WTH is going on here?
President Trump endorsed Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers summarize their weekly accomplishments or face termination, eliciting conflicting guidance from agency leaders over whether and how employees should respond.
Trump said he thought the weekend email sent to more than two million federal workers under the subject line “What did you do last week?” was “great because we have people that don’t show up to work, and nobody even knows if they work for the government.”
“If you don’t answer, like you’re sort of semi-fired, or you’re fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don’t even exist,” Trump said during an appearance at the Oval Office on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Trump and Musk spoke by phone about plans for the email before Musk posted about it Saturday on X, people familiar with the matter said. Trump said on Truth Social earlier on Saturday that he wanted Musk to “get more aggressive” in his role as a senior adviser and overseer of the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk and his allies within DOGE came up with the idea for the email.
As of now, it appears that employees are not required to answer the email despite Trump endorsing it as recently as his press avail with Macron in the White House this afternoon.
That’s right. This batshit crazy nonsense came from the Department of Government Efficiency. It gets worse every single day.
60 Minutes did a couple of good segments last night on the chaos. The first is about what’s happened at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
Here’s Trump on the subject:
Trump says he shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because he was getting calls from bankers and loan officers who were “almost crying” at how hard the bureau was fighting to protect American consumers pic.twitter.com/PmUagL4Cuv
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Trump says he shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because he was getting calls from bankers and loan officers who were “almost crying” at how hard the bureau was fighting to protect American consumers
It’s not just Musk, though. This segment about what they are doing to the Department of Justice is even more chilling:
Both of these segments are well worth watching and sharing with non-political junkies who may not be following the day to day carnage that Musk is wreaking on our government. As one might expect, they do an excellent job of telling the story in a clear comprehensible way. I suspect that it may have shocked some people to see it. Good for 60 Minutes for not backing down.
This is anything but a comprehensive list of atrocities. There is so much more, all of it shocking and dangerous. The purge of the military is perhaps one of the most disturbing of all because Pete Hegseth is not only firing the Black and female leadership across the board, he fired the top JAG lawyers so there will be no obstacles to the wanton commission of war crimes (Hegseth’s special issue) and no one to ensure that the military understands the meaning of “illegal orders.” One can only assume that they plan to do both of those things which is not surprising considering the phony talk show host’s psychotic obsession with cartoon machismo.
I think the big question is going to be whether Trump and Hegseth will deploy the military for domestic political purposes as banana republic dictators do. It seems obvious to me that it’s at least on the menu whether we are talking about street protests or a full-blown military coup. Of course it is.