President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t want recommendations for staff associated with some of his political enemies, he said Wednesday on social media.
“In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), ‘Dumb as a Rock’ John Bolton, ‘Birdbrain’ Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The list of names refers to several of Trump’s prominent GOP critics as well as former high-ranking officials who served with Trump during his first term, including Pence, Haley, Milley, Mattis and Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
The warning comes as Trump is racing to staff up his second administration. The incoming president has about 4,000 political appointee slots to fill throughout the executive branch.
