Former President Donald Trump plans to name his former rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, a one-time Democrat, as honorary co-chairs of a presidential transition team that will help him select the policies and personnel of any second Trump administration, according to a campaign senior adviser.

Kennedy, who ended his independent campaign for president and endorsed Trump on Friday, described his transition role briefly in an interview that aired Monday.

“I’ve been asked to go on the transition team, you know, and to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy told Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, in an interview posted on the social platform X.

Both Kennedy and Gabbard spent most of their public life as progressive Democrats. Only four months ago, Trump was calling Kennedy a “Radical Left Lunatic.”

— The New York Times