Hypothetical Trump cabinet

[CivicParticipant]

-Vice President: Newt Gingrich
-Secretary of State: Bob Corker
-Secretary of the Treasury: Carl Icahn
-Secretary of Defense: Michael Flynn
-Attorney General: Chris Christie
-Secretary of the Interior: Pete Ricketts
-Secretary of Agriculture: Terry Branstad
-Secretary of Commerce: Mark Cuban
-Secretary of Labor: Scott Walker
-Secretary of Health and Human Services: Ben Carson
-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: John Kasich
-Secretary of Transportation: Susana Martinez
-Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
-Secretary of Education: Marco Rubio
-Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Jeff Sessions
-Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuliani

[Fuzzy Bear]

Trump's "You're fired!" image will make it tough to get folks to take the job of a Cabinet Secretary.  Whereas most Presidents, even Reagan, (especially Reagan, some would say) have seemed incapable of firing folks, Trump might be the quickest hook of any President in my lifetime.

I'll bet that many of the Cabinet Secretaries Trump would pick would be young Mayors and Representatives.  I don't believe there will be a lot of Carl Icahns in the Cabinet; if they wanted to be big cheeses in government, they'd have run for the top job like Trump has done.  I doubt many Senators and non-term limited Governors will be hankering for a Trump appointment.

[Anna Komnene]

A scary thought! 

I have a hard time imagining Ben Carson and Sarah Palin getting through the Senate.  Especially Sarah.  Can't imagine she's too popular among all those establishment Rs that she's been relentlessly attacking with primaries over the years.

[Kingpoleon]

Vice President: Scott Brown

Secretary of State: Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury: Rosario Marin
Secretary of Defense: Jeffrey D. Gordon
Attorney General: Roslynn R. Mauskopf
Secretary of the Interior: Michele Reagan
Secretary of Agriculture: Kim Reynolds
Secretary of Commerce: Jared Kushner
Secretary of Labor: Gaddi Vasquez
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Sandy Praeger
Secretary of Education: Mitch Daniels
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Andre Bauer
Secretary of Transportation: Bill Shuster
Secretary of Energy: Frank Klotz
Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuiliani
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Bert Mizusawa
U. S. Ambassador to the U. N.: Richard Grenell

Chief of Staff: Paul Manafort
National Security Advisor: Walid Phares
Chairman of the Federal Reserve: Peter Navarro

[SillyAmerican]

My thinking at this point:

Vice President: Newt Gingrich
Secretary of State: Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury: Carl Icahn
Secretary of Defense: James Mattis
Attorney General: Chris Christie
Secretary of the Interior: Pete Ricketts
Secretary of Agriculture: Terry Branstad
Secretary of Commerce: Mark Cuban
Secretary of Labor: Scott Walker
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Sandy Praeger
Secretary of Education: Ben Carson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Andre Bauer
Secretary of Transportation: Susana Martinez
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Jack Keane
Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuiliani

[MK]

-Vice President: Newt Gingrich
-Secretary of State: Bob Corker
-Secretary of the Treasury: Carl Icahn
-Secretary of Defense: Michael Flynn
-Attorney General: Chris Christie
-Secretary of the Interior: Pete Ricketts
-Secretary of Agriculture: Terry Branstad
-Secretary of Commerce: Mark Cuban
-Secretary of Labor: Scott Walker
-Secretary of Health and Human Services: Ben Carson
-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: John Kasich
-Secretary of Transportation: Susana Martinez
-Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
-Secretary of Education: Marco Rubio
-Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Jeff Sessions
-Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuliani

Nutty cabinet.   The establishment would must likely pick is cabinet or have strong influence.

[Blair]

As always too many politicians...

Why would Marco Rubio take education?

[136or142]

As always too many politicians...

Why would Marco Rubio take education?

From Yes, Minister.  Episode: The Middle Class Rip-Off.

(Sir) Arnold was the Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister (I.E the real boss.)

Hacker is James Hacker, the Minister in Yes, Minister.  He was Minister of Administrative Affairs, a ministry that doesn't actually exist, but that allowed the writers to give him any responsibility they wanted him to have.  

In this story, he was being considered getting responsibility for The Arts as part of a 'ministerial reshuffle' wherein some responsibilities are moved to different ministries, as opposed to moving the ministers around (a cabinet shuffle).

"Arnold objected to that on the grounds that Hacker is a complete philistine. I was surprised at Arnold, missing the point like that. After all, the Industry Secretary is the idlest man in town, the Education Secretary is illiterate and the Employment Secretary is unemployable."

[Kingpoleon]

As always too many politicians...

Why would Marco Rubio take education?

I have four in my mine(Jon Huntsman, Jr., Mtch Daniels, Bill Shuster, and Rudy Giuliani), five counting the Vice President.

Praeger, Reagan, Bauer, and Reynolds have all held statewide office, but I don't think they count as politicians.

[Drew]

Some of these are a real stretch, but how about...

-Vice President: Jeff Sessions
-Secretary of State: Bob Corker
-Secretary of the Treasury: Carl Icahn
-Secretary of Defense: Lindsey Graham
-Attorney General: Chris Christie
-Secretary of the Interior: Sarah Palin
-Secretary of Agriculture: Terry Branstad
-Secretary of Commerce: Rick Scott
-Secretary of Labor: Scott Walker
-Secretary of Health and Human Services: Ben Carson
-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Rudy Giuliani
-Secretary of Transportation: Brian France
-Secretary of Energy: Jeb! Bush (sorry, couldn't resist)
-Secretary of Education: Carmen Fariña (NYC DOE director)
-Secretary of Veterans Affairs: John McCain
-Secretary of Homeland Security: Joe Arpaio

[President Johnson]

My thoughts (I haven't filled all posts).

President: Donald J. Trump
Vice President: Bob Corker

Secretary of State: Jon Huntsman Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury: Carl Ichan
Secretary of Defense: Raymond T. Odierno
Attorney General: Chris Christie
Secretary of Commerce: Carl Paladino
Secretary of the Interior: Jan Brewer
Secretary of Health: Ben Carson
Secretary of Education: Bobby Jindal
Secretary of Veteran Affairs: Jim Webb
Secretary of Agriculture: Kim Reynolds
Secretary of Energy: Rick Perry
Secretary of Labor: Ron Johnson
Secretary of Transportation: Wendy E. Long
Secretary of HUD: Andre Bauer
Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuliani

Ambassador to the United Nations: Scott Brown
Chief of Staff: Paul Manafort

[daveosupremo]

-Vice President: Mike Pence
-Secretary of State: Walid Phares
-Secretary of the Treasury: Stephen Schwartzman
-Secretary of Defense: John Lehman
-Attorney General: Chris Christie
-Secretary of the Interior: Donald Trump Jr.
-Secretary of Agriculture: Terry Branstad
-Secretary of Commerce: Peter Thiel
-Secretary of Labor: Nikki Haley
-Secretary of Health and Human Services:  Bobby Jindal
-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Rick Baker
-Secretary of Transportation: Marion Blakey
-Secretary of Energy: *Sarah Palin
-Secretary of Education: **Ben Carson
-Secretary of Veterans Affairs: ***Toby Cosgrove/Kevin Lofton
-Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Giuliani
-Chief of Staff: Paul Manafort
-Senior Advisor: Jared Kushner
-Director of National Intelligence: Michael Flynn
-Federal Reserve Chairman: David Stockman
-OMB Director: Dave Brat

*Likely very difficult to confirm
**Also likely very difficult to confirm 
***Cosgrove is clearly the best choice for the job, but he's turned it down once already, in 2014. Lofton is the next best choice.