The CEO President. THIS is Trump’s idea of “The Best People”?
November 21, 2016
In 2005, when President Bush proposed appointing his personal lawyer and longtime friend Harriet Meyers to the Supreme Court, both Democrats AND Republicans rolled their eyes. Out of every qualified lawyer/judge/academic in the nation, Bush searched
Even Chris Wallace during his interview with VP-elect Mike Pence on Fox “news” Sunday yesterday pointed out that so far, all of Prez-elect Trump’s nominees appear to be “All loyalists and all white men.”
You know it’s bad when even Fox “news” is calling a Republican out for cronyism. Just take a look at what this “CEO president’s” idea of
o Trump appointed his Campaign Manager Steve Bannon… the editor in chief of
You KNOW you’re bad when even freakin’ Glenn Beck calls you a “horrible, despicable human being”.
o Next questionable appointee on the prez-elect’s list: Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions for Attorney General. Sessions was the first and only senator to endorse Trump prior to him becoming the nominee way back in August of 2015 and remained one of his
Now, it is true that Sessions prosecuted the KKK for murder while he was Attorney General of Alabama back in the 80’s. But it was his job. It’s not like he had a lot of say in the matter. And we ARE talking about “murder”… which tends to trump (no pun intended) any personal beliefs “people of faith” like Sessions tend to have about racial equality.
One bright spot in Sessions’ otherwise questionable views of minorities was his support in 1999 to honor Rosa Parks with the
Other cronies floated for the AG position: other Team Trump loyalists Rudy “Noun/Verb/911” Giuliani & Chris “BridgeGate” Christie. Once again, Trump’s
o Trump’s pick to be his “National Security Advisor” is someone who said “Islam is a cancer”, “a political ideology masquerading as a religion” (because clearly no other religion does that), and tweeted a “Fear of Islam is rational”:
o Perhaps less controversial but no less disturbing, Trump has tapped
o Speaking of “draining the swamp”, Trump picked the current head of the freakin’ RNC, Reince Priebus to be his Chief of Staff… arguably the second most powerful job in the White House… a normal White House anyway. When it comes to having the president’s ear, Bannon already has that job. A lot of Trump supporters were actually quite upset that he picked such a Washington insider to run his White House. If Trump had lost the election, there is no question Priebus would have been fired, relegating him to the
o Like Pompeo, Trump had to actually swivel his head more than a few degrees to come up with James “Mad Dog” Mattis for as his nominee for Secretary of Defense.
Mattis is also a harsh critic of the Iran nuclear deal and called Iran the “biggest threat to peace in the Middle East”. Not ISIS. Not alQaeda. Iran.
Early on, there were some who actually wanted Mattis to run for president as a third party candidate against Trump, but he refused.
o Another “far & wide” search for “the best people” has led “the CEO Prez” to consider far-Right hate-talk radio host Laura Ingraham for Press Secretary. This is a pick that probably involved turning on a TV or radio at some point and tuning into Fox.
During the 2014 Ebola scare, Ingraham (citing perennial nutjob Dinesh D’Souza’s idiotic “Obama 2016” movie), suggested Obama was willing to expose
During Fox “news” Sunday yesterday, Ingraham took offense when fellow panelist Juan Williams called Trump’s proposed staff nominees
o Another absurd proposed nominee: Sarah Palin for Secretary of the Interior? You’re telling me this “CEO President”… who ran on appointing “the best people” to staff the most amazing White House team ever… searched far and wide and the best person he could find to be in charge of our land, parks, forest, nuclear
o And most recently, we learned of the possible nomination of Mitt Romney… the exception that proves the rule… to be
I’m trying to imagine the meeting between Trump & Romney, with Mitt telling him, “I got more votes than you too!” The only reason Trump won his election when Romney did not is because Trump had the good fortune to be running against an even more disliked opponent. He’s probably kicking himself for not running a third time this election.
And that’s just Trump’s picks so far. Try to imagine Gov. Rick “oops” Perry as Secretary of Education, Ben Carson for Surgeon General or Newt Gingrich for Director of Homeland security?
Traditional Wisdom has been tossed out the window. Remember the awful RNC Convention? Trump’s top celebrities were Chachi and a male underwear model. I described the entire event as “Orwell’s
During “Meet the Press” yesterday, a former Obama-voter-turned-Trump-supporter rationalized his vote by saying “I think Hillary is a criminal.” By the end of the program, they were talking about the president-elect settling his “Trump University” lawsuit for $25 Million dollars.
What Hath God Wrought? A short aside. This is what you elected America by not showing up (be it the Primaries or in November):
Trump:
- Wants limits on the First Amendment (wants to be able to sue people for saying things he doesn’t like) but not the Second.
- Admitted to committing sexual assault.
- Has called for the “total repeal of Obamacare”… which he now appears to want to replace with… Obamacare?
- A president that believes he can fire generals… the ones he says he knows more than, and yet is now loading his cabinet with.
- Promised to “Build a wall…” or is it a fence… or is it now a “virtual fence” patrolled from the air by drones?
- His vow to expel “11 Million illegal immigrants” is now “
2-3 Million dangerous illegal immigrants.” Any illegal immigrant arrested committing a violent crime is already deported, so the only way toround-up 2 to 3 Million unaccounted for “gang-bangers “, “drug-dealers”, andpetty-thieves would be if you create a National “Deportation Force” committing unconstitutionalhouse-to-house searches looking for evidence that the residents are both undocumented AND committing crimes, letting the“non-criminals” go (for now) and deporting the “guilty” ones without trial. - Trump… who just settled one criminal case against himself… will be appointing the Attorney General while he himself is still under investigation.
- Called Climate Change “a Chinese hoax” and is threatening to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords.
- Said during the campaign that “We desperately need the Keystone XL pipeline”.
- Thinks “ObamaCare” is an insurance program, calling it “the worst insurance there is”.
- Will unquestionably escalate the war in the Middle East, bring back torture, keep Gitmo open, and threaten to use nuclear weapons.
- Doesn’t understand what “Blind Trust” means (“I’ll put all my assets in a blind trust. I’ll put Ivanka and my kids in charge of all my properties. Is that
a “blind trust”? I don’t know.”)
Meanwhile, VP-Elect Pense is:
- The most Anti-choice governor in the nation, calling to outlaw the IUD & The Pill while calling to abolish Roe.
- The most Anti-gay rights gov. Signing Indiana’s controversial “right to be a bigot” Religious Freedom Act into law before being forced to rescind (most of?) it following a nationwide uproar and numerous corporate boycotts.
- Called to shut down the government in 2010 (rather than raise the “Debt Ceiling” to pay our obligations.)
You know why Trump wants his kids to be his advisors and given Security Clearances? Because he doesn’t trust anyone else. Not even his closest advisors. Think about that. For the next four years, we’ll have a paranoid xenophobic bigot with trust issies in charge of our government. It’s going to be one hell of a ride.
“May you live in interesting times.” – Ancient Chinese curse.
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November 21, 2016
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Admin Mugsy - December 9, 2016
Updates:
Andy Puzder, CEO of Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr as Sec of Labor.
Linda McMahon, Co-founder of WWF Wrestling, to run SBA.
Ben Carson, neurosurgeon, to run HUD.
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