President-elect Trump plans to weigh in on roughly 40 top cabinet, agency and White House jobs from a makeshift Situation Room at Mar-a-Lago, where he's surrounded by TV monitors displaying profiles of potential picks.
The interactive array lets aides instantly summon a multimedia menu covering whatever position or person he wants to consider next, transition sources tell us.
Why it matters: The process is just getting rolling, and includes lots of surprise names, including some for big jobs.
The real lists exclude many names floated publicly by people who claim to have knowledge of the process but actually don't, officials tell us.
President-elect Trump intervened from Mar-a-Lago in this week's suddenly scrambled race for Senate majority leader, demanding that the candidates embrace using "recess appointments" to bypass Senate confirmation votes.
All three of the candidates quickly saluted. The secret-ballot vote will be Wednesday.
Why it matters: It all played out in just a few hours on Elon Musk's X — a tiny taste of the platform's rising juice as Trump maps his new government.
Elon Musk has joined the chorus of conservative and MAGA voices online backing Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) for Senate GOP leader — after calling Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) the "top choice of Democrats."
Why it matters: Musk has become one of the most influential voices in Trump world. If the growing online momentum converts into the president-elect weighing in, the leadership race could be dramatically upended.
