Some call it the โTrump Stench,โ others call it the โTrump Rot,โ or the โTrump Effect.โ Jerome Adams is calling it the โTrump Hangover.โ
But, whatever you want to dub the phenomenon, the former Trump Era Surgeon General is clearly learning the hard way that an association with the corrupt, scandal-ridden former president will cost you your career.
Former Trump Administration Surgeon General Jerome Adams recently sat for a telling interview with the Washington Post, in which he admitted that his four-year stint in the controversial ex-presidentโs Cabinet left him desperately struggling to find work after Trumpโs tumultuous term came to an equally turbulent end.
โPeople still are afraid to touch anything that is associated with Trump,โ Adams admitted to the Post in the bombshell interview that recently went public.
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The former surgeon general and his wife Lacey spoke of his numerous attempts to find work in the field of academia, only to be met with polite rejection after polite rejection from officials at the universities he applied to. While it seems officials werenโt too specific about their reasoning for their rejections, Adams and his wife said they fully believe that the university administrators were concerned about having a former Trump Administration official on campus among largely Left-leaning students.
Adams, whoโs only 48 years old, with a lot of career life left in him, ultimately called the ex-commander-in-chief โa force that really does take the air out of the room.โ
โThe Trump hangover is still impacting me in significant ways,โ Adams, who served as Surgeon General through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic went on to admit.
Jerome went on to weigh in on Trumpโs recent 2024 presidential campaign launch announcement, which already hasnโt been met with much support among key Republicans or the American Conservative crowd, lamenting that the ex-presidentโs 3rd White House bid โwill make things more difficult for me.โ
Adamsโ wife, Lacey, didnโt mince her words in the interview when it came to the topic of her husbandโs former boss, openly admitting that she โhated Trumpโ and did not want her husband to work in the Trump Era Administration.
โIt was a lot harder than he thought to find a landing spot because of the Trump Effect,โ Lacey said while speaking of her fear of the โstigmaโ around Jeromeโs Trump Administration job.
Adams remained unemployed from January 2021 until September, when he finally landed a position as the executive director of health equity initiatives for Purdue University President and former Republican Indiana governor, Mitch Daniels.
However, Adams went on to clarify in the interview that he was โnot complainingโ about his struggles to find gainful employment, claiming โit is context.โ
Read the full interview here.
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