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Can you beat Trump? Pick the WORST people for his cabinet positions you can think of!

Stacyhs said:
Except my post and yours aren't exactly in agreement. I do think Trump is serious in his picks because the only criterion for his picks is that they are loyal to him personally and will do whatever they are told.
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Agreed. But there are thousands of people who are like that in federal and state politics, and in business. So my thought was why those particular people were chosen. What made him choose them. Remembering also that Trump is thoroughly suggestible by rogue forces behind the cheap gilded throne.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Agreed. But there are thousands of people who are like that in federal and state politics, and in business. So my thought was why those particular people were chosen. What made him choose them. Remembering also that Trump is thoroughly suggestible by rogue forces behind the cheap gilded throne.
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He chose them because they have demonstrated they are true Trump cultists. That is his only requirement.
 

Trump’s cabinet picks aren’t just ‘loyalists’. They’re groveling, subservient yes-men​

Robert Reich
Trump’s selection for attorney general, Pam Bondi, has said that when Trump returns to power, “the prosecutors will be prosecuted”.

Moreover, Trump didn’t recruit these people or anybody else. They recruited him.

Every one of his nominees campaigned for these jobs by engaging in conspicuous displays of submission and flattery directed toward Trump.
Before Trump tapped Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security, she sent him a 4ft replica of Mount Rushmore with Trump’s face next to those of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln.
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www.theguardian.com

Trump’s cabinet picks aren’t just ‘loyalists’. They’re groveling, subservient yes-men | Robert Reich

All of Trump’s nominees are unprincipled enablers who are unlikely to push back when he makes reckless decisions
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I hear Don Jr's launching a musical career, his first singles going to be a cover version of George Straite's "All My Exes Live in Texas Greece"
 
The Don said:
At least it's a clear and unambiguous indication that the major, indeed the sole, criterion for selection is blind loyalty and that competence isn't a consideration because there's no intention on Trump's part to govern effectively.
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Or that he is going to be in charge of everything. He just needs loyal chair fillers.
 
He's tearing down the firewall between media and government, just like Putin told him to.
 
Jeffrey Skilling for Secretary of the Treasury
Hunter Biden for the Administrator of the DEA
Joe Biden as Director of Intelligence
George Santos to head the State Department
 
Stacyhs said:
Jesus H Christ. KARI LAKE? Trump continues handing out rewards to his cultist followers.
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I'm not sure, but I understand this appointment doesn't need Senate approval. So she just walks right in.

Frankly, I don't think she has a clue how VoA internal operations work. I'm sure she is dim enough to think she sits in a big chair and casts orders left, right and centre (well...mostly right) and what she says happens. Like most bureaucracies, I'm betting the staff will simply ignore her and do what they need to do to make stuff happen properly.
 
Lake may not be a shoo-in for the VOA leadership:
During Trump’s first term in office, it took two years for his pick to run the agency, Michael Pack, to get confirmed by the Senate. Once Pack arrived, chaos ensued inside VOA and other parts of the agency. Pack dismissed the heads of multiple networks; stacked their boards with Trump loyalists; reportedly tried to meddle in news coverage; and brought in political appointees who investigated a VOA White House reporter for alleged anti-Trump bias.

Some conservatives cheered his efforts. But a federal investigation later followed up on whistleblower complaints and found a long list of abuses.

The Trump-era purge efforts led Congress to institute reforms. A bipartisan group called the International Broadcasting Advisory Board now works with the CEO of the U.S. Agency of Global Media. By law, the head of VOA can only be “appointed or removed” by a majority vote of the board.

If it sounds like a lot of bureaucracy, it is. But it is intended to provide some measure of independence to the broadcasters.

That’s why, by announcing Lake, Trump is “putting the cart before the horse,” a veteran of the agency told CNN.
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