As I said in the links yesterday, Nikki Haley suddenly resigned from her position as UN Ambassador. Personally, I don’t think it’s some huge loss for America – Donald Trump and his administration don’t care about the United Nations or diplomacy, so Haley’s position was basically just grandstanding and being a feminine mouthpiece for Trump’s deplorable politics. I never bought Haley as a moderating voice in the Trump administration, nor do I believe she will ever be any kind of ally. She was always all about Nikki Haley. So why quit, and why so suddenly?
In the immediate wake of her resignation, HuffPo noted that Haley had taken “gifts” of private plane flights from South Carolina business executives without disclosing those gifts. South Carolina politicians – like Sen. Mark Sanford – say that “something doesn’t smell right” about this whole thing. She’s also racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt in the past few years, and there’s some speculation that she was simply ready to move to the private sector to make the big money.
In Haley’s resignation press conference in the Oval Office, she nonsensically babbled about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, saying, “I can’t say enough good things about Jared and Ivanka. Jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands…They do a lot of things behind the scenes that I wish more people knew about. We’re a better country because they’re in this administration.” LOL HIDDEN GENIUS. I hope to one day be so useless and feckless as to be referred to as a “hidden genius.”
As for Ivanka, she’s reportedly on the shortlist to replace Nikki Haley. Donald Trump said this about his daughter’s chances: “I’ve heard a lot of names. I’ve heard Ivanka. How good would Ivanka be? I think Ivanka would be incredible, but it doesn’t mean I’d pick her. Because I’d be accused of nepotism even though I’m not sure there’s anybody more competent in the world.” Which would kill many birds with one stone: he would give his favorite child a gift of a high-profile job, Ivanka could go back to New York, and Bigly would get Ivanka and Jared out of his wig. Alas, Ivanka is taking herself out of the running:
It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) October 9, 2018
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
All that a$$ kissing made wonder if she was angling for another job.
I remember her saying she would vote for Trump but “I don’t feel good about it.” And she got rewarded with the UN job.
When she was governor here 🙄there were questions about her finances then.
All that a$$ kissing made wonder if she was angling for another job.
I remember her saying she would vote for Trump but “I don’t feel good about it.” And she got rewarded with the UN job.
When she was governor here 🙄there were questions about her finances then.
That was an astonishing amount of sucking up, wasn’t it?🙄
Nikki as people mentioned in the previous post is looking toward her long term future.
Better to get out now before it all impeaches.
Given how often this administration lies, just because Princess Nagini of the Horcruxed V@gina (not mine, h/t to the fellow Celeb!itch who came up with that) said she wouldn’t take the job doesn’t mean she won’t. It also doesn’t mean she won’t take some other job where she can do nothing and get endless praise.
I love that you are using it.
I get the origin of this name is from Harry Potter, and I’ve pretty much refrained from saying anything about it….Buuut…since it’s getting more popular, I gotta put in my 2 cents. The word ‘nagini’ has been lifted from Hindu mythology, and much like the swastika, been pre-empted and given an (awful) different meaning from the original. The nagas and naginis are primordial beings in mythology, beautiful, beneficent and powerful. The great nagas (snakes) in Indian mythology are associated with ancient wisdom and power. They adorn Shiva’s body, and Vishnu reclines on the bed formed by the giant naga Anantha (meaning ‘He who is without end’) on the primordial ocean. Nagas are worshipped in India (in Kerala, their temples are unique in usually having only women priestesses).
I really wish JK Rowling hadn’t co-opted this name to make it the witchy familiar of Voldemort, and done the usual Christian iconography of making a snake a symbol of evil.
Lightpurple, I love your comments notwithstanding (even made a trip to Boston’s MFA after you heads-upped us on the Botticelli exhibit), so this is in no way aimed at you. It was a very clever nickname based on the idea of the horcrux and the relation of Ivanka to her nasty dad.
I just really hate the co-opting of the Nagini word with the idea of evil…I guess that genie is out of the box thanks to JKR!
Dawnchild I will try to remember the true meaning of the nagas, of course I would always prefer to look at a snake compared to Ms. “I went to the Wharton School but I can’t do math” Trump, otherwise known as “Enjoying her career at the White House, Isn’t it Exciting!!!” Barbie.
Yeah, that was my first reaction, after laughing. Why would we ever trust the word of any Trump. Th exact that her name even came up as possible choice makes my blood boil. Why not just make Don Junior Attorney General, too?
Some other job? She’s useless now ….
I don’t think Ivanka is looking for real work. And nothing is going to dislodge Kushner from whatever grift he is running from the White House.
I think Haley sucked up to Trump to stay on the good side of the deplorables in case she has a chance to finish out Lindsey Graham’s term if/when he joins the administration. If the tide turns on Trump, she will say she left because of the way Trump defamed Dr. Ford. Her timing is impeccable for someone who wants to play it both ways when it is politically expedient.
I thought the scuttlebutt was that after Sessions quits/gets fired in November, Lindsay Graham takes over as AG, and Haley gets appointed to his term as SC Senator. That would square up with her presidential ambitions down the road. I don’t think any of this shady finance stuff is it-that’s just an average day for the corrupt Trump administration.
Yes, that was my take on it, too.
That makes sense. Sigh.
Yep. Graham used to HAAAAAATE Trump. But he recently was seen coming out of the Oval Office smiling and happy and shaking hands with Trump (this was right at the start of the Kavanaugh stuff) and everyone KNEW Trump promised Miss Lindsey something big.
Lindsey Graham attaches himself to power to raise his own profile. When it was clear he would no longer have McCain to cling to, he switched to Trump. He is an unprincipled hack.
Laughing at “Miss Lindsey” 😂😂
God, I hope she never gets close to the WH. She’s truly a heartless monster that would wreck havoc and destruction the world over, not just an opportunist moron like Graham or the crown princess.
The state governor decides who fills out Graham’s term, not Trump (who with any luck will either be in a strait jacket or an orange jumpsuit by then).
Ambassador positions require Senate confirmation. Even McConnell’s controlled Senate would find it difficult to confirm the most corrupt royal highness Princess Nagini of the Most Sacred Horcruxed Vagina, First Daughter, STAFFER, because there are laws strictly forbidding it. Although her confirmation hearing would be a hoot as Democrats could simply ask her to find UN connected cities on a map and question her on the Western Sahara conflict to demonstrate what a blithering idiot she truly is.
Angela Merkel can’t stop laughing
Just because there are laws forbidding nepotism it doesn’t mean that this Congress won’t find some way around it.
They’re ALREADY IN NEPOTISM POSITIONS!!! Too late to close the barn door now. Ack, blood boiling. Find silly gossip time.
I’ve never seen it before (because, surgery) but in that last photo I can really see the resemblance between Ivanka and her blond brother (whatever his name is).
Qusay is his name. Also Fredo.
Lmao @ Fredo! 👍
Yes, she looks a lot like Eric Trump. No matter how many silicone she implants in her chin, the shadow of that non-chin will always be there.
When I see her, I often think how appealing and real she would be if she’d been raised to be comfortable and confident in her own skin and strengths, not having to be repurposed into that vapid, breathy-voiced Barbie-doll image Daddy’s drawn to.
I can’t help but wonder if NH resignation from her position is somehow connected with Lindsey Graham’s future job prospects in this administration? Just recently he said 45 asked him if he would like to replace Jeff Sessions as AG. Lindsey said 45 was joking, but what about him taking over as UN Ambassador?
45 has already picked who he wants to replace Sessions. He is waiting for the mid term results
In that last photo of Ivanka and Jared they look like the Cullens in the Twilight movies lol
Mark Sanford – pot calling the kettle…
You just lost your primary, BYE!
I know right?? Mr. “Hiking in the Appalachians”??
I have met this guy…he is about as weird as it gets. Not to mention corrupt.
I think Haley is a horrible drump shill. Her resignation was very strange and very staged to not make drump look bad. At the press conference Haley looked nervous and afraid of drump. She said she wanted to resign 6 months ago. Said she was not running for office in 2020. Said she would campaign for “this guy.” And drump looked smug and happy with her comments.
Haley has debts of nearly $2 million. I also heard that there are several investigations into South Carolina government corruption, all at the time Haley was governor. She is politically ambitious and perhaps thinks the Kav events and the murder of journalist Khashoggi by Jared buddy Mohammed bin Salman is going to be very bad for this administration and for her future.
People seem to easily forget the sleepover Jared had with the Saudi Crown Prince just before the Prince arrested and tortured (possibly with help from American old Blackwater agents) all those people imprisoned in a hotel. Or the large “donation” Ivanka walked off with during that early Saudi trip.
The grifters have been very busy.
Kavanaugh may have been the tipping point, it is still a possibility she was the op-ed writer….or she wants a bigger position and needs to shake loose Trump.
omg I had completely forgotten about that op-ed. Trump time is something else.
I never thought highly of her. True, she was probably the lesser of all of the evils in this administration, but she had a shady past. I lived in Atlanta for several years while she was governor of SC. There were rumors that she had slept her way to the top. I dont know how true that is, but there was always that cloud in southern politics around her.
She is obviously a person of extreme ambition and no scruples. She will say anything to get what she wants. Remember that speech threatening UN allies? And this Jared genius crap? I mean no one believes that Jared is a genius, not even Trump.
People always claim a woman “slept her way to the top”. I would ignore any such rumors about anybody.
In grad school, my male colleagues were even assuming that about the women in the contingent from France who came to a scientific conference on campus along with the famous male head of the research group. They liked to refer to them as the guy’s harem. Made me wonder what they were saying about me behind my back. They didn’t realize that while only a tiny percentage of US physicists were women in the 1970s – in France, the percentage was 25% (yay, Marie Curie!).
I was once in my male adviser’s office a little after usual quitting time, talking about research, when the phone range. I was closer, so I answered it with “Dr. X’s office”. The caller hung up. Turned out it was a male friend of my adviser’s who was visiting in town. He heard a female voice and assumed something other than science was involved. Really insulting to both me and my adviser, who was Married With Children.
This is how I see it
1. Trump fires Sessions.
2. Trump appoints Graham in his place.
3. Haley available and is a resident of SC she is appointed by the Governor or there is a special election & takes Graham’s seat.
4. When the term is over Niki Haley runs for a full time Senate seat.
But in the end does it really matter. The Trump Administration is like the Wizard of Oz . In the words of Dorthy, “People come and go so quickly around here.”
I don’t think Graham is going to give up his Senate seat to be AG. Why? He could probably be a Senator for 10+ more years and increasing his power as the years go on. As AG, if the Orange Menace is defeated in 2020, then Graham is out on his ass–no AG position (which lasted less than 2 years) and now no Senate seat. Huh uh. We see how these Repubs LOVE power more than anything at all — I don’t think Graham is going to hand over his long-time, very cushy seat just so Nikki Haley could have it in order to pursue her Presidential dreams–because again, it could leave him with nothing in the end. Even if the OM wins again in 2020, and he’s AG, who’s to say he wouldn’t be replaced right away for the “new administration.”?
He may be a sycophant of the first order, but he is not going to give up that Senate seat unless he’s voted out.
I’m the only here that likes Jared!! I hate Trump, BUT Jared… I found him to be so attractive!! My friends make fun of me, because of my huge crush on Jared, but I don’t care; I like Jared very much!! 😳
Are you joking??? Look at him there in that picture, lurking in the background looking like that bad guy in Phantasm!!!
That’s weird.
He looks like a serial killer.
NO!! I’m not joking!! I don’t know why… BUT I have a HUGE crush on Jared!! He is so Beautiful!! To me, he is physical perfect!! I’m not joking!! That is why, my family and friends always tease me, they cannot believe… I like a bad guy!! Yeah, they hate the Trump administration, I ALSO hate it, BUT with Jared; I make an exception!! What is wrong with me?? 😦
(side eye)
Your trolling is getting a bit old. Why not go for Stephen Miller. At least he’s not married.
Did you hear him speak that day in front of the White House? He looks and sounds insane when he speaks.
Food for thought: saying that you’re attracted to the son-in-law of a man whose policies have led to the death of a small child, the installation of a partisan judge plagued by sexual assault accusations, and the destruction of socioeconomic relationships with the global community probably isn’t the most flattering look.
I get what you mean in a way–if Jared were some awesome guy, I think we’d all be saying he has such boyish charm like Lin-Manuel Miranda (btw I am not comparing those two guys in looks, but both Lin and Jared look very boyish and Jared seriously looks like he’s 16). But he is not awesome, he is married to Ivanka, works for the Trump administration, and has shady real estate dealings. That alone makes him look forever skeevy to me. I am so sorry your brain is making this mistake.
I used to think Michael Phelps was attractive but then I saw the light. We all make attraction mistakes.
Jared is indeed a good looking man. He just does a lot of big time damage and fits well with the Trump family as a grifter.
Lovely Jared is sinking in the quicksand of the Mueller investigation, colluding happily with the Russians at least since mid-2016, and has been doing very shady things in the Middle East that have been filling his own pockets as well as resulting in other people getting tortured and killed.
Is it better to be a hidden genius or a stable genius?
My brother has really taken to that phrase. He likes to remind me at various times that he himself is such a “stable genius”. Well, he has better claim to the title than President Tweeter.
Brother the Stable Genius also thinks Trump is digging a tunnel at night to the US Mint (or wherever they print money nearby) so he can dive into the money bin like Scrooge McDuck before scurrying away with all the cash.
It is politics, and Haley is being very savy. She knows that if she gets out now, she stays in Trumps good graces. This gets the trump supporters on her side. But she also gets out from Trump’s craziness, so that gets the non-trump supporters on her side. By serving in the UN she can now add foreign policy to resume, which was lacking in this regard. She’s padding her resume for the first female president.
You’ll see her running for president in 2024.
I won’t hide or lie about how much I love Nikki. She’s probably the only decent thing about this administration. I think she’s in the ‘fake it till you make it camp’ because prior to Trump being elected, she was openly iffy about him. I feel like she has bigger political plans and resigning was part of it.
When Emperor Babyfists referred to Nikki as a great Girl I gagged a little. So many little cuts.
Not as bad as her describing herself as a “lucky girl.” Keep pissing on the graves of the women who fought for your right to work in politics, why don’t you.
Veronica yes oh yes “lucky girl” was … the grossest. I am sure Jared admired the hidden genius of her comments
God, I cringed when she said that. Nothing like infantilizing accomplished women. But I’m sure The Orange Turd loved it. (see Ivanka’s baby-voice UGH!)
“Hidden” genius, eh? Maybe somewhere at the bottom of the Mariana trench, well beyond any human reach.
During the announcement with Drumpf, she had this weird teeth-clenched way of speaking. Does she always talk like that? Either her dentures are loose or she’s trying to keep the screams in.