mention a few threats to other foreign countries to start picking up the slack on their own national defence.

Conway also says in a nationally broadcast interview she believes her boss is prepared for the weight of the presidency. I’m not sure Trump needs to coopt him.

One good reason to install Romney as secretary of state would be to set up a good cop/bad cop dynamic to manipulate Vladimir Putin.

“In 2000 the country went to Thanksgiving without knowing who the president was, ” she said, referring to the legal fight following the contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore.