In choosing his team, Trump opts for personal ties and TV chops

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : But his choices all seem to have one thing in common: A bond with Trump himself.
64% : For Trump 2.0, the president-elect is rewarding his staunchest allies with plum roles.
60% : Trump has had four years to learn the job of chief executive and better understand what he wants from his appointees.
54% : The picks suggest that Trump, as is his style, prefers the hammer to scalpel, and wants to show his political base that he is following through on his campaign pledges to deport millions of migrants, investigate his political adversaries and rid the military of "woke" policies on gender and diversity.
47% : From his chief of staff to those he's tapped to lead the Justice Department, the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, Trump is picking people who have been familiar faces at his campaign rallies, frequent visitors to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida or reliable defenders of him on TV.
46% : He chose Tom Homan, who ran the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency during Trump´s first term, to be his "border czar" in charge of the mass deportations of migrants that Trump has promised.
43% : Trump eventually became disillusioned and replaced Tillerson and Mattis, and cycled through four chiefs of staff during his first term.
40% : But she made a home for herself on Fox News and other conservative channels, and likely soon will be defending Trump on the air again in her new role.
38% : Various administration hopefuls have been steadily making their way to Palm Beach to meet with Trump´s transition team at Mar-a-Lago and to try to steal a moment with Trump himself.
33% : It's a sharp contrast from his first go-round in the White House, when Trump, then a neophyte Republican politician, ended up with members on his team with whom he had no prior working relationship and no level of trust.
32% : "I hear Trump is watching a lot of TV clips," the donor said, "looking at: How will these people defend me on TV?"NO MORE STRANGERSAfter Trump's 2016 win, he called upon strangers such as Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, to helm the State Department, and Jim Mattis, a retired general, to head up the Pentagon.
26% : Trump also selected Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who grew popular with conservatives for supporting isolationist policies and showing disdain for "wokeness," as his director of national intelligence.
17% : Trump announced U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a former rival who has deep experience in foreign policy and intelligence issues, as his secretary of state.
15% : Trump has tapped Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality with no administrative experience, to oversee the sprawling Pentagon; nominated Matt Gaetz, a longtime conservative provocateur who lacks a law-enforcement background as attorney general; and asked the governor of rural South Dakota, Kristi Noem, to be the nation's top Homeland Security official.
9% : Trump favors appointees he knows well in spite of qualifications*Trump values their defense of him on television*Donor says Trump, allies huddle in room with TVs and pictures of candidatesBy James Oliphant and Helen CosterWASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) -

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