Mr. President! Let me begin this Cupboard assembly by thanking you for hanging the moon and organizing the nation, and the universe, in such an ideal means. The moon appears to be like nice the place you set it. Every thing you contact turns to gold, except you would favor it to show to brass.
Now that we have now disbursed with the pleasantries, I do have a tiny query: Are you aware that you’re additionally allowed to fireside males? Actually, you might be! Males are allowed to go away the Cupboard too.
As one of many final remaining girls on this Cupboard, I felt compelled to ask. Not for me, in fact. For my sisters!
I actually can’t consider a worse place to have a feminist awakening than as a member of Donald Trump’s Cupboard, watching the departures of Pam Bondi however not Kash Patel, and Kristi Noem however not Pete Hegseth, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer however not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In fact, that’s not what that is. I’d sooner die than have a feminist awakening. Clearly, I’m conscious of the patriarchy, however I’ve all the time believed that I might make it work for me, personally, if I simply used the suitable hair merchandise and smiled extra.
I’m simply questioning: Do I’ve a future right here? I’m doing every thing that everybody else is doing. I’ve a face. I’ve a jet. I’ve incompetence. I bathe the president with reward at each Cupboard assembly. (See above.) However the place is the ironclad job safety, the sense that, it doesn’t matter what I do, I’m nonetheless a necessary a part of the crew? Ought to I be ingesting extra? Snorkeling extra? Each?
I’ll say I believed that it might be totally different after I agreed to serve. I believed, Effectively, this man has no respect for ladies. However he additionally has no respect for any sort of individual! I can construct on that. “Put me in, Coach,” I stated then.
Now there are simply 4 of us left. I actually thought that Tulsi’s willingness to conduct purges, peddle conspiracies, and solid doubt on the integrity of the final election would have endeared her to you extra. However I additionally thought that about Pam.
Hear, when you had been assembling a Cupboard purely on means, none of us can be right here. That’s the good factor bringing all of us right here in the present day: Whether or not we’re male or feminine, outdated or younger, white or nonwhite, the one factor that binds us is our shared absence of advantage.
But when I had been eliminating folks for doing a foul job, I would definitely choose both the man who’s bringing again measles or the man who’s bringing again the flu—two distinct guys, every of whom is placing hundreds of thousands of lives at stake. In case you spun me round (please don’t spin me round; my hair just isn’t outfitted) on this room and I pointed at random, I’d hit somebody deserving of being fired. Or a chair. Or certainly one of a number of fashions of a ballroom or an arch.
I do know you might have stated, “No scalps.” Are you working below the misapprehension that girls don’t have scalps? This looks like the type of factor you would possibly consider. I don’t know anymore.
I’m no feminist. Clearly. I’m within the Trump Cupboard. However that is the type of factor that makes me marvel about his outlook on the world! Not that we’re making an attempt to checklist contraception as an environmentally noxious substance. Not the elevated degree of joking-but-not-joking about eradicating our proper to vote, or having households all vote collectively below the person’s steering. I do know Pete Hegseth’s pastor is aware of what I’m speaking about!
I’m detached to all of that. I’m speaking about my very own private profession right here, and I do need to marvel when you’re holding the incompetent girls in your Cupboard to the identical normal because the incompetent males. Is that this some form of Ladies and Youngsters First scenario? Are you actually going to attend for all of us to go away earlier than anybody else is allowed to go?
I assume I simply thought I’d be safer right here—that if I joined up, they wouldn’t come for me. I’m not alleged to be the one below the bus. I’m alleged to be the one throwing different girls there.
