With impressive speed and, this time, decisiveness, the returning President Donald Trump is assembling his Cabinet, advisors, and key management appointees to take over the stalled federal government next month.
He knows what he wants this time, and he's determined to get it.
Trump gave his first post-election interview this week on his opening agenda and presented a calm, self-confident persona, even during aggressive questioning.
Given the political, rhetorical, and moral morass of Joe Biden's first and last White House lease, the transition of power cannot come too soon. It's 39 days still, which is also 56,160 minutes or, worse, 3,369,600 seconds.
The 82-year-old Joe Biden has taken 40 percent of his 48-month term on vacation at $400,000 a year. To the extent that he's doing anything, Biden is mailing it in. Same for his political partner, the salad chef.
He milked the privilege of Air Force One one last time (at $250,000 per flying hour) to fly the 15 hours to Angola to nap through a meeting there. And another $3.75 million to bring him home in comfort.
The contrast in energy and mental acuity is astounding with Trump, who's only 42 months younger. At his victory rally on election night, Trump began announcing his new team, beginning with the first female White House Chief of Staff in history, Susie Wiles.
Given her key campaign role as organizer and calming presence, that's a promising sight. Most every new presidential administration begins with promise. Well, maybe not this dying one.
Trump has been a blur naming staff and Cabinet, often several in a day. That's what we look at in this week's audio commentary here, including something that half his Cabinet has in common.
This Sunday's column discussed Joe Biden's latest shameless, broken promise, going back on his pre-election vow not to pardon his son, Hunter, from all of his convictions for lying on federal forms to get a firearm illegally and dodging millions in income taxes over many years.
And to be safe, the sad president also granted his wayward son a blanket pardon covering nearly 11 years, you know, just in case some other illegal activities during that span happen to emerge in the future. They seem to know something we don't yet.
The Biden family is incorrigible, all of them. And just to be honest, I didn't just discuss Biden's unethical acts; I denounced them.
The most recent audio commentary drew some strong comments on one of Joe Biden's favorite phrases, "It's the God's truth." Another one is "Biden family honor," of which there actually is none.
It's tempting to note that the 46th president has a serious problem with honesty. But the truth is, he doesn't have a problem with honesty. He doesn't have any honesty. So, no problem.
My RedState colleagues have been chronicling the ongoing danger of Joe Biden's final days as commander in chief. Here's what happened when his teleprompter stopped feeding him words to say. That resulting public mess would be funny if...Nah, it's just funny.
Remember last year when China sent a balloon carrying a giant intel-gathering unit the size of two school buses to drift over the United States at 60,000 feet and radio data back to Beijing? For some reason, Joe Biden did nothing about it until a week later when the unit's mission was complete.
Now, a swarm of unidentified drones have been spotted over several parts of the country. And the FBI just arrested a Chinese national accused of flying one over the Vandenberg Space Force base on the California coast.
And we just learned that Trump has invited China's leader, Xi Jinping, to the inauguration, the kind of unpredictable, unorthodox move Trump enjoys.
