• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    Hey guys, I’m starting to believe that the people Trump puts in those important positions aren’t selected for their competence.

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        He makes his choices based on his desire to be the smartest person in the room.

        One of the complaints he had from his first term was that he was prevented from doing things because he was surrounded by “people who think they’re smarter than me”…

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        His lawyers, for all their failings, have managed to keep him out of prison so far. (Having a few judges in his pocket doesn’t hurt.)

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          Well…He was convicted on 34 criminal counts. He didn’t go to prison only because of a feckless judge who was too scared of his responsibility to give a meaningful sentence and didn’t punish him at all.

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      These days he probably just points to furniture and says, “you’re hired!” And “you’re fired!” And his people just hire whoever looks most like the last person because he gets upset when his reality’s continuity is broken.

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    By September 2025, Zacharia had worked as legal advisor for Fix California, a political organization; had served on the board of advisors at White Rose Resistance, an antiabortion advocacy group; and was a member of the Pepperdine University School of Law’s dean council. She had additionally served as director of development for special projects at Pepperdine University.

    Pepperdine University is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ

    :-|

    Zacharia became deputy assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs in February 2026. She announced her resignation the following month. According to CNN, Zacharia, who lived in California, told an associate that commuting to the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., was not sustainable. In June, Zacharia became a communications advisor to the Trump Media and Technology Group.

    Classic case of failing upwards.

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    Hummm … opened shirt and 2 precisely positioned gold buttons are, it seems, on purpose … to distract from an empty discourse and likewise head and boss ?

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    I thought she did okay for a high school valedictorian speech.

    Of course a professional wouldn’t need to look down to read their own name.

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      I don’t even think it was quite that level. It came off to me as someone presenting for a a highschool group project that didn’t do any of the work, so they were forced to present. It genuinely seemed like the first time she ever read the info.