Donald Trump has hinted at who might be in his cabinet, should he win the U.S. Election next month.
Appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said that “a lot of the people” who were at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner last night would be in his prospective cabinet.
“We had some tremendous people [at the dinner.] That room really had some great people,” Trump told hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones.
The only candidate Trump directly named was Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who pulled out of the election as an independent to throw his support behind Trump.
When pressed by Earhardt as to whether RFK Jr would be involved, the former president confirmed it, saying, “He’s going to be a part of it.”
Former Republican presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Trump has confirmed he would appoint RFK Jr to his cabinet if elected.
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Trump then cited RFK Jr’s interest in “women’s health” and the “environment” as reasons for his popularity and commented that the Kennedy scion “looked good last night” at the Alf Smith dinner.
Kennedy has named some prospective measures, including a Make America Health Again initiative and revisitation of the standards of chemicals and pesticides, as ideas for a Trump administration explore.
However, Trump did not specifically name any other prospective cabinet candidates in the interview with Fox News—instead opting to deploy his famed “weave” tactic to avoid answering the question.
When pushed on the issue of who would be in the cabinet by Kilmeade, Trump said, “Look, I think it’s a little bit early. I have great people at every position.”
Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum, former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, former Republican party presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, former New York Representative Lee Zeldin, former United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and even Elon Musk have all been cited as potential candidates for a Trump cabinet.
Elsewhere in the Fox and Friend‘s sit down, Trump made a series of interesting statements.
Discussing what he would do if elected for a second time, Trump revealed his plans to shut down the Department of Education and defund public schools that adopt liberal curriculums.
“We’re gonna take the Department of Education and close it. I’m going to close it.”
Recently, Trump alleged on the campaign trail that the Department of Education is a “waste” of taxpayers’ money that enables schools to “indoctrinate America’s youth” with extreme ideologies.
When asked by Kilmeade what he would do to schools that deliberately “get rid of history” and promote a “this is America built off the backs of slaves on stolen land” style curriculum, Trump confirmed that he would defund those schools.
“We don’t send them money. We would save half of our budget.”
Trump also used the interview to claim that, abortion aside, women love him.
“I think I do very well with women,” Trump said. “I see the polls, we do well. You have one issue, the issue of abortion. Without abortion, the women love me. Now they like me anyway because what I’ve done is so good. I’ve taken this issue out of the federal government.”
Trump has maintained that if elected he would leave the issue of abortion legislation to the states.
The issue of abortion has become one of the key debates in the US Election, with the overturned Roe v. Wade legislation becoming a liability for Republicans.
Trump has so far been inconsistent on his abortion stance, struggling to find a middle ground that would appease both more liberal swing voters and the Christian right.
Elsewhere in the interview, Trump shut down Kamala Harris‘s claims that he was “unstable” and “unhinged” by proclaiming himself “most stable human being.”
“Remember they said a stable genius. I am the most stable human being, I’ve been doing this for a long time.”
The former president also took the opportunity to have a go at Fox News for airing negative ads about him, saying that it never happened in the “old days.”
He also revealed that he complains about the negative ads “all the time” and admitted that he “loves” complaining.
Newsweek has emailed the Trump campaign for comment.
