Trump Will Nominate Shanahan as Defense Secretary, White House Says

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President Trump intends to nominate Pat Shanahan to become his next secretary of defense, a post Mr. Shanahan has held in an acting capacity since January

Mr. Shanahan, 56 years old, is a longtime former Boeing Co. executive who had served as deputy secretary of defense since July 2017 before being asked to step in as acting secretary after Jim Mattisresigned in December over policy differences with Mr.

 

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Boeing will recoup its 737 Max loses.

More musical chairs

Solves Boeing's problem of figuring out which Trump official to bribe to get a large order of unnecessary aircraft

Remember when they forgot to invite him to a cabinet meeting. I think that was last week.

Excellent; the Lord bless America and our President

Trump is a laugh a minute, then he goes and spoiles it all by sacking people because he didn't like the clothes their wore. LOL

Was he approved who is he what are his qualifications

I’m sure he’ll be a tough negotiator on those Boeing contracts. It’s just taxpayer money right.

Never been in Military as per Wikipedia but 30 years with Boeing will guarantee them contracts.

I always get worried when trump hires someone

So like after 2 years the WH has about 20% of positions filled? Quite a few of those were Trump haters too so needs to get a good hound dog with a good nose or sumthn; geez shud be easy sniffin out.dem undercovers dude.

Was Shanahan ever in the service? POTUS

Where

As long as he hates commies.....He will be fine.

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