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\u201cYou\u2019re Fired!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long ago, President Trump shouted those words to decide winners and losers on the reality television show \u201cThe Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And during Trump\u2019s first term, a historically high number of Cabinet officials were fired, resigned or pushed out. In his first term, he ran through four chiefs of staff. He sacked three national security advisers, his secretary of State, and his chief strategist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, Trump knew how to fire people. Now, Trump is making a show of refusing to fire anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gets a kick out of denying his critics the satisfaction of seeing him admit to making bad choices for top jobs. The result is a second-term version of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d in which Trump gets vindictive pleasure by firing no one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH: Senate Passes Funding Bill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is standing by failing Cabinet officials who are hurting him with voters ahead of the coming midterm elections. Fox polls have Trump\u2019s disapproval near all-time highs among moderates (70 percent) and independents (78 percent). A majority of Americans \u2014 54 percent \u2014 believe the country is worse off than it was a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump still won\u2019t say \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently invited Trump to fire her when she blamed him for disastrous events, including the murder of American citizens by federal agents in Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything I\u2019ve done, I\u2019ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen [Miller],\u201d Noem told Axios. Miller is Trump\u2019s top homeland security advisor and deputy chief of staff. Fifty-Five percent of voters disapprove of how Noem\u2019s agents have handled their search for people to deport, according to a Fox poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander whose rough conduct led to chaos in Minnesota, is second on the list for defenestration. He has been recalled from Minneapolis, but he still has a job in Trump\u2019s administration. The only action Trump took against Bovino was to describe\u202fhis reckless actions as evidence that Bovino is \u201ca pretty \u2018out-there\u2019 kind of a guy, and in some cases that\u2019s good, maybe it wasn\u2019t good here!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also waiting on a pink slip is Attorney General Pam Bondi. She has damaged Trump with voters, making a bad situation worse by fumbling the release of the controversial Epstein Files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bond promised MAGA influencers an early peek at the files. She went on television to dramatically claim the files were \u201con her desk,\u201d and about to be released. They weren\u2019t. She also staged a dramatic release of binders labeled as \u201cThe Epstein Files.\u201d It was a lie \u2014 the files she released contained mostly information previously made public.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress was forced to intervene. Then judges ordered Bondi\u2019s Justice Department to release the materials. That was weeks ago. She has produced only a fraction while failing to comply with the law. And her mistakes made Trump himself look bad. One recent poll reported\u202fthat her approval has fallen by 47 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up on the list waiting to be shown the door is Kash Patel, the FBI director. He is responsible for the\u202finsufficient investigation into the killings in Minnesota. And that is just the latest dropped ball. Trump\u2019s most loyal voters previously had been upset over Patel\u2019s questionable handling of the investigation into the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. Then there is attention to distracting questions about taxpayer-funded travel to see his girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer also has an eye on the \u2018Exit\u2019 sign. She is accused by government watchdogs of drinking on the job, conducting an affair with a member of her security detail, and directing staff to schedule official travel around personal excursions, including a strip club and a Las Vegas resort. As Wonkette memorably summarized it: \u201cSecretary of Labor Being Investigated for Knowing How to Party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chavez-DeRemer may be hanging on to her job because she decorated the Labor Department\u2019s building facing the Capitol with a massive banner of Trump\u2019s face, evoking Soviet-era murals of Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Once the world\u2019s most famous spreader of vaccine misinformation, Kennedy has promoted conspiracy theories over decades of science-based research and test results. Now the Trump administration presides over the largest measles outbreak in the U.S. in 25 years. South Carolina, alone, has recorded 789 cases, surpassing West Texas\u2019s outbreak that killed two children.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy\u2019s\u202finvolvement with a reporter who later wrote a tell-all book\u202fabout their sex texts only adds to the farce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scandals in other administrations that led to firings now look like not much when compared to the list of offenders who remain in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s not forget the years-long right-wing media campaign to fire Lois Lerner, a mid-level IRS bureaucrat. Her\u202fwrongdoing amounted to reviewing the IRS status of conservative activist groups\u202fsuspected of wrongly taking advantage of tax exemptions for non-political groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reality television made Trump a star. It is also the prototype for today\u2019s hellscape politics, featuring constant texting and videos from the administration. How fitting that Trump now has a reality star (Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy) and a former wrestling executive (Education Secretary Linda McMahon) in his Cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s amazing to turn on the TV and discover that today\u2019s Trump just won\u2019t say \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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