Ex-GOP Official Shreds Donald Trump’s Picks With Withering Metaphor
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Geoff Duncan also warned that “the intensity of the challenges that this country faces” are “more serious than Donald Trump is.”
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) delivered a damning prediction of Donald Trump’s legacy — and slammed who the president-elect has picked for roles in his second term — during an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday morning.
Duncan, a longtime critic of Trump who drew the returning POTUS’ ire for refusing to help overturn his 2020 election loss, argued that Trump’s legacy “is more built on a Ponzi scheme of populist ideas” in that “every day it’s got to get a little more edgy and a little bit more daring and bombastic.”
And you have to “look no further than these nominees to see part of that next step in the Ponzi scheme,” Duncan continued during a discussion that was ostensibly centered on outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) recent assessment that “MAGA is the Republican Party” and criticism of Trump’s political movement.
“If you told me that Donald Trump was building an administration to run a frat house, I’d believe you,” Duncan told Hunt in a withering metaphor. “Not necessarily to tackle the global issues that we’re facing, the economic challenges we’re facing. The intensity of the challenges that this country faces, I believe are more serious than Donald Trump is.”
Trump has garnered widespread controversy over a slew of his Cabinet picks.