Inside Trump's decision-making to dispatch pals to swankiest embassies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : 'Donald Trump, Jr., is very supportive of the move, as are several of his friends who have known Guilfoyle for years.
86% : 'Lou is a great golfer, and will be in a Country with some terrific courses,' Trump said.
81% : Lou is a great golfer, and will be in a Country with some terrific courses,' Trump said when announcing the nomination of longtime golf partner Lou Rinaldi.
77% : 'President Trump will continue to appoint highly-qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to Make America Great Again,' she added.
76% : 'As a Producer of Broadway musicals, a motivational speaker, and a Board Member of the Women Founders Network, Stacey is committed to supporting women in launching their careers, and scaling their businesses to unprecedented success,' Trump gushed in his announcement, saying she would be 'GREAT.'Others have concrete political experience and more traditional familiarity with levers of power, like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Trump's choice to be the U.S. ambassador in Jerusalem, and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who helped Trump win the state of Michigan as state chair and who is Trump's choice for U.S. ambassador to Canada.
74% : Trump called McGraw a 'philanthropist, businesswoman and world-renowned art collector.'
62% : Donald Trump has full control of the selection process to dispatch family members, golf pals and Palm Beach socialites across the world as U.S. ambassadors.
54% : This week, Trump announced that he would nominate Nicole McGraw, who runs a Palm Beach art gallery, to be ambassador to Croatia, and real estate broker Arthur Graham Fisher to be ambassador to Austria.
51% : He also is bringing on Massad Boulos, the billionaire father in law of Tiffany Trump, as a senior advisor on the Middle East at the White House.
49% : He also is bringing on Massad Boulos, the billionaire father in law of Tiffany Trump, as a senior advisor on the Middle East at the White House'Certain posts -- London, Paris, Berlin, Dublin, Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Canberra and Jerusalem are good examples -- are usually led by political appointees,' said former State Department spokesman and NSC official P.J. Crowley.
47% : But here's the thing about Trump: he's moving.
46% : Trump will be able to push through nominees on a simple majority with only Republican votes.
46% : Trump pardoned Charles Kushner in the last days of his first term.
35% : Son-in-law Jared Kushner's father Charles Kushner is Trump's choice for ambassador to FranceRealism: Trump announced that he would nominate Nicole McGraw, who runs a Palm Beach art gallery, to be ambassador to CroatiaGOAL! '
34% : Insiders say Trump is calling the shots himself on the most glamorous ambassadorships, while trading notes with his pick for secretary of state - Marco Rubio - on other slots.
34% : There is little doubt that it is Trump himself who is calling the shots on the top ambassador picks, which have been rolled out with highly personalized statements on their attributes from the president-elect.
31% : 'I could not be more proud of her and the important role she'll continue to play in my father's administration,' Donald Trump, Jr. said after his father announced the nomination of his ex.
27% : Even many Democrats do not appear eager to pick a fight with Trump while his stock is high.
26% : Trump announced her nomination hours after DailyMail.com reported that her planned engagement to his son Don Jr. was off - raising the suspicion that the plumb post was an inducement for her to keep quiet.

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