US elections 2024: Who's in Donald Trump's cabinet and who's on the shortlist?
In his first term, Trump was surrounded by neocons and war hawks, none more prominent than John Bolton, who repeatedly advocated regime change in places such as North Korea and Iran.
This time around, Trump looks set to take a different approach, Middle East Eye's Umar Farooq reports.
Trump has stated that neocon stalwarts like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley will not be returning to his administration, but at the same time, he has already begun filling his administration with several Iran hawks and staunch pro-Israel advocates.
Trump nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Rubio is a staunch Iran hawk.
In a move that surprised many in Washington, Trump selected military veteran and conservative media personality Pete Hegseth as his secretary of defence.
In another surprise move by Trump, he has chosen former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his director of national intelligence. She is a military veteran who went from supporting progressive Senator Bernie Sanders to endorsing Trump earlier this year. She travelled to Syria in 2017 on a fact-finding mission and met with President Bashar al-Assad, who is under sanctions by the US.