NEVER SERVED IN THE NAVY.
NEVER SERVED IN ANY BRANCH.
"John Phelan, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Navy, appears to have absolutely zero relevant experience for the job — other than having hosted a fundraising dinner for Trump at his $38 million home in Aspen. He’s an art collector who runs a private equity firm.
Being rich does not qualify you to take on highly sensitive and important appointments relating to things you know nothing about just because you dumped a lot of money in #Trump 's lap. Secretary of Navy is a specialist position. This man seems to be big in equity & art - not ships."
Welcome to Trump's America:
Dr. Oz, a "physician" who promoted questionable medical therapies (and who lost a law suit to the tune of $5 million for his fake vitamins) to oversee Medicare and Medicaid.
RFK, Jr., a former heroin addict and functioning sex addict who claims no vaccine is safe and who has no background in virology or medicine, but has lots of conspiracy ideas about both.
Linda McMahon as Secy. of Education who has zero experience in education (who forgot that she didn't get her degree in education) but is a billionaire who made her money in wrestling.
Hegseth for Secy. of Defense who was credibly accused of sexual assault, cheated on wife #1 with wife #2, and got wife #3 pregnant while married to wife #2! His military experience is he was a weekend warrior.
TRUMP NOMINATED THIS THING FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES:
A little over half of the voting public chose a crazy, convicted felon/sexual assaulter to lead our country.
The above named cabinet hopefuls are just a small sample of how far into the gutter Trump will, again, drag America.
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Shaw... the Trump cabinet will not be staffed by professional, experts in their field, because that is not Trump's objective. He's decided that his cabinet leaders must understand that he, as the people's elected president and not the state, not previous regulations, not tradition nor the we've always done it this way folks, is in charge.
I like that view in the abstract. A president does indeed have a right to implement his or hopefully one day, her policies.
But I'm also a Lincoln kind of guy. Someone who sees value in pushback from trusted aides, employees, department heads and rivals. But that only happens in an atmosphere of trust, as Lencioni puts it in the "5 Dysfunctions of a Team", where those leaders know their pushback and counsel is appreciated and valued.
And that's where I see the Trump cabinet falling short.
There is no evidence we have seen that Trump is appointing trusted experts in their fields. Instead we see ppl like the now departed Gaetz, Hegseth, Gabbard, Phelan and more.
Not a one of these ppl is experienced in the areas where Trump wants them to lead and serve. So there's no way to get expert pushback, contrary ideas or even effective leadership. And let's not forget, the circle of ppl Trump trusts is very small.
The right and the MAGA enablers have decided that absent smart, educated folks in their fields who really agree with Trump's principles, it's just better to get lackeys. People who will look good in photos, or on television, and who will say yessir and simply carry out Trump's wishes.
Is this good, or better than what we've seen in the past?
Time will tell. But I'm not holding my breath.
Alcoholics Anonymous understands recovery from addiction can only come after the person hits rock bottom and recognizes his problem.
America suffers from an infection of a political/social disease of white Christian nationalism. This is a paranoid culture, living in fear of being "replaced" by brown people.
Sadly this disease of the mind and soul cannot be treated until the country wakes up to the disease.
Unfortunately Trump will take us to rock bottom before this disease can be addressed. Sadly things will get worse before they get better.
It may already be too late for the republic to recover, due to Trump's corrupt Supreme Court granting him a fictitious and unconstitutional immunity from the rule of law.
Once equal justice under the rule of law is abrogated our experiment in a democratic republic fails. I fear we are a lost as a free and democratic nation. If so, Putin has won.
Many Trump supporters believe that Trump is a smart businessman and that he should run the country like a business. Yet what kind of a businessman would hire people to run his various departments who have no experience in or knowledge of how to mange those departments? That would be how a madman would staff his company.
To make it even simpler to grasp: Would you take your sick child to someone who has no medical degree? If you were in trouble with the law, would you hire someone without a law degree to defend you? Would you get on an airplane with someone who has no training in or knowledge of how to fly a airplane.
Any sane person would say no to all of those questions, yet Trump is nominating many people who either have no experience in nor knowledge of the cabinet positions they're being nominated for, and we, the American people, will be the victims of their incompetence and ignorance.
There's a reason Trump had all those bankruptcies and failed business ventures:
He doesn't know how to run a business. How will he run a country?
Shaw... let's not forget what Trump said when he was elected the first time...
He boasted he would “surround myself only with the best and most serious people” – We want top-of-the-line professionals.”
We've heard none of that talk this time around, have we?
I have had a felt since J6 2020 that this nation was in serious ethical trouble. When the corrupt scotus issued the immunity protections for You Know Who I was certain that darkness would fall if You Know Who was reelected. And so here we are.
I agree with every word you wrote Dave D. Our nation has a disease and that disease is a flagrant ethical and moral failure of national character. Graft, corruption, and political stupidity will soon be the order of the day.
America voted. Elections have consequences. And the suffering that will soon befall many Americans will ultimately cause You Know Who to be a hated individual.
It will be too late.
The message to the American people with this incoming administration is
A: commit all the crimes you want you can still be president of United States of America &
B: you can also be anything you want to be without any skills or experience or certification. Any job you can imagine is yours. It’s who you know not what you know.
Trump’s latest pick to head the Navy, John Phelan, a major donor who manages accounts for billionaires and collects sex art. Oh yeah. Married a Dallas cheerleader.
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