Well, the Trumpasaur certainly has not kept anyone waiting or guessing (much) with respect to his picks for his future Administration. There has been a blizzard of names emerging out of the God-Emperor’s camp of late, and the resulting howls of rage and despair – from both his detractors AND his supporters – have been noisy, to say the least.

Some of the names on the list – John Ratcliffe, former DNI, for the CIA, Mike Waltz for National Security Advisor, Elise Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN, Tom Homan for “border Czar”, and a few others – are not really particularly surprising, as these are ardent Trump loyalists who share many (though probably not all) of T-Rex’s views on policy. The appointment of Kirsti Noem as Homeland Secretary is not unexpected – though, to be honest, I find Mrs. Noem’s face more than a little weird, as it looks like it is actually made of leather.

Some – Tulsi Gabbard for the new Director of National Intelligence, Brolon MuZk and Vivek Ramaswamy for this interesting new outfit called “Department of Government Efficiency” – are very intriguing. The latest – Bobby Kennedy Jr. for Health & Human Services Secretary – is pure AWESOMESAUCE. Even though RFK Jr. is a liberal (mostly, though not entirely, in the classical sense), he and I could probably find a lot of room for agreement on many things. Same goes for Mrs. Gabbard, who is a handsome enough lady in her own right, and has suffered tremendously for her moral courage in standing up to the Daemoncratic elites.

Matt Gaetz for Attorney General is simply EPIC. The meltdowns and salt-mining have already begun in the Justice Department, and they are GLORIOUS to behold. I do believe he genuinely wants to torch the place and find out where the bodies are buried.

A few picks are a bit frustrating. Mike Huckabee for Ambassador to Israel strikes me as just plain silly. Appointing a Christian Zionist as Ambassador to a country that appears to be doing its absolute level best to pull the United States into a regional war with Iran – a war that Israel itself is very plainly LOSING – strikes me as foolish even at the best of times. And these are not the best of times, at all.

One or two are genuinely off the wall. This is not a bad thing, necessarily. The Trumpasaur has proven in the past that he can find and cultivate skilled talent. But Pete Hegseth as the new Secretary of Defence is unusual even by Trumpian standards. The guy has no background whatsoever in managing a large organisation, though he does seem to be a bit less of a war-crazed lunatic, at least when it comes to Russia, than most of the FAUX News assclowns.

The one appointment that is a genuine face-desk moment, is Cucko Rubio for Secretary of State.

When I first heard of the appointment, I groaned and thought, “oh Lord no, T-Rex hasn’t learned ONE DAMNED THING from the colossal mistakes of his first term”. But I may have judged too quickly. See, one of my readers contacted me separately, and explained patiently that the Trumpasaur is likely playing the long game here.

The theory goes like this:

By appointing Li’l Gamma Marco to SecState, T-Rex gets him out of the Senate – thereby allowing Ron DeSantis to appoint a Senator who will be directly in line with Trump’s vision. This removes a particularly treacherous and oleaginous obstacle to Trump’s policies from the Senate. This also then paves the way for DeSantis himself to make a Senate run after his term as Governor expires – and thus opens up a path to the Presidency after 2030.

This all of course assumes the Trumpasaur has an actual strategic vision. Bitter past experience has shown he often does not. For all the copium about him playing “4D Chess” and whatnot, the reality is, quite a lot of the time, T-Rex is flying by the rather ample seat of his pants.

More than that, it is worth stating, for the record, that which is obvious:

Li’l Gamma Cucko is a mere BOY. He is a naive idiot when it comes to international diplomacy. Can you imagine that assclown standing next to true titans of international diplomacy?

Just think of what REAL diplomats, like China’s Wang Yi, or India’s Dr. Subramaniam Jaishankar, will do with an inexperienced moron of a neoclown like Rubio.

And, if you really want to laugh yourself silly – meaning, literally, laugh until you cannot breathe and your entire torso hurts – just imagine Cucko trying to take on Sergei CHADrov, perhaps the single most capable, respected, and talented diplomat alive today. The very IDEA is idiotic on its face.

I will say, though, that the God-Emperor I see today, is rather different from what I remember in 2016.

Yes, he is still bold, brash, loud, and silly. Yes, he lacks substance and his style is crass. And yes, his vocabulary appears to be restricted primarily to superlatives, and is about a thousand words in total.

But I also see a Trump that has been through Hell itself. He almost died in Butler earlier this year – I firmly believe it was only by the hand of God that Trump is still alive today. Something about him has changed, subtly – he appears much more resolute, and far more deliberate, in his actions (if not his words).

So it has proven with these appointments.

The team he is assembling, is fundamentally one of people loyal to Trump himself, who basically share his vision. They come from radically different walks of life. Many (not all) are outsiders to the Deep State system, the permanent Swamp bureaucracy, that has chewed up past Presidential Administrations and spat them out, including President Trump’s first one.

And what, exactly, is the Trumpian vision?

That is much harder to answer. As far as I can tell, it consists of: “‘MURICA!!! F**K YEAH!!!!!!”, and not a whole lot else.

If that vision amounts to “restoring America as the world’s indispensable and unipolar power”, then that is not going to fly. The world has fundamentally changed in the 4 years since Trump left office the last time.

Russia is a global superpower once again, immune to sanctions pressure and confidently winning in the 404 war. Its military is without question the best in the world at actual combat operations.

China is no longer as dependent on US trade as it once was. Total US-China trade turnover is something on the order of US$560B these days – but Chinese trade with the other BRICS states is in excess of US$1.6 TRILLION. US tariffs on China are no longer quite the weapon they once were.

The world is moving against the dollar, away from the US, and toward bilateral and multilateral settlements in national currencies. The US itself is becoming a pariah state in much of the world, because it supports the Gazacaust to the hilt, and is so clearly two-faced and forked-tongued in all matters related to this ridiculous so-called “rules-based international order”.

Nobody can define the rules, no one knows what they are, and the other countries of the world are getting frankly sick and tired of being lectured by a bankrupt, morally derelict nation that threatens to bomb anyone that does not conform to its vision of democracy.

America is rapidly becoming the Super Earth from Helldivers 2, defending “managed democracy” – but without the sense of fun (and ridiculously nerfed weapons).

A policy of “‘MURICA!!! F*** YEAH!!!” is not going to cut it in a multipolar world, where the BRICS+ nations can settle trade in their own digital blockchain-based system, using national currencies. Nor is it going to work in a nation that no longer really produces much – certainly not in comparison to countries like Russia, India, and especially China, all of which have COLOSSAL manufacturing and industrial bases.

There is one area of serious concern. His entire Administration is now full of Iran hawks, who hate the Persians. Some of them want to go directly to war with Iran, which is stupidity on steroids and HGH. Not ONE of those people seems to understand that Iran is a country of 80 million people, with a landmass roughly double that of France’s, and which has hypersonic long-range ballistic (and probably now cruise) missiles, as well as Russian-designed air defences, that render null and void any long-range strike capabilities the FUSA and its allies might have.

War with Iran is a particularly special kind of insanity, and it appears, unfortunately, that most of the new Trumpians have Iran on the brain.

Nonetheless, the Trumpian appointments give me reason to hope that future US policy will be saner, less aggressive, and more inclined toward talking first and shooting second. We must never forget that the God-Emperor’s first instincts – for better and worse – are always to negotiate first.

He lacks the killer instinct required to be a true wartime President, despite his rhetoric and bluster. Instead, he seeks to make a deal and avoid killing, if he can.

This is very much to the good. We must not forget that it was the first Trump Administration that finally opened up dialogue with North Korea, and which signed off the Abraham Accords (which the Israelis have since managed to ruin comprehensively, thanks to their epic miscalculations).

As with everything else Trump-related, we must wait and see what happens next. There is little point speculating what Ornj Boi will do. If there is one thing of which we can be certain, though, it is that Washington, D.C., can no longer expect “business as usual”.

That, at least, is very much to the good.