Trump's Cabinet of Princesses
LET THEM EAT CAKE
From Tom Price to Steve Mnuchin, the men of Trumpland are acting like entitled royalty.
ERIN GLORIA RYAN
09.29.17 9:30 PM ET
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned today after reporters found that he’d spent nearly $1 million on private air travel since taking office earlier this year, after weeks of HHS trying to explain each trespass with easily disproven lies.
Price didn’t quite apologize. “I regret that the recent events have have created a distraction from these objectives” was the sentence in his letter that came closest to it (PDF). “The recent events” included spending $18,000 to fly on a private jet to Nashville for 90 minutes of meetings and lunch with his son, and half a million on plane trips around Europe and Africa. “The recent events” involved Price’s staff lying about the purpose of his travel, and then offering to reimburse the federal government the $52,000 or so they specifically spent on “his” seat on trips that would not have occurred had he not been on them. It’s not clear that he even thinks that what he did was wrong in the first place? Why would he? He’s lived out his tenure as a princess would.
Princesses have achieved a durable cultural ubiquity in this country, remarkable for a place that fought a war to escape monarchy. Disney princesses, pop music princesses, beauty contestants. And now, we’ve got four real princesses right in the president’s cabinet, led by our dearly departing Princess Price.
Joining Price in acting like entitled royalty are Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, EPA head Scott Pruitt, and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, all of whom were dinged for similar transgressions.
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