After securing victory in the US presidential election, Republican Donald Trump is now busy building his White House team for his second term. Trump aides and Republican political veterans are being touted for possible positions. However, he has decided not to invite at least two people who worked in the previous administration to the new administration. The two are former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump made the decision in a post on his own social media site Truth Social on Saturday (November 9). British media reported the news.
Trump wrote in the post, “I will not invite former Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the new administration.”
He also wrote, 'I thoroughly enjoyed working with them and thank them for their service to our country.'
Haley served as US ambassador to the United Nations under Trump in 2017 and 2018. The former South Carolina governor challenged Trump in this year's Republican presidential nominating primaries and was heavily critical of him. But in the end he supported Kamala Harris for the presidency.
Pompeo served in the Trump administration as secretary of state from 2018 to 2021 and before that as director of the CIA. He was seen as a possible candidate before announcing that he would not run for the Republican presidential nomination in April 2023.
