President-elect Donald Trump and his administration will take over for President Joe Biden and his people on January 20, but the transition of power has been anything but normal over the past two weeks since the election.

Rather than follow along with all of the usual rules and procedures, Trump and his team are approaching the transition as though it is a "hostile takeover," according to one key ally, The Washington Post reported.

That is because, by way of their first term experiences, Trump and his people harbor significant distrust of the federal agencies and bureaucrats who play key roles in the typical transition processes.

Trump transition is "a hostile takeover on behalf of the American people"

NBC News reported last week that President-elect Trump met with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday and both vowed a "smooth transition" ahead of a reportedly substantive talk about the major foreign and domestic issues facing the presidency.

Yet, while the ongoing transition may, in fact, be "smooth" in some regards, it has been far from normal thus far, according to The Post, as the Trump team has declined to abide by some of the usual rules and procedures that govern the transition period.

"The American people rendered their verdict by putting him back in the White House," Mike Davis, president of the conservative Article III Project and a key Trump ally on the judicial front, told The Post. "He should not trust the politicized and weaponized intelligence and law enforcement agencies that hobbled his presidency the first time. It’s a hostile takeover on behalf of the American people."

Trump team not playing by the D.C. transition rules

Per The Post, President-elect Trump and his transition team have not submitted any of his Cabinet picks or other nominees to the FBI for background checks or security clearance reviews, and instead is relying on a trusted attorney and private investigators to vet Trump's appointments.

Neither has the Trump transition team collaborated or signed agreements and ethics pledges with the General Services Administration, which typically oversees the transition period.

Nor has Trump or his team kept the State Department in the loop or utilized official federal translators in their conversations with other foreign leaders following the election.

That is undoubtedly because Trump and his close allies have not forgotten how all of those agencies and departments and more worked to obstruct and undermine his policy agenda the first time around, and aim to avoid making that same mistake again by keeping them at a distance for now.

On a "record" pace of naming appointments

Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, President-elect Trump has set a "record" pace with the speed of his appointments to key Cabinet and administrative posts, both in comparison to his first term and other modern-era presidents.

Yet, the outlet noted that speed did not equate to organization, and the rapidity with which Trump's picks have been named may not matter if they can't be confirmed by the Senate or granted security clearances because of the lack of FBI background checks or other procedural matters like ethics pledges.

None of that should be necessary, though, according to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who told the AP, "The president deserves to be able to put people in place who will do what he campaigned on, which is to disrupt, and the establishment is concerned, and they probably should be."

Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary, said in a statement, "President Trump was re-elected by a resounding mandate from the American people to change the status quo in Washington. That’s why he has chosen brilliant and highly respected outsiders to serve in his administration, and he will continue to stand behind them as they fight against all those who seek to derail the MAGA agenda."