Trump Enacts Petty Revenge With Weird Midnight Rant

[ck4829]

Donald Trump has been in office for less than 24 hours, but his administration is already working overtime to strip personnel from the executive branch who “are not aligned” with Trump’s “vision to Make America Great Again.”

In a late-night post to Truth Social, the forty-seventh president promised that his Presidential Personnel Office is “actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration.” That staggering number includes four people whom Trump felt compelled to call out by name: José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council.

On Monday, Trump effectively reinstated Schedule F by an executive order under a different name, streamlining the process of ridding the executive branch of employees that he considers disloyal. And if Project 2025—the presidential transition blueprint that Trump and his allies have since fessed up is more or less the plan—are anything to go by, that could ultimately involve replacing tens of thousands of career employees with 54,000 pre-vetted Trump loyalists. In July, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts promised the project had already “trained and vetted” more than 10,000 people to replace executive branch employees.

Minutes after Trump was sworn in, a portrait hanging in the Pentagon of former Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley—who refused Trump’s orders to send the military to crush protesters in Washington in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and who has since referred to Trump as a “fascist” and a “wannabe dictator”—was suddenly stripped from the wall. (Former President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Milley on Monday, saving him from the Trump administration’s litigious ire.)

https://newrepublic.com/post/190478/donald-trump-revenge-rant-mark-milley-jose-andres

[Klarkashton]

1. The old man thinks he is acting on a TV show.

He has no sense of reality. He thinks he is the writer, director, producer and star of a grand TV show. We are all the audience of this warped fucked up program.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I swore to support and defend the constitution covering 30 years of service

Nothing about loyalty to anyone.

Anyone loyal to trump will not be competent in the job they are appointed. Competence does not matter to the gop.

[elleng]

3. SICK!!!

JOSE ANDRES!!!

HOW will We the People react to the insanity???

[questionseverything]

5. Ikr? What problem could he possibly have with chef?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Because Andrés is kind. He's a liberal, by deed, even if he never expresses a "political view".

Plus Andrés called him out in 2015 for being anti-immigrant:

Andrés is also engaged in a legal battle with President Trump, who sued him after the chef backed out of a deal to open a restaurant in Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel. Andrés pulled out of the deal after Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and as people "bringing drugs" and "bringing crime" while announcing his candidacy for president in June 2015.

"We have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in America," Andrés says. "They are part of the American DNA. They are taking care of our farms, our golf clubs, our wineries, our fishing boats" — and, of course, American restaurants. "We need to be giving those 11 million undocumented in America the right to finally belong," he says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/15/515441650/chef-jos-andr-s-to-close-restaurants-for-day-without-immigrants

[Mike 03]

4. The wholesale firing of career federal workers is to me one

of the most troubling aspects of Project 2025. And the process--if you can even call it that--of soliciting MAGA fanatics to replace them by filling out an online form is so insulting to the people they are replacing, many of whom have had years and years of education to prepare themselves for these jobs--jobs that will now be filled by beer-chugging, shirt-stained, drooling and dribbling cretins--individuals so irresponsible and carefree that they forget to wipe themselves and pull up their pants after defecating--and who don't know which countries fought on which side in the Second World War, and can't name a single Supreme Court justice.

[Mad_Machine76]

7. Remember Iraq

when we put a bunch of college kids in charge of running their government?