Humor-Satire Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures [2024 Edition]

[rareboy]

And meanwhile:

 

[KaraBulut]

...But Trump will have the entire GQP propaganda machine making sure that Biden and Buttigieg are blamed...

You should take a look at the press conference. Trump looked positively deranged with his undyed hair and eyebrows and his Ozempic bald spot. He rambled incoherently about DEI being responsible for the crash. He's desperately trying to find someone else to blame.

 

[rareboy]

Where's Pete?

 

[rareboy]

And nice burn....

 

[KaraBulut]

It is almost a karmic coincidence since none of his decisions could have resulted in such a crash that I could see.

For years, there have been recommendations to close DCA. The Congress wouldn't allow it; they want to fly in/out of DCA because it's less of a trek from Capitol Hill than to BWI or IAD. Instead, Congress keeps pressuring the airlines to add more direct flights from their State's airports so that Congress members have an easy commute. Instead of closing the airport, they renamed it to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Congress will investigate but the finger really points back to Congress for ignoring advice to do something about DCA.

It is absolutely bad optics to cut the FAA positions and the advisory committee the week before a bunch of kids are blown to bits in mid-air by a military helicopter just blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And sometimes, optics are everything.

 

[rareboy]

Trump picked the guy from MTV "Road Rules" to be Secretary of Transportation. We're waiting to see if Trump picks one of the MTV Teen Moms to be Secretary of Labor.
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Happy first day on the job, Sec Duffy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/29/air-crash-reagan-national-airport-00201457

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5110890-sean-duffy-transportation-secretary/

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy:


"Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that."

 

[KaraBulut]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy:


"Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that."

Based upon his past utterings while in Congress, that might be the smartest thing that he will say during his tenure at Transportation.

 

[KaraBulut]

In a bit of irony, while RFK Jr was answering questions about his anti-vax history, a county health director in one of the most Republican Congressional Districts in the US was answering questions about a case of measles diagnosed at a Lubbock, Texas hospital. Fortunately, the unvaccinated child was home-schooled but with a R0 of 12-18, there's likely to be more cases to come. The employees in Lubbock hospitals who had contact with the child, along with any people who were in the emergency department waiting room, are now quarantined until tests for measles exposure are resulted.

Health officials provide details of first measles case found in Lubbock after 21 years

Lubbock saw its first case of measles after 21 years, prompting health officials to advocate for the vaccine and safety. Here is what they said.

www.lubbockonline.com

• Lubbock, Texas has confirmed its first case of measles in 21 years in a homeschooled child from Gaines County.
• Measles is highly contagious and can cause serious complications, especially in young children, pregnant women, and those with weakened immune systems.
• The measles vaccine (MMR) is highly effective and can prevent or lessen the severity of the virus.
• Lubbock health officials assure the public there is an ample supply of the MMR vaccine available.

 

[KaraBulut]

There should be a ban on hiring anyone whose first name substitutes a "K" for a "C".

Meet Karoline Leavitt, Trump's latest secretary of disinformation.

Leavitt, is 27 years old, the youngest person to ever hold the important position overseeing the White House Press Office. Leavitt was spotted by the first Trump Administration after she wrote pro-Trump editorials in 2017 in support of Trump's Muslim travel ban in her New Hampshire Catholic college newspaper. Leavitt interned at Fox News, then she hired by Trump as an assistant press secretary to WH Press Secretary (and current Fox News talking head) Kayleigh McEnany.

In between promoting Trump falsehoods and blatant lies, Miss Leavitt got married to Nicholas Riccio, a 59 year old multi-millionaire real estate developer and Trump donor, with whom she had a child in Aug, 2024 (don't tell JD she's working instead of taking care of her child!). Mr Riccio is older than Miss Leavitt's father.

 

[rareboy]

Yeah but she's blonde and wears a cross around her neck...so she must be qualified.

I am still laughing over how she managed to nail TrumpCo. to an ongoing court case over the funding fiasco with one Tweet.

 

[KaraBulut]

Yeah but she's blonde and wears a cross around her neck...so she must be qualified.

I am still laughing over how she managed to nail TrumpCo. to an ongoing court case over the funding fiasco with one Tweet.

She's on my Bingo card as one of the first to be fired. Hubby is just a millionaire, not a billionaire, and she will "need to spend more time with family".

 

[rareboy]

WYDEN: If Trump orders you to withhold appropriated funds from the inspector general, would you refuse that illegal order?

GABBARD: I don't believe for a second President Trump would ask me to do something that breaks the law

WYDEN: That's not what I'm asking.

 

[KaraBulut]

Welcome to the Real World, Sec Duffy:

Critical air safety system NOTAM goes down nationwide — as US reels from 2 plane crashes

Flights across the US may face “residual delays” Sunday morning as a nationwide Federal Aviation Administration critical warning system experiences an outage —mere days after two deadly…

nypost.com

Critical air safety system NOTAM goes down nationwide — as US reels from 2 plane crashes

“The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system is in place,” he said, noting the agency activated its contingency systems to keep flight operations running.

That information includes important communications such as runway closures, warnings about birds, or low-altitude construction obstacles.

The critical system is separate from air traffic control, which keeps planes a safe distance from each other.

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/02/faa-warning-system-outage-flight-delays

FAA warning system outage leads to flight delays

A Federal Aviation Administration warning system is back online Sunday after a temporary outage that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said could trigger "residual delays"

The big picture: It is unclear if the outage was tied to the broad changes and deletions across federal sites, which led to several pages and datasets going dark.

 

[rareboy]

Honestly, if we hadn't just cancelled all of our travel plans to the US for this year because of TrumpCo's tariffs and relentless assault on our sovereignty...I would likely be cancelling any of the trips that require me to fly in the US now.

 

[KaraBulut]

Honestly, if we hadn't just cancelled all of our travel plans to the US for this year because of TrumpCo's tariffs and relentless assault on our sovereignty...I would likely be cancelling any of the trips that require me to fly in the US now.

Seems to be a bad week to be on a plane.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/us/united-airlines-houston-evacuation/index.html

United Airlines flight from Houston to New York evacuated after engine issue reported

A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated after an engine issue was reported before takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Houston Fire Department said in an X statement that they are on the scene and assisted deboarding the plane, which was departing from George Bush Intercontinental Airport and heading to New York’s Laguardia Airport.

No injuries have been reported, according to the fire department.

A video taken by a passenger shows smoke and flames coming from the wing of the plane, CNN affiliate KRIV reported.

 

[KaraBulut]

More fun at the FAA and NTSB:

Plane and Aircraft Tug Collide in Chicago, Critically Injuring Driver

The wing of an Air Wisconsin plane struck the vehicle, which was trying to cross a taxiway at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, officials said.

www.nytimes.com

A worker at Chicago O’Hare International Airport was critically injured on Saturday after a vehicle that tows aircraft and a plane collided, causing the vehicle to flip over, officials said.

And in California:

 

[rareboy]

So via Musk...who has no real official federal role or mandate approved by Congress, these baby Bros. have seized control of the Treasury payment system.

And now have the confidential information of millions of Americans with no oversight or security celarance.

This goes beyond Kakistocracy.

 

[rareboy]

Trump’s newest State Dept appointee.

I'll bet that China has the biggest boner right now.

 

[rareboy]

So via Musk...who has no real official federal role or mandate approved by Congress, these baby Bros. have seized control of the Treasury payment system.

And now have the confidential information of millions of Americans with no oversight or security celarance.

This goes beyond Kakistocracy.

Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev.

There was a period where Jorge Haider, a closeted Austrian neo-Nazi had a little crew of jugend to help him forge his vision for a fourth reich. Fortunately he was killed in a car accident.

It is no accident that any of these terrorists who illegally entered and stole personal information this past weekend would be the kind of closet NAZIs that Musk would trust to do his bidding.

 

[KaraBulut]

And the DOJ Acting US Attorney, a Stop the Steal advocate, is threatening to have the FBI arrest any USAID who reveals the name of DOGE employees.