Who Would Be in Your Dream Cabinet? | Pivot

1. KSKara Swisher0:00

   Okay, Scott, let's pivot to a listener question. The question comes from David. Let's listen.

2. NANarrator0:05

   I've listened to the last few podcasts in which both of you discuss the various nominees Trump has put forward for Cabinet and other important administration positions. My question for each of you has two parts. Which positions do each of you consider the most important positions and why? And second, if you were president, who would you nominate for the most important positions in your administration and why?

3. KSKara Swisher0:31

   Oh, that's interesting. That's a great question. Um, I'll start. Um, I think the depart- secretary of defense is critically important, the attorney general is critically important, and obviously the, uh, treasury secretary. So, uh, I, uh, if I was President Trump or if I'm me? If I'm me, I would have picked different. I probably would have picked Jamie Dimon for the treasury job. For the head of the defense department, that's, that would be interesting. I don't, I'd have to think. Maybe, oh God, I wouldn't say Pete Buttigieg, but someone who's, someone who's served and who, um, who understands how to run big systems. There's lots of people like that. Uh, certainly not Pete Hegseth, uh, by any means. I could run it better than him. Um, and then the third, attorney general. Someone, uh, you know, not quite as partisan and who didn't deny the election, like Pam Bondi. I do think she's actually, has qualifications. There's no question she ran a big, important state's HSAG. She knows her way around a courtroom, (coughs) et cetera, as they say. Um, but, uh, I think those are the most important. But I, I, one of the ones, as we were just talking about this United Healthcare thing, is the, the Health and Human Services director. I would make that Mark Cuban, uh, you know, or someone like that, to, to c- You need to facilitate change in how healthcare goes in this country very drastically, and how we eat, and the chemicals that are in our system. I completely agree with that. But this friggin' nut job, RFK Jr., who now looks good next to these other people, is, is a disaster, especially around vaccines and everything else. So, someone who respects science, um, I would say Mark Cuban for that job. Your turn, Scott.

4. SGScott Galloway2:05

   I would go, I like the whole cable news as a Cabinet strategy. I'd have Dana Bash. I'd have Da- But except I'd go another cable network. I think the people at CNN are so impressive. I think it should be President Dana Bash.

5. KSKara Swisher2:16

   Okay.

6. SGScott Galloway2:16

   Her vice president is Anderson Cooper.

7. KSKara Swisher2:19

   Okay.

8. SGScott Galloway2:19

   And we laugh, but these people would be a hell of a lot more competent than some of the people he's proposing now.

9. KSKara Swisher2:23

   Okay.

10. SGScott Galloway2:23

    Peter Hegseth and Peter Navarro? Give me a fucking break, or-

11. KSKara Swisher2:26

    I know, Peters.

12. SGScott Galloway2:27

    ... or, or Kash Patel.

13. KSKara Swisher2:29

    Dicks.

14. SGScott Galloway2:29

    These, this would-

15. KSKara Swisher2:30

    Oh, yeah.

16. SGScott Galloway2:30

    Michael Smerconish I'd like to be Secretary of Commerce.

17. KSKara Swisher2:33

    Yeah.

18. SGScott Galloway2:33

    I'd like to see, um, I would, I, there's so many outstanding. I'd love to see Michael Bennet as Secretary of Education.

19. KSKara Swisher2:42

    Oh, yeah.

20. SGScott Galloway2:42

    Uh, I think Vivek Murthy as head of Health and Human Services.

21. KSKara Swisher2:46

    Mm-hmm.

22. SGScott Galloway2:46

    I think he is, he is the most consequential-

23. KSKara Swisher2:48

    Yeah.

24. SGScott Galloway2:48

    ... surgeon general in history, bringing up loneliness-

25. KSKara Swisher2:50

    Agree.

26. SGScott Galloway2:50

    ... and the stress on parents.

27. KSKara Swisher2:52

    Yeah. Yeah.

28. SGScott Galloway2:52

    Um, there's a ton of fantastic... Oh, oh, I, I, I would put together the hottest and most competent Cabinet in history. And I'd give o- AOC a job just 'cause she's ridiculously fucking hot.

29. KSKara Swisher3:03

    Mm-hmm. Good.

30. SGScott Galloway3:04

    But-

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