{"id":28985,"date":"2018-04-01T02:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28985"},"modified":"2018-04-01T02:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:20:20","slug":"where-are-all-the-stars-seeking-to-work-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28985","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the stars seeking to work for Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ronny_jackson_1800.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28986\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ronny_jackson_1800-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ronny_jackson_1800-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ronny_jackson_1800.png 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is fond of proclaiming that he has to fend off the &#8220;many&#8221; top-flight government administrators who are seeking to work for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>He said recently that despite the exodus of members of his personal team of legal eagles, he&#8217;s got the pick of the best lawyers in human history to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>Are we clear on this? However, after dismissing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin earlier this week, Trump hired the White House physician &#8212; Admiral Ronny Jackson &#8212; to lead the massive federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>It am forced to ask: Where are the all-stars lining up to work in the president&#8217;s administration?<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Jackson is a perfectly competent physician. He has served three presidents: George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama and now Trump. I don&#8217;t doubt he is smart.<\/p>\n<p>He is an active-duty flag officer in the U.S. Navy, which gives him <em>some<\/em> knowledge and appreciation of veterans&#8217; issues.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; he&#8217;s never administered anything, let alone the nation&#8217;s second-largest government agency that employs more than 300,000 individuals who are serving the nation&#8217;s 20 million veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Expertise? Intimate knowledge of nuts-and-bolts administration? Political savvy? It&#8217;s all lacking in this fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the president who said he would surround himself with &#8220;the best people&#8221; has turned to someone whose sole qualification for this critical job is that Donald Trump likes him.<\/p>\n<p>This is how you build a &#8220;fine-tuned machine&#8221; to run the federal government? I, um, think not!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is fond of proclaiming that he has to fend off the &#8220;many&#8221; top-flight government administrators who are seeking to work for the Trump administration. He said recently that despite the exodus of members of his personal team of legal eagles, he&#8217;s got the pick of the best lawyers in human history to represent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where are all the stars seeking to work for Trump?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7682,1356,1424,7683,5077],"class_list":["post-28985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-david-shulkin","tag-department-of-veterans-affairs","tag-donald-trump","tag-dr-ronny-jackson","tag-va"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28987,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions\/28987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}