Remember that seen in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich goes inside his own head and everyone has his face and everything said is “Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich”? That must be what it is like inside Trump’s head.
U.S. State Department hire Darren Beattie wrote on X: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
Snopes rates it as « correct attribution ».
Beattie was formerly a speechwriter during the first Trump administration and will be appointed to the role of undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
Good. I predicted that the Orange Felon would be so out of control that he’d be removed from office either by impeachment or by the power of the 25th Amendment. It will soon be up to Congress to choose between the Orange Felon or American democracy. You can’t have both.
To be fair USAID did fund some questionable things such as a program called BeBest by someone named Melania something and paid tens of thousands of dollars for recording equipment for one Ivanka T. Good to see taxpayers won’t be funding these deep state projects anymore.
Meanwhile, I was at my dentist the other day and he agreed with me that RFK Jr getting confirmed would be great for his business so not sure where the ADA opposition comes from. Don’t dentists want to make money? Removing fluoride from water guarantees them more income for a patient’s entire lifetime.
And speaking of Kennedys, Caroline Kennedy has to be livid about Trump taking over the Kennedy Center. I can’t think of anyone less interested in the arts and culture.
The Kennedy Center responds to Trump’s proclamation.
Maybe if we’re lucky this one will slip his mind, like the “freedom cities” with flying cars and zero laws, and the “National Sculpture Garden of American Heroes”, and moving the Air Force Academy to Alabama, and forcing schools to have the principal be elected by the students’ parents, and rounding up all the homeless people into tent cities, and banning online content moderation but also banning pornography, and…
And over in the DOT, they are now stopping EV charging station installs funded by the former administration. Sec of Transportation/Reality TV show cast member Duffy has vowed to stop the radical Green New Deal that drives up the cost of vehicles.
Who cares about climate change? Not them. It’s all fake news.
The Musk purges are getting close to the “authoritarian nightmare.” Musk is more effective at taking stabs here and there. See which judges oppose Trump. Impeach and purge them all. In 4 years, nothing left of democracy. GOP will do nothing to stop Trump. There is no McCain left.
GOP doesn’t have the 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove a judge. But President MuskTrump can always tell their worshipers to “rid them of this troublesome priest”.