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Yes, I saw a few interviews with him and read the article, but tbh I thought Schwartz was enjoying his 15 mins a little too much, even though what he had to say was absolutely spot on with regard to the glimpses of personality we have seen along the way. It doesn't bode well. At the pre-inauguration luncheon at his new Washington DC hotel, he was speaking to invited guests who had been providing financial support. He told them "My cabinet has, by far, the highest IQ of any Cabinet in history!" In short, he is bigly inexperienced so he is going to try to surround himself with smug cunts who all think they know better. Then, they report to him and he becomes the Decider. What that does is illustrate HE is above all the so-called "smartest guys in the room!"There was a great article in the New Yorker by Anthony Schwartz, the guy who ghost-wrote 'The Art Of The Deal' back in June last year: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
It's really quite worrying, particularly for people like me who thought that once the campaign was over, we might see a presidential figure emerge.
To say it is ironic does not do it justice, but he has selected an Oil & Gas CEO with strong ties to Putin (who gave him a fucking medal!) as his Secretary of State.
A guy who said he wanted to get rid of the Department of Energy when he ran for President, but then forgot it in the debate, is his choice to run that Department.
Oh, and did I mention, someone JUST had to tell him his Department was in charge of all the US nuclear arsenal...and he had no idea what a centrifuge was. In his confirmation hearing, he said that now he knows what they do, he has changed his mind and it is important!
How about a head of the Department of Health and Human Services who is part of a cultish medical group with fringe medical beliefs and who thinks we need to get rid of welfare?
Maybe you would prefer to discuss someone from Oklahoma, the center of the U.S. oil and gas distribution system, who has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency...to run the very agency he is suing? Oh, and a climate denier who believes in MORE FOSSIL FUEL EXPLORATION, EXTRACTION AND USE!!! Still happy?
How about a Billionaire Secretary of Education who donated millions of dollars to both Trump and an organization that seeks to get rid of Public Education? She never ever attended a state school, her kids never attended a state school, and she is dead set against state education funding and yet SHE is going to fix the US education system?!
Maybe you would LIKE your Secretary of Defence to be called "Mad Dog Mattis"?!
Or maybe a Secretary of the Treasury who, during the financial crisis, cobbled together a few buddies to buy a bankrupt bank, shed all the old lady mortgages by foreclosing on them...one was a 90 year old woman who owed 20p that he had kicked out of her house...dumped the other bank customer accounts on the governments Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (how socialist!), then changed the name of the bank and flipped it for £1Bn, making £300+M for himself.
Or, in the mystical world of Trump's America, maybe you pick a quirky (or is that quacky?) neurosurgeon who believes the Egyptians built the pyramids to store grain (who knew they were hollow grain silos?!) to be your Head of Housing and Urban Development...because he grew up black in an urban area?
Lovely jubbly, what could possibly not go BIGLY?!
Oh wait, I should have just said "Farage as a Special Advisor" and left it at that. You would have got the idea!!
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