Here’s a gift link to this remarkable NYT piece about Trump trying to placate his Cabinet over Musk’s budget rampage. You’ll each have your favorite graf but this one, where Trump thinks MIT grads are dying to work in air-traffic control towers, is mine. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u... - ThreadSky

bgrueskin.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Here’s a gift link to this remarkable NYT piece about Trump trying to placate his Cabinet over Musk’s budget rampage.

You’ll each have your favorite graf but this one, where Trump thinks MIT grads are dying to work in air-traffic control towers, is mine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E4.DU2K.m7sizQo9L6en&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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clifmo.com•1 day ago

Yea that'll really cut down on overpaid government employees

richsanf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Palace intrigue for access and clicks. The monetization of DJT is loathsome.

blcort.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for the gift article.

bellavavenus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Paraphrased: VA Sec Doug Collins made the point that they should not wield a blunt instrument and cleave off everyone from the V.A. They needed to be strategic about it. Trump agreed with Collins, saying they "ought to retain the smart ones and get rid of the bad ones."
Wut? Those MIT veterans? 🙃

bellavavenus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you! The incompetence is staggering. Agent Krasnov is just crushingly stupid.

lewmorton.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Why, do you have any uncles who went there?”

janepor00325520.bsky.social•1 day ago

May Hod gave mercy on MIT.

rsalt159.bsky.social•1 day ago

When I read about the MIT part, I also laughed my ass off. What MIT guy wants to stare at airline patterns all day?

shaym114.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait, MIT? Wouldn’t that be considered an elite?

sueforpeace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump thinks he’s a genius because he claims his uncle was an MIT grad.

ofhuman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait,which MIT? Anywhere near the Four Seasons?

sueforpeace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed, the prestigious, Morons in Training, conveniently located in the very same strip mall as Four Seasons Total Landscaping!

shaym114.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wondering why, if he’s such a stable genius, he didn’t attend. It’s obviously a benchmark he returns to time after time.

rsalt159.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because their standards are higher than Wharton Business School. You have to have more then a 4th grade reading level and daddy can’t pay to get a diploma for you

percyjones.bsky.social•1 day ago

I thought he was a professor at MIT. Perhaps in physics.

mrcole332.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump’s uncle went to MIT, that’s why he has an obsession with the place.

rschatz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same.. 😂. How dumb is he? Thinking MIT grads.. engineering or CS aspire to be ATC upon graduating. Clueless

matt605060.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sorry but the way this article is written and framed makes it appear that all of this is normal, just a normal meeting. Yes, we're all guffawing about the details, but the way Haberman and Swan frame this makes it seem like ordinary politics. Plus they're obviously fluffing Rubio for access.

laurachapin.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like Airplane! but not a comedy.

kton11.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah.. get those MIT Air Traffic Controllers in. That should do it. Right, I’m off to the golf course for the weekend.

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