America’s ‘Chicken Little’ Elites Don’t Like Trump’s Personnel Picks

[Wingnut]

The people who drove America’s institutions into the ground are upset that Donald Trump isn’t leaving the “experts” in charge.

Following his convincing victory, Trump has swiftly announced his nominees for cabinet secretaries and other key roles. His selections include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary, Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.

The Washington, D.C., establishment is beside itself.

“Trump signals a ‘seismic shift,’ shocking the Washington establishment,” The New York Times reported. The Atlantic repeated that refrain with this headline: “Washington is shocked.”

Apparently, an elected official keeping campaign promises is scandalous to the propaganda press. Trump talked about draining the swamp for years. These are the kinds of nominees who could actually do it.

And this is what worries the political elite the most.

“We need to strengthen the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the public health infrastructure, not dismantle it as RFK has suggested,” a health care industry leader told Politico.

“Folks are shocked,” a current Department of Defense official said, according to Politico. Of Hegseth, the official said, “He’s just a Fox News personality that’s never worked in the government.”

That’s not accurate. Hegseth is a veteran who served as a major in the Army National Guard. He deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, earning two Bronze Stars. He has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He ran two nonprofits focused on veterans, too.

“‘We are reeling’: Trump’s pick of Tulsi Gabbard alarms intelligence community,” a TIME headline stated. The article said, “Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has no background in intelligence.”

The common theme of these critiques is that Trump’s choices don’t have the expertise needed to run these agencies. In many cases, they hold positions that are radically outside the “expert” consensus.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/28/americas-chicken-little-elites-dont-like-trumps-personnel-picks/

[PeteS in CA]

In reality, far more of Trump's senior-level picks have directly relevant experience than the people LIEden was picking 4 years ago. What actually, IMO, alarms the Swampies is that many of Trump's picks have relevant real-world experience, and more than a few have been burned by abuses of authority by the departments they will lead (e.g. Tulsi Gabbard). Speaking of her; Slime Slagazine claims:

Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has no background in intelligence.

In the real world:

* Gabbard served on the House Armed Services Committee (all four terms);

* Gabbard served on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence;

* Gabbard served on the Committee on Homeland Security (2013–2014) and Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security;

* Gabbard served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2013–2019) and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa;

* Gabbard served on the Committee on Financial Services (2019–2021), including the .Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy.

Slime Slagazine lied, unsurprisingly.

[jmyrlefuller]

Too many of them, however, are also Democrats or were recently Democrats. Kennedy and Gabbard first and foremost.

But hey, who needs actual conservatives when you have the Crunchy Mom vote?

[Hoodat]

Sounds like the Swamp is scared.

[DefiantMassRINO]

What made Pothole Pete a transporation expert that qualified him to be Transportation Secretary?

What qualified Jennifer Granholm to be Energy Secretary?

Dems, you lost; go pound sand.

[Smokin Joe]

Go for the big one.

What made Kamala qualified to be a POTUS candidate?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This sure has the smell of academia complaining they are being cut out of any position of power.

And let's all hear what bonafides Lurch Kerry had to be the climate czar as all he ever did was diss his fellow soldiers, jet around the world spewing out more pollutants than +99.999% of all humans, and marrying a ketchup queen so he had money?

[rmc51]

This sure has the smell of academia complaining they are being cut out of any position of power.

And let's all hear what bonafides Lurch Kerry had to be the climate czar as all he ever did was diss his fellow soldiers, jet around the world spewing out more pollutants than +99.999% of all humans, and marrying a ketchup queen so he had money?

Hay!, Hay!, Hay! Heinz ketchup is good stuff, I like Heinz ketchup, but your right about Kerry.

 

[rmc51]

Sounds like the Swamp is scared.

Wouldn't you be, if you were in their place?