S.E. Cupp: President Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet
By S.E.Cupp
PUBLISHED: February 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM EST
It’s been only
two weeks, but with every passing day of President Trump’s second term, Mike
Judge’s 2006 masterpiece, “Idiocracy,” becomes a more and more prescient and
embarrassingly accurate prediction of what the American government might one
day look like.
In Judge’s
scathing prophecy, the near-collapse of Western civilization and American
greatness happens over the next 500 years as Americans slowly abandon
intellectualism, expertise, democracy, the judicial system and morality, and
trade them in for a dystopian life of mind-numbing ignorance, celebrity
worship, hyper-commercialization, and seemingly endless masturbation.
To wit, in 2505,
the president is a five-time Ultimate Smackdown champion and “porn
superstar.” The White House is now adorned with Mudflap Girl gates.
The secretary of
energy is a pimply-faced teenager who “won a contest, got to be a cabinet
secretary.” The secretary of state is “brought to you by Carl’s Jr.,” and the
attorney general is referred to as “Fun bags” by the secretary of state.
Meanwhile, the secretary of education is President Camacho’s “kinda stupid”
step-brother, who doesn’t seem to know not to look down the barrel of a gun.
It’s funny until
you remember it’s not 2505, but 2025, and Judge’s satirical version feels
frighteningly all too real.
Trump’s Insane
Clown Posse Cabinet is very close to being filled with a cadre of fools and
quacks, goons and thugs.
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The Senate
hearings, meant “in theory” to vet the people who will run our country, were
just for show apparently, as Republicans appear poised to usher in a number of
people who likely couldn’t pass an FBI background check (or in some cases, a
high school science class).
On Tuesday, your next likely secretary
of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advanced his nomination
out of committee and is on to the full Senate, where, according to insiders,
“The overall feeling is that [he’ll] be confirmed.”
If it seems like a bad idea to put a
quack conspiracy theorist who promotes fake
“autism cures,” who likened the
Centers for Disease Control to “Nazi death camps,” who believes that COVID-19
was engineered to
spare Ashkenazi Jews, whose ill-informed opinions helped encourage Samoa
to stop vaccinating their kids — after which 83 died — in charge of the
nation’s health, rest assured, it definitely is.
Kennedy joins the probable head of the
FBI, Kash Patel, a person with limited law enforcement experience, a history of
promoting conspiracy theorists and white nationalists, and an enemies list of
“conspirators” in government and the media. “We’re gonna come after you,” he
promised in 2023.
If it seems like a bad idea to put a
vindictive novice with a history of defending law-breakers,
who himself has reportedly dodged the law,
in charge of our law enforcement, rest assured, it definitely is.
They’ll join your
next likely director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former
congresswoman with practically no background in intelligence work.
If it seems like a bad idea to put
someone who can’t seem to distinguish our enemies from our allies, who’s
repeatedly promoted Russian
propaganda and defended the
Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad, who’s been criticized by
nearly 100 former national security officials, who refuses to say
that someone who stole more than a million classified documents is a traitor,
in charge of our intelligence-gathering community, rest assured, it definitely
is.
It’s like someone
challenged Trump to match the absolute least qualified person to the most
inappropriate position. It’s almost comical in its absurdity.
But the joke’s on
us — Republican senators, who are the only players with any real power to stop
them, have simply decided not to, all so that President Camacho can play at
government with his favorite suck-ups.
And now
Republicans own it all: the policies, the problems, the people.
So what does the
future hold? Is it an America where science is banned and experts are mocked as
woke and elitist? Where conspiracies dumb us down to eventually believe that
nothing is actually true? Where the levers of democracy are used and abused to
reward friends and punish opponents? Where American power is for sale to the
biggest sycophants? Where our national security is handed over to TV stars,
propagandists and useful idiots?
It seems like
that’s where we’re headed. And with Democrats unable to figure out their next
moves and a news media terrified of retribution, there may be no one left to
stop the self-destruction.
It’s a sad
commentary on the state of American politics, risking it all so that Republican
lawmakers can keep their seats — and their dear leader entertained.
But as the saying
goes — “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
S.E.
Cupp is the host of “S.E. Cupp Unfiltered” on CNN.
