Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and a bunch of other Donald Trump loyalists found themselves in the news again yesterday. It turns out that they had been appointed during the Trump presidency to sit upon some military academy boards: positions they continued to hold.
President Joe Biden wrote to them all asking them to resign immediately or face being fired by 6pm yesterday.
Conway, an adviser to Donald Trump, and Spicer, a former press secretary, were among the most high-profile of the individuals who received the correspondence.
Jen Psaki, current press secretary, confirmed the news to reporters.
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“The president’s objective is what any president’s objective is – to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them and who are aligned with your values. And so yes, that was an ask that was made.”
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The boards in question have a mix of members of Congress and presidential appointees. Members appointed by Barack Obama remained in place under the Trump administration.
Both Conway and Spicer were outraged by the demand and refused to resign.
Conway, in particular, has gone viral on Twitter after posting her letter of refusal. Firstly, her headed notepaper refers to her as “Honorable Kellyanne Conway”.
She says this is an attempt by Biden to “distract from a news cycle that has you mired in multiple self-inflicted crises and plummeting poll numbers,” and that it, “seems petty and political, if not personal”. She concluded, “I’m not resigning, but you should.”
President Biden, I’m not resigning, but you should. pic.twitter.com/HuRYM4bLYP
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) September 8, 2021
This led to ‘Honorable’ and Conway both trending on Twitter and prompted almost 39,000 replies. Here are just some of the more popular ones.
“Honorable Kellyanne Conway?” … Can just anyone use that title? The Honorable Spongebob Squarepants?
— Michael Clifford (@CoreyStark12) September 9, 2021
The Air Force Academy’s Honor Code is, “I shall not lie, steal or cheat, nor tolerate anyone who does” so that sort of disqualifies you from the get-go 🤷🏾♀️
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 8, 2021
You should have been fired for violating the Hatch Act over and over but since you have no morals and worked for a crook you didn’t. These are called consequences. I know you’ve never faced them but this is what its like. You have no qualifications to serve at all. Good riddance.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 8, 2021
“This request is a break from presidential norms”
Quick, someone find what Kellyanne argued when Trump fired Comey.
— Ed (@EdbrohamLincoln) September 8, 2021
As a proud graduate of the USAFA class of ‘77, I found your presence on the board of trustees to be an embarrassment to the legacy of the Academy.
I am happy that you are being removed from this position
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 8, 2021
Others dug up old Tweets and comments from Conway in which she promoted the authority of the (former) President.
I’m so glad someone else found this. pic.twitter.com/y0DQEeFFGV
— Amanda Blount 🌊 (@amandablount2) September 8, 2021
Lol pic.twitter.com/UIJbYc5rCp
— joey Laifer (@joeylaf) September 8, 2021
After her tweet blew up, Conway seemed amused by the reaction and tweeted further faux concern for her critics, recommending Twitter users find themselves friends or reconsider their fashion choices.
“Since I’m not the Conway on Twitter regularly [husband George Conway is a prolific Tweeter], I’d forgotten how left-wing it is and how nutty some people are. LOLOL. I’m WORRIED for you. Get some fresh air, folks. Wear pants that button and zipper again. Get a hobby that doesn’t involve a keyboard. Make a friend.”
This just provoked another storm of reaction.
Sorry, but I’m too busy having a loving and supportive relationship with my daughter
— Scott Rodman (@smrodman) September 8, 2021
Wait…… you’re giving us clothing recommendations???? pic.twitter.com/oeML8Jdtqp
— P.J. Weber 🎙 (@PJ_Weber) September 8, 2021
I’m trying to care about condescending life-choices advice from a notorious liar who will always be known as an opportunistic enabler of the most corrupt man to ever be president.
So far, nothing is working, Kellyanne. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 8, 2021
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Kellyanne Conway was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the United States Air Force Academy. Sean Spicer was on the advisory board of the US Naval Academy.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval War College and a commander in the US naval reserve, Spicer was particularly furious that Psaki should call into question whether he was qualified to serve.
Spicer went on Newsmax yesterday to say, “Each of us chooses how we’re going to serve this country. I won’t ever question how anyone chooses to do that. I won’t question how you choose to do that, Jen. But don’t you dare ever minimize or question my service to this nation. You got it?’
He also said he would pursue legal action if forced out from the academy board.
At the @WhiteHouse press briefing today @PressSec @jrpsaki questioned my qualifications to serve on the Board of Visitors to the US Naval Academy. I responded tonight @newsmax Watch below https://t.co/cz7Ap96Ijc
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 8, 2021
Others named by the White House who have been asked to step down include H.R. McMaster, Russ Vought, Heidi Stirrup, Michael Wynne, Jack Keane, Douglas Macgregor, Guy Swan III, Meaghan Mobbs, David Urban, Jonathan Hiler, John Coale, Anthony Parker and Joseph Walsh. It’s understood three have not been named.
Besides Conway and Spicer, others also indicated they would not resign. Former Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought took to Twitter to say he had a three-year term.
No. It’s a three year term. @WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/c9pZOENNPR
— Russ Vought (@russvought) September 8, 2021
Kangol2
Hasn’t the US Supreme Court repeatedly ruled that the president had the power to remove appointees at will? In 1926, it ruled that president can remove any federal officer except for a federal judge (separation of powers). Don the Con’s own Supreme Court also ruled in 2020 that the President’s powers to remove appointees is “unrestricted,” save for federal judges, so all of these Con goons should take a walk.
Cam
Nothing pisses off a Republican than getting kicked out of a no work position where they get free tax payer money.
LMG
Re Kellyanne Conway: This is what happens when you constantly pour all that bleach on your head in order to go blonde. It seeps in and eats away whatever you had there in the first place. You are now officially nothing more than a dumb blonde. Thanks to your use of the word “Honorable”, Webster now has to redefine the term in all of its dictionaries. Where’s your complaint about what happened in Niger under Trump? What about all the people who caught COVID because he told them not to wear masks; how come T got vaccinated in secret and doesn’t tell people forcefully to get vaccinated. 93% of current cases are thanks to the great unwashed unvaccinated. Are you KC? What about the police who died in the Capitol Insurrection thanks to your Lard Ass former President? You are a foul-mouthed disgrace to your entire gender for the way you act, support your corrupt former master, and respond to others with whom you disagree. Honorable, my arse – Horrible, yes!!
Terrycloth
How could Kelly wind up with George Conway who has a brain and hates trump yet married the women who praises him..? She probably thought she could change him…hasn’t worked yet…
GaysForTrump
It’s non-partisan; but you seem to be fine with Biden taking on the dictatorship role. At least Trump kept Obama’s appointees. Before you come at Trump as a dictator. Prove it. Give example.
But yes, I get it, F Trump.
Flip the script, defend Biden. Can anyone tell me what he’s doing that’s great for our country?
Simple question. I don’t need the rebuttal, but but but Trump. I get that. They both can be terrible. So there’s that.
But please someone argue for what’s been great with Biden for all Americans?
GlobeTrotter
@GaysForTrump: “Can anyone tell me what he’s doing that’s great for our country?”
Ahm, not being Trump? What a stupid question!
Cam
@GaysForTrump
LOL!!!!! Oh sweetie, this is one of your worst takes ever. So let’s see, Republicans, who have fought for YEARS to make sure that any employee can be fired for ZERO reasons are now crying because two unqualified people were told to resign from the jobs they weren’t qualified to do.
Keep on crying precious. Even more when you see that the U.S. has added more jobs recently than in the last 40 years. Just one more example of how Republicans are failures when it comes to running government.
Bengali
Biden is working hard to keep our country safe by facing the pandemic head-on. Trump’s approach was to downplay it while people were dropping dead. Calling it a simple flu that would be gone by April 2020. Hundreds of thousands infected or dead because of him. His uneducated words have created the “don’t take away my freedom” mantra of those pathetic enough to follow him. He’s a monster. The fact that you have to ask why Biden is better shows us what you’re made of…nothing good.
Kangol2
GaysforTrump, did you really believe that crapola you typed?
Don the Treasonous Con fired NUMEROUS Obama appointees! Did you live under a rock for the four years he was in office? That 2020 Supreme Court ruling was a direct result of Don the Con’s attempt not only to fire Obama’s head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but to destroy the CFPB completely.
In fact, Don the Con fired numerous Obama appointees. Don the Con also fired 46 Obama-appointed Justice department employees in one month (2017). Don the Con offered to fire any Obama-appointed inspector general. And on and on. Maybe you didn’t know that, but we have receipts.
MISTERJETT
STUPID COW!!!!!
LMG
As for Sean Spicer: You can’t even properly count how many people attend an inauguration. The US Naval War College must have drastically reduced its standards when you applied. You were nothing more than a lackey puppet under Donald T-rump. Why didn’t you act more offended when he dumped you from the Press Secretary position and replaced you with a nasty bimbo from Arkansas who was also unqualified for the position. You can’t seem to be judged qualified for a government position under any President. T-rump threw you a T-bone and you grabbed it in your greedy paws. Did you kiss his ring for it?
GayEGO
I thought they were already gone! Smellyanne Conway and the rest should just be fired, like Trump did!
Mister P
Basic decency is one big thing that Biden has done that Trump couldn’t even imagine. There are countless others but if you are stupid enough to support that fraud then there is little chance of understanding what Biden is doing.
GaysForTrump
What a BS response. Let’s hear those examples.
I don’t need the lecture on basic decency. But please, give those examples. Let’s hear what Biden is doing that’s so great for all Americans?
Deflection response, coming in 3…2…1
Cam
@GaysForTrump
I LOVE it when the right wing troll gets desperate. Guess you’ve been looking at the poll numbers out of California and saw that a longtime Republican statehouse seat in NH just flipped to Democrat.
But lets see, Wages up, out of Afghanistan, largest job gains in history……all under Biden.
Your troll game is sad and weak.
Mister P
Ok the infrastructure bill is something that trump talked about a lot but never did a thing about it.
GaysForTrump
That hasn’t passed yet. It’s been 8 months, and that’s the best you go to defend Biden?
Yea, claim all you want that the Republicans are holding up the vote. That’s how the government operates. There’s going to be a fight on both sides. So stop with the arguing Republicans are holding It up. That argument makes no sense.
So that’s the best Biden’s done in 8 months? The talks of a $3.5 Trillion dollar bill. Pathetic.
Cam
@GaysForTrump
Hey Precious, did our manager at the troll farm tell you that your language skills start to break down when you get enraged and rant?
Maybe drink another cup of the very good Russian tea, or the sh*tty Russian coffee and another afternoon down in the language lab in the basement practicing your English skills.
GaysForTrump
Cam, the racist one, so ironic…
You state: ‘ Hey Precious, did our manager at the troll farm tell you that your language skills start to break down when you get enraged and rant?
Maybe drink another cup of the very good Russian tea, or the sh*tty Russian coffee and another afternoon down in the language lab in the basement practicing your English skills.’
Tell me more about your manager at the troll farm. And thank you for making fun of my English. How tolerant of you. Considering it’s my second language.
So tolerant of you.
And how many languages do you speak? You’re racist.
Bengali
Yup. Just like the incredible Trump & GOP healthcare plans that would be so much better and less expensive than “anything we’ve ever seen”. What happened to that? All bullshi*!!! yet his followers are so weak-minded and anti-American that they don’t care. They like that Trump embraces Russia and listened to advice from Putin more than his very own cabinet and our military.
Cam
@GaysForTrump
So the right wing troll is SO Pro-Russian that you now claim Russian is a protected “race”???
LOL!!! Oh sweetie, you just can’t help yourself can you?
Mister P
Thanks Cam
GaysForTrump
That’s the best you’ve got? Name calling, and the repeated response, ‘your troll game is weak’. Get new material.
And wages up? Prove that. Companies are desperate to hire workers. Out of Afghanistan? You think that is a success for Biden? Truly sad. And largest job gains? Biden missed the August projection by almost 500k jobs. And it’s not jobs created, it’s jobs that are rehiring from pandemic lay offs.
Your troll game is weak.
Cam
@GaysForTrump
Your sputtering rage is wonderful. Looks like you not only saw the poll numbers in California, but you noticed that a longtime Republican statehouse seat in NH just flipped Blue in a special election.
Now go back, get your 10 kopeks for trolling today and ask your manager at the troll farm to put somebody smarter on this account.
Your troll game is boring and sad.
Fahd
Her values, whatever those might be on a particular day, don’t appear to align with those of President Biden, and since he has the right to fire her, I believe he will and should do so without delay.
I liked AOC’s tweet to KellyAnne: “When you’re fired, don’t let the fascist victim complex hit you on the way out.” Pretty much sums it up.
Also the title, “The Honorable” is reserved for very specific positions. I don’t believe Conway has the right to use it. Not surprising that she would abuse this protocol or etiquette — she is after all a grifter to the grifters.
Roy Moss
All Republicans, especially Trump supporters are vile people driven by nothing but ignorance, greed and bigotry. They are all devoid of kindness, even basic decency, honesty, integrity and honor. Conway is one of the worst of the worst but really, not much worse than any other Republican, they are all deplorable. I keep hoping they’ll have a massive Jim Jones jamboree, heck, I’d happily chip in for the Kool-Aid.
mateo
Boy, she really seems pissed off, doesn’t she? I wonder what she would have eventually used the $$ from that appointment for: a cute mansion on St. Bart’s, maybe? Well, that ain’t gonna happen NOW.
hoosier1969
I liked her so much better on “Tales From the Crypt.”
Until a new season is filmed, just go away!
bachy
I’ve been stunned by the bald-faced lies, the confounding doublespeak and the smirking toxic BS endlessly spewed by this woman since she appeared on the world stage. Conway is an ethics-free, diabolical narcissist and must be removed from all positions of government authority immediately.
krmn8r
Thank God that she is not made of wood. (My early morning penis cringes at the thought.) I think she may have needed this ‘position’ and it’s paycheck to continue paying the ongoing bills for nose pruning and removal by the best (I would hope) tree surgeons that money can buy.
Mister P
Not only gay and for Trump but an immigrant and for Trump. Unbelievable
Cam
Most likely not.
One of the troll tactics is to lie about what they are so they can attack people in that same group.
So they’ll claim to be a woman before attacking women, or claim to be an immigrant before typing some big attack on immigrants.
dannysax
It’s easy. Just fire them all, it’s in the Constitution! If they are in offices physically, just drag them out kicking and screaming, no problem! DONE.
Max
at least Biden was nice enough to give them the option of resigning.
Tombear
I don’t care what Biden does I will still support him! Thank God Trump is gone. Trump tried to destroy our democracy!