Naming cabinet appointees and a White House staff in the transition period can be a stressful, messy and even tumultuous process.
Even though Trump has named a chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and chief strategist, former Breitbart chief Steve Bannon, his team has been plagued by disarray and infighting, sources tell ABC News.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie initially headed up the transition team, but was replaced by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was, according to transition aides, looking to remove the lobbyists who had been put on the transition team.
There are also conflicts between Pence, Trump's family and a faction allied with Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the sources say.
Trump, for his part, has kept a relatively low profile after Election Day, sitting for an interview with CBS' “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, but he has yet to hold a press conference. He has, however, met with President Obama, House Speaker Paul Ryan and had conversations with many world leaders.
Trump and his aides deny that the transition team is in disarray.
Here's a look at how past presidents have handled their transition periods:
Trump’s transition has most closely tracked with Obama’s. At this point in 2008, then-President-elect Obama had announced his chief of staff and transition team, as well as held his first press conference in Chicago. Obama also received his first intelligence briefing as president-elect during his first week -– though he received his alone.
Obama announced Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff two days after Election Day, Nov. 4. 2008.
A week later, the Obamas visited the White House to meet with George W. Bush.
Obama did not make his first cabinet nomination -- Tim Geithner for Treasury Secretary -- until Nov. 24, 2008. Ahead of that, Obama announced more White House staff appointments.
In a press conference on Dec. 1, 2008, Obama revealed his next big batch of cabinet positions, including Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and Eric Holder as attorney general.
Obama also had three cabinet nominees withdraw.
On Jan. 4, 2009, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce, plagued by a federal pay-to-play investigation into whether a New Mexico state agency contracted with a company belonging to a prominent Richardson donor. There were no indictments in the case, but the New Mexico U.S. attorney at the time said investigators found "pressure from the governor's office resulted in the corruption of the procurement process," according to the Wall Street Journal.
Republican former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew his name for consideration as Secretary of Commerce on Feb. 12, 2009, because of what he called “irresolvable conflicts” with Obama’s economic agenda.
On Feb. 3, 2009, former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services since he was under scrutiny for his taxes. Daschle admitted to failing to pay taxes on a car and driver and apologized.
After he was inaugurated, Obama began his term with two vacant cabinet positions, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Bush had the shortest amount of time to pull together an administration, but he filled his cabinet positions rather expediently.
Election Day was Nov. 7, 2000, but Al Gore did not concede the race until Dec. 13, 2000 due to the Florida election recount. Though the results were not finalized, Bush appointed Andrew Card his chief of staff on Nov. 26, 2000. The then-Vice-President elect Dick Cheney served as the head of Bush’s transition team.
For Bush’s first cabinet pick, he announced retired Gen. Colin Powell as his secretary of state on Dec. 16, 2000 at a press conference outside a school in Crawford, Texas.
Bush met with his predecessor, Bill Clinton on Dec. 19, 2000.
The New York Times reported that Bush completed his cabinet appointments by Jan. 3, 2001, filling the posts in the 20 days since he was became president-elect. Bush’s last cabinet appointees were secretary of energy, secretary of labor and secretary of transportation.
Clinton’s transition into power did not go smoothly.
Shortly after capturing the Democratic nomination, Clinton asked his campaign chairman, Mickey Kantor, to head his transition team. Kantor’s oversight of the transition led to conflict among him and top campaign advisers, who eventually pushed Kantor out after Election Day, according to John P. Burke’s book, “Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice.”
"It's a bloody, ugly mess," one staff member was quoted in the New York Times as saying.
Having won the election and with Kantor out, Clinton then appointed two chairmen to run his transition team -- Vernon Jordan and Warren Christopher. Clinton eventually announced his 48-person transition team on Nov. 12, nine days after the election.
With one month to go until his inauguration, Clinton finally laid down the groundwork for his cabinet by announcing his first appointee -- Sen. Lloyd Bentsen as his Secretary of the Treasury -- on Dec. 10. Thomas “Mack” McLarty was appointed chief of staff two days later.
Clinton also two candidates for Attorney General step aside in the "Nannygate" scandal
Zoe Baird admitted to hiring illegal immigrants to do housework and Judge Kimba Wood also employed an undocumented immigrant as a babysitter before doing so became illegal, according to the New York Times.
ABC’s Ryan Struyk and Alexander Mallin contributed to this report.
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