Seth Meyers Rips Trump Military Board Appointees for Trying to Stick Around

[AZProgressive]

Seth Meyers on Thursday criticized appointees of former President Donald Trump for complaining about being asked by the Biden administration to resign from their military academy advisory boards or else be dismissed.

“Why were there still any Trump holdovers anyway?” the late-night host wondered. “That’s like moving into a rent-controlled apartment that the last guy died in and keeping all the expired white fish in the refrigerator.”

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought were appointed to the board of the Naval Academy, while former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has been on the Air Force Academy board. Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, meanwhile, was appointed to the board of West Point.

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“If she ever flew an F-16, or which she probably calls an F-17, I’m guessing it would end up in a ravine with her standing on the tarmac with a parachute claiming it was a successful landing. ‘The plane is on the ground,’” Meyers said, giving a smarmy impression of the person who first used the term “alternative facts.” “‘Do you not think the plane is on the ground?’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/seth-meyers-rips-trump-military-board-appointees-for-trying-to-stick-around

[SWBTATTReg]

1. What ever happened to the motto that one serves at the pleasure of the US President?

kellyanne conway was extremely disrespectful of Pres. Biden when she (knowing this fact, that one serves at the behest of the President (the current president) and that her appointment wasn't a lifetime appointment or whatever the hell she was thinking). Just further proves that trump appointees are / were a joke, and very political too in nature, hypocrites as they are, in claiming that Pres. Biden was doing a 'political' thing when he has the right to what he wants, chose who he wants in certain positions...

[Hangingon]

4. Theses are term appointments.

If a precedent is that puts term appointments under “serve at the pleasure” , we will regret it. Many boards and commissions would be affected.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I don't think you understand 'serving at the pleasure of the president' means perhaps...

From MSNBC... Conway's well-deserved faceplant, by Hayes Brown 1 day ago
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President Joe Biden is cleaning house. On Wednesday, the White House asked for resignations from more than 10 of former President Donald Trump's appointees to boards that advise three military service academies. It’s an unprecedented move from Biden — and absolutely the correct one.

But to hear the soon-to-be-fired board members gripe about it, you’d think Biden had overturned a core principle of American democracy. The loudest of these voices so far has been Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to Trump. Conway was never in the U.S. Air Force. She has no real connection to the service — but in the closing weeks of the Trump administration, she was given a position on the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.

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Meanwhile, former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who late last year tried to make it easier to fire 88 percent of his office’s civil servants, said he plans to pursue legal action over his dismissal from the Naval Academy’s board. As MSNBC columnist Steve Vladeck already pointed out, there’s not a lot of room for any suit here. Appointees serve at the pleasure of the president no matter how long the term is — and the president ain’t happy.

Much of the press coverage has focused on how outside the norm Biden’s action is, given that appointees normally serve in these advisory roles for three years even if an administration changes. Here’s the thing, though: It’s a bad system! Membership on many of these boards is basically a sinecure position, a gift granted to friends of the outgoing president. It’s the equivalent of cashing in Presidential Loyalty Rewards Points at the end of an administration.

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[Hangingon]

6. Clearly you do not understand term appointments.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. If the president of the US asks you to step down,

you step down, one serves at the pleasure of the current US president, Joe Biden. Almost every person agrees that a president does have the right to have his people serving in these positions, and he has the right to fire them.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Unqualified and christofascist, the only purpose they have at this point is to serve as a snitch.

[jimfields33]

3. I never heard of these appointments before

Has other presidents fired them?