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Trump’s Cabinet Picks: “A Thousand Shades of White”?
While speaking on MSNBC last week, Washington Post columnist and desiccated lump of uncooked bagel dough Jennifer Rubin bemoaned the unbearable whiteness of Donald Trump’s nominees and appointees so far. “First, I have to comment, when you put up all of those faces it was a thousand shades of white. Have you noticed that?”
Oh, suddenly we’re supposed to notice? I’ve noticed Jennifer Rubin’s physiognomy, whiny voice, and surname. Am I allowed to notice that?
Last Tuesday, the Right Reverend Al Sharpton cyber-queefed a press release on his National Action Network website blasting Donald Trump’s failure so far to appoint a single Black [sic] person to a cabinet or high-level administration position:
In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second term, he has put forth a dozen troubling nominees, yet the most alarming factor in his proposed cabinet is that not a single candidate is Black [sic] ….Trump spent this campaign selling himself to Black [sic] voters, especially men, by peddling sneakers and implying his criminal convictions would resonate with our community. Right now, it appears that the self-proclaimed ‘best president for Black [sic] America since Abraham Lincoln’ has lost interest in us. The president-elect needs to put his money where his mouth is if he actually wants to deliver for Black [sic] America.
The week before last, Newsweek ran a scare article titled “Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is on Track To Be the Least Diverse This Century”:
Of the 15 different departments, Trump has appointed six new heads, and five of those so far have been white and four of those have been men. Senator Mark [sic] Rubio is currently the exception as he would be the first Latino Secretary of State.
Of the other Cabinet-level positions, another five have been appointed, four of which are white, with the exception being Tulsi Gabbard, who was the first American-Samoan and Hindu member of Congress.
This means that out of the 25 positions in Trump’s wider Cabinet, of the 11 he’s already chosen, nine are white. His vice president JD Vance is also white.
Stop! If it gets any whiter, I’ll go snowblind!
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Before we all sink into semantic quicksand, there are only 15 high-level Cabinet positions—one representing each of the executive departments—another 10 or so “Cabinet-level” positions, and then all manner of appointees, selections, and even made-up gigs that don’t need Senate confirmation.
“Let’s disapprovingly count the white males surrounding President Trump” is a mainstream press tradition that harkens back to early 2017, when The New York Times lamented that “Trump’s Cabinet So Far Is More White and Male Than Any First Cabinet Since Reagan’s.”
In a burst of manic energy as last week drew to a close, Trump made a “flurry” of new picks. That’s the precise word a suspicious number of websites used—a flurry. Here a flurry. There a flurry. Everywhere a flurry, flurry, flurry, flurry, flurry. I hesitate to get pedantic, but I think that many flurries would technically qualify as a “blizzard.” Or even an “avalanche.”
As of Saturday, after nominating Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, Trump had completed his picks for the official 15 Cabinet positions. Realizing the near impossibility of 100% accuracy, I will do my best to compile a racial and gender breakdown of Trump’s choices so far.
Most of his picks were American-born, so when I refer to them as “Jordanian” or a “Chinaman,” I mean their ancestry.
I’ve tried to screen candidates for Jewishness, but it’s not so easy. As we all know, Jews are an exceedingly sneaky race. I’m making most of these determinations based on phenotype what I could find in Wikipedia’s “Early life” section. If I’m wrong, I’m supremely confident that certain commenters will rush to correct me.
These are Trump’s fifteen top-level Cabinet picks. All will require Senate confirmation:
- Secretary of State: Marco Rubio—Hispanic man. Untrustworthy. Short. Prone to slashing your tires and stealing your hubcaps.
- Secretary of the Treasury: Scott Bessent, possible white man. Former Soros associate who’s rumored to be gay. Could be Jewish.
- Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth, macho white man and former Fox News host who’s already been excoriated for his “extremist” tattoos.
- Attorney General: Pam Bondi, blonde white woman and objectively better-looking than Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration last week.
- Secretary of the Interior: Doug Burgum, homespun white man from the heartland.
- Secretary of Agriculture: Brooke Rollins, white woman who appears to have gone “under the knife” more than once.
- Secretary of Commerce: Howard Lutnick, unmistakably Jewish man who has never to my knowledge officially apologized for it.
- Secretary of Labor: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, corn-fed Hispanic woman.
- Secretary of Health & Human Services: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., white man and endless source of my personal amusement.
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Scott Turner, black man—wait, who the hell let him in here?
- Secretary of Transportation: Sean Duffy, white man who, like Trump, is a former reality-TV star.
- Secretary of Energy: Chris Wright, white man, although he doesn’t seem so energetic in that photo.
- Secretary of Education: Linda McMahon, white woman married to WWE impresario Vince McMahon.
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins, white man—maybe. His name suggests he’s white, but I’m not so sure about the picture.
- Secretary of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem, white woman and self-confessed dog-slayer.
Here are other Trump picks so far—or at least as many as I could dredge up on deadline:
- White House Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles, white woman who’s rumored to be ruthless.
- CIA Director: John Ratcliffe, white man, or so it seems.
- Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard, Samoan/European hybrid woman. Her mother was apparently a purebred white, and her dad was part European and part Samoan. Could easily pass for Italian. Doesn’t look so white in a pure-white pants suit, but I’m not going to quibble. We’ll use the one-drop rule here. Hindu. Former Democrat.
- National Security Adviser: Michael Waltz, former Green Beret whose middle names are “George” and “Glen.” Undeniably white. I don’t even need to see a DNA test.
- Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator: Mehmet Oz, Turkish man with dual American/Turkish citizenship and former TV star.
- Surgeon General: Janette Nesheiwat, Jordanian woman.
- Office of Management and Budget Director: Russell Vought, beaver-toothed, beady-eyed white man.
- N. Ambassador: Elise Stefanik, white woman.
- “Border Czar”: Tom Homan, white man who should patrol the border dressed as a medieval executioner.
- Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE):
Elon Musk (richest person on the planet and probably the most influential white man in getting Trump’s reelected) and Vivek Ramaswamy (Indian fella who says the USA is having a “national identity crisis” and seems under the impression that an Indian man will solve it). - Deputy Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino, white man—if Italians count.
- White House Communications Director: Steven Cheung, Chinaman with bad eyesight and a weight problem.
- White House Press Secretary: Karoline Leavitt, blonde white woman but suspected Jewess.
- White House Counsel: William McGinley, white man.
- NATO Ambassador: Matthew Whitaker, white man.
- EPA Administrator: Lee Zeldin, Jewish man and friend of Bibi.
- Solicitor General: Dean John Sauer, white man.
- FDA Commissioner: Marty Makary, Lebanese man.
- CDC Director: David Weldon, white man.
- FCC Chairman: Brendan Carr, suspected Jewish man.
- Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche, white man with a thousand-yard stare.
- S. Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee, white man who looks more Jewish ever since he grew a beard.
- S. Ambassador to Canada: Pete Hoekstra, white man born in the Netherlands.
- S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton, blue-eyed white man.
- Deputy National Security Adviser: Alex Wong, Chinaman.
- Deputy Chief of Staff/ Homeland Security Adviser: Stephen Miller—don’t let the whitebread name fool you. Just look at him. Confirmed Jew. Sorry—bar mitzvahed.
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political & Public Affairs: James Blair, white man.
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications & Personnel: Taylor Budowich, white man with Serbian surname.
- Senior Director for Counterterrorism: Sebastian Gorka, British-born white man.
So that’s 43 picks. I’m sure I missed some people. I’m certain I misclassified others.
Let’s run the numbers.
Only ten of the forty-three are women. That’s encouraging. Thirty-three are men. Even more encouraging. Unless they’re hiding their “gender identity,” there are zero transgenders. Most encouraging of all.
Only one Indian. Surprising.
Two Hispanics in the whole bunch. Interesting.
Two Chinamen. That’s plenty.
One Samoan woman who, if only you’ll listen to me, has more European than Samoan blood coursing through her veins. But you won’t listen to me.
Three non-Jewish Middle Easterners—a Turk, a Lebbo, and a Jordanian.
Three verified Jews and four suspected Jews. Being that this is Trump and these are modern Republicans, though, I’ll assume we have 43 Zionists.
And finally, ONLY ONE BLACK! Did you hear me? Even better, NO BLACK WOMEN. Have we all died and gone to heaven? Al Sharpton spoke too soon last Tuesday—he said Trump hadn’t appointed a “single” black. Although Scott Turner has a wife and isn’t “single” in the “relationship status” sense, he counts as “one” black. A sole black. A solitary black. Isn’t that enough?
Adding up the lone Indian, dos Hispanics, two Chinamen, one Samoan, three Middle Easterners, three verified Jews, and the single black—I still can’t get over that Trump was audacious enough only to appoint one, and in the stereotypical role of HUD Secretary, AKA Slumlord Millionaire—that’s thirteen nonwhites out of 43 picks. Non-Hispanic whites comprise about 70% of the total.
As of 2023, non-Hispanic whites accounted for only about 58% of the American public. So at 70%, Trump’s picks are even whiter than the general public is.
It’s definitely not “a thousand shades of white.” More like “a whiter shade of beige.”
But how cool is that?
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A female surgeon general? Can’t say as I’ve ever heard of a female surgeon or general of significance. And a Chinese person in national security? Wow. That’s being bold or reckless. I like the Gabbard pick and realize she looks different on given days. I thought Noem was part Indian which helped her win the governor race in her sparsely populated state. Not that Indians should be allowed to vote in my view. He really should have kept this black-free, but only one is pretty solid. We need to see if he can muster up the courage to put teeth into the charge to deport. Time will tell.
The more I read about this Trump guy, the more I like him. 43 out of 43 White would’ve been better, but this is pretty good. Hopefully they aren’t the kinds of Whites who fall for black bs. I’ve been out of hope for a long time, but this is at least encouraging. We’ll see.
The way these appointments were listed cumulatively over and over you could have set them to the Twelve Days of Christmas in keeping with the holiday season.
I found myself singing it as I was reading.
This almost sounds like a meritocracy. Wonders will never cease!
Doubtless, many under-qualified, over-paid “diversity hires” with cushy jobs in the Federal Government are sweating bullets right now worrying about Elon taking a hatchet to the bloated Federal bureaucracies. Cut pensions too. It would be great if he could also cut funding to NPR and PBS. They can’t report a story without putting some sob story victim spin.
Pete “Bootygag” will probably end up being a “house husband!”
That HUD choice is very dangerous and dismaying (as is neocon warmongering interventionist Rubio at State). HUD is one of the most odious government agencies. It is a main weapon of the Left in fighting “residential segregation”: ie, in imposing diversity, of the worst underclass kind, on historically white, usually working class, neighborhoods via the antiwhite siting of taxpayer funded public housing projects. This pick shows that Trump has no intention of halting white dispossession. Indeed, any pick would have been objectionable, as the only acceptable GOP position – whether among nationalists, libertarians, or conservatives – wrt HUD is its immediate abolition. What’s the matter with Trump? Is this the influence of Big Governmentalist and Hindu-lover Vance? Trump has not proposed the elimination of a single Federal agency or cabinet department except possibly the Democrat-hive-dominant Dept. of “Education”. Why not?! The best way to eliminate wokesters and communists in Deep State jobs … is to eliminate Deep State jobs.
Such wholesale departmental eliminations would also help to close the $2 trillion Biden budget deficit (which, sorry conservative-economics-hostile WNs, is a very real crisis), and to make Trump more popular among suspicious rank and file conservatives and libertarians – thereby reconciling them to our anti-immigration agenda (ie, everybody in a big tent coalition needs to get something).
I think the CC authors and commentariat are collectively smarter than Trumpworld, even including Elon and other hangers-on.
You’re basically right, but Trump doesn’t have a good track record of administration picks. It shouldn’t be a surprise that this group leaves a lot to be desired as well. He will probably change them multiple times over the next few years, so there’s that.
Given that he had at least two assassins during the campaign, wondering what will become of the secret service administration. And there was FEMA, who apparently were informally ignoring damaged houses with Trump signs.
“Sebastian Gorka, British-born white man.”
Well, as John Travolta would say, that’s one way to put it. Another way would be,
“Sebastian Lukács Gorka (Hungarian: Gorka Sebestyén Lukács; born October 22, 1970) … was born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, lived in Hungary from 1992 to 2008, and in 2012 became a naturalized American citizen.”
Sounds more like Dr. Strangelove than like Peter Sellers.
I happened to notice his name being floated a few days ago, thought he sounded like some NRx guy or social media tycoon I’d forgotten about, and checked his Wikipedia entry. Makes for interesting reading. Especially the parts about the Order of Vitéz and Magyar Gárda,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka
Race and gender are being analyzed for Trump picks… but also how many of them have had posts on Fox news?
Gorka was around the first Trump admin. He is not going to be cowardly when Islamism is a topic. On the eve of the first Trump administration, Gorka infamously uttered, “The Era Of The Pajama Boy Is Over And The Alpha Males Are Back”. Trump can get away with saying something like that, but his humorless lackeys are going to be mocked and he repeatedly became fodder, a target, and subject of ridicule. Calling him Dr. Strangelove didn’t immediately come to mind, then I saw this photo. He apparently was known for wanting to be called “doctor” on TV even more than Condi Rice, who was more modest. At the same time, the liberals made a nasty campaign attacking his doctoral thesis, saying he had a phony PhD, even though he did graduate from a well known and respected Hungarian university. What goes around comes around, and Harvard’s DEI president and DEI administrator were soaked with plagiarism discovered in their own PhD work.
So here’s hoping the 2nd Trump class doesn’t expose themselves so often. In the Islamic world, showing someone the sole of your shoe is considered offensive. But what is it when you put your foot in your mouth?
“Calling him Dr. Strangelove didn’t immediately come to mind, then I saw this photo. He apparently was known for wanting to be called “doctor” on TV even more than Condi Rice, who was more modest.”
Good info. Reminds me of the old TV commercials, when an actor would say “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.”
As for Dr. Strangelove, I had this exchange more in mind:
General “Buck” Turgidson:
Hmm… Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain’t no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?
Mr. Staines:
He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwurdichliebe.
General “Buck” Turgidson:
Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?
Most Hungarians with name Lukács which I have heard of, were not real Magyars, but Hungarian Jews.
Well that would definitely fit with Gorka since he has a hard on for Iran and any other perceived enemies of Yahweh’s Master Race.
I enjoyed the commentary on Rubin’s “noticing.” Some forms of noticing are okay while others are beyond taboo. She and others like her are butthurt that the cabinet wont be as Jewish as Biden’s.
Look at the early life section on Elise Stefanik’s Wikipedia page. There’s mention of Yiddish and a shtetl for some reason.
I suspect more of these would-be picks are similar in precisely this regard, even if Wikipedia doesn’t explicitly tell us so.
Lukács? AI tells me this is a “Hungarian name of Jewish origin.” Is my search engine’s AI “antisemitic”?
Gibraltar: November 26, 2024 Look at the early life section on Elise Stefanik’s Wikipedia page. There’s mention of Yiddish and a shtetl for some reason.
I suspect more of these would-be picks are similar in precisely this regard, even if Wikipedia doesn’t explicitly tell us so.
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I didn’t see what you describe is in Elise’s “Early Life” bio at Wiki, but there is plenty more there that reveals that she is a Jew-lover, like this article found in “sources”:
Stefanik Accepts “Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Defender of Israel Award” at ZOA Gala | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
From her acceptance speech:
Our most precious ally Israel and the Jewish people are in need of crucial support from the grassroots level all the way up to the highest levels of government.
I trust very little from WikiJews, but like with her quote above sometimes they slip up and reveal too much to us. If one wants to learn the truth about Stefanik, get it from our sources, not there’s. Douglas Mercer laid it all out about her in 2021, here: A Republican Dog and Pony Show | National Vanguard
…Former UN Ambassador John (he’s never seen a war he didn’t like) Bolton endorsed Stefanik for reelection, lauding her work on the House Armed Services Committee.
That’s like boasting that ebola virus thinks you’re doing a great job.
And of course being a hawk’s hawk that is keeping a hawk eye on every opportunity to bleed the Treasury and waste White life on pointless, endless wars means one thing and one thing only: love of Jews! God chose them, remember.
US Rep. Elise Stefanik returned from her eight-day trip to Israel talking about artificial intelligence, a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and ‘strains of anti-Semitism’ within the Democratic Party.
We want more than a strain of it, we want a tidal rush.
Stefanik, a Republican from Schuylerville whose district spans northern New York, took the trip along with 72 members of Congress, 41 Democrats, and 31 Republicans, the largest delegation to Israel ever from the 535 total members of Congress.
They went on a trip, hat in hand, to tip their hats to their masters. Hell, if they were honest they’d just move the Capitol to Israel so they could get their orders in person.
“Israel and the U.S. have a special relationship. They are one of our most important allies around the world,” Stefanik said. “We have shared values when it comes to democratic values, when it comes to freedom of different faiths in their region. The fact that they are this thriving democracy is an anomaly in the Middle East today.”
…Stefanik has previously called for Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to resign after “racist” remarks. While she specifically referred to his “White nationalist,” “White supremacist,” and “racist” words, part of his “racism” involved supposed “anti-Semitism…”
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What an entertaining exposé. Read more at the link that includes a portrait of the Shabbos Goy that’s not so flattering. Stefanik rounds out Trump’s new Israel First team nicely.
Cheers. Thanks for that info on Stefanik. Isn’t the name itself highly Ashkenazic?
No
OK.
Stefanik can also be a Ruthenian (Western Ukrainian) name, there was Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk in the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and he surely was not a Jew.
Susie Wiles is the sister of a good friend of my husband. And yes, she is reported to be ruthless in the very best way. I can’t believe how fun it is to feel hopeful. I had forgotten.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I preferred Witcher 3 to Cyberqueef myself but anyway…
Maybe I missed it but I have not seen anyone on c-c point out something that should be super-alarming about the AG pick, Bondi. Cast your mind back to 2012 and the Trayvon Martin affair.
You can refresh your memory and pick that mental scab by reading this very thorough explanation:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/21/president-trump-nominates-pam-bondi-for-u-s-attorney-general-the-deep-swamp-smiles/
“(She) …was willing to put a transparently innocent man into prison; even to the extent of manufacturing a witness; in order to achieve a racially equitable political outcome that would assist their careers.”
“This same Pam Bondi is the person President Trump is relying upon to clean out the corruption in Washington DC’s Main Justice system. Pam Bondi is the person who is going to stop “weaponizing” the justice system?”
“…every element of the Deep State knows exactly what Pam Bondi did in Florida with that case in 2012 and 2013.
The Intelligence Community and the people who control the DOJ know every single detail of that corrupt Bondi timeline, complete with emails, call logs, transcripts, text messages, strategy meeting notes and more.
They know all of it, and they will leverage that as blackmail (and more) against her just as soon as President Trump starts to think Pam Bondi is going to make a difference.
Wrongful prosecution by the State, on the scale of manufacturing false witnesses, does not have a statute of limitations.”
So the very person who helped the race-baiting/grifting BLM juggernaut gain initial traction has the potential to be Michael Flynn-ed out of office if they step out of line. One way to stop any judicial ‘retribution’ in its tracks. Expect no real justice to be meted out. This was the most important appointment to be made and Wiles and Trump flubbed it.
And it is Wiles who brought her into the WH team:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/22/ag-nominee-pam-bondi-and-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles-ballard-partners-law-firm-lobbyists/
I say a cloned Vernon Schillinger and Bernie Goetz should be 50% of the picks and the remainder from CC, Vdare, and AmRen. Slashing or eliminating the biopolitical monster’s bureaucratic-cancerous bloat is essentially dehoarding the piles of shit from Joe Franklin’s office. Until proven wrong, I assume these people are all synthetic jews, neck-bitten and turned to serve their master for blood vial reward. Obi-wan Yehudi taught his goyling pets well.
Not one, but two snide remarks about Italians? There simply aren’t enough Italian deviants in our current, supremely non-Italian society to warrant TWO remarks!
I like Jim’s work and won’t be a fussbitching pedant but the way he feels about unwarranted boomer-criticism is how I feel about the Italians aren’t White thing. To all naysayers, yes they are. What they’re not is Marcus Follin. I’m an ersatz guinea and know NYC/NJ Italian aren’t Italy-Italian, nonetheless the blood root remains despite judeo-amerikan deculturation lampooning thru dumb shows showcasing the dumbest people. If you ask people are Italians European the answer is a resounding yes and that’s good enough for me. Same with the Spaniards, Portuguese, Maltese, and Greeks. Eggshell and bone are darker than cocaine; all three are White, not brown. White is merely the color and attack code of Europe, not a regional exclusionary identity marker reserved for Northern/Central Europeans of a peachy tint and seashell-colored. For epidermal literalists the near-Whitest pigments aren’t even White people, they’re korean. The blackest hair aren’t negroes but mexicans and indians. If Fascism, the Renaissance, Romanness, and Amerigo Vespucci doesn’t qualify them as antique White then I don’t know what will. All the best to the family in New Mexico, Jim.
The USA election loomed so large that the Nobel prizes may have received less attention this year. The Nobels tends to be much more of a meritocracy than the US McArthur “Genius Grants”, who always have a prize or few given to someone talking about race, slavery or the notion that race doesn’t exist… as well as artists creating sculptures about all of these.
I did a web search, curious to see who the October 2024 Nobel prize winners were… Is is wrong to suggest that the hand sketches of them deliberately obfuscate that some of them are whitey, white, white, blanc? The physics and chemistry prizes were very AI focused, not unexpected in 2024.
Economics doesn’t get enough discussion in these parts and its notable that two of the winners co-wrote Why Nations Fail. It argues that a nation’s institutions are decisive for success or failure, institutions being “A set of formal and informal rules and mechanisms for coercing individuals to comply with these rules that exist in society.” They notably reject the ideas of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel), who argued that nations survive/fail based on their geographic location (e.g. Europe vs. Africa), whereas Why Nations Fail illustrates the different outcomes when the same peoples are managed differently (N & S Korea; Nogales Arizona vs Nogales Mexico). Coupled with the US election, the pendulum is swinging the other way… but for how long?
Gibraltar: November 27, 2024 Cheers. Thanks for that info on Stefanik. Isn’t the name itself highly Ashkenazic?
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I defer to Greg on that but by her documented Judeophilia she may as well be.
Gibraltar: November 27, 2024 Cheers. Thanks for that info on Stefanik. Isn’t the name itself highly Ashkenazic?
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I defer to Greg on that but by her documented Judeophilia she may as well be.
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