Conservative claims Trump's 'rubber-spined people' are ravaging America

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President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in the Cabinet Room. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

A conservative writer, while celebrating the firing of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, added that her hiring is symptomatic of the “sycophantic and rubber-spined people” currently destroying America.

“Trump’s pick to replace her, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, is a MAGA meathead of the highest order, but I’d hesitate to predict confidently that he’ll be any worse—at any rate, he’ll have his work cut out for him if he hopes to be,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger. “And this isn’t nothing: We hope we won’t have to think about Corey Lewandowski’s sex life ever again.”

Egger argued that Mullin, like Noem before him, fits the mold of being one of the “remarkably sycophantic and rubber-spined people” who unquestioningly support President Donald Trump. Yet even within this milieu, Noem stood out for her incompetence.

“Noem had made many enemies for herself in the White House, both by her heavy-handed personnel management at DHS and by her catastrophic-in-hindsight attempts to blame Stephen Miller for her failures in Minneapolis (again: It’s true, but she shouldn’t have said it!),” Egger wrote. He speculated that when Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) confronted Noem about her excess spending and controversial policy choices, it was an attempt by Trump’s supporters in and out of Congress “to lead the president like a toddler by the hand to the conclusion that Noem had to go. She’s trying to blame you for her mistakes, Mr. President!” Even though Noem could politically survive the murders of civilian Renee Good and protester Alex Pretti, Egger speculated that Trump could not endure Noem blaming him.

“In a cabinet full of lunatics and lickspittles, Noem still managed consistently to distinguish herself by her cruelty, her stupidity, her paranoia, her pathological dishonesty, and her self-aggrandizement,” Egger wrote. “She made a mockery of her department’s organizational structure by running her ship through the outside adviser she was allegedly boinking, the ur-psycho Trump ally Corey Lewandowski. Her consistent focus was on using her perch both to build her personal brand and to feed the online right’s bloodlust for scenes of violence against immigrants and protesters alike.”

This is not the only time Egger has scathingly critiqued the Trump administration. In February he blasted Trump for suing the government for $10 billion on frivolous grounds, defending the decision by saying he would give the money to charity. First, Egger pointed out that Trump hired X CEO Elon Musk to cut billions in aid to low-income people at home and abroad, rendering it hypocritical to then justify pocketing taxpayer money on the grounds that he might give some of it to charity. Additionally, Egger questioned whether Trump would actually make good on his vow. After all, Trump was previously proved in New York to have self-dealt in his previous “charitable” contributions.

“Trump had been using his personal charity, it came to light after a lawsuit from the state of New York, to pay his business debts, make political contributions, and buy things for himself,” Egger wrote.

Egger has also blasted Trump for falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“Trump’s assault on our elections—once unambiguously his most outrageous crime—can now only rarely recapture our attention amid so many other scandals and disasters. It has somehow become, for us, a background matter,” Egger wrote. “When Trump, speaking for America on the world stage at Davos, proclaims that 2020 ‘was a rigged election’ and promises that ‘people will soon be prosecuted for what they did,’ we’re almost too numb to be scandalized.”

Because of Trump’s unpopularity, Egger has also written that Republican lawmakers are starting to “run for the hills” politically.

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