Trump's Unchristian Cabinet

CAVEAT: God created the anti-Christ! FUCK YOU GOD and FUCK YOU TRUMP and his supporters.

Is this a Christian Cabinet?

Ben Carson was called "pathological" and compared to a child molester by Trump, during his campaign. Now Carson to heads the department of Housing and Urban Development. And of course Carson knows precious little about housing and urban development, having dedicated his life to surgery, and having admitted more than once that he doesn't deserve a government job because other people are more qualified than he is!

Linda McMahon is a former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment. She and her husband Vince McMahon were among Trump's biggest donors. Is Trump "draining the swamp" or is he stocking it with donors, cronies and political piranha? When asked about Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," Newt Gingrich said that Trump was just being "cute" in a Tweet and had no intention of really getting rid of the infestation. Now, with three Goldman Sachs bigwigs and other donors to his campaign being given plum cabinet positions, Trump has gone far beyond what any modern president has done. Other presidents may have rewarded donors with ambassadorships to distant locales where they couldn't do too much damage. But Trump is putting his crocodilian donors in major policy-making positions.






Trump wanted Andrew Puzder a wife beater and another donor, despite having no requisite experience, was Trump's choice for Labor Secretary. Trump said that Puzder would help make American workers "more prosperous" but in truth Puzder is a staunch opponent of raising the minimum wage. During his campaign Trump said that American wages are "too high" and Puzder seems to share that opinion. But they are both billionaires and we didn't hear them talking about limiting what they make to help the country, do we? It seems sacrifice is only for the little guys, not the fat cats. And Puzder would have been the first Labor Secretary on record saying things like: “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis! I think it’s very American!” So much for the party of "family values." 

Trump's pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is another Trump donor seemingly being reward with a plum job: Education Secretary. She and her husband are major political power brokers in their home state of Michigan. Her goal seems to be to rob Michigan public schools of money by funneling funds to charter schools. But Michigan charter schools have been very poor performers. "When I hear her name and I think about education, I think about choice without quality," said Tonya Allen, president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, and a member of a coalition to help fix Detroit schools.

Criminal Scott Pruitt is Trump's choice to head the EPA. But Pruitt is a climate change denier who has sued the EPA for protecting the environment and has called himself a "leading advocate" against the EPA. Unsurprisingly, fossil fuel interests greeted Mr. Trump’s selection with elation. According to the Bible, human beings were given stewardship of the earth. Is it "Christian" to ignore the impact of burning fossil fuels on the planet and the life it supports?

Crazy Mike Pompeo is "known as one of the more fanatical purveyors of conspiracy theories about the 2011 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya." He is a war hawk who advocated using the US military in Syria. He is a fierce critic of the Iran peace deal, but his threat to "tear up" the deal seems sure to push Iran into developing nukes and could lead to yet another unwinnable war in the Middle East. (American and Israeli military experts have pointed out that bombing Iran will not stop Iran from developing nukes, so the peace deal actually makes sense. Also, there are reports that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu does not want the Iran nuke deal to be scrapped.) Pompeo has defended the use of torture as "within the Constitution" and has spoken in favor of methods that include waterboarding, electric shocks, hypothermia, mock executions, nudity and "rectal feeding." He has called Guantanamo Bay a “goldmine of intelligence" and seems determined to keep it open. He is a proponent of Big-Brotherish surveillance methods and wants to revive them. He thinks whistleblower Edward Snowden should be put to death. Pompeo is a very creepy dude. 

Treasonous prison bound Michael T. Flynn appears to be a real-life Dr. Strangelove who has ties to Russia, has been described as "deranged" and a "maniac," and has talked about a "purge" of the American military. He has expressed a fascist-like fear that the world does not "fear our might." He has made laudatory statements about Russia and has accepted payments from the Russian propaganda network RT. Flynn once said that Sharia, or Islamic law, is spreading in the United States (it is obviously not). He called Islam a "malignant cancer," a belief typical of conspiracy theorists. His dubious assertions are so common that when he ran the Defense Intelligence Agency, subordinates came up with a name for the phenomenon: "Flynn facts." It appears that, like Trump, Flynn never met a conspiracy theory that he didn't immediately embrace and fall in love with. For instance, in a Facebook post, Flynn shared a fake news story claiming that Obama flaunted an erection to female reporters in 2008. Now, Flynn's new boss may have done things like that, but no one has produced any credible evidence of President Obama sexually assaulting women! Flynn also tweeted a fake news story about Hillary Clinton having sex with children! And, like Trump, Flynn appears to be a man without convictions who can change his positions on a dime. For instance, during a July 10, 2016 interview on ABC News, when asked by This Week host Martha Raddatz about the issue of abortion, Flynn stated, "women have to be able to choose." The next day, Flynn said on Fox News that he is a "pro-life Democrat."

War criminal James Mattis has earned the nicknames "Mad Dog," "The Warrior Monk" and "Chaos" (his call-sign). On February 1, 2005, speaking at a forum in San Diego, he said: "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling." Mattis's remarks sparked controversy and General Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps, issued a statement suggesting that Mattis should have chosen his words more carefully, but would not be disciplined. In May 2004, Mattis ordered the Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 42 men, women and children who were attending a wedding ceremony. Mattis stated that it had taken him 30 seconds to deliberate on bombing the location. The Obama administration reportedly did not place much trust in Mattis, because he was perceived to be too eager for a military confrontation with Iran.

Nut case Stephen Bannon has been described as "a racist, xenophobic, misogynist, anti-Semitic nationalist—very much, in other words, like his boss, the president of the United States." Bannon is a leading figure of the so-called "alt-right." In other words, a kook. When he was in charge of Breitbart News, he was famous (or more accurately, infamous) for headlines like "Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy." According to Bannon, "Darkness is good." He went on to explain: "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." Bannon has become "the blackest hole" in the Trump universe, aside from Trump himself.

Jeff Sessions has a long history of opposing equal rights for women and minorities; he also appears to be an Islamophobe who may push the US toward more unwinnable wars in the Middle East. In 1986, President Reagan nominated Sessions, then a United States attorney from Alabama, to be a federal judge. The Republican-controlled Senate rejected him "based on devastating testimony by former colleagues that he was a racist." Mr. Sessions has called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a “piece of intrusive legislation.” Under him, the Justice Department would "most likely focus less on prosecutions of minority voter suppression and more on rooting out voter fraud, that hallowed conservative myth." Sessions appears to be a throwback to a primitive form of "morality." For instance, he told the Senate: "Good people don’t smoke marijuana." Sessions also appeared to defend Donald Trump from accusations of sexual assault, by claiming that grabbing a woman's genitals is not sexual assault! Sessions also voted against the 2013 Violence Against Women Act. Thomas Figures, a black attorney, said that Sessions called him “boy” and warned him to “be careful what you say to white folks.” Sessions, by Figures’ account, also said that he was “OK” with the Ku Klux Klan, but changed his mind after learning that they were “pot-smokers.”