Multiple outlets report that President Trump has selected investor and hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to serve as Treasury secretary. One source told the New York Post that Bessent “got the thumbs up” after a meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night. Breaking: Donald Trump named hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department https://t.co/GGiiIAalVK — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 22, 2024 From the New York Post: Bessent, the 62-year-old founder of Key Square Group, has repeatedly backed the president-elect’s pro-tariff stance in a series of op-eds and media appearances over the past year. A source close to the Trump transition team told the Post earlier on Friday that the hedge fund executive was “being vetted” for the role ahead of a formal announcement. “If you want to bring a genius into that job who is loyal to the president, Scott is the right guy,” one source close to the situation said. One faction of Trump World had been pushing for Bessent for weeks, trying to outmaneuver Howard Lutnick — the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and co-chair of Trump’s transition team — in what had reportedly escalated into a bitter “knife fight” for the coveted role. Trump chose Lutnick for the role of Commerce secretary. “We may not have to get to tariffs, but the threat of tariffs will change the quality and fairness of a lot of historically poor trade deals,” Bessent said. WATCH: Scott Bessent on tariffs: "We may not have to get to tariffs, but the threat of tariffs will change the quality and fairness of a lot of historically poor trade deals." pic.twitter.com/XEzDySboPH — Guido Austin (@nob0dy162877102) November 16, 2024 “President Trump has selected CEO and Founder of Key Square Capital Management, Scott Bessent, to lead the Treasury Department. A phenomenal pick. Expect the markets to react favorably,” Charlie Kirk commented. WATCH: BREAKING: President Trump has selected CEO and Founder of Key Square Capital Management, Scott Bessent, to lead the Treasury Department. A phenomenal pick. Expect the markets to react favorably. pic.twitter.com/dHBv5vASZX — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 22, 2024 In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Bessent wrote that Trump will “repair the Biden damage, and his pro-growth agenda will drive private investment.” “Donald Trump is the most transformative political figure of this century,” Bessent told Steve Bannon. “As a financial analyst, I could see that the way the Biden administration was racking up the debt during their four years that there is a tipping point where you cannot grow your way out of it,” he said. “I’ve been on here several times saying we have to re-privatize the economy. Biden-Harris plan was an old-style central planning bordering on Soviet-style plan,” he added. WATCH: Scott Bessent talks about how this is our last chance to re-privatize the economy. He discusses how the biggest burden of the Biden administration has been regulations. pic.twitter.com/yzseGawkxf — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 16, 2024 Per Reuters: Bessent has advocated for tax reform and deregulation, particularly to spur more bank lending and energy production, as noted in a recent opinion piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal. The market’s surge after Trump’s election victory, he wrote, signaled investor “expectations of higher growth, lower volatility and inflation, and a revitalized economy for all Americans.” Bessent follows other financial luminaries who have taken the job, including former Goldman Sachs executives Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson and Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s first Treasury chief. Janet Yellen, the current secretary and first woman in the job, previously chaired the Federal Reserve and White House Council of Economic Advisers. As the 79th Treasury secretary, Bessent would essentially be the highest-ranking U.S. economic official, responsible for maintaining the plumbing of the world’s largest economy, from collecting taxes and paying the nation’s bills to managing the $28.6-trillion Treasury debt market and overseeing financial regulation, including handling and preventing market crises. The Treasury boss also runs U.S. financial sanctions policy, oversees the U.S.-led International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other international financial institutions, and manages national security screenings of foreign investments in the U.S.

Oh boy does Elon Musk have the Far-Left all riled up today, and I’m loving every minute of it! Actually, we have to include Don Jr. too for being the instigator…. Let me back up for a second and remind you how Elon’s purchase of Twitter started. It all started with this seemingly innocent and innocuous Tweet back in December of 2017, with Elon saying “I love Twitter”, a guy named Dave Smith saying “You should buy it then” and the Elon actually responding with: “How much is it?” The rest, of course, is history. Many twists and turns along the way, but of course Elon famously bought Twitter, renamed it to X, saved Free Speech, has been melting liberal minds ever since, and the rest is basically history. And history, it seems, may be repeating itself. Because news broke today that Comcast will be putting MSNBC up for sale because, well, it’s hemorrhaging cash and doing terribly, which I know may come as quite the shock (sarcasm alert!)…..so then Don Jr. reposted that and tagged Elon Musk to suggest Elon should buy it: Hey @elonmusk I have the funniest idea ever!!! https://t.co/OEwz6S5ncs — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 22, 2024 And then Elon responded with his classic phrase: How much does it cost? How much does it cost? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024 Oh boy! I’ve seen this movie before, I know how this ends! And liberals immediately began absolutely melting down…. Elon the followed up by saying the most entertaining outcome is the most likely, which further doubled down on the possibility of the purchase: The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely https://t.co/YX2EznXfoF — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024 Mario Nawfal followed up by saying the price was $8 billion but could be reduced by firing Mark Cuban, errrrr I mean Rachel Maddow: I hear it’s about $ 8 billion for the lot of them… but if you fire Maddow, you’d instantly save $30 million a year…https://t.co/rTAmOBhpz2 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 22, 2024 What do you think? Could Elon actually purchase it? Integrate it with X maybe? A foray into merging traditional media with social media, a first foothold in the old world space? I actually really like it. And I love the name/logo options: New logo for Trump/Elon MSNBC acquisition… Which one? pic.twitter.com/aGcyeb1H4K — Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) November 22, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly nominated Scott Bessent to be the next U.S. Treasury Secretary after Trump takes office in January. “I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Scott is widely respected as one of World’s foremost International Investors and Geopolitical and Economic Strategists,” Trump said in a statement. ?NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. pic.twitter.com/nFII1dRqd2 — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 23, 2024 The 62-year-old billionaire hedge fund manager, who is the founder of Key Square Capital Management, advised Trump on economic policy during his most recent presidential campaign. Bessent rose to prominence as the chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management, founded by Democrat megadonor George Soros. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE He led the firm’s efforts betting against currencies, which brought in billions of dollars in profit. The president-elect also noted that Bessent “has long been a strong advocate of the America First Agenda.” Trump reportedly likes him because he “converted to the MAGA movement” after working for Soros, CNN reported. This is breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

Now that our government is being run by a faceless, unelected cabal of credentialed socialist elites who are so intellectually brilliant they have passed beyond the golden realm of genius into an ethereal dumpster of complete stupidity, there is not much left for our dementia-riddled president to do except lie in his lawn chair, eat Jello and start a nuclear war with Russia. The end of the world began as national leaders gathered at the G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro this week, where President Biden was disappointed to learn that Peking Lame Duck did not mean that dinner was Chinese take-out but just that he had to stand behind Xi Jinping in the group photo. So as important world leaders — like whoever the president of Indonesia is — rose to give speeches promoting world peace, the dejected Biden wandered off to finish coloring the Winnie-the-Pooh-Gets-Stuck-in-a-Knothole page of his briefing book, and then give Ukraine permission to fire American-made long range missiles into a country run by a power hungry lunatic with a nuclear arsenal large enough to reduce the ruins of Great Britain to the ruins of Great Britain. In a speech delivered to a potted plant he mistook for a little girl with great-smelling hair, Biden explained why he changed his strategy from letting the war drag on forever through maundering incompetence to getting everyone on earth killed through maundering incompetence. The president told the adorable little plant, “Given the inexcusable aggression of Vladimir Putin’s reckless attempt to rebuild the Russian empire by invading a perfectly innocent cesspit of corruption like Ukraine, I just wanted to see the pretty streaks of light that missiles make when you fire them across the night sky. And by the way, your hair smells terrific, but I don’t think you should have dyed it green like that.” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ecstatic at being set free to recklessly provoke a nuclear power, and celebrated by adding yet another inexplicable ‘y’ to his last name, then goose-stepping back and forth through the rubble of a children’s hospital while spouting double-talk in a French accent in the hopes someone might mistake him for Napoleon. WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, responded to the attacks by lowering the Russian standard for nuclear retaliation. Whereas before, the Putin doctrine declared that a Russian nuclear attack could only be triggered as a self-defensive response to a ground invasion of the motherland, it now permits the launch of world-destroying total war as a gesture of annoyance at the crappy finale of Gilmore Girls or any other equivalently frothy-but-delightful streaming concoction. The doctrine is mitigated by the fact that nuclear launch cannot begin without the final approval of President Putin or anyone else wearing a spiked helmet and beating his bared chest while proclaiming his right to world domination. Among political conservatives, the sudden launch of American-made missiles from Ukraine into Russia set off a round of wild speculation as to Biden’s motives. Some claimed that the president had set World War III in motion as a reaction to the recent election results, because he felt a series of bright explosions that turned the sky into a sparkling wonderland of irradiated human ash would be an appropriately spectacular way for him to celebrate the defeat of Kamala Harris after she humiliated him by forcing him to abandon a presidential campaign that he would absolutely have won had he still been alive in any meaningful sense of the word. Such theories were dismissed as implausible, however, because they depended on Biden thinking clearly enough to have a discernible motive. As for President-elect Donald Trump, he spent the day at the Florida headquarters of Space X, where he watched Elon Musk launch a 400-foot-tall starship that would travel halfway around the globe, land gently on Vladimir Putin’s desk in his office at the Kremlin, and open to release a miniature robot Trump who would march out, slap Putin in the face, tell him to stop invading other people’s countries, then march back into the starship, which would return safely to Florida after stopping at McDonald’s to pick up a Happy Meal. So the transition continues. * * * This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “A WOMAN UNDERGROUND,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.