2024年11月5日的美國總統大選,截至11月14日選票雖然還沒完全開出,選情大致底定。川普拿到312張選舉人票、賀錦麗226張,川普宣布勝選、赫也接受敗選沒有爭議。緊接川普開始著手籌組團隊、步局權球。他於11月9日向媒體公開宣佈:我將不會邀請前大使尼基·海利或前國務卿邁克·蓬佩歐,加入目前正在組建的川普政府。我非常高興、及欣慰之前與他們合作,並感謝他們為我們國家所提供的服務。讓美國再次偉大!(I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” the former president wrote. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!)
針對龐培歐被排除在川普籌組的新團隊之外,台灣仿間確實有諸多不同的解讀;大多數都是懷念、並感佩,他在任職國務卿時對台灣的關照。尤其是,聲明台灣從來不屬於中國Taiwan has never been a part of China,令人佩服他的卓見及仗義執言。但是在他2022年3月5日,在台北君悅酒店 Grand Hyatt Taipei演講時卻說:我認為,美國政府應該立即採取必要、且早就該採取的措施,去做正確而明顯的事情,即在外交上承認中華民國是一個自由和主權國家(It is my view that the US government should immediately take necessary and long-overdue steps to do the right and obvious thing, that is, to offer the Republic of China America’s diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country)。
川普這次重掌政權相信,他是有計劃有節奏地來解決,當今各地將一觸即發的困境與衝突。他最近已經提名:盧比奧任國務卿Marco Rubio for Secretary of State、拉特克里夫任中央情報局John Ratcliffe for CIA、馬斯克和雷瑪斯瓦密任政府效率部Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for Department of Government Effectiveness、海格賽斯任國防部Pete Hegseth for Department of Defense、蓋伯任國家情報總監Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence、蓋特茲任司法部長Matt Gaetz for Attorney General。這些都是一時之選、他們個個都是務實的對中鷹派;看來川普要整頓全球,所謂的霸權建制派,是玩真的,而不是選舉時慶菜講講的芭樂票。