Tag: Cabinet of Deplorables
Senate Democrats Preparing for Showdown Over Cabinet Picks
Senate Democrats are approaching the January confirmation battle over Donald Trump’s Cabinet as a chance to launch their political comeback and expose the president-elect as a fraud. … Lawmakers know they’re unlikely, at best, to stop any of Trump’s Cabinet picks from being installed. But they still see major opportunity in the confirmation hearings. The goal, according to lawmakers and aides: to depict Trump’s chosen inner circle of billionaires and conservative hard-liners as directly at odds with the working-class Americans he vowed to help.
— Politico
Trump’s OMB Pick Gave a Speech to the John Birch Society in July
I regularly speak to groups across the political spectrum because my constituents deserve access to their congressman. I can’t remember ever turning down an opportunity to speak to a group based on the group’s political ideology.
— Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the ultra-conservative congressman tapped by Donald Trump to run the Office of Management and Budget, in response to South Carolina Democrats who criticized Mulvaney for appearing before the John Birch Society, reports Mother Jones.
Trump Cabinet’s Combined Wealth Equal to 43 Million Poorest Families in U.S.
$9.5 billion
Combined wealth of the 17 people President-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank, with several positions still unfilled, reports Quartz. “This collection of wealth is greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over one third of the 126 million households total in the U.S. … Affluence of this magnitude in a U.S. presidential cabinet is unprecedented.”
Imagine a White House with No Chain of Command
And you’ll call my people. You call me. It doesn’t make any difference! We have no chain of command around here!
— President-elect Donald Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, at a meeting of tech CEOs.
Help USS The Deplorables Set Sail
I’m usually not much of a joiner or a petition signer, but when there’s an issue I believe in, I will get behind it 100 percent.
So it is with a petition recently posted to the “We the People” site run by the White House. Someone called “D.S” has posted a petition to name the next available U.S. Navy ship USS The Deplorables. D.S. doesn’t go into a lot of detail, but suggests the name is “To honor those citizens who rose up to defend America and The Constitution from the globalists.”
All Hat, No Brains
In Texas Rick Perry’s still popular,
In Trump’s cabinet, he’ll just be titular.
At the Energy Department
He’ll need some comportment,
And he’ll have to stop pronouncing it “nu-cu-lar.”
Flynn Not Fit for National Security Adviser Due to Fake News
16
Number of times incoming Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn “has used social media to promote a series of outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and their inner circles in recent months” since Aug. 9, Politico reports. “Flynn, who has 106,000 Twitter followers, has used the platform to retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has ‘secretly waged war’ on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a ‘jihadi’ who ‘laundered’ money for Muslim terrorists. … Now some say Flynn’s fondness for spreading fake news casts doubt on his fitness to serve as the White House’s national security adviser, suggesting that he either can’t spot a blatant falsehood or is just ideologically bent to believe the worst of his perceived enemies.”
Passed Over Again
When he doesn’t get RNC chair, he’ll be ticked,
But it’s time, Chris Christie, the post-truth clicked.
Come on, Chris,
Get over this —
The post-fact is, you’re just not going to be picked.
