Trump Appointments: The Circus Is Back!

Get ready, America. Last week’s announcements of multiple Donald Trump appointments for his upcoming administration have proven that the circus is indeed coming back to town!

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If you need an example of what the next 4 (or more) years of Donald Trump will look like, you could start with a story out of Columbus, Ohio, where a group of Nazis carrying flags with swastikas on them boldly marched through the streets on Saturday.  Apparently, the vulgar bigots know they will soon have free reign to spew division and hate once their MAGA king returns to power, so they thought they’d get an early start on providing visibility.

However, in what is being called the clearest example of the clown show the orange man is about to bring back to Washington, a bizarre list of Trump appointments has Americans shaking their heads in fear and disbelief.

Let’s take a look at a few of the completely unqualified Cabinet picks Donald Trump wants to run the US government:

UN AMBASSADOR

Trump has picked GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York as his choice to represent the United States among other world leaders at the United Nations. Although she has no foreign policy experience, her selection appears to be based solely on her allegiance to Trump and her vocal support of his antics.

End of story.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Trump has named Pete Hegseth to be the next US Secretary of Defense.

Hegseth has zero experience running a huge operation as vital as the US Department of Defense (or any organization, for that matter), which controls the US military and keeps the country safe. So, what’s his claim to fame, you ask? Well, aside from being an army veteran who served in the Iraq war, he’s the weekend anchor on TV’s “Fox & Friends” and is a vocal cheerleader of all things Trump. He’s also been accused of paying off a woman who charged him with sexual assault and he brags that he hasn’t washed his hands in over a decade.

In TrumpWorld, that’s all the experience a guy needs to run America’s entire trillion-dollar military operation and safeguard every citizen from harm.

SECRETARY OF HEALTH

He’s against vaccines. He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS or that HIV medications are even necessary. He’s against fluoride in water.  He wants Americans to only have access to raw milk (as in directly from a cow’s teet).  He’s had a portion of his brain eaten by a worm. He once ate a barbecued dog. And, he admitted to picking up a dead bear cub from the middle of the road to skin and eat it before changing his mind and dumping it inside New York’s Central Park.

Yes, he’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — the mentally challenged son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy — who is now Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Remember, this is the man who will decide and dictate health rules and policy to millions of Americans.

DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was once a Democrat who ran for president in 2016. However, she has since switched to the GOP and all but declared Donald Trump as her personal lord and savior.

That was all the allegiance Trump needed to name her as his pick to be the next Director of National Intelligence.  

The Intelligence Director is responsible for coordinating all 18 US intelligence agencies. She will need to compile the President’s Daily Brief of threats from around the world and advise the president on key national security decisions to keep Americans safe.

The only problem is that Tulsi Gabbard has no experience doing any of this, which, in Trump’s book, makes her perfect for the job!

“As a former CIA case officer, I saw the men and women of the US intelligence community put their lives on the line every day for this country — and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to lead DNI,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger said of the woman who she considers “ill-prepared and unqualified” for the role.

“As a Member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am deeply concerned about what this nomination portends for our national security,” Spanberger added. “My Republican colleagues with a backbone should speak out.”

Yeah, good luck with that request.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

In what is being called the most controversial pick among the Donald Trump appointments, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has been chosen to become the next Attorney General of the United States.

Gaetz’s experience as a lawyer is limited to the brief time he spent as a junior associate at a small litigation firm near where he grew up. However, his time in Congress has been marred by charges of sex trafficking and engaging in sexual misconduct with minors.

Among GOP circles, Gaetz is remembered as the man who stalled Congress for a week as he refused to go along with his party’s election of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Ironically, Gaetz also successfully ousted McCarthy as Speaker only a few months later — a move that the former speaker has vowed to avenge.

Aside from being grossly unqualified for the post (which appears to be a prerequisite for Donald Trump), Gaetz was seemingly selected because he’d be a faithful and ruthless hitman. Trump has bragged that if elected, he will jail politicians, journalists, and others who dared to berate and/or challenge him in public. After the hit job he did on McCarthy, Gaetz has proven himself capable of exacting revenge against Trump’s enemies.

Is he qualified? Hell no. Will he do Trump’s bidding and turn the Justice Department into Trump’s personal vendetta machine? Absolutely!

The egotistical Trump loved running for president (and all the attention and accolades that came with it). However, he couldn’t give a damn about actually being president. So, he’s assembled a motley crew of Trump appointments whose sole purpose will be to serve their master without fail or question. Whatever else they do (or don’t do) for or to the country will be irrelevant since that’s not Trump’s focus.

As long as the orange clown can sit on his throne of power, rule as a dictator without anyone in or out of government daring to question his authority, stay out of jail for a history of crimes, act as a bully by exacting petty punishment against those he considers his “enemies within,” and receive Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Il-type adoration and attention from his sycophants, Donald Trump will be a happy man.

So, welcome back to the Donald Trump Circus or, as some call it, the return of Hitler. With Republicans controlling the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate — all while deeply fearing King Trump — the next several years should be, um… interesting.

You asked for it, America. Now, you get what you deserve.

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Trump appointments = a return to the Trump Circus.