Trump Team Gallery
We've gathered together the entire Trump team, cabinet members—noted—and executive branch White House senior staff and advisors. Click through each for more background on each. We've kept departed team members as appropriate, and left our original questions or observations in place for your consideration.
Updated: December, 2021
Acosta
As Miami's U.S. Attorney, Acosta let a rich sex offender off easy in a deal. Who is he going to watch out for?
Acosta
Ayers
Pence rewarded Ayers with a plum position in the Administration for his work as a Trump campaign operative.
Ayers
Azar
Azar returned to government from big pharma. Opposed to the ACA, pushing predatory drug pricing, will he really look out for the American health services consumer?
Azar
Bannon
Bannon called himself a Leninist who wants to "bring everything crashing down." What if he manages to "destroy the establish
Bannon
Baum
Baum was a holdover who had worked in the White House almost two decades on drug policy.
Baum
Bernhardt
Former Interior Department lawyer and offiial, then lobbyist against environmental controls, now back "acting" for whose benefit?
Bernhardt
Bolton
Confrontationist and anti-globalist, is Bolton the best choice for a shrinking world where our collective survival requires teamwork?
Bolton
Carroll
Carroll is an experienced attorney. But can someone with no drug policy experience address the opioid crisis as the U.S. Drug Czar?
Carroll
Carson
He turned down an appointment saying he wasn't qualified. Trump appointed Carson anyway. What changed?
Carson
Chao
Chao served in the Department of Transportation. She's married to Mitch McConnell. Qualified or connected?
Chao
Clayton
He's a well-regarded long-time Wall Street lawyer. Will he swim with the sharks or protect the bathers?
Clayton
Coats
Did Trump ask him to help quash the FBI Russia probe? He's not saying. Does he stand for principle or for Trump?
Coats
Cohen
A career diplomat, Cohen filled in for Nikki Haley following her resignation.
Cohen
Conway
She savaged Trump while campaigning for Ted Cruz. Is that Trump is qualified to be President her ultimate personal alternative fact?
Conway
DeVos
DeVos is a charter and Christian school champion. Is public education best served by privatization and desecularization?
DeVos
Dubke
He pioneered super-PACs after Citizens United. The first to go as Trump blames the messenger, not the message?
Dubke
Flynn
He spoke at the Kremlin's anniversary celebration for its RT propaganda channel. He sat next to Putin. How close before too close?
Flynn
Gorka
Gorka is half of the Hungarian nationalist family affair in the White House. His wife helped wipe out DHS funding for anti-hate group Life After Hate.
Gorka
Haley
Haley has no diplomatic training or international experience. What image will she project for America?
Haley
Hargan
Hargan is a health services profesional and lawyer who worked in the Bush administration. Will his past experience be valued or ignored?
Hargan
Hicks
Trump appoints yet another of his politically inexperienced long-time business staff into a key position. How long can she uphold her reputation that she doesn't lie?
Hicks
Kelly
Trump gravitates to the military mentality as exuding strength. Is this the best approach to multi-dimensional domestic security?
Kelly
Kushner
Does merely being Trump's son-in-law qualify him to advise the President of the United States?
Kushner
Lighthizer
Lighthizer has accused China of unfair trade practices. Should we antagonize the holder of $1 trillion in U.S. debt?
Lighthizer
Mattis
Mattis hasn't been retired long enough to qualify as a civilian. More of Trump's militarism?
Mattis
McMahon
McMahon and her husband Vince built a business which peddles staged "reality." Our most qualified small business champion? Or pay to play?
McMahon
McMaster
McMaster is known as a "straight shooter." Can he succeed with the "gang that couldn't shoot straight"?
McMaster
Miller
A protegé of Jeff Sessions and Steve Bannon, is his brand of nationalism the kind that should have the President's ear?
Miller
Mnuchin
If Bernie Madoff and Goldman Sachs are the swamp, why pick Trump's campaign fund raiser swamp master?
Mnuchin
Mulvaney
When it comes to budgets, Mulvaney believes it's OK to shut down the government and that Planned Parenthood traffics dead babies.
Mulvaney
Nauert
She called D-Day an example of U.S.–German cooperation. Is Nauert our best and brightest to represent America on the U.N. diplomatic stage?
Nauert
Perdue
Will U.S. agriculture find a champion in a repeat climate science denier?
Perdue
Perry
Perry didn't know the DoE looks after America's nuclear arsenal when he wanted to get rid of the agency whose name he couldn't remember and now heads.
Perry
Pompeo
Pompeo is a "hawk." The CIA is, foremost, about intelligence. Will he advocate diplomacy or drones?
Pompeo
Price
Price intends to kill the Affordable Care Act by any mean possible. What happens to 30,000,000 newly insured under the ACA?
Price
Priebus
Priebus hitched his RNC chairmanship, political career, and the Republican party to the Trump bandwagon. Was his loyalty well-placed?
Priebus
Pruitt
Pruitt copied oil company memos onto his Congressional letterhead as his own. Will he destroy our health and planet for corporate profits?
Pruitt
Puzder
He prefers robots to staff. No sick time. No vacation. No retirement. Best for America's workers?
Puzder
Ross
The "King of Bankruptcy" and "distressed assets" loves deregulation. Will he now look out for the common worker?
Ross
Scaramucci
Mooch! We barely got to know ya! The Mooch was fired before he even got on the official White House payroll.
Scaramucci
Sessions
He prosecuted civil rights workers simply registering black voters for voter fraud. This is now our AG protecting civil and voting rights?
Sessions
Shine
Part of the White House-FOX News revolving door, was apparently covering for Alles' sexual misconduct his qualification for employment?
Shine
Short
Short is a long time conservative political operative and former Koch brothers employee. Will he push legislation for the top 1% or for working Americans?
Short
Shulkin
Shulkin headed New York's Beth Israel Medical Center, walking the halls at night to check quality of care. Can he fix the V.A.?
Shulkin
Spicer
Perhaps it wasn't so much the messenger as the message of what Kellyanne Conway dubbed "alternative facts"
Spicer
Tillerson
Champion of working America on the world stage, or Russia's stooge?
Tillerson
Ivanka
Does merely being Trump's daughter qualify her to advise the President of the United States?
Ivanka
Wheeler
As a coal industry lobbyist Wheeler has advocated for dirtier air and government subsidies for coal. What, and who, will Wheeler protect?
Wheeler
Wright
An empty cupboard compels Trump to appoint an HHS professional as acting Secretary after Tom Price resigns over his $1+ million dollar air travel bill.
Wright
Zinke
His first act was to bring back lead bullets banned in January because eating venison could raise lead levels in humans by 50%?
Zinke
Who Else?
Of some 4,000 positions, thousands remain unfilled. Were that many staff getting nothing done under Obama, or is nothing getting done without them under Trump?