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Cabinet appointments as political statements

The use of cabinet appointments by the Trump administration to make political statements and advance the president's agenda

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Jan 25, 2026
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How many generals did Trump appoint to his cabinet during his presidency?

The set of sources provided explicitly documents one appointment of a uniformed general to a Trump cabinet post — as Secretary of Defense in the first . The document collection supplied does not compr...

Jan 16, 2026
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What is the breakdown of Trump appointees by demographic characteristics and prior experience?

Donald Trump’s appointee profile shows a concentrated reshaping of federal institutions: a large, ideologically coherent cohort of federal judges (226 Article III judges, with an unusually high share ...