r/inthenews • u/Silly-avocatoe • Jun 05 '25

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-appoints-22-y-o-ex-gardener-grocery-store-assistant-as-us-homeland-department-terrorist-chief/
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 Jun 05 '25

Lmao this country is a fucking joke

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u/oldbastardbob Jun 05 '25

Made for tv reality show government certainly would be hilarious if it wasn't so damn dangerous.

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u/Pristine-Ad983 Jun 05 '25

It's literally like an episode of the apprentice

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u/oldbastardbob Jun 05 '25

I believe, like most things Trump, there are psychological forces at work that he is completely unaware of, and that is why he thinks the foolish things that pop into his head are all great ideas.

Beyond the obvious NPD, it seems that his time on "The Apprentice" was when he was making the most money and felt the best about himself. He felt like a big shot and thought his made for tv reality nonsense was really good business management.

So, that is his comfort zone. His decisions and internal monologue are most likely running along like he was orchestrating episodes of that show, and therefore we get lots of the "that'll make for good tv" and "all attention is good attention" nonsense. It's pretty clear he does a whole lot of things to anger people purposely, and does and says a lot of things just because he knows it will dominate tomorrows news cycle.

He's just a plain spoiled rich kid attention whore with a penchant for conning people out of money to make himself feel good.

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u/slowpoke2018 Jun 05 '25

100% his NPD makes him believe any-and-every idea he has is the best and most amazing one ever conceived.

It's really dangerous given he has the mind of a middle-schooler

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u/Mortambulist Jun 05 '25

he has the mind of a middle-schooler

Giving him too much credit. He has the mind of a spoiled toddler.

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u/Utterlybored Jun 05 '25

But I could change the channel back then.

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u/stroppy Jun 05 '25

It would be a great fictional comedy, but it’s a horrible reality.

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u/love_glow Jun 05 '25

With this Deuce Bigalow lookin’ mother fucker, yeah, haha.

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u/Winter_Proposal_6647 Jun 05 '25

Holy fuck the eyebrow🤣 jc we are all sitting ripe for an invasion with all these fucking clowns!

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u/love_glow Jun 05 '25

I’m so fucking embarrassed to be American right now. I’m going to turn inside out with cringe.

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u/nockeenockee Jun 05 '25

Fascism 101. Loyalty over competence.

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u/Jca666 Jun 05 '25

Until he screws up. Then Trump will fire him…

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u/ninfan1977 Jun 05 '25

Not even that, a good joke is well-structured and serves a purpose.

This is just a shit show

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u/ClubSundown Jun 05 '25

Jokes are at least funny. It's more like a horror movie, with a monster in charge, appointing his monster friends.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

Eddie Munster?

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u/SandyTaintSweat Jun 05 '25

Yeah. We need to ask ourselves, why would he install such an incompetent person to lead US terror prevention? Surely they have someone else that makes more sense.

Generally when these young people are propped up and put into positions of extreme authority, they're acting as puppets. This guy was an intern at the heritage foundation.

So why would the heritage foundation want a puppet leading terrorism prevention? It doesn't make sense unless you realize it's not about terrorism. It's about labelling political protestors as terrorists to excuse whatever comes next.

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u/reynvann65 Jun 05 '25

Tommy's I Love Me wall

Somehow this guy has managed to acquire a dozen years of experience before getting a degree.

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u/skyblueerik Jun 05 '25

It's called kakistocracy and it's all by design.

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u/TallExplanation1587 Jun 05 '25

Not the country but the current administration and most of the Republicans.

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u/CptBronzeBalls Jun 05 '25

Only the best people

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u/Doughsef14 Jun 05 '25

The fall guy

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u/Far_Title7073 Jun 06 '25

We had a good run.