Talk:Political appointments of the second Trump administration

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Announcement Date

I think this page could benefit from adding a column for official announcement dates for each position. Announcement date is included on the Second cabinet of Donald Trump page in addition to the assuming office date. Lexicon Insight (talk) 17:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Gaetz inclusion

Should Gaetz even be put in this article? Donald Trump is not yet the President of the United States, and the announcements (despite the work done on this article) are not yet appointments. Gaetz withdrew before any official process involving his appointment or nomination to the role of Attorney General actually began. This is an unprecedented move, to my knowledge no one announced by a President-elect of the United States withdrew their name from consideration after the announcement made by the transition. For reference, Neera Tanden, who received an official nomination by President Joe Biden and was the transition's announced candidate, withdrew from consideration after being referred to committee in the Senate. Tanden is omitted from the List of political appointments by Joe Biden and List of Executive Office appointments by Joe Biden articles. Mortifeye (talk) 19:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missing appointees

James Braid (incoming director of the Office of Legislative Affairs) and Matthew Brasseaux (incoming director of the Office of Political Affairs) aren't listed on this page: [1] --1990'sguy (talk) 02:32, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Layout

Why are the departments alphabetical instead of by line of succession? Dickeyaustin786 (talk) 13:57, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Red links

@Aisrotkev8000: Removing links to articles that have not been created but have drafts is disruptive. See WP:REDDEAL. Keep the links there; they will be moved to mainspace eventually. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 14:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

I'm seeing a wealth of pictures in Google images for many named appointees. Perhaps they could be provided. BTW, a passing thought on looking up pictures is that the ethnic distribution of picks is so striking as to seem deliberately weighted. A section focusing on that salient phenomenon might be in order. Perhaps it could be subsumed under the existing "Reception". JohndanR (talk) 19:14, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see pic come in all shapes and sizees does it really matter if we have Chopped/Closeups or unchopped? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:A031:5523:258B:4A81:3DF7:FF2C (talk) 18:17, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we should leave them as cropped when possible to standardize the page as most images use closeups of the individuals. NathanBru (talk) 01:47, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Well Adding the Word Chop to each picture just makes the page to mutch Cluster There are almost 3,0000 GB's on this page. And I kepet some pics chopped becuse most of them has two people in them. I only unchopped the ones that only has the one person. And most of these pictures are tempary anyways until there offical Gov Pic comes out. We still need to add James Byron's pic https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff , Michelle King's pic https://web.archive.org/web/20250207161316/https://www.ssa.gov/agency/commissioner/ ,Marty Makary's new pic https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/martin-makary and Gail Slater's pic https://www.justice.gov/atr/staff-profile/assistant-attorney-general-gail-slater I don't know how to Upload pics And of corese we do need to make it as close as the first Trump appointment page. The First page only has the Two main office's for each department. And We do need to make a page for the VA appointments as well. If you could help me on that. That would be great. And I look Forward for your responce And Go TIGERS!!!!!2600:1004:A032:64B0:C1A2:B0B4:C1E4:AB7C (talk) 2600:1004:A032:64B0:C1A2:B0B4:C1E4:AB7C (talk) 02:06, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It barely clusters it at all, cropping the images. And leaving them uncropped is not standard Wikipedia practice for a page of this type.

Also, here is a link to help you navigate how to upload pictures. I’ve done it several times before and it is very easy :)Wikipedia:Uploading images NathanBru (talk) 02:33, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I am very busy now, but can work on uploading new official portraits in the coming days! NathanBru (talk) 02:35, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And yes, GO TIGERS AND GO LIONS! NathanBru (talk) 02:36, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found James Byron's pic but I don't know how to upload it https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff and Michelle King https://web.archive.org/web/20250207161316/https://www.ssa.gov/agency/commissioner/ and Leland Dudek's pic https://www.ssa.gov/agency/commissioner/ thanks.2600:1004:A032:64B0:F8E3:39B:1865:41DE (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:28, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are to mutch GB's we have 286,340 bytes on the main page right now. We need to shrink it down. And James Byron's pic https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff , Michelle King's pic https://web.archive.org/web/20250207161316/https://www.ssa.gov/agency/commissioner/ ,Marty Makary's new pic https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/martin-makary and Gail Slater's pic https://www.justice.gov/atr/staff-profile/assistant-attorney-general-gail-slater still needs to be uploaded to the Main page.2600:1004:A032:64B0:6C19:2455:119E:28D6 (talk) 10:39, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think it’s necessary to have acting appointments if they were only there for a short period of time

The Biden article did not have acting appointments unless they were serving for a extended period of time, the acting nominees just add unnecessary clutter Joshthepanthersfan (talk) 01:42, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some Ideas

Here are some Ideas I have to swink down the page I think for the refs for each of the Cabinet and level members we should have the offical ref for them and the lower Cabs below the Cab, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/cabinet-and-cabinet-level-appointments/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/sub-cabinet-appointments/ And He did appoint Chairmen and Acting Chairmen of Indpindent Boards. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designation-of-chairmen-and-acting-chairmen/

And Why is every person the President is appointing is on here this is why we have other pages for the lower staff like all the ambassaders and all of the attornes? The first Trump appointment page only has the 2 main jobs and the full Senate vote Secretary and Deputy Sec. Thanks so mutch. 2600:1004:A032:7F2A:3C4F:9B4:816:7DB (talk) 16:41, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Appointments and References January and Febuary 2025

Ok this page is missing the References for mostly all of the appointments we need to add them Under this section please add your appointment and Reference I know most people like me don't know how to add the References to the page like other users but we need to get things back in order.

Executive Office of the President https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/president-trump-announces-the-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:A032:64B0:84A0:D9D6:BA5B:CBC6 (talk) 03:10, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Department of Agriculture

Department of Commerce

Department of Defense

Department of Education https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/02/11/trump-appoints-biden-critic-nicholas-kent-under — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:A032:64B0:78EF:6084:66EA:745 (talk) 23:49, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Department of Energy

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Department of the Interior

Department of Justice

Department of Labor

Department of State

Department of Transportation

Department of the Treasury

Department of Veterans Affairs

Independent intelligence agencies

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/17/congress/trump-to-tap-michael-ellis-as-top-cia-lawyer-00199127

Cabinet-level independent agencies

Other independent agencies

Ok I hope this will get used please Help this page from the GB's we are passed 1,0000 GB's. Thanks. 2600:1004:A032:64B0:78EF:6084:66EA:745 (talk) 23:38, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Official Senate Nomination list

An easy reference list for all nominees officially transmitted to the Senate to possibly start thinning out some media references for Senate-confirmed positions: https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22nominations%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22119%22%7D 74.109.236.11 (talk) 00:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cora Alvi

What did happen with Cora Alvi? 191.9.57.216 (talk) 16:33, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Department of Justice

Under the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) heading Director Kash Patel took office February 21, 2025. Please fix this! 2601:447:C901:C5B0:24B5:B49C:DC59:5F7E (talk) 16:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ambassadors vs Charge de affairs

There’s no such thing as a acting ambassador, they’re called charge de affairs, and they’re not the same, please remove that sea of yellow Joshthepanthersfan (talk) 00:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I Updated the Color to orange to all of them but I think we should get rid of all the lower people any ways becuse it's not like the first Trump appointment page which only has the 2 main jobs for each department thats why someone made more pages for each department so there are not mutch people on here. And The VA never got a page made for there appointments.2600:1004:A032:64B0:DC99:1E34:4049:82AA (talk) 2600:1004:A032:64B0:DC99:1E34:4049:82AA (talk) 02:51, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

USPS

Should we use a truck or the coat of arms to represent it? 177.9.118.100 (talk) 22:33, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

coat of arms?2600:1004:A032:64B0:2CF8:2739:E725:7001 (talk) 2600:1004:A032:64B0:2CF8:2739:E725:7001 (talk) 00:53, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@2600:1004:A032:64B0:2CF8:2739:E725:7001: The federal one. 191.9.60.234 (talk) 20:10, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is Every DOGE Member a "Political Appointment"?

Seems inconsistent/excessive to include every DOGE member on this page. We are not including every staff level political appointee for every other department/agency. Shouldn't this page be limited to leadership/named positions? Or individuals appointed by the President directly? HelpHelp931 (talk) 19:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article view when viewed from a mobile phone.

I want to ask why this article looks weird when viewed from a mobile phone. But it is not weird when viewed from a computer or laptop. Maybe anyone can fix it so that the appearance of this article looks normal when viewed from a mobile phone. Thank you. Aisrotkev8000 (talk) 13:50, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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References

Ok people we need References on here not just saying where the References comes from just put them on. I know some people like me don't know how to put References on but that's ok Add them on here if you don't know how. And someone like 1990'sguy or Wollers14 can put them on the main page for you. And I don't know who added Michael Anton to Department of the Treasury with out a Ref but thank you 1990'sguy for fixing that. I know there are 2 offical websites to get the info off of WhiteHouse.gov and Congress.gov If you have to use a news Reference add it on here first if its not added for a while try adding it your self your let an expert know about your sourse. Thanks so mutch.2600:1004:A032:77CE:4D03:4B4F:8784:F541 (talk) 13:37, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Article length

This article is rather long. I recommend finding a way to split it.Edknol (talk) 21:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For the first Trump page it only has the two major nominees on their and only the small departments and agent sees are on that page only that’s why someone made separate pages for each of the cabinet departments for all their staffing. We need to keep up on those pages.2600:1004:A031:8253:B063:E429:E4C0:34C (talk) 2600:1004:A031:8253:B063:E429:E4C0:34C (talk) 05:09, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Limiting the list for DOGE to leadership/key positions and removing every "member" (which are arguably not "political appointments" in the traditional sense) and redirecting to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_of_the_Department_of_Government_Efficiency#List_of_members would cut this article down. HelpHelp931 (talk) 13:13, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is What the First Trump page looks like

Department of Agriculture

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Secretary of Agriculture	Sonny Perdue^[1]	April 25, 2017 (Confirmed April 24, 2017, 87–11)	January 20, 2021
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture	Stephen Censky	October 11, 2017 (Confirmed October 3, 2017, voice vote)^[2]	November 8, 2020

Department of Commerce

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Secretary of Commerce	Wilbur Ross^[3]	February 28, 2017 (Confirmed February 27, 2017, 72–27)	January 20, 2021
Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Karen Dunn Kelley^[4]	November 29, 2017	November 29, 2018
Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Karen Dunn Kelley^[4]	November 29, 2018 (Confirmed November 28, 2018, 62–38)	January 20, 2021

VS. This

Department of Agriculture

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Secretary of Agriculture	Brooke Rollins^[5]	February 13, 2025 (Confirmed February 13, 2025, 72–28)^{[RC 1]}
Secretary of Agriculture	Gary Washington^[6]	January 20, 2025	February 13, 2025
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture	Stephen Vaden^[7]	July 7, 2025 (Confirmed June 10, 2025, 51–44)^{[RC 2]}
General Counsel of Agriculture	Tyler Clarkson	Awaiting Senate Confirmation
Chief Financial Officer of Agriculture	Todd Lindsey
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation	Richard Fordyce
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs	Dudley Hoskins
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment	Michael Boren
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics	Scott H. Hutchins
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs	Luke Lindberg
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety	Mindy Brashears
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development	Glen Smith
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights	Devon Westhill
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights	Yvette Herrell
Inspector General of the United States Department of Agriculture	John Walk

I think we need to study the first Trump page to make the 2nd one look like the first and Nobody created a page for The VA Department people so we do need to make a page for them like the other departments. So lets put this to a Vote that will be open for 30 days Tuesday August 19th, 2025 August 20th we will Strip this page from Scrach and Fix it and all others and We need to keep up on the other pages. So Count me as a Yes for the First Floormat Version.2600:1004:A031:4512:1006:BEC3:5C2:C81C (talk)

^ Bluestein, Greg, "Breaking: Donald Trump taps Sonny Perdue as his agriculture chief", Atlanta Journal-Constitution", January 18, 2017.
^ "PN780 — Stephen Censky — Department of Agriculture 115th Congress (2017-2018)". US Congress. October 3, 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ Rappeport, Alan (February 27, 2017). "Wilbur Ross, a Billionaire Investor, Is Confirmed as Commerce Secretary". The New York Times.
^ "Under Secretary Kelley to Perform Nonexclusive Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Commerce" (Press release). November 29, 2017. Archived from the original on January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
^ Qiu, Linda (November 23, 2024). "Trump Picks Brooke Rollins, a Conservative Lawyer, to Lead Agriculture Dept". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2024. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
^ "President Trump Announces Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions". The White House. January 20, 2025. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
^ "Trump picks Vaden as deputy agriculture secretary". www.agri-pulse.com. Archived from the original on December 23, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2024.

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[1] Bluestein, Greg, "Breaking: Donald Trump taps Sonny Perdue as his agriculture chief", Atlanta Journal-Constitution", January 18, 2017.

[2] "PN780 — Stephen Censky — Department of Agriculture 115th Congress (2017-2018)". US Congress. October 3, 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2022.

[3] Rappeport, Alan (February 27, 2017). "Wilbur Ross, a Billionaire Investor, Is Confirmed as Commerce Secretary". The New York Times.

[4] "Under Secretary Kelley to Perform Nonexclusive Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Commerce" (Press release). November 29, 2017. Archived from the original on January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2018.

[5] Qiu, Linda (November 23, 2024). "Trump Picks Brooke Rollins, a Conservative Lawyer, to Lead Agriculture Dept". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2024. Retrieved November 23, 2024.

[acting2025-7] "President Trump Announces Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions". The White House. January 20, 2025. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved 2025-02-14.

[8] "Trump picks Vaden as deputy agriculture secretary". www.agri-pulse.com. Archived from the original on December 23, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2024.

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