House Speaker Mike Johnson made a simple but important point about President-elect Donald Trump’s list of nominees, saying that the American people have demanded that Trump shake up the status quo.
Johnson told CNN’s Jake Tapper:
This is what I’ll say about the nominees that the President has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believed, and what they’ve delivered with the mandate in this election, is they demand that we shake up the status quo. It’s not working for the American people.
So, you used the term in the opening about how these are disruptors. They are, I think that’s by design. Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda. And the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they’re being asked to lead, and they will reform them.
These agencies need reform, and I think the vast majority of American people understand that. You can’t have status quo appointments in a moment like this.
Johnson is correct.
The thing that is truly obvious about all of these picks is that they are meant to shake up the status quo.
And that is driving the Left nuts. They can say it’s all about the accusations against Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth and his tattoos, but that’s not really what it’s about — because we know for a fact that if these people were on the Left, all of that would be ignored willy-nilly. It wouldn’t matter to them one iota.
It is perfectly obvious the big objection is that Trump is moving fast, not on nominees per se, but moving fast on the policies to be pursued by the nominees.
That is the actual goal here for the Left.
For example, Joe Biden and the Left have been touting the so-called “green energy revolution.”
The problem with the green energy revolution is that it is utterly and completely failing. It doesn’t mean that there can’t be development of green energy or electric cars.
But it does mean that the so-called green energy revolution is not going to replace fossil fuels any time soon. Fossil fuels are too efficient; they are too durable. Biden’s attempt to cut them off has been a mistake.
Over the weekend Biden said, “Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it. Nobody.”
Good luck, because actually somebody can reverse it. That person is President Trump — not to reverse the so-called green energy revolution, but to rely on fossil fuels that are actually going to power the American economy.
Trump, pushing the shale boom, selected Chris Wright as the nominee for Energy Secretary, a man who was “front-and-center” for the fracking revolution, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The idea that we are going to up the ante on the fracking revolution is great. It has completely shifted, not just economically with regard to the global balance of power, but also geopolitically in terms of military power, in terms of leverage. The energy revolution in the United States has totally shifted the balance of power, and that is wonderful.
And Trump is reinvigorating that. The amount of energy production in the United States is going to skyrocket. Wright will join the newly formed National Energy Council alongside North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, who will roll back the Biden regulations that have hampered resource development.
All of this means a booming American economy. The boom is here.
Trump picked Brendan Carr for FCC chairman, who has announced that he will take on what he called the “censorship cartel”: Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
So, in energy, Trump’s going to blow things up. In communications, Trump’s going to blow things up.
And then, of course, he’s going to blow things up over at Defense. The Left is afraid Hegseth will come in and clean house.
Democrat senator-elect Elissa Slotkin from Michigan said, “I think we’re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Hold on. You Democrats politicized the military. You loved General Mark Milley out there explaining that white rage was the biggest problem in the military. You and the Left decided that the American military had to be turned into some sort of experimental laboratory for left-wing social policy and we needed to fly the Pride Progress flag. Your big idea was that wokeness was going to be the centerpiece for defense.
Pete Hegseth is not going to do any of that. That’s the real reason people are angry at Hegseth.
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Trump picked Matt Gaetz for Attorney General to blow up the status quo. That is the goal. If the Left wants to know how they got Gaetz, the answer is: They kept elevating people like Adam Schiff, the representative from California who spent an enormous amount of time targeting Trump (in both impeachments) and has now been elevated to Senator-elect from the state of California.
Gaetz is also a big middle finger to the DOJ and the FBI.
When people like Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for Joe Biden and now MSNBC host, criticize the picks, she is obviously not criticizing the picks because of their supposed personal morality or personal foibles. That’s not what this is about. It’s about their politics. Psaki commented on her show, saying:
These are the people who will be advising the president on every crisis that crosses his desk and representing the United States for some of them overseas, and they’re the people who have an impact also on your daily lives. See, these choices are on the one hand cartoonishly outrageous, but when that dust settles, it’s not really just about the scandals and the personal lives of these nominees and there are many, it’s about what their positions and their lack of experience could do to our health system, our national security and the rights we have in this country.
That’s what she’s worried about. She says it right there at the end. It’s not about personal issues. It’s not about Gaetz and underage girls. It’s not about Hegseth and any accusations against him or his tattoos.
It is just that they might blow up the entire system the Democrats have been building on and counting on and manipulating for decades.
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