The Morning Briefing: Trump Ruined the Good Vibes With a Couple of Horrible

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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The pie-throwing contest is open only to left-handed haters of pants.

Regular readers here know that I impose a news blackout on myself every week from the time I publish the Friday Briefing until Sunday night. I filled in on the editing desk here on Saturday, so I was swimming in news this weekend. That meant I got to catch up on the president-elect’s latest nominations and quickly wished I hadn’t.

We’ve all noticed that the Donald Trump who is preparing to be POTUS 47 is not the same guy as he was back in 2016 and early 2017, when he was gearing up to be our 45th president. I’ve been a big fan of the people he’s been choosing to fill out his next administration. In last Wednesday’s Briefing, I was singing the praises of Linda McMahon, the woman Trump has nominated to be the next Secretary of Education. It looked like, at long last, some real reform at the Dept. of Education might be possible.

Imagine my unpleasant surprise when Trump nominated a woman to be Secretary of Labor who can count American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten among her fans. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) is the worst Republican Trump could have picked for Labor. I wrote about this hot mess on Saturday:

For any conservative who had high hopes for the Trump 47 administration, Weingarten’s approval of Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination undoes a lot of the goodwill that had been built up. That’s not the worst thing about this choice, however. Chavez-DeRemer (an annoying name to type repeatedly, by the way) is one of only three Republicans in the House to support the execrable PRO Act. Its full title is: The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.

The PRO Act is a sop to Big Labor that got its start with California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) back in 2018. AB5 was a major effort to upend the freelancer-driven gig economy — specifically rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft, which had long been targets politicians who are funded by labor unions.

There is absolutely no justification for this nomination. She isn’t some garden variety GOP squish who is pretending to be on the right side before she sticks it to her own side, she’s flying her progressive freak flag from the get-go. There’s a description of just how insidious the PRO Act is in my column.

I was being generous when I wrote that Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination undid “a lot of the goodwill” that Trump and his transition team had built up. It’s pretty much killed it all for me.

But wait, there’s more.

Ben writes that Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General — Janette Nesheiwat — is a rabid COVID vaccine pimp who “actively promoted and praised censorship of dissident voices on the topic.” She’s also a mask scold:

Janette Nesheiwat endorsed masks for children, promoted COVID vaccination for all age groups, and approved of censorship by social media companies. pic.twitter.com/8UHq7B4YLk

— TechJudge (@techjudge) November 23, 2024

Trump is a renown lifelong teetotaler, so he wasn’t drunk when signed off on these choices.

Over at our sister site HotAir, my friend Ed Morrissey wrote about an Axios article that examined the ideological diversity in Trump’s new Cabinet. This is how Ed began his post:

Fact check: True, at least on paper. And conservatives may not like the implications of it, either. In fact, they may wonder just what Donald Trump plans to disrupt.

There is nothing for conservatives to like about either of the nominees that we’re discussing this morning. Both Ed and I noted that the Chavez-DeRemer nomination is a gift to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien for his support of Trump. A Republican president who is beholden to Big Labor is…a Democrat.

Yes, O’Brien did help Trump with union voters and there’s an opportunity to develop a new GOP voting bloc there, but baby steps would have been better. Don’t nominate a woman who is championing the legalization of — as I wrote in my column — “union thuggery.”

We have been celebrating the fact that Trump is obviously going about putting together his administration in a different fashion than he did for his first term. A different approach should yield different results. There’s good different and bad different though, and now we have to wonder if Trump is blundering into the latter.

Maybe Chavez-DeRemer and Nesheiwat will change their ways and end up surprising all of us. Or — and this is where my money is — they’ll be the first two to leave and write tell-all books slamming their former boss.

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