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Trump’s Fuck You Flex

November 19, 2024 · 11:30 am ET · Leave a Comment

Tina Brown: “Appointing true believers means perhaps Trump will have a higher percentage of cabinet secretaries than in the past who will ally with him until the end of his term. (The average tenure for the heads of key security agencies — Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security — in Trump’s first term was 10.5 months.) But, at this point, he’s like the megalomaniac Roman emperor Commodus, whose obsession with spectacle ultimately required constant deaths in the Colosseum. Trump casts high-profile appointees whose power will ultimately be minimal but who create more drama when their heads roll.”

“It’s all a giant flex, a chain of in-your-face fuck-yous, as if he were imagining the most outrageous names he could come up with and shoving them in front of us like a series of flipped birds. In this context, his Secretary of State appointment, the erstwhile Little Marco, looks like George Kennan.”

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