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November 09, 2020 12:51 PM UTC

At Least You're Not About to Get Fired by President Trump

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It’s gonna be a long two months if you work in the Trump administration.

President Trump found out on Saturday that he will need to find a new place to live in January. Trump has yet to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and it’s quite possible that he will never admit defeat; fortunately, our system of government does not require a sitting President to make a definitive statement about failing to garner as many votes as the other candidate.

Trump hasn’t made an official public appearance since news broke on Saturday morning that Biden had been elected President of the United States (unless you count golfing as a public appearance), but he continues to vent his fury in private and through social media. On Monday, Trump took to Twitter to fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper. As The New York Times reports:

The president wrote that he was appointing Christopher C. Miller, whom he described as the “highly respected” director of the National Counterterrorism Center, to be acting defense secretary. Mr. Miller will be the fourth official to lead the Pentagon under Mr. Trump.

The president noted that Mr. Miller had already been approved by the Senate for his current position, perhaps as a way to argue that the firing of a defense secretary should not be viewed as a sign of turmoil in the highest ranks of the nation’s national security structure.

Mr. Esper’s departure means that Mr. Miller would — if he lasts — see out the end of the Trump administration at the Pentagon. While Mr. Trump has over two months left in office, it could still be a significant time, as Defense Department officials have privately expressed worries that the president might initiate operations, whether overt or secret, against Iran or other adversaries in his waning days in office.

If it’s any consolation to Esper, he may have plenty of company at the unemployment office. It has been reported that Trump wants to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Gina Haspel, and the President himself suggested last week that he might fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s foremost expert on infectious diseases.

On Friday, Trump fired Bonnie Glick, the deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, without offering any explanation. Acting administrator John Barsa was named acting deputy administrator, an announcement that came on the same day that Barsa’s term as acting administrator was set to expire (via the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, federal officials can only serve in an “acting” position for 210 days following a vacancy; former administrator Mark Green resigned in April).

Trump is also angry with Attorney General William Barr for not agreeing to his every demand and for not listening to calls from Newt Gingrich and others that he arrest Pennsylvania poll workers for…something. According to Slate.com, Barr may resign before Trump can get around to firing him.

And then there’s this, from CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz:


Unless you are really excited about the opportunity to be unemployed in two months — Trump’s term in office ends on January 20, 2021 — it makes perfect sense that you would be updating your resume this week.

But in Trump’s world, loyalty means that you can’t leave before he does…unless he tells you to leave. Which he might, because said loyalty is absolutely not reciprocal.

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10 thoughts on “At Least You’re Not About to Get Fired by President Trump”

  3. Trump extends his record of replacements of Cabinet level officials, reaching 11 — previous high, according to someone from Brookings Institute tracking turn-over, was HW Bush with 8 (some of which were hold overs from Reagan's two terms).  And the 11 do not include some of the long-term "Acting" Secretaries who came and went.  Only one of the 11 was a resignation to take on another role in the Sad!-ministration — others vary from resignations to resignations under pressure.

    Just keep repeating … "only the best people."

    1. And, of course, to help safeguard Trump's swampy corruption of the federal government, I've lost count of how many agency inspector generals he fired. I think it was at least 4. 

  4. Colorado Rs should take note – 
     

    lose YUGELY once- maybe. Twice?  Buck and House should go.
    Personally – they can keep running losing campaigns for a long time, fine by me.

  5. Trump also fired the head of the US Climate Change Research Program, which produces the US Climate Assessment every 4 years. The last one came out in 2018 and melted all the snowflakes in the White House. Since the next one isn't due until 2022, and the director was sent back to his regular job as a DOE scientist, it's doubtful the firing will affect anything other than assuaging the orange ego. 

    1. New administrator of  US Climate Change Research Program gets to pick who is going to be on the panel of authors for the next report.  Apparently, once they are named, it would be difficult to replace them. 

      Typical of the Trump approach … he's willing to fire people he doesn't like or who frustrated one of his goals.  But he also apparently urged his minions to fire anyone who starts looking for new jobs — I guess because that looks like they would need new jobs instead of continuing in the second Trump Sad!-ministration????

  6. A bit late for Trump, but he finally found his Roy Cohn — a corrupt henchman willing to twist the law in knots to please the boss

    Barr gives Justice Dept. approval to investigate alleged voting irregularities as Trump makes unfounded claims of fraud

    Attorney General William P. Barr gave federal prosecutors approval to pursue allegations of “vote tabulation irregularities” before election results are certified and indicated he had already done so “in specific instances” — a reversal of longstanding Justice Department policy that is likely to draw criticism for fueling President Trump’s so far unfounded claims of massive election fraud.

    1. The Barr decree triggered the career officer who had been running the Elections office in the DoJ to resign in protest.

      I wonder how many more will follow that lead.

  7. Is Paris Burning?  The Trump Purge has begun.  The lead scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment just got the boot from Trump.  Another official that led the regulatory agency over the utilities market was also canned for holding the heretical view that renewable energy as part of our energy options is in our nation’s best interests.

    SCIENTIST BEHIND ASSESSING CLIMATE CHANGE REMOVED

    WASHINGTON » The White House has removed the scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s premier contribution to climate knowledge and the foundation for regulations to combat global warming, in what critics interpreted as the latest sign that the Trump administration intends to use its remaining months in office to continue impeding climate science and policy.

    Michael Kuperberg, executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces the climate assessment, was told Friday that he would no longer lead that organization, people with knowledge of the situation said.

    According to two people close to the administration, he is expected to be replaced by David Legates, a deputy assistant secretary at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who previously worked closely with climate change denial groups.

    Kuperberg’s departure comes amid an broader effort, in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s election defeat, to remove officials who have fallen afoul of the White House. Also Friday, Neil Chatterjee, head of the agency that regulates the nation’s utility markets, was demoted by the White House, after he supported the use of renewable power. — © The New York Times Co.

     

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