They had a robot dog that afternoon.
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his three young children were photographed playing along the lagoon at Mar-a-Lago on Friday as a Secret Service robot guard dog kept watch.
Vance, 40, relaxed in shorts and a polo shirt and led the group over a retaining wall and onto the water, draping palm branches. The bridge faces the bridge, giving journalists, photographers and fans of President-elect Donald Trump a glimpse of the club in action. It will serve as a base for their White House transition.
His sons Ewan (7 years old) and Vivek (4 years old) and daughter Mirabel (2 years old) also joined the father, and each child was seen trying to dangle a branch into the water with their own hands. She was joined by her mother, Usha Vance, 38, and members of The Secret. The service was overseen by a walking robot called Spot.
The photo shoot featuring the Ohio senator and his family was intentional for the media's benefit, as the youngest vice president-elect since the 1950s provided the press with soft material that was sure to garner public attention. It is highly likely that this was done.
The robot dog Spot is manufactured by Boston Dynamics and is equipped with unspecified surveillance technology, including sensors to detect danger.
A warning: “Do not touch” is written on the robot's feet at President Trump's club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Vance family comes as President Trump continues to announce high-profile staffing decisions, including naming campaign spokesman Stephen Chan as White House communications director and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior. We took a break together.
President Trump surprised the Washington establishment with cabinet appointments, including nominating embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be attorney general on Wednesday, just before the release of the House ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. Gaetz immediately resigned from Congress.
The president-elect has said he will nominate Fox News personality and veterans advocate Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense. Pete Hegseth has advocated for firing “a ton” of generals, and several former Democrats have backed his candidacy for the top spot.
President Trump on Thursday challenged President Biden for this year's Democratic presidential nomination, despite his scientifically heretical views on vaccines, and then briefly ran as an independent presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He also nominated former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), an outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in foreign wars and mass surveillance programs and a Democratic presidential primary candidate in 2016, to be director of national intelligence. did.
It is unclear whether all of Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance's nominees will be approved by the Republican-controlled Senate, which holds a 53-47 majority, but the president-elect may need to avoid intraparty opposition if Congressional leadership recesses. They are demanding that the government clear the way for the appointment.
Vance would break a tie vote in the Senate.
A Senate Republican official quipped to the Post on Thursday that “RFK is just as likely to be approved by the Senate as it is for him to get vaccinated.”
But Trump's supporters say the unusual policy reflects the will of voters and has a good chance of passing.
“He's proven to be a reformer like no other president or in modern times. All of these choices between Tulsi, Pete, Matt, and now Mr. Kennedy are… “There's no equivalent in any good way to the previous Cabinet,” said Tom Fitton, chairman of the conservative Judicial Watch, a Trump ally.
“These agencies are rotten, withered husks in terms of ethics and public trust. I think the Senate's opposition is overblown. Maybe they'll all be confirmed, or maybe they'll have to deal with other things like vacation plans. “I think it's going to be easier than people think right now.”
