Even though he’s been in the White House for 24 hours, Sex Offender-in-Chief Donald Trump is already stabbing people who helped him get elected in the back.
Such is the case with Vivek Ramaswamy, who was picked to co-chair the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which isn’t a real department because it hasn’t been formally created or funded by Congress, which is required under law.
Politico reported Monday that Ramaswamy has been shown the door, and not in a very friendly manner.
“Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.”
“Ramaswamy ‘just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,’ said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. ‘Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.'”
Elon Musk pushed Ramaswamy out, which should come as no surprise because rats placed close to each other almost always wind up fighting to the death, even if they’re from the same sewer.
The main reason Ramaswamy is no longer welcome inside the MAGA tent is because he dared to defend high-tech companies that hire immigrants with in-demand skills, even going so far as to suggest the United States has “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”
Sportswriter Pablo Torre, a former classmate with Ramaswamy at Harvard, discussed Vivek’s rapid rise and fall as part of the Trump team.
“Vivek’s going back to Ohio, where he’s from, to make the through line clear here, from Ohio to Ohio,” Torre observed on MSNBC. “It’s funny, right, the thing that made him persona non grata in Trumpworld was what he tweeted over the holidays. He had this massive treatise on the H-1B visa and how we need to get immigrants from India and from China to compete, because American culture is essentially soft. We value, quote-unquote, the quarterback over the valedictorian, we praise the wrong characters on sitcoms. We didn’t show enough respect to Urkel, literally a thing that he said, and what it revealed was, I think, a deep disdain for the base that Donald Trump had cultivated, and it revealed this fracturing for the first time in public. Really, the fracturing between the Silicon Valley, part of this strange coalition and the nativist base, and Vivek clearly, clearly is somebody who will give on culture to get what he actually wants, much like all of these Silicon Valley guys.”
“But this take that he tweeted about was the thing he clearly felt most sincerely,” Torre added. “He resents American culture in this way, he resents the base in this way, and for that crime, he is going to go run for governor in Ohio instead. He’s going to be the first part of DOGE to be fired, this being the commission devoted to firing people.”
Oh, the irony!
Here’s the video from MSNBC:
