Trump claims Dems will use 'all sorts of tricks' to stall controversial nominees

Donald Trump is claiming that Senate Democrats are planning to employ stalling tactics, including “all sorts of tricks,” to delay confirmation of his highly-controversial slate of nominees, and he’s directing Republicans to stop them. The President-elect’s message comes after his incoming White House Chief of Staff ordered all nominees to stop posting on social media, after a major kerfuffle in recent days involving Trump’s co-director of the newly-created, non-governmental “Department of Government Efficiency,” which caused outrage among the MAGA base.

“We just won a Historic Landslide and Mandate from the American People,” Trump declared in posts on several social media platforms Tuesday morning. Political observers say Trump’s win, which was a plurality, not a majority of the popular vote, and was neither a landslide nor a mandate.

“Senate Democrats are organizing to improperly stall and delay the confirmation process of many of our Great Nominees,” he claimed. “They will try all sorts of tricks starting very soon. Republicans must not allow them to do that. We have a Country to run, and many big problems to solve, mostly created by Democrats. REPUBLICANS, BE SMART AND TOUGH!!!”

Trump, who “campaigned relentlessly on grocery prices,” according to ABC News, in recent days appears to have been largely focused on threatening Panama that the United States, under his direction, wants to take back the Panama Canal, and threatening Canada that the United States would like to annex that sovereign nation as the 51st state. Also, Trump has again been claiming the United States needs “ownership and control” of Greenland, which is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Trump’s New Year’s Eve declaration comes on the heels of reports Susie Wiles, his campaign manager who will serve as Chief of Staff, directed that “all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel,” according to The New York Post.

“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” Wiles also reportedly wrote.

The Post claims that the “Wiles memo, according to a Trump transition source, is not in response to the recent social media ruckus caused by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over H-1B visas that had MAGA world spinning.”

Given Republicans will hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, it’s unclear what sparked Trump’s missive.

Several of his nominees have come under criticism and scrutiny, including nominees Pete Hegseth (Defense), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS), and Mehmet Oz (Medicare and Medicaid), among others. One, his first Attorney General nominee, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his nomination.

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