File this one under “It takes one to know one” :
President Trump has named Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, as acting White House chief of staff.
In response to the announcement, Mulvaney tweeted: “This is a tremendous honor. I look forward to working with the President and the entire team. It’s going to be a great 2019!”
However, in a 2016 video surfaced by the Daily Beast, Mulvaney called Trump a “terrible human being,” just days before the presidential election.
Mulvaney is the pernicious little grifter appointed last year by Trump to sabotage the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Sen. Elizabeth Warren helped create to prevent payday lenders and other bottom feeders from fleecing the poor. After Mulvaney’s mission was accomplished, Trump sent him to the OMB.
Now Mulvaney is replacing John Kelly, the four-star bigot who couldn’t keep a lid on his contempt for Trump. The new chief of staff is as terrible as Kelly and should feel right at home in Trump’s Cabinet, a who’s who of terrible humans hand-picked to wreak havoc on the federal government.
I mean people like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, hired by Trump to help destroy the public school system; Andrew Wheeler, the former coal industry lobbyist (!) currently in charge of neutering the Environmental Protection Agency; Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, dubbed “the foreclosure king” after he made a fortune using deceptive business practices to help banks foreclose on legions of homeowners who fell behind on mortgage payments during the Great Recession.
There are many more, but I can’t go on, it’s too terrible. Pardon the Taxi Driver reference, but let’s just hope the Mueller probe and other investigations bring a real rain that washes Trump and all his scum out of the White House.
And let’s hope the rain comes before Trump does something really terrible in a last-ditch effort to stay in office.
The Trump administration is disintegrating before our eyes.
At this point nobody who isn’t already a criminal will work for this “terrible human being.”
Which leaves us with an acting Attorney General, EPA and Interior Secretary, and Chief of Staff.
A part time Budget Director and a Secretary of Homeland Security on her way out the door.
As well as an Ambassador to the UN so unqualified that even Trump no longer wants her job to be a cabinet level position requiring Senate confirmation.
To say that the wheels have come off Trump’s machine is an understatement.
But nothing will change just because we manage to run Trump out of office.
Things will only change when the oligarchs and plutocrats are forced to become regular people in terms of the wealth they own.
Thank god for the IRS.