President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet was described as both “liberal” and perhaps “the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times” by Axios on Saturday morning.
While some of Trump’s far-right nominees have sent many of his strongest critics into making frenzied claims that Trump will weaponize the government against them, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei with Axios shared a different take.
In a Saturday report, the pair noted Trump’s government now includes a pro-abortion environmentalist, a pro-union Republican congresswoman, a former George Soros adviser, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate-turned-Republican.
Those picks are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Tulsi Gabbard, and Scott Bessent, respectively. Allen and VandeHei wrote:
Lost in the noise of Trump’s most controversial picks is the simple, undebatable fact that this might be the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times.
As Axios’ Zachary Basu told you, Trump’s Cabinet increasingly resembles a European-style coalition government, staffed with a dizzying array of ideological rivals united — for now — by a grand MAGA vision.