Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has named several key members who will serve in cabinet positions or other various roles in his incoming administration. Certain roles, like attorney general or secretary of defense, will have to be voted on by the Senate, but other roles like “border czar” or leading the “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t need such ratification. While Trump is still putting together his administration, here’s who he’s named so far...

Americans have a style and personality all their own, which isn’t a bad thing. It’s just noticeable when they travel aboard. Americans often stand out because of their outgoing personalities. They are friendly and enjoy having casual conversations with strangers.This is an endearing trait to a lot of people in more reserved cultures, although it can also come off as a little brash. An American characteristic that isn’t quite endearing to people in other countries is that they can be rather loud. In Europe, one can always notice the Americans in the restaurant because they can be heard from across the room.A Reddit user named Frosty-Ad3575 wanted to know the specific ways that Americans stand out when traveling abroad, so they asked the AskReddit subforum: “What’s an obvious sign that someone is an American?”The post was popular, receiving nearly 6,000 responses in just 6 days. The most popular ones described how Americans' unique personalities, style of dress, dental hygiene and body language make them easy to spot.Here are 14 “obvious” signs that someone is an American.1. Posture"Apparently, the CIA trains American agents to not lean on things if they go undercover in foreign countries because Americans lean on anything they can while standing around." — Clown1998"I bet MI6 trains British agents to lean on everything if they go undercover in America because Americans lean on anything they can while standing around." — KingoftheMongoose2. The date"MMDDYYYY." — LowRevolution61753. Distances are different"Anything under 4 hours is 'close by.'" — Grey-Canary"Everything in Europe is around the corner if you're from the US. I can drive the whole day and not leave my state, but in Europe, I can pass through 4 countries in that same time frame." — JayHitter4. They're polite to servers"In the touristy cafe-restaurant I worked at:If they asked me for the nicest spot we hadIf they asked me my recommendation without seeing the menu firstI would walk to the table, and they would say right away ‘hey, how are you doing?’ This one threw me off a lot at first. Why is this person asking me how I'm doing?? I'm just there to take the order. I got used to it, and I think they found my awkwardness cute.They would ask my name when I greeted them and took their order.I'm Northern European." — Muc_99"It’s under-appreciated just how polite, friendly, and sincere Americans are in general. It blew my mind the first time I came to the US, and I love that my children are growing up with those same values." — Irishweather50005. The water bottles"I was told, 'Americans carry water bottles around like they're worried they'll never have access to clean water ever again.'" — Kosher_Dill"I don't care what anyone says. If you think carrying a water bottle when walking a lot is weird, you're probably slightly dehydrated all the time and are just desensitized to it. You seriously need to drink water frequently if you want to be ideally healthy." — Tan116. Smiling"I was in Germany this past summer, and I realized smiling at everyone you make eye contact with is very American. When I went to London on the same trip, they seemed less weirded out by it but would awkwardly return the smile. I was taught to always start with a disarming smile. Never realized it was American." — 12ozFitz7. "More ice, please.""I spent a year in Europe completely iceless to the point I forgot that was a thing. I stopped at a bar in Chicago fresh off the plane and not only did I get free tap water, but water with ice. I instantly felt at home." — Outside-Crezz81198. Personal space"As an American man, I’ve been told repeatedly by European and Asian friends that we simply take up space (not by being fat) as though we’re entitled to it. Men in other countries apparently don’t claim the same personal space we do." — Potomacan9. White teeth"It’s even more bizarre that they assume we have braces or bleach our teeth because they’re straight and white. I have naturally straight white teeth. I brush them twice a day so they stay white. I don’t do anything special to them, but I remember being in London and some similar-aged students literally making fun of me for my teeth… it’s true that they don’t naturally look like headstones in an ancient graveyard, but there’s no need to make fun." — DPretilloZbornak10. Casual dress"My friend went to Germany recently, and what people said about Americans is you can spot them a mile away because they’re the ones wearing pajamas in public. Apparently, in other countries, at least Germany, they dress a little more formally and in less baggy clothes than we do in America." — MarcusWahlbezius11. Baseball hats"Baseball cap... even on an infant riding in a pram." — SyntheticOne12. Shoes"Americans are shoe snobs (they don’t think they are, but they are). Setting aside wealthier business types, Americans generally wear more on-brand, on-trend, high-quality shoes than others." — Mouflony13. They're loud"That was my first thought. Americans yell at each other in normal conversation in public. I noticed it years ago in Europe, and now I can’t stand it in the US." — SucccotashOther27714. Occupation matters"Immediately asking someone what they do for a living when meeting them. Our jobs and work are our entire identity." — Bealzu"I hate that about American culture. I'm an American and recently became a SAHM, so I don't have an answer to 'What do you do for a living?' Half the time, I add the caveat, ‘Oh, my last job was with Apple,’ so that I'm not written off as an unemployed ‘loser.’ But it really is dumb to determine a person's worth by what they do in order to afford food and shelter." — WassupSassySasquatchThis article originally appeared in January.

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Joe Biden styled himself as a “bridge” president. He didn’t know that a U-turn sign directed all back to where they started. Call him “The Bridge to Nowhere.” Call his “The Newhart Presidency.” Recall how Newhart ended in 1990? Bob Newhart waking up in his Bob Newhart Show bedroom next to Suzanne Pleshette and recognizing that the 1980s sitcom he had just starred in was all a dream from the reality of the previous 1970s show. We all wake up from the Biden presidency returning to the Trump presidency. That doesn’t mean it did not happen. It just means voters (even, presumably, Newhart’s three Vermont woodsmen) wished that it hadn’t. Biden meant to hand the baton to a younger Democrat. He instead did the most Joe Biden thing imaginable: he handed it off to the other team. The 45th president became the 47th president because the 46th allowed America to become Venezuela, here and there, in an effort to prevent that. Beyond attempting to transform the dollar into the bolivar and importing a cast of thousands from Caracas, Biden embraced a banana-republic legal system in pushing a series of politicized cases against his rival that, if entirely successful, would have sent Trump to prison for 717.5 years. (Who says Democrats aren’t tough on crime?) The post-presidency impeachment, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the mug shot, the bankrupting civil cases, the efforts to remove Trump from state ballots, and the assassination attempts that sprang from the same hateful source boomeranged into making Trump a more sympathetic figure and trauma-bonding swaths of America with him. Similarly, one could predict the result of Democrats using the Justice Department as a party auxiliary to obtain FISA warrants through fraudulent means to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016, and then using it as a brickbat to kneecap the Trump administration through a negative public relations campaign masked as an investigation into a hoax created by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia collaborated with Trump to elect him president. The result is Attorney General Matt Gaetz. The same goes for leftists, who continue to tell horror stories of the CIA in Guatemala, Chile, and Iran, eagerly weaponizing intelligence agencies against America’s real enemies: Republicans. When a who’s-who of American intelligence lies about the origins of the Hunter Biden laptop — Russians, again! — then the victim of this skullduggery will naturally look to clean house. Enter Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence. The usurpation of our constitutional republic by the Medical Industrial Complex — banning landlords by edict from raising rents here, arresting a paddleboarder for enjoying the ocean there — strikes as the only match in recent years for the corruption of the Department of Justice and the intelligence apparatus (remember Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy,” John Brennan’s pleading ignorance of the Steele Dossier’s origins before Congress, Kevin Clinesmith’s falsifying Carter Page information on a warrant, and FBI Director James Comey’s leaking memos to discredit the president he served, etc.?). If Gaetz for attorney general and Gabbard for DNI, then it follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services — or some medical bureaucracy. Gaetz and Gabbard boast scars that incentivize them to clean up their respective bailiwicks. The Justice Department attainted Gaetz with scandalous accusations without ever charging him let alone securing a conviction. Hillary Clinton implied that Gabbard, an Army officer since 2003, served as a “Russian asset,” Adam Kinzinger called her a “Russian spy,” and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, claimed that she “cozies up to dictators like Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin.” Drain the swamp, indeed. When you lie, cheat, and steal, it generally does not advance in life — at least in the long term. People punish bad behavior. This especially holds true among the civic-minded who vote. Who is responsible for President Donald Trump, Attorney General Matt Gaetz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard? In a name, Joe Biden. The president and his votaries — the same people who assured us he toggled between reading The Brothers Karamazov and checkmating Magnus Carlsen as he did pistol squats in the Rose Garden — raced past norms, and law, to clear the field of his political rival to pave the easiest reelection road. Now Democrats reap what they sow. In what version of reality does Trump nominate the Florida congressman as attorney general minus the lawlessness and politicization the Justice Department exhibited over the past eight years? Newton’s Third Law applies to politics, too. The nominations of Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard to oversee America’s intelligence agencies prove this. READ MORE: Five Frightening Ways Democrats Campaigned as They Govern The Age of Trump Kamala’s Conceited Cunctatious Concession The post Joe Biden Gave Us AG Gaetz, DNI Gabbard, and Trump appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Legacy media is no longer relevant, and the American people have turned to YouTubers, podcasters, and other influencers to obtain information. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss how mainstream media has lost the American people’s trust. Melissa and Scott explain how this election season has highlighted a new generation of media influencers and how they’ve contributed to Trump’s win. Trump has appeared in the following podcasts in the last couple of months during his campaign: Impaulsive with Logan Paul All In Podcast Adin Ross’ Stream Elon Musk Theo Von Podcast Shawn Ryan Show Lex Fridman Dave Ramsey Flagrant Full Send Podcast Bussin’ With The Boys Patrick Bet-David Podcast The Dan Bongino Show Maintaining with Tyrus Six Feet Under The Joe Rogan Experience. Tune in to hear their discussion!    Listen to The Spectacle with Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on Spotify. Watch The Spectacle with Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on Rumble.  The post <i>The Spectacle</i> Ep. 166: Dear Mainstream Media, Your Time Is Up! appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.