Can you guess Trumps Cabinet picks from their yearbook photos? The MAGA movements leaders from decades ago
President-elect Donald Trump has already named his Cabinet and key members of his incoming White House staff.
President-elect Donald Trump has already named his Cabinet and key members of his incoming White House staff.
Decades before they became top players in the MAGA movement, Trumps aides were basketball players, cheerleaders and named to their high schools homecoming court.
DailyMail.com dug through the archives and found their photos - floppy hair and all.
Its no surprise that some of these individuals were heavily involved in school clubs and sports.
They went on to become television personalities, hold statewide office, even play professional sports before being asked by 78-year-old Republican to join the Trump 2.0 White House.
On November 5, Trump became the second former president in history to win a non-consecutive term, with only President Grover Cleveland holding the honor before.
He quickly stacked his Cabinet and White House with individuals who had supported him on the campaign trail.
Interestingly, he didnt ask any of his previous Cabinet members to serve in the same role they did before.
See if you can guess the Cabinet pick by their high school photo - and read about their childhood years before their careers in politics:
A fresh face to President-elect Donald Trumps Cabinet is this South Carolina-born seventh grader sporting a white turtleneck seated in the middle of the back row of this 1975 photo
A fresh face to the MAGA movement was this seventh grader wearing a turtleneck and sitting in the back row of this picture.
Its a photo from 1975 and depicts students from North Myrtle Beach High School.
Now, 49 years later, that young man is Trumps incoming Treasury secretary Scott Bessent.
Bessent will be the highest ranking openly gay Cabinet member - taking the place of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg - should he be confirmed by the U.S. Senate come January.
Hes a billionaire who previously worked for Democratic super-donor George Soros.
Bessent was born in Conway - which is inland from Myrtle Beach - but now resides in tony Charleston.
He recently put his nearly 200-year-old Charleston home on the market for 22.5 million.
Its called the Pink Palace - and if sold for that amount, would be the most expensive home sale in Charleston history.
Incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a billionaire hedge fund manager. He was born in Conway, South Carolina but now lives in Charleston. He and his husband put their pink mansion on the market in October for 22.5 million
This 1983 photo from King High School in Tampa, Florida shows one of Trumps key appointees rocking a classic 80s hairstyle. This individual held statewide office before becoming Trumps second choice for this important position
A 1983 photo from King High School in Tampa, Florida shows one of Trumps appointees rocking a classic 80s hairstyle.
This Florida woman held statewide office before becoming Trumps second choice of a top position.
The individual in the photo is none other than Pam Bondi, who Trump asked to be his attorney general after his first pick, now former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, decided to bow out due to a damning House Ethics Committee report that would have likely tanked his nomination.
Bondi, 59, was the first woman to be elected to the attorney general post in Florida.
She served in that role from 2011 to 2019.
Bondi was also one of Trumps laywer in his first impeachment trial.
Her yearbook photos show that she was elected a member of the schools homecoming court during her senior year.
She was also on the student council and a member of the Kiwanettes, according to her yearbooks.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is photographed speaking at the Republican National Convention in 2016, the first time Trump received the GOP nomination. Now at 59, shes been nominated to the attorney general
Pam Bondi (right) was elected to the homecoming court according to her 1983 yearbook from King High School in Tampa, Florida
Bondi (front row, right) was also a member of the student council during her senior year of high school in Tampa, Florida
She was also a member of the Florida Kiwanettes. The incoming attorney general of the United States is in the back row, second from the left
This 8th grader was not surprisingly named to Trumps Cabinet, as he became a rival-turned-ally during this campaign cycle. The photograph is from Dakota High School
This nerdy looking eighth-grader at Dakota High School was not surprisingly named to Trumps Cabinet, as he became a rival-turned-ally during the 2024 campaign cycle.
The photo is from Dakota High School, which should provide a substantial hint.
The young man in the photo is North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who Trump asked to serve as his Secretary of the Interior.
Burgum heightened his national political profile by launching his own 2024 presidential bid, vying for the Republican nomination over Trump.
He memorably showed up to the first Republican debate in Milwaukee on crutches after injuring his Achilles tendon while playing a pick-up game of basketball with his staff.
But Burgums longshot candidacy went nowhere - and he dropped out of the race in December, ahead of the Iowa caucuses, which Trump easily won. Burgum endorsed Trump the night before he dominated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other rivals in Iowa.
The North Dakota governor then became a fixture on the campaign trail, showing up alongside Trump at events all over the country - including in Nevada and New Jersey.
He was among those Trump considered for the VP position - and later an obvious choice for a Cabinet gig.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at a Trump-Vance rally on November 4, the day before the 2024 election. Burgum launched his own presidential bid but dropped out in December and endorsed Trump on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, which the ex-president easily won
Incoming Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is photographed in 1970 while in the eighth grade as part of the Dakota High School track team. Burgum is seated in the middle of the front row
Another picture from the same yearbook shows North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, third from right, posing with other members of the student council
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (top row, in glasses on the right) memorably injured his Achilles tendon playing pick-up basketball before his first presidential primary debate performance. Here he is as an eighth grader on the schools basketball team
This 1986 photograph from Hanford High School in Hanford, California shows a former mayor and outgoing congresswoman that President-elect Donald Trump snapped up to be a Cabinet member
She grew up in California and was a member of the cheerleading squad, according to images from the 1986 Hanford High School yearbook, but she cut her political teeth in a different state.
Trump picked this woman to be a Cabinet member at the perfect time - as she narrowly lost her reelection bid to the House of Representatives.
This glamorous high schooler is incoming Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
Chavez-DeRemer, 56, was born in Santa-Clara, California but her first foray into politics came 20 years ago when she was elected to be the mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon.
Happy Valley is a suburb of Portland.
She unsuccessfully ran for the Oregon House as a Republican several times, but then found success on the national level - winning a U.S. House seat in 2022.
Chavez-DeRemer ran for reelection this year, but narrowly lost to Democrat Janelle Bynum, with the race being called on November 8.
On November 22, Trump announced Chavez-DeRemer was his Labor pick - which could be a difficult position, as the outgoing congresswoman is pro-union, a position that many in the Cabinet are against.
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, 56, lost her reelection race to Democrat Janelle Bynum in an Oregon swing district, but was selected by Trump to become his secretary of Labor
Incoming Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is photographed as part of the Hanford High Schools cheerleading squad. She is front and center in this 1986 yearbook picture
Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (left) is photographed in her high school cheerleading uniform in this 1986 snap
And here she is again, in the center of the photo at the top of a mount. Lori Chavez-DeRemer grew up in California but moved to Oregon where she launched a political career 20 years ago, becoming mayor of Happy Valley, a Portland suburb
Lori Chavez-DeRemer is seen with painted handprints on her jeans in this 1986 Hanford High School yearbook photo
She was also a member of the ski club, pictured second from right in this 1986 photograph from the Hanford High School yearbook
This 1979 photograph from the Carthage High School yearbook in Carthage, New York shows an individual who first worked for President Barack Obama and now will be working for Trump for a second time
A 1979 yearbook photo shows a blond-haired suited young man who would first be tapped for a leadership role by President Barack Obama and will be back for round No. 2 of the Trump administration.
He is the brainchild of one of the most controversial immigration policies brought to life during Trumps first four years in the White House.
This upstate New York-born individual, is Tom Homan, who Trump has named border czar, and will be responsible for implementing what Trump hopes is the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.
Homan was born in West Carthage and graduated from Carthage High School. He was photographed as a member of the schools wrestling team.
He started his career at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1984 - a department that later was brought under the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2013, Obama named him Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations.
As early as 2014, Homan argued that separating children from their parents would act as a deterrent to illegal border crossers.
He served as acting ICE director under Trump - and will return to the Trump administration the president-elect annonced on November 10 - five days after the Republicans election win.
Tom Homan, 63, is Trumps incoming border czar. He served as acting ICE director under Trump
Tom Homan is pictured, kneeling in the middle, in a photo of the Carthage High Schools wrestling team
This young man has been in the national political arena for several decades - and his daughter has taken after him as well. This yearbook photo is from 1973 at Hope High School in Hope, Arkansas
A young man with a Beatles-like haircut is pictured throughout the pages of a 1973 yearbook from Hope High School in Hope, Arkansas.
That student is involved in a number of organizations, including serving as student council president. Hes a member of National Honor Society, French club and the honorary math society.
Its no surprise that Mike Huckabee went on to be the lieutenant governor and then the governor of the state - and later launch two presidential bids before being named Trumps ambassador to Israel.
Huckabee - who heralds from the same small town as President Bill Clinton - was first elected lieutenant governor of Arkansas back in 1992, when Clinton moved onto the White House and Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker became governor due to the vacancy.
He became only the second Republican to become lieutenant governor in the state since Reconstruction.
Huckabee became governor of the state in 1996 when Tucker was forced to resign over his dealings in the Whitewater scandal, which ensnared the Clinton White House as well.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee was named ambassador to Israel by the president-elect. He served as Arkansas lieutenant governor and governor and unsuccessfully ran for the White House twice. His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is the current governor of the state
Mike Huckabee (left) was elected student council president during his senior year at Hope High School in Hope, Arkansas
Mike Huckabee is dressed in costume to entertain children in this 1973 photo from the Hope High School yearbook
He was twice reelected to the position before launching his first presidential campaign in 2008. Sen. John McCain ultimately became the GOP nominee that year, but it put Huckabees name on the map.
He declined to run for the White House in 2012, when Republicans were again unsuccessful against President Barack Obama.
Huckabee waited until 2016 to run again, this time with Trump in the field, but dropped out after a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses.
He endorsed Trump that May.
In the meanwhile, his daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had started working for the Trump campaign.
She went on to become one of Trumps White House press secretaries.
Following in the footsteps of her father, she is now the governor of Arkansas.
Mike Huckabee, whos in the center of the back row, is seen in a 1973 showing members of the National Honor Society at Hope High School
Mike Huckabee (right) clearly had an early interest in politics, as he served as student council president for Hope High Schools 1973 class
This dashing blond was a senior in 1985 at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California. He rejoins the Trump White House in a higher profile position
This incoming Trump White House official grew up in coastal California, graduating in 1985 from Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California.
Law school brought him to Washington, D.C. and hes held a number of prominent legal and Republican Party positions since, though remained under-the-radar.
But Bill McGinley is about to become more of a household name, after Trump announced that he would be the next White House counsel.
In Trumps last administration, McGinley served as White House Cabinet secretary - an important but not publicly facing role as the conduit between the president and his Cabinet.
This time around, McGinley will have to expertly navigate Trumps demands to bring legal retribution to his political enemies as the president-elect tries to break down the traditional wall between the White House and Justice Department.
The White House counsel role didnt go well for the two previous men in the job - Don McGahn and Pat Cipollone.
In April 2018, Trump announced that McGahn would be leaving the job - surprising McGahn, who had cooperated with the FBIs Russia investigation.
Cipollone was among the Trump White House officials who was against the effort to overturn the 2020 election in the Republicans favor.
Bill McGinley is about to become more of a household name, after Trump announced that he would be the next White House counsel
Bill McGinley (right) is photographed with friends in a candid shot included in his 1985 Edison High School yearbook from Huntington Beach, California
This high school junior at New Bern High School in New Bern, North Carolina is one of the best-known Cabinet officials due to her familys entertainment business. She met her husband at age 13 and they married at 17, after her high school graduation
This high school junior at New Bern High School in New Bern, North Carolina was nationally known before she joined the first Trump administration thanks to her familys prominent entertainment company.
She met her husband at age 13 - when he was 16 - and they married after she graduated from New Bern at age 17.
Linda McMahon has been tapped to be Trumps Secretary of Education after serving as his Small Business Administration administrator during his first term.
She is also a co-chair of Trumps 2024 presidential transition.
McMahon and her husband Vince became national figures due to their ownership of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Vinces father had been a wrestling promoter and owned Capitol Wrestling, the parent company of the World Wrestling Federation, which McMahon and her husband bought from him two years after launching their own company, Titan Sports.
McMahon was able to get WWE and WWF products licensed - including the first set of wrestling action figures in 1984. She also was primarily responsible for getting WWF on TV in the year 2000.
She showed an interest in Republican politics prior to joining Trumps White House - twice running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
Linda McMahon was selected to be secretary of Education in Trumps second term. She led the Small Business Administration in his first term and his a co-chair of the presidential transition
Linda McMahon is photographed for her 1966 senior yearbook at New Bern High School. After graduation she married the man she dated all through high school, Vince McMahon
This 1988 shot from Hamlin High School in Hayti, South Dakota shows a longtime ally of the president-elect
Shes long been an ally of Trump - especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 1988 picture from Hamlin High School in Hayti, South Dakota - a town that boasts a current population of 393 - shows her with a big smile and curly highlighted hair.
It depicts the current governor of the state, Kristi Noem, who Trump nominated to serve as his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Noem, 52, was South Dakotas first female governor.
She served in both the U.S. House and South Dakotas state house before taking over the governors mansion in 2018.
During the pandemic, she refused to follow CDC guidance and mandate that people in her state wear face masks.
On July 4th, 2020, she memorably invited Trump and other top officials to a large gathering at Mount Rushmore to celebrate the holiday, saying publicly that there would not be social distancing - which public health officials advised to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
More recently, she seemingly tanked her chances of being picked to serve as Trumps VP after she wrote in her memoir that she had shot one of her dogs.
Trump selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to serve as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. She was a member of both the South Dakota House and the U.S. House before being elected to the governorship in 2018
Kristi Noem sporting her natural brunette locks in a photo from her 7th grade yearbook in 1985
Kristi Noem (first row, left) poses with the track and field team at Hamlin High School as a sophomore in 1988
This floppy haired senior (center, top row) was on Trumps radar during the 2022 midterms, with the then ex-president backing his first foray into politics. Before that, he was a household name on television screens
This floppy-haired young man was a senior at Tower Hill School in President Joe Bidens adopted hometown of Wilmington, Delaware in 1978.
He was on Trumps radar two years ago when he launched his first political campaign after a successful career in TV.
The youngster is Dr. Mehmet Oz, who lost his Pennsylvania Senate bid to Democratic Sen. John Fetterman.
He was the first Muslim Senate candidate to be nominated by a major party.
Two years later, hes poised to join the Trump administration as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Oz grew up in Wilmington but completed 60 days of mandatory military training with the Turkish army as he holds duel citizenship.
He went on to receive degrees from Harvard University and the nearby University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia before later becoming affiliated with Columbia University in New York City.
The Dr. Oz Show, which made him a household name, stopped airing in 2022 after more than a decade on the air.
Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz as the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this month
A shirtless Mehmet Oz posted for senior photos in 1978 at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, which is President Joe Bidens adopted hometown
Mehmet Oz (center) is pictured as part of the high school basketball team in his 1978 senior yearbook
This 1984 photo from Glen Rose High School in Glen Rose, Texas shows a young woman who would go on to become one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement
A 1984 photograph from Glen Rose High School in Glen Rose, Texas shows a sixth grader who would go on to become one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement.
She would graduate and go on to study agricultural development at Texas A&M University - a hint of what department she would be selected to run by the Republican election winner.
Brooke Rollins, 52, is the incoming Secretary of Agriculture.
She was a veteran of the first Trump administration.
Rollins, a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, served as deputy general counsel for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and was president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, from 2003 to 2018.
She was then tapped by Trump to serve as assistant to the president for intergovernmental and technology initiatives and be a member of the Office of American Innovation.
In May 2020 Rollins became the acting director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council.
She was a proponent of the First Step Act, the landmark criminal justice reform bill that Trump signed during his tenure.
After he lost reelection in 2020, Rollins set up a national, MAGA-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute.
Brook Rollins, 52, is the incoming secretary of Agriculture, a subject she studied as an undergraduate. The lawyer has run both a Texas and national conservative think tank and was acting director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council in the first Trump administration
This photograph from 1988 from the yearbook of Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas shows a young man who had an athletic career before transitioning into politics. Hes the first black person Trump named to his second Cabinet
This dashing young man photographed in 1988 as a sophomore at Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas played in the National Football League before entering politics.
Hes none other than Scott Turner, who Trump selected to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Turner, 52, returns to the Trump administration after running the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during the Republican presidents first term.
He was the first black Cabinet appointee of the incoming administration.
Turner left Richardson and went to college at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, before heading to the NFL where he played football for nine seasons beginning in 1995 for the Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos.
During the off-season he worked in politics - interning for now former GOP California Rep. Duncan Hunter - and later working full-time for the congresman once he retired from the NFL
Turner served in the Texas House starting in 2013, unsuccessfully running for Texas House speaker, before leaving the chamber after two terms.
Scott Turner, 52, returns to the Trump administration after running the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during the Republican presidents first term
Scott Turner (left) is shown with a date in a yearbook photo from his sophomore year at Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas
This cheeky seventh grader attending Stanton College Prepatory School in Jacksonville, Florida would go on to have a distinguished career in the military and on Capitol Hill before being tasked
This Florida man is one of many the president-elect tapped to hold top jobs in the incoming administration.
Born in Boynton Beach and raised in Jacksonville hes photographed as a seventh grade student at Stanton College Preparatory School.
Its Rep. Michael Waltz, who Trump named as his national security adviser.
Waltz, 50, attended Virginia Military Institute and served in the Army, earning four Bronze Stars doing tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa.
During the Bush 43 administration, Waltz served as a counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
In 2018 he was elected to Congress, the first Green Beret to serve.
Waltz is considered one of the most hawkish members of Congress on China.
A Trump loyalist, he was among the Congressional Republicans who contested the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Rep. Michael Waltz was selected to be Trumps national security adviser. Hes photographed outside the New York City courthouse where the ex-president was being tried in the Stormy Daniels hush money case
This photograph shows Rep. Mike Waltz, the incoming national security adviser, in the eighth grade at Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville, Florida
The woman in the upper right of the photograph, in the tree, will be a barrier breaker once she enters the White House in January. The photo shows the top Trump aide as a sophomore in 1973 at the Academy of Holy Angels in Demarest, New Jersey
This former student of the Academy of Holy Angels in Demarest, New Jersey will break barriers when she enters the White House in January.
She is the daughter of an NFL football player and legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall. and has become one of Trumps closest confidantes.
The woman smiling and posing from the tree is Susie Wiles, who will become the nations first female White House chief of staff.
She started working in national politics in 1980, joining Republican Ronald Reagans successful campaign as a scheduler.
She helped now Sen. Rick Scott win the Florida governors mansion in 2010 and briefly tried to get former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman into the White House.
Wiles started working for Trump during the 2016 cycle - and worked on his 2020 campaign as well.
In 2018, she helped Trumps then-ally Ron DeSantis get into the Florida governors mansion, but she was soon cut from DeSantisland.
Trumps 2024 victory was especially sweet for Wiles, as the president-elect first embarrassed DeSantis in the Republican primary, forcing him to drop out ahead of even the New Hampshire primary.
Susie Wiles was Trumps 2024 campaign co-chair and will be the first female White House chief of staff once Trump enters office again on January 20th