Amidst doubts and controversies, the team begins to take shape Donald Trump at the White House. The elected president will take office on January 20 but it is already time for full ministers, as we would say in Italy. The key role is, as always, that of the secretary of state, a sort of vice president and in any case the highest office after the one that Trump will occupy: at the moment the ballot seems to be between two very important and different names, that of the former mayor of New York and personal friend of Trump Rudy Giuliani, and the US ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, also close to former President Bush. Between the two, the first, better known to public opinion and close to the Trumpist line on foreign policy, seems to have the advantage: the priority is to defeat ISIS, also through an unprecedented alliance with Putin.
However, it is not only the nomination of "number 2" that catalyzes the attention of the media: in fact, the candidacy of Ben Carson, fresh from the Republican primaries where he was soundly defeated by Trump and lasted even less than other candidates such as Ted Cruz, retiring after a few weeks of competition. Carson is 65, is a retired doctor and would have been, if elected, the first black Republican president in history: his name is now making a comeback not so much for the position of secretary of state, but for the ministry of Education, for which he has in mind an aggressive program aimed at enhancing the "Christian roots" in American history and reducing the space dedicated to Islam in school textbooks. Not only that: Carson would even like to call into question the theory of evolution or the Big Bang; as well as reducing or abolishing public funds to schools that "cultivate anti-American prejudices".
Carson, married, three children, is, like his wife, a fervent practitioner of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Christian movement that preaches the literal observance of the Holy Scriptures, in particular of the book of Genesis. It is therefore on his name that most of the doubts are concentrated for now, even if the choice of a controversial figure like Stephen bannon, film director and former head of the far-right site Breitbart News, accused of being an extremist, racist and anti-Semitic. And then there are rumors of a very important role to be assigned to Jared Kushner, billionaire, orthodox Jew and above all husband of Trump's second daughter, Ivanka: his appointment would in any case be informal, because an anti-Parentopolis law is in force in the United States. Kushner is very young, 35 years old, but he is already the owner of a large real estate fortune and publisher of the New York Observer newspaper, which he bought ten years ago. He owns the skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue, a few blocks from Trump Tower, and is already on the Obama-to-Trump transition team.
