Trump expected to name billionaire Wilbur Ross commerce secretary 18 Mins Ago Reuters

[brooklynite]

Source: CNBC

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name billionaire Wilbur Ross secretary of commerce, NBC News confirmed.

He could be named to the position as early as Wednesday, a transition official told NBC.

Ross, the 78-year-old billionaire head of W.L. Ross, has built is reputation as a so-called vulture investors, swooping in to rescue failing companies across a number of industries.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/29/trump-expected-to-name-billionaire-wilbur-ross-commerce-secretary.html

[redwitch]

1. A pretty thorough swamp draining right?

I am pissed!

[frazzled]

2. The "King of Bankruptcy"

President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to select as commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor who became known as the “king of bankruptcy” for buying, restructuring and selling off steel makers and other fading industrial companies, officials on the transition team said on Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/us/politics/wilbur-ross-commerce-trump.html

How ironic

He's also partners in owning the Bank of Cypress (!) with a Kremlin approved oligarch.

[saltpoint]

3. Big wallet. Sharp fangs. eom

[kimbutgar]

4. Wow he is putting a lot of foxes in the henhouses

I wonder when his supporters will realize they have been duped? Because these guys are not going to help the white class working guy who are orange hitlers base.

[BainsBane]

5. Is this billionaire number four?

So glad America is great again.

[cstanleytech]

6. The problem is the people that voted for him didnt read the fine print

as it clearly stated "but only for the rich."

[AKing]

7. Make America Great AKA Suckered By Trump...When will his base finally catch on?

[Judi Lynn]

10. Too stupid, no doubt. They are incapable of grasping how nasty this is.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Thanks Obama! nt

[HAB911]

9. Can't decide to laugh or cry..n/t

[Initech]

11. So if you're keeping score at home, Trump's cabinet appointees are:

White millionaire, white millionaire, white millionaire, white billionaire, white billionaire, and now another white billionaire. And for some reason Ben Carson.

[Initech]

13. OK that was a joke that backfired and I'd like to bail out now.

[former9thward]

14. I did not know it was a joke, sorry, I am deleting.