Donald Trump is ahead of virtually any of his recent predecessors in terms of appointments thus far. | Getty High energy: Trump's flurry of announcements put him ahead of predecessors

President-elect Donald Trump’s flurry of cabinet appointments is putting him far ahead of schedule compared to recent presidential transitions.

In fact, Donald Trump has announced five more cabinet level appointments than President Barack Obama had by a comparable point in 2008, with two more top posts in the Trump administration all-but confirmed.

Trump has announced six cabinet level nominations: Sen. Jeff Sessions, for attorney general; Betsy DeVos, for education secretary; Gov. Nikki Haley for ambassador to the United Nations; Rep. Tom Price, for the Department of Health and Human Services; Elaine Chao to run the Department of Transportation.

In addition, Trump is expected to soon announce investor Wilbur Ross as his Commerce secretary and financier Steve Mnuchin to run the Treasury Department. Trump has also appointed four senior-level White House aides, including a national security adviser, White House counsel, chief of staff and chief strategist.

That puts him ahead of virtually any of his recent predecessors in terms of appointments — including President Barack Obama, whose 2008 transition was considered one of the smoothest in modern times.

By this point in 2008, had named just one cabinet secretary — Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner — and a handful of White House staff positions. And Obama was elected four days earlier than Trump. By Dec. 1, Obama rolled out more senior positions, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

With the exception of Treasury, many of the cabinet positions that Trump has announced so far took longer for Obama to roll out; he did not name an education secretary, for example, until mid-December and his eventual pick for Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, was not announced until February after former Sen. Tom Daschle’s nomination ran into trouble. Obama announced his attorney general along with a series of national security-themed picks on Dec. 1.

Trump is also far ahead of George W. Bush — who, by this point in 2000, was still in the middle of a legal battle over the Florida recount.