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The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
Reposted by Tom Nichols
David Burbach
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This sort of behavior took down a couple of Trump 1.0 cabinet secretaries.
April 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This sort of behavior took down a couple of Trump 1.0 cabinet secretaries.
April 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/dburbach.bsky.social/post/3lm6bj6t32k2v
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The Secretary of the Interior requires his staff to make him cookies and serve him meals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/burgum-cookies/682319/
The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgums staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The Secretary of the Interior requires his staff to make him cookies and serve him meals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/burgum-cookies/682319/
The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgums staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3lm67euz4kc2v
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The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 6
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riversedge
(75,145 posts)1. Sickening behavior from a #Trump appointee. damn!
bronxiteforever
(10,352 posts)2. I am so sick of their arrogance. N/t
Delarage
(2,397 posts)3. Fossil Fuel F-wad
Did Debra Haaland ever make such obnoxious demands of her staff? Or was she focused on protecting the natural beauty and resources of this country? Hint: It's the latter.
ScoutHikerDad
(17 posts)4. I Would Love to Bake His Cookies!
But only if I had a raging sinus infection and had just eaten a Snickers Bar. They would taste even better with a nice, gooey lunger in the dough.
dalton99a
(88,261 posts)5. Kick
SWBTATTReg
(25,182 posts)6. This guy isn't treating Americans as people, he's treating us as servants. Disgusting. He can hire, if he wishes,
his own servants on his own dime and have them at his expense make him cookies if he wants them so bad. God, he's so pathetic.
Dulcinea
(8,254 posts)7. Dougie the Diva!
We're all just his serfs as far as he's concerned.
Paladin
(30,211 posts)8. Gotta love how this obnoxious, privileged behavior has set people off.
I wish all of trump's appointees were acting in this snotty, well-publicized fashion---we'd be rid of them all a lot quicker.
PlanetBev
(4,296 posts)9. I'd swap out the chocolate chips for Ex-Lax
Hed be too busy to help Trump fuck up this country.