Though he didn’t take an official position in President Donald Trump’s administration this time round, former Housing and City Improvement Secretary Ben Carson is proving to be fairly the jack-of-all-trades.
When the onetime neurosurgeon isn’t exhibiting up on the Spiritual Liberty Fee to mainly agree that the Declaration of Independence and the Bible are the identical factor, actually, he’s now going to be a form of roving skilled on diet, well being, and … rural housing?
City and rural housing! Discuss vary!
On Wednesday, Carson was sworn in because the nationwide diet adviser on the Division of Agriculture. Moreover his diet/well being/housing portfolio, he’s additionally supporting Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ work on the Make America Wholesome Once more Fee. Is sensible, actually. Can’t let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have all of the enjoyable issuing incoherent studies.
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Oh wait, sorry. Carson can be going to be the “Department’s chief voice” on rural well being care high quality. Received it.
Carson is simply as certified for all of this as he was to be HUD secretary throughout Trump’s first time period—which is to say, in no way. His tenure in that place will largely be remembered for referring to enslaved folks introduced right here in chains as “immigrants” and spending $31,000 on a convention room desk.
Even in Carson’s glowing bio, you see no point out of diet, housing, or well being care, save for him reminding folks that he was the HUD secretary. In any other case, it’s a litany of his neurosurgery accomplishments within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, which has a imprecise “30-year-old still bragging about his high school football years” vibe to it.
Carson is emblematic of the administration’s strategy to every little thing: piling a number of jobs on folks with no {qualifications}. There’s Lindsey Halligan, who was chosen to wreck the Smithsonian based mostly on her previous position as one in every of Trump’s private attorneys, and is now additionally going to be the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of Virginia.
Or how a couple of completely different former Trump private lawyer, Todd Blanche, who’s each deputy lawyer basic and the performing librarian of Congress, as a result of why not?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has an ever-shifting variety of jobs, however the one he’s undoubtedly least certified for is being head of the Nationwide Archives.
Ric Grenell, when not wrecking the Kennedy Heart, apparently additionally travels abroad to safe the discharge of U.S. residents and in addition oversees the federal response to wildfires, as a result of these are undoubtedly all issues that go collectively.
And final and definitely least, there’s former “Real World” star Sean Duffy. Not content material to be wildly unqualified for his major job as transportation secretary, he’s additionally now operating NASA.
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This multiple-job nonsense is partly borne out of a scarcity of regard for presidency service. Trump doesn’t care who runs the Smithsonian or the Library of Congress, so long as they’re ideologically aligned with Trump.
However the actuality is that Trump, having fired company heads with precise expertise, has no need to interchange them with profession workers from stated businesses, and in addition doesn’t wish to have new nominees undergo the Senate affirmation course of. So, he can take somebody already confirmed by the Senate for one place and simply double them up elsewhere.
In the meantime, Ben Carson will determine what meals your youngsters eat, which hospitals serve your rural neighborhood, and what rural housing you’ll be able to entry, and … come on.
Why are we pretending he’ll do any of these issues? Carson will simply be one other bizarre MAHA mouthpiece ranting about meals components or no matter. However hey, no less than he’s getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to honor all his accomplishments—no matter these are.
