United States President-elect Donald Trump will not take office at the White House until January 20, 2025 to succeed Joe Biden. Until then, he is already preparing his future administration and has announced upcoming appointments.
First officializations. Just elected 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, whose inauguration is not scheduled until January 20, 2025, has begun in recent days to announce the names of those who will constitute his administration for his second term in office. White House, when he asked senators on Sunday, November 10, to be able to do without their approval, in principle obligatory, to appoint the highest officials of his future administration.
• Tom Homan, “Border Czar”, at immigration
Announced on Sunday, Tom Homan, 62, will make a return to the Trump administration, after having already participated from 2017 to 2021, when the businessman was elected president for the first time.
Nicknamed “the Border Tsar” by Donald Trump, Tom Homan will return to the position he already held the first time, taking the head of border and immigration control (ICE).
Known for taking a hard line on immigration, he contributed to the detention of nearly 4,000 migrant children, separated from their parents. For the next few years, he will be responsible for “all expulsions of illegal aliens to their country of origin”, assured Donald Trump, believing that “there is no one better than him to monitor and control our borders” .
• Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff
Donald Trump's campaign manager, Susie Wiles, played a key role in the Republican's victory against Kamala Harris on November 5.
She was thus rewarded by obtaining an ultra-strategic position with the president-elect as chief of staff of the White House. This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to this position.
Nicknamed “ice baby” by Donald Trump, Susie Wiles, 67, is renowned for her imperturbable temperament in all circumstances. “Susie is tough, intelligent, creative, admired and respected everywhere,” praised the president at the time of the announcement.
• Elise Stefanik, United States Ambassador to the UN
Republican representative from New York, Elise Stefanik is strongly anticipated to have been chosen by Donald Trump as ambassador of the United States to the United Nations, according to American media.
“Elise is an incredibly strong, tenacious and intelligent fighter for America,” assured Donald Trump in a statement to the New York Post.
A “strong ally” of the Republican and “important fundraiser” during his campaign, according to CNN, she did not always support Donald Trump.
She even openly criticized him during the primaries in 2016 and after his election to the White House, before forcefully defending him when he was threatened with impeachment in 2019 and after his defeat in 2020 against Joe Biden.
• Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy pressentis
Other names are also mentioned to complement the Trump administration. Among them, we include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the Democratic president assassinated in 1963. Initially an independent presidential candidate, he gave up partway through to join Donald Trump. He is expected to obtain responsibilities in public health.
The richest man in the world and boss of the social network X, Elon Musk could be rewarded for his active support, particularly financially, of the Republican during the campaign.
While he figured prominently in the Trump family photo after the septuagenarian's victory, he could be responsible for profoundly reorganizing the federal administration, according to Agence France-presse.
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Donald Trump has also already announced on his Truth Social network on Saturday that Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state, and that Nikki Haley, who served as US ambassador to the UN during his first mandate will not make their return within his administration.
Juliette Desmonceaux with AFP
