Latest appointments and near-appointments and hypothesis about attainable appointments to incoming President Donald Trump’s Cupboard have folks fondly recalling the tenure of U.S. Secretary of Schooling Betsy DeVos throughout Trump’s earlier administration.
“I miss the times of the one factor I needed to fear a couple of fully unqualified extraordinarily high-ranking authorities official fucking up was my youngsters’s future,” stated Nancy Hiffington of Clearwater. “I by no means dreamed I’d ever miss Betsy DeVos.”
DeVos’s nomination in 2016 was extremely controversial and finally grew to become the primary Cupboard nominee’s affirmation to be determined by the vp’s tiebreaking vote.
Lots of the names thought of for the brand new administration, together with Steven Miller, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio have drawn consideration for being unconventional.
“A few of these have to be jokes, proper?,” questioned Carl Legwarmer of Brandon. “That is simply Trump having a little bit post-election snort earlier than he will get right down to actual enterprise. You bought me, Donald! Good one!”
“The night time of the election, my buddies and I have been hanging out in a bar and began suggesting absurdly inappropriate folks for his cupboard. Then actual life got here alongside and topped all of them,” stated Roger Fulbright of Tampa. “Ruined a superbly good consuming recreation.”
“Okay, so Betsy DeVos did lots of harm, reminiscent of threatening faculties with a lack of federal funding in the event that they refused to reopen mid-pandemic, advocated for non secular and personal faculties to the detriment of public faculties, urged weapons belong in some faculties to fend off bears, eliminated steerage designed to guard college students of coloration and transgender college students and spent 4 years undermining her personal division by demanding federal price range cuts and principally disparaging the American public training system, however no less than she by no means kicked her husband within the balls at WrestleMania,” stated Pam Schtwitz of St. Petersburg. “Paradoxically, that makes Linda McMahon probably the most likable of the cupboard nominees.”