{"id":64165,"date":"2024-12-05T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165"},"modified":"2025-05-09T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:43:16","slug":"cnn-report-trumps-nominees-are-largely-fox-news-alum-mar-a-lago-patrons-and-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump fashioned his campaign to reoccupy the White House as an appeal to the common man and all those who have been forgotten by entrenched government bureaucracies. That message resonated with a tiny majority of voters who were either too na\u00efve to detect his blatant lies, or too indoctrinated into the cult to care that they were being lied to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=CNN Report: Trump's Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-whitehouse-foxnews.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News, White House\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now a month has passed since the election and Trump&#8217;s real intentions are all to clear to anyone who isn&#8217;t in a self-induced coma. Those real intentions are evident in the people he has chosen to serve in his administration. And it isn&#8217;t exactly a roster of working class heroes. In fact, this nation has never seen a more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/troubling-takeaway-trump-cabinet-picks-104000446.html\" target=\"_blank\">disgraceful batch of unqualified bootlickers<\/a><\/strong> and shameless self-promoting elitists. But then, what more could be expected from the disgraceful, unqualified, bootlicking, self-promoting elitist who chose them? Trump is still doing what he does best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64014\" target=\"_blank\">MAKE IT STOP! Crybaby Trump Continues His Infantile Whining Weeks After Winning the Election<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday CNN&#8217;s Harry Enten did a segment that revealed some of the characteristics that are most broadly shared by Trump&#8217;s circle of sycophants. And as anyone with more than a handful of functioning brain cells could have predicted, it&#8217;s a group that has nothing in common with the common citizens of America. To the contrary. Enten&#8217;s analysis shows that Trump&#8217;s team thus far is dominated by billionaires, Mar-a-Lago patrons, and Fox News hosts and contributors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Analysis done by CNN shows Trump is stocking his administration with billionaires, Fox News contributors, and allies who spent money at Mar-a-Lago. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s building a team to protect his bottom line, not the American people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8aww6L7yT\">pic.twitter.com\/T8aww6L7yT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/American_Bridge\/status\/1864440611224399971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Enten made the rather obvious observation that <em>&#8220;Trump is someone who feeds on people being loyal to him.&#8221;<\/em> And none are more devoted than those who spend much of their time on Trump&#8217;s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. Including&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Pete Hegseth<\/strong> (Secretary of Defense)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tulsi Gabbard<\/strong> (Director of National Intelligence)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Miller<\/strong> (Deputy White House Chief of Staff)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Waltz<\/strong> (National Security Adviser)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee Zeldin<\/strong> (Environmental Protection Agency administrator)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elise Stefanik<\/strong> (Ambassador to the United Nation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Homan<\/strong> (Border \u201cCzar\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong> (Ambassador to Israel)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sean Duffy<\/strong> (Secretary of Transportation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sebastian Gorka<\/strong> (Deputy Assistant to the President, Director for Counterterrorism)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Janette Nesheiwat<\/strong> (Surgeon General)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monica Crowley<\/strong> (Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of Protocol)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keith Kellogg<\/strong> (special Envoy to Ukraine)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marty Makary<\/strong> (FDA Commissioner)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kimberley Guilfoyle<\/strong> (Ambassador to Greece)<\/li>\n<p><strong>LATE ADDITIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><strong>Tammy Bruce<\/strong> (State Department Spokesperson)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Morgan Ortagus<\/strong> (Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leo Terrel<\/strong> (Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Bongino<\/strong> (Deputy Director of the FBI)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Carter<\/strong> (Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeanine Pirro<\/strong> (Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It would have been useful if CNN and other media had informed their viewers that Trump&#8217;s campaign promises were unadulterated bullshit before election day. Far too many voters bought into the lies, and now they will suffer as a result. Many of the more purposefully ignorant deserve to suffer. The problem is that the rest of us are going to suffer right along with them.<\/p>\n<p>Our only hope for the next four years is if Democrats in Congress obstruct the worst impulses of Trump and his comrades. And it wouldn&#8217;t be a bad idea for the press to do their job and call out the Trumpists when they endeavor to betray the interests of the American people in service to the privileged upper-crusters.<\/p>\n<p>Although a fair measure of the responsibility for getting politicians and the press to work on behalf of the people belongs to the people themselves. We have to let them know what we want, and that there are consequences if we don&#8217;t get it. Preserving democracy is hard work, but it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65296\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Anti-Press Secretary Talks More to Fox News than to Reporters in the White House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to \u2018Come After the People in the Media\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64103\" target=\"_blank\">YIKES! Trump\u2019s Press Briefing Room Could Be Populated By Fawning Sycophants and MAGA Trolls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump fashioned his campaign to reoccupy the White House as an appeal to the common man and all those who have been forgotten by entrenched government bureaucracies. That message resonated with a tiny majority of voters who were either too na\u00efve to detect his blatant lies, or too indoctrinated into the cult to care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,8],"tags":[42,554,33,95],"class_list":["post-64165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-whitehouse-foxnews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gGV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45937,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45937","url_meta":{"origin":64165,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Furiously Spins Poll of Imaginary &#8216;Secret&#8217; Trump Voters","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/15\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The electoral landscape just seems to get worse for Donald Trump with each passing day. 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