Report: Trump Team Instructs Nominees to Cease Social Media Posts Ahead of Confirmation Hearings
Senate confirmation hearings begin mid-January.
The New York Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, told all Cabinet nominees to stop posting on social media before Senate confirmations.
“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” Wiles wrote in a memo obtained by The Post.
“Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel,” she said in the Dec. 29 missive.
The first-ever female chief of staff, nicknamed the “Ice Maiden,” also noted that she appreciates “how enthusiastic everyone is” about joining the second Trump term in her otherwise frank directive.
I looked at some of the nominees’ X accounts. Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, HHS Secretary nominee Robert Kennedy Jr., and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins haven’t posted since the weekend.
Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a sunset picture this evening.
Transportation Secretary nominee Sean Duffy hasn’t posted since December 20.
The silence makes sense. We all know the media will dissect anyone associated with Trump closer than anyone else.
The Republicans have a small majority in the Senate. The nominees can only lose three Republican votes.
The nominees have already started their interviews with Senators. Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (PA) is the only Democrat who has met with them. He’s already told everyone he’s voting for State Secretary nominee Sen. Marco Rubio and UN Ambassador nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Fetterman has not said he will or will not vote for the other nominees. He’ll give each one a fair chance.
I wish the other Democrats would do the same thing. You know…their job.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on January 14, six days before Trump’s inauguration.
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A practical, sensible directive when the media has a long, well-paved road of taking anything a Republican says way out of context and flogging them with it for months, if not years.
Of course this happens. When a billionaire like Trump runs things, then all of his billionaire oligarch supporters who donated million if not billions to his campaign, must tow his line. Just like in Russia. The new billionaire oligarchs don’t care a single whit about MAGA and the working class who supported Trump. We are deplorables to them. New boss same as the old boss.
Elon didn’t get the memo
Musk doesn’t require confirmation.
But he is required to take directions form the President
He who told MAGA to F our faces
He’s a globalist that has no ties to America and our Constitution but what he can take from us.
He was useful, till he and Vik showed who they really are
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/report-elon-musks-tesla-replaced-laid-off-americans-with-foreign-workers-on-h-1b-visas/
I think you’re being grossly unfair towards Musk and Ramaswamy.
#47’s election owes a lot to Musk. He’s not a perfect guy, and, conservatives can fairly disagree with him on certain issues, but, he’s been a staunch free speech advocate and he fairly deserves huge credit for that.
Just because you and Musk don’t see eye-to-eye on the H-1B visa issue is no reason to write the guy off, wholesale.
What you’re basically saying is that no differences of opinion are allowed on the H-1B visa issue, at all? That smacks of Dhimmi-crat fanaticism.
The larger immigration issues are open borders, abuse of the “asylum” system, “catch-and-release” and “chain” immigration. H-1B is trivial, compared to those issues. That said, if there are issues with the H-1B system, let’s fix them, but, let’s not take the Dhimmi-crats’ bait intended to stir up internecine strife among the GOP.
Supporters of #47 are allowed to have differences of opinion with respect to certain policies — both those in effect, and, those that are proposed.
Outsourcing American jobs isn’t a conservative position.
He laid off 60k workers and applied for 60k visas.
It’s not difference of opinion, he’s trying to twist your ideology to get support for cheap labor
You only unfairly profit from cheap labor if you’re the only one doing it. Otherwise the advantage gets competed away and goes to consumers, not producers.
I’ve heard a bunch about Musk’s use of H1B, according to this he isn’t even close to being an abuser.
https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/
Yes it’s the perfect plan. Help Trump get elected then turn on him as soon as he goes into power.
You are precisely the faction he was talking about that need to back the eff off.
You’re too nutty and antisocial to find common ground with anyone who doesn’t think exactly like you and God help us if there are many.
Elon needs to get the memo.
All media questions need to be countered with “Were you lying about Biden then or do you propose to lie now?”
Musk laid off 60k American workers and then applied for 60k visas for his foreign workers. This is the guy who is ruling America. Not Trump. To hell with the American working class. These guys don’t care about working class American workers. Trump lied to all of us.
Wow, 60,000 workers fired. I didn’t know Twitter had that many employees. In fact, the firing at Twitter is the only one I can find, and it only accounts for ~10% of the number you claim. Can you document your claim, or is it just more democrat misinformation?
JR,
The annual cap on the total number of H1B visas for each year is 65K. There’s an additional potential of 20K Visas for those who hold Graduate degrees from US Universities. You contend that Musk (presumably his companies) applied for 60K H1B out of the annual maximum allotment of 85K.
Do you have evidence to back your claim that Musk/his companies collectively applied for 60K H1B Visa on behalf of 60K separate potential employees….a bit more than 70% of the total annual number of H1B authorized?
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