In his typical fashion, Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees have been anything but uncontroversial. There’s Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, who had been denied a federal judgeship because of a racism controversy in the mid-1980s, Rex Tillerson, previous Exxon-Mobil CEO and current Secretary of State who has questionable ties to Russia, Rick Perry, potential Secretary of Energy who wanted to abolish the very department he will likely be running, Scott Pruitt, EPA critic and likely the future head of the EPA –the list goes on. However, these nominations and appointments have all been overshadowed by one woman, on the way to become our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.
Although DeVos has always had opponents because of her support of school-choice, charter schools and publicly funded religious education, much of the widespread …show more content…
His campaign was invincible to the controversies of his mystery tax forms, to the revelation of 15 accusations of sexual misconduct and to alluding to the assassination of Hillary Clinton when any other candidate likely would have been destroyed by it. He did so by distracting the public with entertaining, though not necessarily important news. Just recently, for example, while President Trump was passing Executive Orders in his first week of his presidency, he effectively distracted the media and many Americans by creating empty controversy about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. People had a frenzy over comparing the pictures between President Obama’s inauguration and President Trump’s and pointing out the presidents’ lies. Meanwhile, President Trump sign an Executive Order mandating the construction of a wall at the US-Mexican border and asking for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act—both came into being with much less attention than they would have if people were not preoccupied with Trump’s inauguration
Although DeVos has always had opponents because of her support of school-choice, charter schools and publicly funded religious education, much of the widespread …show more content…
His campaign was invincible to the controversies of his mystery tax forms, to the revelation of 15 accusations of sexual misconduct and to alluding to the assassination of Hillary Clinton when any other candidate likely would have been destroyed by it. He did so by distracting the public with entertaining, though not necessarily important news. Just recently, for example, while President Trump was passing Executive Orders in his first week of his presidency, he effectively distracted the media and many Americans by creating empty controversy about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. People had a frenzy over comparing the pictures between President Obama’s inauguration and President Trump’s and pointing out the presidents’ lies. Meanwhile, President Trump sign an Executive Order mandating the construction of a wall at the US-Mexican border and asking for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act—both came into being with much less attention than they would have if people were not preoccupied with Trump’s inauguration