Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk engaged in a heated exchange during a closed-door Cabinet meeting, with Musk accusing Rubio of firing “nobody” from his department.
Rubio angrily responded by citing 1,500 State Department staff who took early retirement and sarcastically asked if Musk wanted to rehire them just to fire them again.
The argument, which also involved Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over FAA management. Duffy complained DOGE’s youngsters were trying to fire air traffic controllers, which Musk responded was a “lie.”
Following the meeting, Trump announced on Truth Social that future DOGE cuts would use a “scalpel” rather than a "hatchet.
This is the most WTF line in this article.
He always gets so hung up on MIT because of his uncle
To be fair, having nuclear.
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.
Huh?
A trump speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elhyo-_fR0E
Did they both look at Donald and just roll their eyes? Then crank the volume on his Paw Patrol?
He strikes me as more of the Cocomelon type.
Caillou for sure
🤣🤣
The man is exactly as dumb as he appears.
hahah I just copied the same paragraph to paste here. This is painful to read and even more painful to consider the problem solving skills and intellectual level of this man who is ruling one of the strongest countries in the world with an iron fist.
My brother is an Air Traffic Controller and we were talking about this earlier. New ATCs have months of training where they get paid terribly and have to live in Oklahoma City. Nowadays they don’t even get to choose exactly where they’ll work afterwards. There are some classes that graduate and then have to pick between something like working in San Juan or Oakland. And then their pay is also shit for a year or two until they fully qualify.
Could you imagine going to MIT, then saying “yeah I’ll take a job that pays $14 an hour training to live in Oklahoma. Then I’ll let you roll the dice and send me to live in Southern California and try to live off $36,000 a year. Or you know… I can just go take a job wherever the fuck I want as an MIT grad and get paid 6 figures right out the gate.”
Pretty standard WAFM comment at this point
*What a fucking moron
They’ll be lining up to be air traffic controllers!! All the MIT genius. Get them.