Trump: "I don't want poor people in my cabinet"

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

In Trump's mind, and that of a considerable portion of Americans, wealth is equivalent to talent and ability. So, if you're poor, it's solely because you're untalented and/or unmotivated. Of course, viewing people that way, you wouldn't want poor people in your cabinet.

Anyone with sense knows that's total garbage, but that would require conceding America isn't the land of 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' like the right-wing love to proclaim.

America's semi-secular version of the prosperity gospel is one of our worst traits.

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Putting people in charge because they're rich is the equivalent of betting on a die to roll high because it rolled high last time, and besides, you like how it looks.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Be honest people: how many poor people do you know who'd even be qualified to run a federal department? Using a sensible definition of poor, anyway...

Aren't you supposed to be some kind of Christian "communitarian"?

Dude doesn't want poor people running federal departments, yet his savior is a homeless Middle Eastern refugee carpenter born in a manger to an unwed teenage mother...

Like many on the American right-wing, he likely
doesn't follow canon Jesus, but worships fanon Jesus.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I would hire someone economically successful to be a economic secretary if I were POTUS. I don't see the problem.

Because "have wealthy and well-connected parents, go to Ivy League schools, then work on Wall Street" isn't readily transferable to an $18 trillion dollar economy of 325 million people.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I would hire someone economically successful to be a economic secretary if I were POTUS. I don't see the problem.

Because "have wealthy and well-connected parents, go to Ivy League schools, then work on Wall Street" isn't readily transferable to an $18 trillion dollar economy of 325 million people.

Any success is still success imo unless it's just flat-out ripping people off

You're congratulating the catcher for being at home plate.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Thanks for the 2018 ad Donald-DCCC

Meh, making an ad of this would be a waste of money.

Nope. Dems need to run with this. Put together a vicious attack ad with this in it. Letting this slide would be a wasted opportunity

Please, don't.

Running against the stupid and evil things Trump says doesn't really work, and a great many of his supporters don't care.

Run against the stupid and evil things Trump does, that hurt a great many of his supporters or issues they care about.