âBefore joining Trumpâs administration, Patton served as vice president of the Eric Trump Foundationâ
I feel like Al from Happy Days, shaking his head and only able to say âYep. Yep, yep, yep.â
There have been a number of background stories on how startlingly incompetent Ms. Patton is for this position, even for A Drumpfer.
She makes Kellyanne Conway look like a cross between Madame Curie and Margaret Thatcher.
âWe need to run the government like a business!â
Someone running a business would not put a totally unqualified person into an executive role. Unless it was someone like Trump running that company, which explains why almost every business he ever got involved with went bankrupt.
As a retired affordable housing developer/financier/manager professional, I am appalled and quite highly insulted by this knowledge-nothing appointment. We should expect better. There are knowledgable experts and career professionals eminently qualified for this high post. But, then, look at who her boss is. Wth any luck they will merely be placeholders throughout the Trump regime and will do no new harm (not that doing nothing doesnât intrinsically harm the mission).
Tomorrow Barron Trump gets command of the Pacific Fleet.
And lord knows that the last thing we need leading a government program is someone who is qualified!
Because of his hands on experience with the rubber duckies in his bathtub no doubt.
The second to last thing we need is a trump points memo day like weâve having today. 'Scuse me while I get back to planet earth.
I donât know if elevating a person of color, or no color, without the slightest qualifications for the job, is really doing them any good.
Sheâll faceplant, hard, and that wonât benefit her or add to her sketchy resume.
Nincompoop that worked in the Trounce administration isnât the career booster that some might think it to be in the beginning.
At least heâs not putting her in an important, high-profile job in which sheâd need, you know, experience, knowledge and other qualifications.
I think you are all missing the point. This all part of a war on the concept of good governance. The surest way to make people believe that the government is the problem is to put incompetents in charge of government functions. In #45âs/Pres. Bannonâs plan to destroy the peoplesâ faith in the institutions of government and to undermine the very concept of federal authority, Pattonâs incompetence is not a defect, itâs a feature. See, also, Betsy DeVos, Rick âoopsâ Perry, Ben Carson, etc.
Like a successful business not a Trump business that is!
This is absolutely ridiculous. It will consume all the Dems time just trying to clean up the mess that the Trumps have created when we clean their clock in 2020.
I have noticed that when there is a talking points trump day, or a trump good day in the newsâŚthe next day or so really wallops him badly.
By the next day political reporting will have had time to digest his droppings with the aid of a decoder ring. But I feel good right now because the president that should have been sent me a postcard urging me (and the 10 million others who got the card) to work for a better country. âOnward!â
I am absolutely convinced that part of the reason that so many important govât posts remain unfilled is because Trump is a grifter who specializes in using Other Peopleâs Money to get what he wants (and slapping his name on it). He doesnât even understand âgiving awayâ a job to make sure basic government functions are done unless he can use it as bribe or get a payoff himself.
Trump wants McCainâs support for Trumpcare (or to at least minimize his posturing)? Give his wife a job at state. Stealing the presidency let Trump stick his tiny hands into the biggest kitty in the the country, and heâs going to milk it for everything it can.
Replacing the White House Usher may have been driven more by ego and self preservation. He simply couldnât stand to have someone in his orbit who was not a personally loyal toady. But thereâs no reason in his mind to âwasteâ an ambassadorship, or any other appointed position, without gaining something from it.
FWIW, even Pattonâs claim to have been a vice president of the Eric Trump Foundation may be inflated. The publicly-available 990 forms for the foundation list Patton as a member of the foundationâs board for a few years, but not as an officer.
Sheâs the other bookend to go with the wholly unqualified Uncle Ben. Theyâre a yin-yang matched set.
I wonder if she knows she doesnât have diplomatic immunity to avoid testifying in any upcoming Beavis Foundation trial(s)? Hell, I wonder if Drumpf, his lawyers or anybody else in the bAdministration knows?
From the NYTimes articleâŚhere is her bioâŚ
She said that she had never claimed to have graduated from either
school [Yale or Quinnipiac], and that she had added them to her LinkedIn profile because she
once took summer courses at Yale and attended law school for two
semesters before dropping out. She also worked as an actress in Los
Angeles and then struggled with a drug problem. She later recovered and
became a paralegal and legal assistant at a law firm in Connecticut
before moving to New York, where Mr. Trumpâs lawyer Michael D. Cohen
introduced her to the family.
She defended her appointment by saying that she will be good at the job is that she has a âdirect lineâ to the White House.