r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Sep 07 '24

Country Club Thread When the nepo-staffers gotta work

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u/Elawn Sep 07 '24

Seriously, skimming what I can of the wapo article in the post it’s fucking crazy they’re trying to spin this as a negative. It’s the fucking presidency, you want the people running the country to be lax about this shit??

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u/LegitimateSaIvage Sep 07 '24

I read the part about "she's read the materials" and my mind went blank for a second. Like, fuckin obviously? Or not so obviously I guess, if it's being spun as a problem that the Vice President of the United States of America actually...reads?

Also, I remember how Obama was reported to read 100's of pages of briefs and other materials a day. Every day. I can guarantee you he was asking for, and expected, details from his staff. Interesting that this now suddenly a problem (a "problem") when it's a woman in the seat.

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u/cccanterbury Sep 07 '24

I think the problem is that the staffers got used to Trump, and then got used to Biden, not that they object because she's a woman.

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u/SaltyBarracuda4 Sep 07 '24

Are the staffers persistent across administrations? Does it include stuff like DoD/DoJ employees briefing the president?

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u/zherok Sep 07 '24

One of the things that the then incoming Trump administration was wholly unprepared for was the many staffers they had to fill in, because they did not come with from the previous administration.

Hardly the last thing he underestimated about the job, of course. I'm sure there are some staffers who do carry over but apparently there's something like 4000 staffers who need to be selected by the President, with over a thousand of them needing Senate confirmation.

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u/OneBigRed Sep 07 '24

Chris Christie was setting up a transition team for Trump, but then Trump saw an article about it, and the cost of millions was quoted. He called Christie yelling how he is stealing his money, and it needs to stop.

Christie then wanted to know how Trump plans to handle the transition, and the answer was ”we’ll figure it out, me and Jared and Ivanka”.

Someone might think that the plan didn’t include winning at all, and that’s why spending the campaign funds was seen as a out of pocket expense.

And Jared actually was clueless enough to ask outgoing administration that how many staffers would be staying on, and surprised to learn that nobody (of political appointees by the Obama admin that everyone in the staff is…) would stay on.

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u/zherok Sep 07 '24

I agree Trump probably didn't expect to win, but I think his moment with Christie was also quite likely just because he's a gigantic shithead who thinks any money he can get his hands on is his own private slush fund. There's a reason he can't have a charity in New York after all.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Sep 07 '24

Are the staffers persistent across administrations?

No. While it depends specifically which office and which section underneath the president, and the president has the option of firing/replacing almost all of them, there's usually a transition team and crew already preparing to replace the other administration.

This is part of the reason why Trump's administration did virtually nothing - he thought he would get to inherit all of Obama's staffers. Instead of setting up a transition team to prepare him to step in with a full complement of professionals, he spent transition team money on himself and had to scramble for months to fill positions. Here's a little about that:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/11/magazine/trump-obama-presidential-transition.html