The White House doctor is always a US Navy doctor, usually a Captain [Colonel for us Army/Air Force] types. The last one was a total suck-up who played ‘candy man’ to one and all. He scored a promotion to flag rank [Commodore/Rear Admiral/Brigadier – one star] and Trump put his name in to head the Veterans Administration for talking up what great shape the obviously obese Trump with his fast food diet was in. He barely escaped with his medical license and commission after the Senate started looking at him seriously.
The Public Health Service has a commissioned officer corps that wears Navy uniforms with a few different badges. The Surgeon General dresses like a Naval Vice Admiral – it doesn’t have to make sense – it’s traditional. Actually it is because the original job was checking incoming ships for plagues.
]]>Oh well. The whole World is confused now. I guess I’m not alone. 🙄🤷♂️ Though, it is past being annoying for me.
]]>That’s the US Surgeon General wearing the uniform of the Public Health Service which looks like the US Naval uniform. He is an acquaintance of Vice President Mike Pence and worked for Pence when he was governor of Indiana. The man is an anesthesiologist and knows nothing of infectious diseases, only putting people under for surgery. Another bad choice of people to fill positions that Trump didn’t care about. The position should be filled by an epidemiologist, an infectious disease specialist, or GP.
Trump got annoyed because GM made him look bad after shutting down a plant that Trump claimed he had saved. Now the jerk wants his signature on the checks that are going out to people, except that the signatures of the Treasurer of the US and the Secretary of the Treasury are the only ones valid on US government checks, and the money may be dispersed through direct deposit.
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And yet… trump has ordered GM to build ventilators (of course, the reason why has nothing whatever to do with it being necessary to anyone but trump)!
Trump signs $2.2tn stimulus bill after invoking Defense Production Act – as it happened
To hell with them all!🤬👎
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