In Three Months, Trump’s Cabinet Has Lost Four Women

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Originally published at: In Three Months, Trump’s Cabinet Has Lost Four Women - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past three months, four women have been fired or resigned.  The first to go, on March…

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All women! This has been a glaring fact that I’ve seen NO legacy media mention. As it should be, the unmistakable racism is highlighted even by the MSM, but the obvious misogyny is treated too often as, “Ho hum. Of course, women are out of the Cabinet.” Sure keep RFK, Jr. and Lutnick. Rid yourself only of those disposable women.

That said, all four were reprehensible. However, so far their replacements have been men.

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I think another reason why even when the women in question turn up the obsequiousness up to 11 it does not help, is that for Trump that kind of sucking up from women is what he has “earned” and deserves, whereas from men he perceives it as an acknowledgement of dominance. So every time a man does it, it’s evidence that Trump has “dominated” him and has “won”; when a woman does it, it’s just the natural state of things.

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“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” – Bette Davis

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Lost? Did they look under the couch cushions?

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I don’t mourn any of these women. They were all incompetent or corrupt. Trump V2 isn’t so much about diversity as about competence and integrity. The closest any of Trump V2’s cabinet comes to competence or integrity is Rubio, which says a lot about the others.

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In his first term, Trump had a relatively deep bench of somewhat competent and respectable candidates for cabinet and senior advisory positions. The turnover was spectacular, and that bench had been exhausted and all his nominees in the second term have been sub par if not downright chaos actors. Their tenures have been disproportionately long because the available pool of replacements is small and even more contaminated. Not sure which is more remarkable… that the women (all of suspicious integrity and quality) were there in the first place, or that they were the first to go. As an aside, let us not forget his other blonde bimbo appointments to DOJ, Habba and Halligan. They may not have been intended to be sacrificial lambs, but if the stiletto fits…