MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin said Sunday that a “striking pattern” is emerging about the role Donald Trump will play in the president-elect’s second term.
“We are seeing a lot of political losers and people who have lost elections in almost every way imaginable,” Mohyeldin said.
The anchor explained that one-time presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), former Democratic congressman Tulsi Gabbard, and anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all fit the bill. President Trump nominated three people to be Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, respectively.
“It’s not just people who tried and failed to compete with Trump for the White House,” Mohieldin continued. “Trump also welcomed losers in key Republican primaries.”
Among them, he said, were Mehmet Oz, Linda McMahon and Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
“It may seem strange that Trump would pick so many political losers,” Mohieldin said. But Trump has repeatedly said that the “biggest mistake of his first term was choosing the ‘wrong people’ who sometimes opposed his policies.”
He added that Trump’s second-term nominees are living a “new political life” that will be “completely flexible and subject to his will.” “This allows Trump to strengthen his control while he is in the White House.”
