In a month and a half, Trump fired three women from ministerial positions in his government cabinet.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was shown out on March 5. Noem led the immigration raids and violent clashes with the population that culminated in the death of two Americans in Minnesota. Apparently he fell into disgrace not because of the facts but because his criticism of them left Trump in a bad light; To this was added a Congressional investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s advertising campaign where, at a cost of 220 million dollars, Noem riding was the protagonist.
Pam Bondi, the Secretary of Justice, was fired without consideration on April 2. Bondi was responsible for destroying his department’s credibility by faithfully following Trump’s orders to investigate and charge his perceived political enemies. Trump blamed her for the fact that the Epstein scandal led to a public defeat of the President, although she, on the contrary, protected him at all times.
And Secretary of Labor Lori Chávez-DeRemer “resigned” this Monday due to the accumulation of revelations and accusations against her: drunkenness during work hours, relationships with subordinates, unauthorized use of 10 of her 53 official vacation flights and sexual assault by her husband and father. He resigned just when an accusation was going to be filed against him.
A common denominator of the three women is that each one did everything possible to ingratiate themselves with the president. They were faithful to him until the last moment and even after being thrown out. But another common denominator is that they were inept and could not serve in any other cabinet. Although that is something they share with almost all the rest of the ministers.
Therefore, it is obvious that controversial officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Public Health Robert Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and FBI Director Kash Patel remain in office while these women were removed.
They were sacrificed because they no longer served the President, but they were no worse than those mentioned above.
Now, only 20% of the cabinet are women and 12.5% are non-white. In contrast, in Joe Biden’s cabinet forty eight% were non-white and forty five% were women.
The only Latino still in the national cabinet is Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Sources indicate that Trump is preparing to fire Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, for her testimony before Congress on the war in Iran where she contradicted Trump.
Also remaining in his government are Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture; Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education; Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff.
All of this renews attention on the misogynistic practices of the president – whom 25 women accused of sexual misconduct – and reveals part of his strategy ahead of the November national elections: appealing to the most reactionary sectors of MAGA; continue blaming others for their failures and taking credit for all achievements, true or false.
However, its popularity is currently falling to unprecedented levels.
According to Reuters/Ipsos (April 15-20), 36% approve, 62% disapprove; Strength in Numbers/Verasight (April 10-14), 35% approve, 61% disapprove and NBC Knowledge/SurveyMonkey (March 30 – April 13), 37% approve, 63% disapprove.
It is also fair to ask whether this wave of dismissals constitutes another attempt to divert negative public opinion from the war against Iran, which, in turn, let us remember, was an attempt to divert public opinion from the Epstein scandal.
With this latest dismissal, it can no longer be denied that we are in a period of internal instability, ethical crisis and lack of diversity in the national cabinet, whose composition does not resemble that of the American people.
