I applied this week for a job in the Trump administration.
Yes, it was a stunt. Here are the results.
Maggie Haberman, who recently announced she’s writing a book about Donald Trump, just published a story about the president in the New York Times that’s hard not to read as a portrait of mental breakdown. CNN’s Jake Tapper reported this week that the White House personnel director is threatening to fire anybody he catches applying for another job, because that would imply that Trump didn’t really win re-election last week, buying in to the fakey-fakey-fake-fake-fake news narrative that Joe Biden won, and that in the end it wasn’t even all that close.
The Daily Beast, meanwhile, reported that the White House personnel is still processing job applications. And of course the Trump White House refuses to cooperate with the Biden transition, amid a pandemic that’s spun completely out of control because its existence hurts the president’s feelings.
It’s all starting to look like a road company production of Marat/Sade (see photo, above). It occurred to me that some hilarity might be extracted from this calamitous situation were I to apply this week for a job in the Trump White House to gauge exactly how delusional its inmates are. So I did. I wrote up the results in this New Republic column.