New Perspective Brings Appreciation for Former Education Secretary
Recent appointments and near-appointments and speculation about possible appointments to incoming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet have people fondly recalling the tenure of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during Trump’s previous administration.
“I miss the days of the only thing I had to worry about a completely unqualified extremely high-ranking government official fucking up was my children’s future,” said Nancy Hiffington of Clearwater. “I never dreamed I’d ever miss Betsy DeVos.”
DeVos’s nomination in 2016 was highly controversial and eventually became the first Cabinet nominee’s confirmation to be decided by the vice president’s tiebreaking vote.
Many of the names considered for the new administration, including Steven Miller, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio have drawn attention for being unconventional.
“Some of these have to be jokes, right?,” questioned Carl Legwarmer of Brandon. “This is just Trump having a little post-election laugh before he gets down to real business. You got me, Donald! Good one!”
“The night of the election, my buddies and I were hanging out in a bar and started suggesting absurdly inappropriate people for his cabinet. Then real life came along and topped all of them,” said Roger Fulbright of Tampa. “Ruined a perfectly good drinking game.”
“Okay, so Betsy DeVos did a lot of damage, such as threatening schools with a loss of federal funding if they refused to reopen mid-pandemic, advocated for religious and private schools to the detriment of public schools, suggested guns belong in some schools to fend off bears, removed guidance designed to protect students of color and transgender students and spent four years undermining her own department by demanding federal budget cuts and basically disparaging the American public education system, but at least she never kicked her husband in the balls at WrestleMania,” said Pam Schtwitz of St. Petersburg. “Ironically, that makes Linda McMahon the most likable of the cabinet nominees.”
