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 Giuliani drops out of consideration for Cabinet post

Trump team looks past "America's Mayor" and continue building on record of outstanding appointments

In a shocking development, former New York City mayor (and former federal prosecutor) Rudy Giuliani will not serve in Donald Trump's incoming administration, the President-elect announced Friday. (Note: As reported in previous editions, Giuliani can be described as a “former federal prosecutor” now that disgraced New Jersey governor Chris Christie has lost his trademark for the term.)

The transition team released a statement Friday saying Giuliani removed himself from consideration for a position last month. It is not known whether his withdrawal is due to the fact that he had dropped to 22^nd out of 23 potential nominees for the position of Secretary of State, topping only former Republican presidential candidate and pizza mogul, Herman Cain.

"Rudy Giuliani is an extraordinarily talented and patriotic American. I will always be appreciative of his 24/7 dedication to our campaign after I won the primaries and for his extremely wise counsel," Trump said in the statement. "He is, and continues to be, a close personal friend, and as appropriate, I will call upon him for advice and can see an important place for him in the administration at a later date."

Sources inside the transition team were deeply disturbed by Giuliani’s withdrawal.

Trump has already made a number of outstanding appointments, including:

·       An anti-labor Labor secretary;

·       An anti-environment EPA administrator;

·       A racist attorney general;

·       A conspiracy theorist National Security Advisor;

·       Two Goldman Sachs execs as the Treasury secretary and the head of the President’s Economic Council;

·       A Commerce secretary who’s most known for taking companies into bankruptcy;

·       A HUD secretary who’s gone on record saying he doesn’t have the skills to run a bureaucracy;

·       An Education secretary who’s against public education;

·       A Health and Human Services secretary who wants to take medical insurance away from 30 million people and make Medicare a voucher program;

·       And, first and foremost, an anti-women’s rights vice president who, as governor of Indiana, signed into law rules which severely limited abortions in his state and required, when a rare “legal” abortion was performed, funerals or cremations for fetuses, while also signing one of the most discriminatory anti-LGBT bills in the country.

With those appointments in mind, the Transition team had hoped to continue its exceptional record by choosing Giuliani as the first  certifiable member of the Trump Cabinet. (In this case "certifiable" is defined as “officially recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder” -- see Around the Block, 10/27/16  for more on Giuliani and his rare psychological condition - http://tedblocksblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/giulianis-request-to-return-as.html)

Looking to quickly recover from the loss of Giuliani and his unsurpassed qualities, Around the Block has learned exclusively that the Trump team is now looking at combining the Department of Interior with the Energy Department and naming former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the first secretary of the newly formed department, to be named the Department of Drill Baby, Drill. 

A first draft of the department's new logo is shown below.