• TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    When you don’t want to admit you were meant to hire the Heritage Foundation Dana White but got confused so you continue on the charade.

    • Obviouslywrong@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Getting a ufc guy would be a boon to snl, it’s the only way they’re going to go harder than the 2016 Sean spicer podium bash.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      7 days ago

      People thought it would be funny if Trump got elected president…

      Look where that got us.

      • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml
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        6 days ago

        The American global hegemony being destroyed by a medically stupid senior with dementia is really fucking funny tbh.

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    7 days ago

    In less than a week I guarantee he’s gonna slip and something like ‘…ya let’s meet in the octogom and I’ll show a thing or two”

  • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It would maybe make more sense if this woman, Dana W. White, was the actual target? Trump probably didn’t even know she existed and automatically assumed they meant the UFC dude, because he personally loves celebrities and big strong men.

    Dana W. White is a communications executive and former United States government official. She was the United States Department of Defense’s Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and chief Pentagon spokesperson from April 2017 to December 31, 2018, under Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis during Donald Trump’s first term.[1][2][3] She had earlier worked for the House Republican Conference, Fox News, The Heritage Foundation, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Wall Street Journal and the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, and was director of policy and strategic communications for the Renault–Nissan Alliance from 2012 to 2015.[3]

    • XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      Well even if he knows there’s a decent chance someone suggested her to him and he said, “WAIT! I KNOW! MY UFC FRIEND SHOULD DO IT!” and everyone in the room just kinda sighed and went along with it.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    asked that he bring a number of high-profile UFC fighters with him on the job “even though some are not from our Country”.

    “We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,”

    Yep. Dementia.

  • CoconutLove@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    Why would he publically offer him the job. You make the offer privately and if they decline, you move on. Dana already publically declined, which is a little embarrassing. Could’ve saved the embarrassment.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      The apparent recommended candidate was someone with the same name from the Heritage Foundation. Trump just defaulted to the celebrity.

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      7 days ago

      He’s got to die at some point. Of course I’m sure there will be plenty of embarrassing revelations after that happens but at some point afterward…

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    Neither the White House Press Secretary nor the White House Chief of Staff are subject to Senate approval, so I guess if Trump decides that he doesn’t like Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff or Dana White as Press Secretary (assuming that he does take the position), even after the Democrats take control of the Senate January 3, he can still fire and replace them.

    He’s going to be a lot more locked-in when it comes to positions subject to Senate approval. He can still fire them, but he probably won’t get replacements that he likes more past a Democratic Senate, so that’ll decrease his influence over his Cabinet members.

    So if he’s going to kick any of those people out, he probably wants to do so in the next seven-and-a-half weeks and get their replacement in. After that window closes, he’s kinda stuck with them for the remainder of his term.