#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

Sign says "This isn't a #Cabinet. It's a #JunkDrawer"

Trump Flips Out When Asked About Testy Musk and Rubio Clash

#DonaldTrump shut down a reporter who dared ask about the growing feud between Elon Musk and his Cabinet officials.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192506/trump-reaction-musk-rubio-fight-cabinet-meeting

"Donald Trump got upset when a reporter asked him about “clashes” between #ElonMusk and members of his #Cabinet...

“No clash, I was there. You’re just a troublemaker, and you’re not supposed to be asking that question""

Marco Rubio Finally Loses It at Elon Musk in Trump Cabinet Meeting

The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192493/marco-rubio-elon-musk-fight-donald-trump

"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, alongside other miffed agency heads, laid into billionaire bureaucrat #ElonMusk during Thursday’s meeting of Donald Trump’s #Cabinet...

In the end, #Trump defended #Rubio"

#MarcoRubio had been privately furious w/ #Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under #Rubio’s control: the #USAID. But, in the extraordinary #cabinet meeting in front of #Trump & around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Rubio got his grievances off his chest.

#MarcoRubio was incensed. Here he was in the #Cabinet Room of the White House, the Secy of #State, seated beside the president & listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.

Seated diagonally opposite, #ElonMusk was letting #Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.

You have fired “nobody,” Musk told Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Musk’s #DOGE.

Musk & Bezos again remind us oligarchs control the #US -when will the people take back the power?!

The anger towards the #oligarchs is building!
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/musk-and-bezos-again-remind-us-oligarchs

" #ElonMusk... speaking at Trump’s first cabinet meeting even though he is not a member of the #cabinet. In fact, the #Trump administration’s latest tale is that #Musk doesn’t even head #Doge rather the boss is someone named “Amy Gleason”—which we must assume is simply Musk’s #drag queen name."

“The #EuropeanUnion was formed in order to screw the United States,” #Trump said idiotically. He said he wants to hit the bloc with a 25% #tariff over car imports & other things.

Trump said he does believe President Vladimir #Putin of #Russia will need to make concessions in the negotiations over ending the war in #Ukraine.

#USpol #geopolitics #idiocracy #Cabinet

#Trump again said he wants #Canada to be the 51st state, asserting that Canada depended on the #UnitedStates. “If they had to pay their way, they couldn’t exist.”

Trump may want Canada, but Canadians do not want to be part of the US. Just 15% of Canadians support becoming part of US, while 77% oppose it, according to a YouGov survey. Even among members of Canada’s Conservative Party, just 23% favor the idea, while 73% do not.

#USpol #geopolitics #idiocracy #Cabinet

#Trump talked about the botched U.S. withdrawal from #Afghanistan under President #Biden & suggests that any generals involved in it should be fired. He does not mention that TRUMP WAS THE ONE WHO NEGOTIATED THE WITHDRAWAL agreement w/ the #Taliban that Biden then carried out.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Cabinet

While #Trump says he will balance the #budget & pay down the #debt, it’s worth remembering that he promised during the 2016 campaign that he could eliminate the entire national debt accumulated over more than two centuries during 8 years in office. Instead, during his first term, he ADDED $8.4 trillion in new borrowing over 10 years.

#USpol #Cabinet

After some #FederalAgencies told their employees not to respond because of national security concerns, Musk now says employees could simply say they’re working on #classified matters.

Musk refused to share how many federal jobs they are seeking to eliminate, saying he wants to keep people who are doing *good work* in *essential* roles. [presumably by his & Trump’s metrics]

#Trump said that #LeeZeldin, the new #EPA administrator, plans to cut up to 65% of his employees .

#USpol #Cabinet

#Musk offered a totally new explanation for his Saturday night email to #FederalWorkers requiring they provide five points summarizing their work over the past week. He now says it was not meant as a performance review. “It was a pulse check review,” searching for *phantom employees*, he said.
[I call bullshit]

Musk also said he asked #Trump before sending the email blast & was told by Trump that it was OK to send.

#USpol #Cabinet

#Musk says the goal is to achieve a $1 trillion #deficit reduction by 2026. During the 2024 campaign, Musk said “I think we can do at least $2 trillion,” so he has already abandoned half of his promise from the campaign.

“Is anybody unhappy with Elon?” #Trump asked. “If you are, we’ll throw him out of here.” Nervous laughter rippled through the room as #cabinet members started to clap.

“President Trump has put together the best cabinet ever,” Musk says.

#Musk predicted that “America will go bankrupt” without his #DOGE team’s effort to cut spending across the federal government. #idiot

Musk acknowledged that the govt reduction effort has made *some* mistakes [basically everything they’ve done has been riddled w/errors & seriously questionable judgments], noting they accidentally paused efforts at #USAID to prevent #Ebola. He said they *quickly* [nope] corrected that once they were alerted to the mistake [court ordered]

#Trump #Cabinet #USpol

During questioning after #Trump’s #cabinet meeting, #Health Secy #RFKJr, a #vaccine critic, said the government was closely watching the #measles outbreak across #Texas. He said measles outbreaks occur every year.

[not at this scale & rate in the US, not before the outbreak of the #ConspiracyTheory #propaganda from idiots like Kennedy]

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #AntiVaxxers #PublicHealth #medicine #science #disease #GetVaccinated #vaccines #USpol #Trump #HHS #idiocracy #TrumpCabinetMeeting

Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary

The response to Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email to federal employees suggests that there may be limits to how far he can push the govt’s work force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-workers.html

"the #Musk email... fractured Trump’s #cabinet, with the leaders of some depts ordering their employees to comply & others directing workers to ignore the threat."