Trump returns to his reality TV roots. Who gets fired next?
Donnie "Two Weeks" Trump only knows one story, and every episode lands on the same cliffhanger: who gets fired next?
Headlines today are swirling around Whiskey Pete Hegseth and FBI Director K$H Patel’s fears of being next thrown out of office and scapegoated. Everyone fears becoming the next several-day distraction from an Epstein file or TACO crisis.
Hegseth, who fired Navy Secretary John Phelan on Wednesday, has apparently started to show signs of paranoia over whether he will remain in the top Pentagon position, Tom Nichols, staff writer for The Atlantic, told MS NOW.
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Nichols described how Hegseth has already pushed an “anti-woke” agenda when he stepped into the Pentagon — and that this effort to remove detractors or disloyal insiders was part of the strategy for him to stay in his role.
“This is kind of how palace politics has played in Washington,” Nichols added. “That you repopulate a lot of the offices around you with people that are loyal to you, so that if first of all, then the scuttlebutt about getting fired doesn’t become scuttlebutt, because nobody will talk about it because they’re your friends. But also it’s a way of saying, if you think about, you know, switching sides, ‘I can have the president relieve you.’ So I think what’s going on with all the firings of these officers when Hegseth first came in was part of this just weird crusade he’s on. But I think what you’ve been seeing in the past few months is very much part of his struggle with what he thinks is a movement to get rid of him, and he’s trying to firewall himself off from that.”
Patel seems to have taken it even worse;
“Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy,” wrote Fitzpatrick. “He has good reasons to think so — including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking.”
Furthermore, she wrote, “Patel was among the officials expected to be fired after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ouster, on April 2. ‘We’re all just waiting for the word’ that Patel is officially out of the top job, an FBI official told me this week, and a former official told my colleague Jonathan Lemire that Patel was ‘rightly paranoid.’”
The White House has reportedly already begun talks about who could replace Patel if he is let go.
Donnie “Two Weeks” Trump only knows one story, and every episode lands on the same cliffhanger: who gets fired next?