Some of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to serve in top national security jobs in his next administration have received a mixed reception among the restraint wing of the Republican Party, who see them as foreign-policy hawks whose views fly in the face of the isolationist currents that have gained ground in the party in recent years.

Trump Force One was cruising toward Washington DC when the plan to appoint Matt Gaetz as attorney general was hatched.

President-elect Donald Trump is already filling up his cabinet with neoconservative warmongers, building a national security team that would have blanched at the “America first” posture of his presidential campaign.