Like a lot of media entities, the New York Post and Donald Trump have had a tumultuous relationship over the years. The New York tabloid spent decades covering Trump’s various scandals, affairs, and controversies before he got involved with politics. At various times in the last ten years, the Post, like most Murdoch-owned entities, has usually been on Trump’s side, but other times at odds with him.
Now, the Post’s Editorial Board is pushing for the President-Elect to abandon two of his more controversial cabinet picks.
Donald Trump, please get rid of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard from your cabinet https://t.co/am1LnkniLv pic.twitter.com/LQ0YSSHc2y
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) November 20, 2024
The Post this week called for Trump to “ditch this dreadful duo” of Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard.
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The Editorial Board notes that Trump “rightly sees his thumping victory in both the Electoral College and popular vote as a mandate,” and praising some of his other cabinet picks, and it urges him to not use recess appointments for the cabinet, raising the possibility that a future Democratic president could install Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Secretary of the Treasury using a similar procedure.
But the Post is less enamored of the choices of Gaetz and Gabbard.
“Gaetz and Gabbard are dreadful. We plead that he rethink them. They’re distracting chaos agents who won’t accomplish what Trump wants them to, and will most likely backfire on his agenda.”
Why does the Post feel this way? Gabbard, to them, is untrustworthy.
“Gabbard backed the Iran deal, and said the Soleimani killing undermined our national security,” the Post editorial board writes, in referencing positions the former Hawaii Congresswoman took when she was still a Democrat. “She’s been sympathetic to dictators in Syria and Russia, instead blaming the victims of violence like Ukraine and Israel. She’s speaking softly and carrying no stick.”
As for Gaetz, the Florida Congressman until recently?
In other words, the Matt Gaetz’s ethics report is really, really bad. https://t.co/8WhotY9dSK
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) November 19, 2024
“Gaetz may provide the disruption, but he has neither the ethics nor the discipline to rebuild a proper system that will pursue fair prosecutions…He resigned from Congress before the release of an ethics report that reportedly accuses him of having sex with underage girls at drug-fueled parties. His own colleagues say he’s a sleaze.”
While Trump has been known to care about how he comes across in the media, an editorial like this from the Post is unlikely to get him to change course, all by itself.
The editroial, for what it’s worth, does not mention Trump’s other controverisal picks, of Robert Kennedy, Jr. — himself long a recepient of New York tabloid coverage — nor of Linda McMahon or Pete Hegseth.
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