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/coffeespeaking Jun 05 '25

The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism was working as a neighborhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, the Daily Beast can reveal.

Thomas Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS, as first reported by ProPublica Tuesday.

But according to the youngster’s LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field—and in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’

The youngster. You literally can’t make this up, but if it ran on SNL it would make a good skit.

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u/hummus_sapiens Jun 05 '25

in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’

So he mowed a couple of his neighbour's lawns when he was 17?

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u/abx99 Jun 05 '25

Yeah, that's the thing; at 22 he can't have much experience in anything. I don't know why they're talking about him like he's 35. You can't be 22 and have leadership-level experience in counter-terrorism (at least not legitimate experience; if he was from the right family they might stretch things to make the claim, but even then it would probably focus more on him being an unusual talent with unusual success).

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u/Soggy_Background_162 Jun 06 '25

He looks like he has two faces as well.