You're Fired? 😱 ✡️🌻😱 👿 ⛸️

 Cabinetry:  During Trump’s first term, Rachel Maddow regularly displayed a graphic detailing all the high-level departures from his administration.  Overtime, as the Trump One cabinet went through unprecedented levels of churn that graphic took over all the walls in her studio.  We even got a new measure – the Scaramucci. Even though the Trump Two cabinet is now filled largely with D-listers, many of whom, especially puppy 🐶 killer Kristi Noem, couldn’t even qualify to serve as a local dog catcher, and that’s probably unfair to dog catchers, high level turnover has been almost non-existent. Theories are that Trump doesn’t want to admit how awful his cabinet is, likes being surrounded by incompetent sycophants, and most certainly doesn’t want to feed Maddow’s wall of shame.  While all that might be true, it’s also possible that no one’s been fired because he can’t figure out who to axe first.  Ice Barbie Noem’s Department of Homeland Security’s propensity for shooting and killing people, while consistent with Stephen Miller’s and therefore Trump’s twisted preferences, is thought to be responsible for polls indicating that approval of Trump’s handling of the border, once among his high spots, keeps dropping.  It certainly doesn’t help that the married Noem’s $200 million government leased jet has a luxury “mile high” bedroom suite that she is reported to share with the also married Corey Lewandowski who isn’t her chief of staff but acts the part. The bedroom is super cringy and the jet is hardly in line with the Musk ran government efficiency program that dominated the first few months of this Trump administration but she’s still around.  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutwick who took his wife, children, and nannies to visit with Jeffrey Epstein on his island obviously lied to Congress about his personal and business relationship with the pedophile.  He keeps sticking his foot in his mouth during press appearances and no one, least of all him really knows what the Commerce Secretary is supposed to do, yet he’s still in the cabinet. Last week RFK Jr riffed about snorting coke off of toilet bowl seats while his FDA cancelled and then uncancelled what could turn out to be a really effective flu vaccine all while posting weird exercise routines and ignoring all the measles cases that are out and about and he’s still around maybe because falling in line on the promotion of cancer-causing glyphosate is providing him a lifeline. RFK’s staying power is particularly remarkable given how many in Trump’s orbit keep bringing up the cocaine that was found lying around during “Sleepy” Joe’s term. Sleepy being a term that only applies to Biden and not to Trump who nodded off again during yesterday Board of Peace 💩 show.  Attorney General Bondi screwed up bigly when she bragged that she had a list of Epstein’s pedophile pals on her desk and was about to release it, an unfulfilled promise that helped feed the still growing Epstein monster. She keeps bleeding DOJ attorneys, the ones she has left can’t even indict ham sandwiches, and many in Trump’s MAGA base have grown to despise her, yet she still has a job.  Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer is being investigated by her department’s Inspector General over allegations that she’s been having  an improper relationship with a security staffer, misusing travel funds and drinking on the job (Pentagon Pete wants a word) and as if that’s not enough, her husband is now banned from visiting her DOL office building something to do with him accosting at least two of her female staffers.  One of those “incidents” was picked up by security cameras. Though one time FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has self-deported himself back to Trump friendly podcasting, his former boss and good buddy, FBI Director Kash Patel, is still running the FBI, well running it when not posing for photo-ops and commandeering planes for his country western singing girlfriend and her BFFs, and spending $75,000 to fly to the Milan Olympics because he likes hockey. The list goes on and on and none of this touches on Trump and his cabinet’s awful policies, like EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s efforts to pollute rather than improve the environment or Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s pushing for more polluting coal because as horrible as all that is, it’s what Trump promised to do, though he may have left out the part about soliciting and accepting payments from industry titans in exchanges. Anyway, for what it worth, prediction market such as Polymarket and Kalshi predict the order of the first forced departures will be Noem, Bondi, and then Lutwick. Thoughts?

Board of ✌️:  With Trump’s favorite disco tunes serving as his soundtrack, Trump held the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace yesterday. It was embarrassing but in character. The Board was supposedly created to lead the rebuilding of Gaza but anyone believing that might be interested in purchasing a bridge in Brooklyn. Trump who has appointed himself as the Board’s chairman for life is positioning the Board to be his UN replacement.  He announced that the US will be contributing $10 billion to his board. That money hasn’t been approved or allocated by Congress but then again, Trump doesn’t appear to believe that he needs Congressional approval for anything, an assumption that might not be far off the mark. Also, the US owes $4 billion to the UN so maybe that’s the pool Trump plans to hit up first?  Nothing to worry about though because son in law Kushner who together with Trump’s golf buddy and real estate friend Steve Witkoff heads up Trump’s “peace” negotiating team said no one will be making money off the board, a sure tell that at least one family will be. On the subject of not peace, Trump keeps sending more and more military resources to the Middle East and yesterday said that he’ll decide whether to attack Iran in ten days. That part about needing Congressional approval, forget about it.

More:  There’s a chance that the Supreme Court will release its tariff ruling today. Lastly, there was some great news on the Olympics front. The Women’s ice hockey team won gold as did Alysa Liu who ⛸️skates with joy and happiness and a whole lot of technical proficiency. It’s been 24 years since Sarah Hughes, who also skated with lots of joy, did that. 😊