The unemployment rate in the United States is pretty bad right now, but it’s even worse for former members of the Trump administration.
Several ex-Trump officials are finding themselves unemployable after spending four years serving under the worst president in American history.
As it turns out, working for a dude who stoked hatred and bigotry and helped incite a deadly insurrection the U.S. Capitol doesn’t look so good on a resumé. Go figure.
Politico reports:
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It’s not been easy. Tainted by Trump’s reputation, several Trump aides described an increasingly bleak job market with virtually no chance of landing jobs in corporate America and some even having seen promising leads disappear after the rampage at the U.S. Capitol. A second former White House official said they knew of “people who got jobs rescinded because of Jan. 6.” A Republican strategist was blunter.
“They are really f—ed,” the strategist said, pointing to some top officials who stuck with Trump until the bitter end. “The Hill scramble, one of the few places where they’d be welcomed, already happened a month or so ago… They were told over and over to take their hand off the hot stove, and they didn’t want to listen.”
But it’s not just lower and mid-level staffers who can’t find jobs. Trump’s fourth chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is reportedly so desperate for a gig, any gig, that he’s considering a position at the Trump Organization.
Other former Trump officials are said to be hitting up old bosses for work or giving up on their employment searches altogether and starting their own businesses, like ex-White House director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah, who is said to have started a consulting operation.
Even more have reportedly left Washington, D.C. for red states like Texas and Florida in hopes of bolstering their job prospects, like Chad Mizelle, the former acting general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, who just relocated to the Sunshine State with his wife and is said to be “sipping margaritas” while he waits for his phone to ring with a job offer.
And then there’s ex-Vice President Mike Pence who is both unemployed and homeless right now after he and his mother, Karen, failed to secure a living situation before their free, taxpayer-funded housing expired last week.
Oh, and speaking of Florida, Trump is currently down there scrambling to cobble together a defense team for his upcoming second Senate impeachment trial, which kicks off February 8. He’s also facing an onslaught of potential civil or criminal charges related to Trump Organization’s business and tax practices.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Den
I cannot wait to see how the various civil and/or criminal charges against Trump play out!
Also, why would anyone who worked for Trump expect to get hired for anything by anybody with even a weak sense of ethics? These people either lied or ignored lies, ignored outright corruption or participated in it, and were clearly (though foolishly) only out for themselves.
They would have luck working for the mob or other criminal endeavors, or maybe far-right “think tanks”. But for real businesses, successful consulting firms or forward looking corporations, never.
Cam
Another Trump building voted to remove his name. This one in Florida.
I just read that the average price per square foot for a Trump property in NYC was $3300.00 when Trump got elected and now it’s $1600.
dougie
There are plenty of unscrupulous, white-wing employers who will hire them. They’re just being snowflakes. Let them experience joblessness like millions of other Americans whose jobs have been eliminated during Trump’s pandemic. Then, they’ll have something real to cry about.
Ginger Tom
I hear Dr. Evil is looking for a new No. 2. Can somebody pass this on to these poor people?
Gadfeal
I hope that Mr. Biden will have learned the lesson from the Obama Administration, when you are out ahead, it may be pulled up from under in a heartbeat. Mr. Obama knew of Senator Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of brain cancer; alarum bells should have been ringing loudly to direct Nancy Pelosi to quell the giddy factions to execute as quickly as possible several things: a) PACA should have been more like the “Medicare-like” option at a Federal level; instead the first year was wasted in interminable debates between the Dem factions – and we ended up with a 3/4 baked PACA that didn’t confront the essential issues of free market deformation of having the payors keep price information secret, yet could use patient information to encourage them out i.e. counter to the basic raison-d’etre of “insurance” i.e. to spread risk over a large group, so that the few who have an actual claim don’t get wiped out.
A. I would have told Pelosi to get a plan on the table within three months, or it would be put off until the next year.
B. I would have left out all the other unrelated clauses that have wreaked havoc on millions of expatriate Americans around the world – FATCA was slipped into to “catch” expatriates, even though non-resident citizens would be exempt from the PACA tax! That’s another issue when a group of 8-12 million US citizens and Legal Residents (plus their spouses and adopted children) had to face blocked accounts overseas and punitive penalties. That group is more populous than 75% of US States but have no dedicated representation versus Wyoming, population 600k, with as much Senate influence as California!
C. The New American Century (NAC cabal: Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz…) who controlled the Bush Administration were guilty of war crimes, gross mismanagement and ideologically-muddy foreign policy decisions. From the inexperienced, non-Arabic speaking “Civilian Administrator” Brenner, who was essentially straight-jacked by VP Cheney, who did what a business school 101 student wouldn’t do – take over an enterprise and fire everyone, so the enterprise collapses. Hans Blix, the UN Atomic Energy Agency rapporteur inspector of Iraq’s nuclear infrastructure found no evidence of WMD; his autobiographic book showed clearly that the NAC cabal had manipulated and misled, and he was faced with a sullen, stubborn, rude Cheney who absolutely didn’t care what the meticulous Hans Blix wrote and told him. Pr. Obama SHOULD have rooted out the nefarious “behind the scenes” workings of the Republican Party by allowing cases for crimes against humanity to go forward, by ratifying the World Court of Justice treaty (signed by Pr Clinton). He let them have a pass and allowed a scotch to fester and radicalize.
D. Those Republicans who persisted in disingenuously voting against Biden’s electoral victory privately knew that the last election was not only the most participated but also the most verifiably valid. They were simply concerned about their own skins since the ignorant fringe had taken hold of thier “base”. They should all be sanctioned. Will Biden??? Hopefully, the rest of US society would sanction those anti-democratic players by defunding their sources of funding, by blocking their access to social media as public personae if they spew anti-societal lies, by refusing to lend custom to their private enterprises…
E. The bi-partisan political paradigm is obsolete. When only 300k of some 3.5 million people resided in the original 13 Colonies, it was logistically expedient to streamline governance by two parties for the 300k voters spread across a vast territory with no rapid, easy means of mass communication, relying upon newsletters that took days or weeks to be delivered. Only White, male, landowning, taxpaying Americans could vote or less than 10% of the resident population. Today, there are some 350 million Americans, of which some 225 million eligible to vote. Do representatives or Senators “represent” their constituents’ interest – ever? No, they feed at the trough, most not even doing their job of assessing proposed laws, or crafting new ones, taking their cue for “Party leaders”! Why did XX approve the Patriot Act that virtually gave Carte Blanche to unconstitutional intrusion under the premise of “terrorism”? Did they even read the thousand or so pages of the text? Did the Party drafters even provide all the elected officials adequate time to review – or even want them to review???? The two Party system is obsolete and deformed into a facade of democracy.
Cam
What was the advice that Ivanka Trump gave to unemployed people…..Learn to Code?
BaltoSteve
Forbes did a good opinion piece about why firms shouldn’t hire members of the Trump Administration, especially those in the PR/News professions. Looks like it is being heeded.
Max
karma is sweet!
Bill Perdue
Democrat and Republican presidents are equally right wing huckers and scam artists. They deserve jail time, not a paycheck.
Cam
Republicans attack the Capitol and try to take people’s healthcare away.
Democrats try to give people healthcare and are appointing people to commissions to investigate police brutality and attacks on minorities and want to enable free education.
Yeah, they’re EXACTLY the same.
Bill Perdue
For Cam below. They’re not exactly the same but both are run by racists, warmongers, homophobes and both want to trash the environment.
Both oppose real health care, which is socialized medicine. And as hundreds of thousands diem they’ll continue to ‘investigate’
Cam
@Bill Perdue
So you admit they aren’t the same, but will happily spend all of your time attacking Democrats to help another Trump get into office.
Ok, Got it!
yendor808
Well, I’d hire tRump to clean my toilet with his tongue. With first lady Melanoma behind him wearing her usual strap on. Oink Oink!