Borowitz Report : Trump Picks El Chapo to Run D.E.A.

[jaysunb]

Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by naming Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the D.E.A.

Trump’s appointment of the former drug lord surprised many in Washington, in no small part because acrimony between the two allegedly prompted El Chapo, in 2015, to put a hundred-million-dollar bounty on Trump’s head.


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-picks-el-chapo-to-run-d-e-a?mbid=social_facebook

[Thinkingabout]

1. Yes, he knows a lot about the DEA

[GP6971]

2. I just have to K & R this! n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

3. HA!!! It is so true, it hurts!

[moondust]

4. It fits.

Lawrence O'Donnell opened his show tonight with a segment about the U.S. now being a banana republic "where the President-elect fluctuates between the comical and the terrifying." El Chapo is a perfect fit for the Trump administration.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-pushes-baseless-voter-fraud-claims-819545667771

[rpannier]

5. He's more qualified than half of il Douche's picks

that's the sad part

[DFW]

6. El CHapo would certainly be no LESS benevolent in his field than some other Trump picks

Sessions as AG, the names proposed for Education, EPA, etc. I'm surprised he didn't pick Allen West for Secretary of State.

This is biting satire at its best, because it's so very conceivable.

[Mendocino]

7. For Interior,

he is considering noted wolf killer and snow machine racing groupie Sarah Palin. Really!

[Gothmog]

8. I love Andy Borowitz