Donald Trump issued one order that caught Democrats completely off guard
Donald Trump is preparing to re-enter the White House.
Trump intends to hit the ground running.
And Donald Trump issued one order that caught Democrats completely off guard.
Some of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped posting on social media around Christmas.
That wasn’t an accident.
According to the New York Post, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles sent a memo to all cabinet picks instructing them not to make any posts on social media unless it was first approved by the incoming White House conservative lawyer Dave Warrington.
“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,” the Post reported Wiles’ memo stating.
“Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel,” the Wiles memo added.
There was some speculation that Wiles issued this memo in response to a social media post by Department of Government Efficiency co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy, where he defended H-1B visas by claiming Big Tech needed to import cheap foreign labor because Americans were lazy and entitled.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024
The Post said that wasn’t true.
“The Wiles memo, according to a Trump transition source, is not in response to the recent social media ruckus caused by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over H-1B visas that had MAGA world spinning,” the Post report read.
Wiles likely issued the memo to avoid giving Democrats targets to shoot at.
Confirmation hearings from Trump’s nominees will begin shortly.
Social media is a way public officials can communicate with the public.
Donald Trump’s expert use of social media won him the 2016 and 2024 elections.
But social media posts also increase the chances of gaffes and distractions that give Democrats targets to shoot at in confirmation hearings.
Personnel is policy.
Trump needs nominees like Gabbard, Kennedy, Pete Hegseth, and Kash Patel in place to drain the swamp and implement his America first agenda.
And the last thing Trump needs is for Democrats and their media partners to twist a nominee’s post out of context to create a scandal that derails their confirmation.
