Another surgeon general nominee and some Trumpisms

Another surgeon general nominee and some Trumpisms

Casey Means out as surgeon general

The president has dropped Casey Means as surgeon general nominee and picked radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier who like his original choice Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is a Fox News contributor. What’s with these Fox News people? Dr Means, as I have detailed before is a nonpracticing, noncertified doctor who went to Stanford’s medical school but never was admitted to practice. She is a close associate of Robert Kennedy, Jr, is firmly in the MAHA camp and practices holistic medicine. Even the republicans balked at Means’s nomination which was also opposed by Trump’s first surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams. Nonetheless, Saphier shares some commonalities with the MAHA movement, including an interest in personal wellness and a skepticism of vaccine mandates.

Trump tweeted “Nicole is a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention, while at the same time working with men and women on all other forms of cancer diagnoses and treatments. She is also an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes complicated health issues more easily understood by all Americans.

“Dr. Nicole Saphier will do great things for our Country, and help, ‘MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.’ Congratulations Nicole, our Country has long been waiting for you!”

As the New York Post reported “Earlier, Trump said that Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee — “has stood in the way” of Means’ nomination and called on Louisiana voters to boot Cassidy out of office in next month’s Republican primary, calling the lawmaker “a very disloyal person whose ‘TRUMP’ Endorsement got him elected, but voted to impeach Trump on what has now proven to be a total Hoax and Scam.”

The president added that “despite Senator Cassidy’s intransigence and political games, Casey will continue to fight for MAHA on the many important Health issues facing our Country, such as the rising childhood disease epidemic, increased autism rates, poor nutrition, over-medicalization, and researching the root causes of infertility, and many other difficult medical problems.”

Now given the opposition of other republican senators, Trump has decided to move on with Dr. Saphier.

And now some Trumpisms

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟬𝟳:𝟰𝟱 𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟭.𝟮𝟲

“Wacko James Carville, a so-called Democrat “strategist,” wants the Democrats to make D.C. and Puerto Rico States and, most importantly, pack the Supreme Court, putting 13 Justices on the Court. Other Dems want 21 Justices. If they pull off adding these two States, these Country Destroying Sleazebags will dominate politics in America, if we even have a Nation left, for 100 years (TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!). They are already doing great with the Supreme Court, however. The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there. They are an immovable force, and there is nothing that can be done to change that. Frankly, I respect that, a lot! Certain Republican Appointees let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how “independent” they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them or, more importantly, the ideology from which they came to be Nominated and Confirmed. Everyone knows that, as an example, Birthright Citizenship, which is Unconditional and Absent from any other developed or successful Country, is a disaster for the United States of America. No Country can be successful with such an anchor wrapped firmly around its neck but, based on the questioning by Republican Nominated Justices that I watched firsthand in the Court, we lose. As another example, if the Supreme Court put in one sentence stating that any money paid in Tariffs to the United States of America, to this point, does not have to be returned (to many people who hate our Country!), they would have saved American Taxpayers a minimum of $159 Billion Dollars. All they had to do was read the Dissent, written by Justice Kavanaugh, it was a close call, it wasn’t a 9-0 decision — What a difference it would have made for our Country. I put certain people on the United States Supreme Court who totally misrepresented who they were, and the true ideology for which they stand! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Trump complaining that while “the Democrat Justices stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there, certain Republican Appointees” have shown “very little loyalty to the man who appointed them” seems to have forgotten that the justices are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution and not to the president (certain leftist justices excluded)

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟬𝟵:𝟯𝟳 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟭.𝟮𝟲

The president who is fond of calling everyone that disagrees with him – except the Pope – “low IQ” is at it again.

“Never allow the Traitor Democrats like Low IQ person Hakeem Jeffries, or Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt Fake News Media such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the Failing New York Times (Subscriptions way down!), or dying “60 Minutes,” to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally obliterated the Nuclear Dust locations to the point where bloodthirsty Iran has been unable to get to it, or dig it out. Space Force has cameras on every inch of the 3 sites that were so brilliantly hit last June! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT”

Well House Minority Leader Hakeem Heffries took exception and challenged the president over who had the lowest (or is it the highest) IQ? 

“If Donald Trump wants to debate me anytime, any place, in the Oval Office, publicly, on camera, I’d be happy to do it. We’ll see who’s intellectually superior.” I believe this is called as “race to the bottom.”

A blinking president?

The president seemed to have blinked two times recently. First, he unilaterally extended the Iran ceasefire one day before his self-imposed deadline that threatened to bomb them back to the Stone Age without any concessions from the Iranians. The president essentially said that he was extending the deadline awaiting the Iranians to get their act together and figure out who was in charge. From all accounts it seems that the diplomats aren’t. Neither does the younger Khamenei. Rather it looks like the Revolutionary guard is calling the shots (pun intended). 

The second blinking was Judge Jeanine Pirro dropping the silly investigation of the Fed’s Jerome Powell that was holding up the confirmation of Kevin Warsh. Pirro said she asked the Fed inspector general (IG) to investigate Powell and the bank’s renovations and would be closing the witch hunt against Powell launched by order of the president in December. “Accordingly, I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry. Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.” Thom Tillis (R-NC) lifted his hold on Warsh’s nomination after praising him at his confirmation hearing. Tillis is retiring and that has had him grow a spine that is missing from the other republicans in the Senate (save Rand Paul and the moderates Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski). But if the republicans lose both the House and the Senate at the midterms, the  president will find that he will have few friends on either side of the aisle.

Powell is staying on at the Fed until the investigation is dead and gone. I think he knows that if he resigns and becomes a private citizen, Trump is likely to bring back the investigation because of his hatred of Powell and Powell wants to keep the security of being at the Fed.