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Americans Disgusted After Lara Trump Is Floated As Replacement for Marco Rubio’s Seat

Another in a long line of awful Republican appointees.

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It’s a match made in hell, and it can’t even begin to take place until the end of January. I don’t just mean Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s god-awful plan to fill her pal Marco Rubio’s Florida seat with semi-Trump Lara. I mean Donald’s plan to pluck Rubio from the Senate in the first place to be Secretary of State.

The two men can hardly be said to have gotten along. When Trump first ran for president as a Republican, he was at odds with many, if not most of the GOP “establishment.”

I wonder, in fact, if Liddle Marco, as Trump grew fond of calling him, knows that this tweet is still up:

Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder if Trump remembers this little clip off the news:

Probably not. Donald Trump barely remembers what he ate for breakfast this morning. He just knows it didn’t have enough ketchup on it.

Anyway, after Trump foists THAT little doozy on us — if, in fact, he actually plans to do so — the aforementioned Alabama Senator is really lobbying hard for Lara Trump to take his seat. That’s going to require an appointment by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, of course. But with the way that people who previously hated him fall all over themselves for him now (see: literally the entire GOP), that should be a shoo-in.

What does Lara Trump have that another, more (ahem) qualified candidate doesn’t? The way Senator Britt sees it, Lara understands the assignment. And that assignment is apparently to do whatever Donald Trump wants, 100% of the time.

“She understands the America First agenda,” Britt said. “For me, I think she would be a tremendous pick, a voice for hard working families and another mom of school-aged kids that understands what we’re up against, and that’s to fight to protect the American dream.”

Lara hasn’t mentioned the suggestion herself, of course. Nobody who wants a job that Trump might promise can ever indicate that they actually want the job, or they run the risk of looking like they might be good at it. Trump can’t have people going around being good at their jobs and making him look bad.

He does that enough himself.

I’m not terribly worried about Lara Trump being a successful Senator. Even if Trump DOES appoint Rubio, and then DeSantis in turn appoints Lara, she likely wouldn’t serve even a full term, since Rubio’s expires in 2028. I can’t imagine she runs a successful reelection campaign if she does join the Senate.

But this is definitely a terrifying glimpse into the future that Republicans see for America. A country run for MAGA, by MAGA, and everyone else be damned.

The scene wasn’t pretty on Twitter, where people were pretty disgusted at the idea:

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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