Trump set to unveil more cabinet picks

US President-elect Donald Trump meets a slate of potential cabinet members at his golf club yesterday, including Chris Christie, indicating he remains supportive of the New Jersey governor after booting him from the transition team.

The 70-year-old Republican billionaire promised reporters they would "hear some things" Sunday after a second marathon day of meetings at his New Jersey golf retreat, a 90-minute drive from Manhattan.

"Numerous patriots will be coming to Bedminster today as I continue to fill out the various positions necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

Trump is building his new administration after his shock November 8 election win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, with an eye on his January 20 inauguration.

Others meeting Trump on Sunday include secretary of state contender and ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, immigration hardliner Kris Kobach, Wilbur Ross, under consideration for commerce secretary, global investor David McCormick and conservative writer John Gray.

Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday for a "substantive and in-depth conversation about world affairs, national security and the future of America," a transition team statement read. Romney is reportedly in the running to be secretary of state.

If chosen, he would bring a more orthodox Republican worldview to foreign policy.

Other high-level candidates who trekked out to Trump's golf resort on Saturday included retired general James Mattis, a potential Pentagon chief, and Michelle Rhee, the controversial former head of schools in the US capital.

Trump is very interested in the idea of having Mattis serve in his administration, an official familiar with the transition process told CNN Saturday.

Trump yesterday conformed he is considering Mattis for US defense secretary, a day after meeting with him in New Jersey.

The retired four-star general, who was known as "Mad Dog," was lauded for his leadership of Marines in the 2004 Battle of Fallujah in Iraq -- one of the bloodiest battles of the war. He also led a task force into southern Afghanistan in 2001.

He is an outspoken critic of the Iran nuclear deal.

So far, Trump has announced a handful of government nominations, including ultra-conservative Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general, hawkish congressman Mike Pompeo as CIA director and retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn as his national security advisor.

Flynn's appointment does not require Senate approval.

But that of Sessions as attorney general does, and he has baggage: racially charged comments he made in the 1980s that cost him a chance for a job for life as a federal judge.

With some 15 senior positions in his cabinet still to fill, the property mogul will remain in Bedminster until late yesterday, far from the protesters besieging his New York building.