Both President Biden and SecState Blinken have made the ritual pledges of full and cheerful cooperation with a peaceful transfer of power to their literally-Hitler opponent, who won the election, and his bitter-clinger-deplorable-Nazi-fascist-garbage supporters. You may think their sincerity is questionable.
Meanwhile, Trump is really not waiting to take power, as witness his phone call to Ukraine's President Zelensky - in which Z was surprised to find Elon Musk was on the line - and to some other heads of state.
Trump is functionally the 47th President already, and that shouldn't be a surprise since, after all, he's been the President before.
This week, State announced that it has opened its presidential transition office, that workspace where incoming Presidents can do the staff work necessary to prepare for the transition that will come in a little over two months. However, as of COB Friday, the incoming administration has not contacted the transition office.
That's because Trump has been operating his own transition office in private and on his own dime for some time now. Outsiders don't quite know what's happening inside.
That secrecy is a foreshadowing of how he'll likely handle the transition of State and other agencies to his administration's control. They'll find out when it hits them.
One thing is not a secret: The Trumpening 2 will not be merciful to federal employees who try to resist the new administration.
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