6 Terrible Humans, Advisers, and Nominees for the Trump Administration #ThisIsNotNormalOrOkay
I think it’s extremely important to point out Trump’s chosen team members, potential choices for Cabinet positions, and those advising him. This extremely diverse group of white men is uniformly awful in different ways!
1. MIKE PENCE / Interests: Anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-environment, and listening to women talk about their periods 24/7 / Signed a bill banning abortions for fetal anomalies and requiring funerals or cremations for aborted fetuses (overturned in federal court) / 11/08/16 Vice President Elect of the United States, Chairman of Trump’s transition team
2. STEVE BANNON / Interests: White supremacy, anti-Semitism, domestic violence, and being reviled by Glenn Beck / Former head of white supremacist media organization / 11/13/16 Appointed White House strategist and senior counselor
3. JOHN BOLTON / Interests: Warmongering, hawkishness, and being voted least popular U.S. ambassador to the U.N. ever / Bolton not only opposes the nuclear agreement with Iran, but he has consistently advocated war to stop the country’s nuclear program. He was a prominent advocate of the Iraq war and continues to defend the invasion to this day. / Potential Secretary of State
4. KEN BLACKWELL / Interests: Anti-gay, voter suppression, hate groups, and football quitter / Believes “[homosexuality] is a transgression against God’s will.” / Trump transition team domestic policy adviser
5. KRIS KOBACH / Interests: Racism, anti-immigration, voter suppression, hate groups, and wall enthusiast / Architect of the most racist law in modern American history (SB 1070 passed in Arizona in 2010). What did it mean? If you have brown skin or an accent, police had a right to stop you, detain you and demand you prove your citizenship. / Trump transition team immigration adviser, potential Attorney General
6. NEWT GINGRICH / Interests: The original obstructionist, infidelity, and former Speaker of the House of Repeated Ethical Violations / “He once called [the FDA] the “leading job-killer in America.” Urged on by extreme conservatives in the mid-1990s, Gingrich seemed inclined for a while to try to dismantle the FDA and let free market actors (doctors, payers, independent statisticians, I guess) decide whether a drug is safe and effective enough to prescribe. Virgil Brown, a fellow Georgia Republican and a former president of the American Heart Association, told Gingrich to back off on his FDA death wish. Brown told the New York Times in 1995 that it “could set public health back into the Dark Ages.” Gingrich relented.” / Potential Secretary of State
Feel free to reblog with additional robots currently doing a terrible job of pretending they’re human beings. There are so many more! The list goes on and on.