Trump Picks Gay Soros Protégé To Run The US Treasury
Someone described Scott Bessent, Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, as a "peace offering" to Wall Street.
I think that's sort of right in the sense that Trump did need someone who can occasionally run interference. Parts of Trump's agenda are anathema to the neoliberal world order in which corporate America thrived, bottom lines swelled and bankers banked. Tariffs make everybody in polite circles nervous, and Bessent runs in polite circles.
On the other hand, Trump's going to cut t
Do you think he can pull off the Cruella de Ville currency photo op that Mnuchin did with his spouse?
I sure hope he tries. I’d love to see that.
One more addition to the cast of misfit toys…if we had an irony detector for the Trump administration, it would’ve exploded.