Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi
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My friend has a great reality show pitch for Paramount+: Pam and Kristi’s Spring Break Vomit Fest.
“With no figs left to give, fed up with everything, especially the cruel boss who canned them, the girls set out for Cancún. They pull each other’s hair back while vomiting. And they sweetly keep each other in good spirits. But then they lose their passports and can’t cross the border. Oh, caramba!”
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem might be crying somewhere while sipping margaritas wondering where it all went wrong. What happened to the happy days that the president praised as beautiful charity meets?
The missing attorney general and secretary of homeland security (Pam Blondi and ICE Barbie to critics) learned the hard way that flattery has its limits.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, Jeff Sessions was fired as attorney general when he failed to take the Russia investigation seriously. But despite their eagerness to do anything to please Trump, these women were cast aside, humiliating themselves and disrespecting their departments.
Trump broke the news to Bondi on Wednesday as he drove to the Supreme Court in his limousine, trying to intimidate the justices into stripping him of his birthright citizenship.
According to him, “I think it’s time.” Wall StreetJournal.
Department of Justice staff immediately trashed Bondi’s portrait.
Noem was having a humiliating week, too. She’s stuck in a messy love triangle; There are reports that he is having an affair with his assistant. Corey Lewandowski collided with something Daily Mail uncover About the antics of her poor husband, Bryon, an insurance agent in Castlewood, South Dakota.
Bryon stood by Kristi during tough congressional hearings; Even though Democrats brought up the issue of his mistress and their misadventures flying around in a flashy government jet.
Women did their best to be first-class sycophants.
Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, gave Trump a model of Mount Rushmore with her face attached. Bondi hung a frowning Trump banner outside the Justice Department; It was a visual reflection of the former attorney general’s attempt to turn the once-respected, independent department into the president’s personal legal Gestapo and purge all prosecutors investigating him and his allies.
On her first day as attorney general, Bondi created a “Weaponization Working Group” to review and undermine cases against Trump.
He tried to revive cases against James Comey, Letitia James, Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly and Jerome Powell that had fallen apart or gone nowhere. Aiming to be as narrow-minded as Trump, he fired Comey’s daughter Maurene, a senior federal prosecutor. He investigated ghostly evidence that Trump beat Joe Biden in 2020.
Noem mimicked Trump’s faux-macho stance. He allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to run amuck. When federal officers shot and killed innocents in Minneapolis, the victims were infected with: domestic terrorists.
He went on patrol with ICE officers, wearing an ICE uniform and a bulletproof vest and brandishing his rifle. She actually excelled at cosplay, trying to be the administration’s glamor girl, making a commercial promoting DHS, riding a horse past Mount Rushmore, decked out like Annie Oakley.
Lewandowski, who was Trump’s campaign manager when he began running for president in 2015, was manipulating Noem into garnering attention in the same grandiose way that Trump did.
But this was a fatal misreading of Trump. Noem’s slogan in the ad on horseback, “From President Trump and me,” violated a cardinal rule: There’s no “and” in Trump. He’s the only star of this show.
The execution of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and Noem’s disdain for the two following their deaths was beyond what even Trump would find acceptable. He called Noem’s congressional hearings, her refusal to apologize to Good and Pretti’s families, and the DHS lovebirds’ stirring debates embarrassing.
At a congressional hearing in February, Bondi put aside her dignity and screamed and insulted while eating the view to impress the boss.
He used Trump’s taunting tactic and lashed out at Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Harvard University-educated lawyer: “You’re not telling me anything, you poor ruined lawyer. You’re not even a lawyer.”
He also adopted Trump’s method of deflecting and interrupting lawmakers’ questions about the vindictive lawsuits against him and his bizarre handling of the Epstein files, saying, “The Dow is over 50,000 now!” he shouted.
Trump enjoyed her bitter battle with Democrats but overall thought her performance as a Cabinet member was lackluster. She thought he was weak, slow, and a poor communicator, and was angry that he couldn’t bring charges against the “scum” on his hit list. The lack of any evidence was an unimportant detail for Trump.
Bondi’s bait-and-switch behavior regarding the Epstein files infuriated Trump’s base. At one point he said he had Epstein’s client list on his desk, but that turned out not to be true. Kash Patel and other Trumpers had promised to root out anyone who voted for Epstein Island. The apparent cover-up hurt the president, who has never been able to shake off the stench of his close relationship with the predator.
He made matters worse at a House hearing when he refused to directly apologize to the Epstein victims in the room for failing to release documents and mistakenly revealing the names of some victims that needed to be redacted.
Aspect Daily reportedAt one point, the frustrated president “showed White House visitors printouts of social media posts disparaging conservatives’ attorney general.” While talking to an ally, he started ranting about what a “terrible job” she was doing.
Now that he’s stuck with Iran, Trump may be tempted to kick out more people. After all, it’s his trademark. Pete Hegseth is busy at the Pentagon firing qualified officers when he’s the one who should be gone.
Fawning over self-proclaimed sun king Donald Trump is a Sisyphean task. Trying to keep up with his whims, his revenge schemes, his insatiable need for drooling praise, and his disdain for the law will always be a losing battle.
This article was first published on: New York Times.
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