11/5/2018

CABINET/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump said Monday [11-5-18] that it’s likely there will be a shakeup of his Cabinet after the midterm elections, though he declined to elaborate on any changes aside from filling the vacant U.N. ambassador post. Trump told reporters before he left Washington for his final campaign blitz that ‘administrations usually make changes after midterms’ and predicted that his White House ‘will be probably right in that category too, it’s very customary.’ Any coming personnel moves wouldn’t be placed on any sort of timeline, the president said, except for naming his new U.N. ambassador, an announcement he said would come ‘before the end of the week.’ The current ambassador to the U.N., former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, unexpectedly tendered her resignation last month after less than two years on the job, though in an open press meeting with Trump in the Oval Office he said he’d known she would step down for about six months…The first two years of the Trump administration have seen remarkable levels of turnover, with eight Cabinet officials having been fired or resigned thus far.”

Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump teases post-midterm Cabinet shakeup,” Politico, November 5, 2018 2:17 pm