Donald Trump Taps Billionaire Who Owned Deadly Coal Mine For Commerce Secretary
On Wednesday morning, Trump announced the nomination of hedge fund titan Wilbur Ross, 78, to lead the Department of Commerce.
“Wilbur Ross is a champion of American manufacturing….”
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The announcement came at the same time as the nomination of Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts as Ross’ deputy and Goldman Sachs veteran Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary.
Ok so basically a bunch of American oligarchs were named to lead the Great Orange Neo-Nazi Populist’s (wink wink) economic team. Well, the whining has already begun.
Could This Man Be Donald Trump’s Future Secretary of Outsourcing?
...Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) told The Daily Beast he was disturbed by Ross’s ownership of a company that shipped jobs overseas. Jones, a conservative Republican who shares Trump’s views on immigration and trade, said a Ross appointment would disappoint him.
“I thought Trump was going to change some things, stop shipping all these jobs overseas,” Jones said.
“The base that helped him win—the base is looking for certain promises to be kept,” he added. “They really are.”
“They really are”… what a joke.
Let’s mark this as the beginning of the GOP base voters and their racist representatives massive whine fest after electing their Dear Leader Donald Trump.
Will the fake populists in Congress like Rep Jones just continue whining or actually do something when the oligarchs come to take away Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, in that order? The answer is NO. These liars will claim they are “fixing” a “broken” “entitlement” system and put people in the real broken system: the American medical insurance industry with astronomical rates. A bunch of fucking idiots voting against their own interests so they can be above another group of people. Sick and disgusting.