Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN

Updated 7:56 PM EDT, Tue March 11, 2025


CNN — As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer. In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions on clothing sales.

On the same day OPM sent a government-wide memo pressing federal officials to identify barriers they faced in their work to “swiftly terminate poor performing employees,” Pinover posted a video blowing a kiss to the camera with the caption “work look” and the hashtag #dcinfluencer. Her Instagram account linked to a site where viewers could buy the $475 purple skirt she wore in the video.

One watchdog group said her videos could run afoul of rules restricting the use of government property for personal benefit because, while in the workplace, she was using a website that pays content creators commissions from the clothing brands they promote. Former OPM staffers during the Biden administration also told CNN that they were offended by Pinover posting as a fashion influencer on government property while defending mass layoffs of federal workers – at a time when top Trump administration officials have accused career employees of being lazy and wasteful.

“Your number one job as a leader is to protect and support your people,” said Jack Miller, who preceded Pinover as the politically appointed OPM communications director under President Joe Biden. “So instead of fighting tooth and nail to keep your team, we’re posting fashion videos. It’s absurd.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/opm-spokesperson-fashion-influencer-videos-invs/index.html

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They have made a complete mockery out of the entire system.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Orwellian Doublespeak to the Serfs:

You're richer than you know. You lost your financial security and/or pension in the Stock Market. You lost your access to medical care. You lost your Social Security payments. You lost your child's right to an education via Special Needs programs.

You just don't know how good you have it.

It Don't Worry Me . . . . .

[JI7]

2. Social media influencers tend to be Republicans

While the entertainment industry in the US such as film, music, art , which includes fashion industry tend to be liberal.

The social media influencers are mostly conservative . And it makes sense when you think of things culturally .

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes the goal is to humiliate the US, make us look like stupid grifters.

[C_U_L8R]

4. As long as they're not doing their 'jobs'.

Blog away.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Finally, there's some waste and fraud for Musk to excise!

[Marcuse]

12. Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

[madaboutharry]

6. Her conduct is so offensive that it's gone global.

It has been picked up by the foreign press. I guess this falls into the FAFO category because she is now an international embarrassment.

Another unserious political appointee in the Trump administration full of enough arrogance to be completely unconcerned about protocol and rules.

There is something wrong with a person so isolated in their own world of privilege that they are seemingly immune to the suffering going on in their own workplace to their own co-workers.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. There is nothing that can "embarass" the MAGats and their leader

They thrive on "reality show government".

[Marcuse]

13. "And now from the Special Assistant to the President of the United States - a word from our sponsor."

[BumRushDaShow]

14. And that's what was just done for Tesla yesterday

with the White House as a backdrop.

[Marcuse]

15. Trump wouldn't pay for it and Musk wouldn't give it away. My guess is that the federal fleet has at least one new car.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. The rural MAGats have no charging stations to charge them

and they can't do this -



So they would be considered worthless!

[enough]

8. She is the ultimate incarnation of the Trump/Musk administration.

[angrychair]

9. Let them eat cake

The rules are for the peasants.
While in the scheme of things this is minor rule violations it is infinitely more vile because it's like rubbing people's noses in their privilege....their white privilege.

[RazorbackExpat]

10. :grr: :mad:

[SupportSanity]

11. McLaurine Pinover instagram fashion influencer - do we know what brand she is pushing?

If we know her brand, we know the plan.

I'm waiting for the same thing that's happening now to Tesla to happen to her.

[slightlv]

17. ANY brand that offers a $475 skirt

is already boycotted by me, as a matter of necessity!