I’ve mentioned this before but not in connection with President-Elect Trump’s appointments. I don’t have strong feelings one way or another about his cabinet appointments to date but one idea I’ve been noodling over is that they may be another illustration of an approach to being president quite similar to the strategy he employed in his successful campaign: get into your opponents’ heads and control the discourse. This article at Forbes suggests that the bruited appointment of CNBC’s Larry Kudlow as the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors supports that hypothesis.
Holy fuck, the Russian Ambassador in Turkey has been assassinated while giving some remarks about an art exhibit. Some reports state it was part of the police protection assigned to him that did it.