Sarah Palin is upset that Donald Trump hasn’t nominated her for a Cabinet position

Did y’all know that we haven’t written about Sarah Palin in over two years? She was in the news a lot in 2022, when she tried and failed to sue the New York Times for libel, and kept wandering around New York unmasked while she was Covid-positive. Then she ran in a special congressional election in Alaska and lost… to a Democrat. Good times. It felt like after fourteen grim years in the public eye, Palin had tucked her tail between her legs and finally accepted that she was and is a huge political joke. But the rise, fall and rise again of Donald Trump has given Sarah Palin delusions of glamour. Apparently, she’s really mad that Trump hasn’t nominated her for a Cabinet position.

As Donald Trump quickly fills out his cabinet and top roles in his administration, Sarah Palin asks: Why not me? The former vice presidential candidate and governor of Alaska took to social media to share her frustration at not being selected for any role in the Trump administration.

On Sunday, Palin posted “And… another nominee announced!” on her Instagram story. She followed that up with a screenshot of a message a follower had sent her, which said, “What about you?” Palin thanked the fan in her post. She then posted a cryptic selfie with the caption: “Funny how politics work.”

Palin capped it off by posting a rant the same follower tagged her in.

“Currently, President elect Trump has named his secretaries for the VA, Energy, Interior and EPA administrator. Any one of these positions I hoped Sarah Palin would get,” the follower wrote, which Palin posted to Instagram and X. “Palin was Trump before Trump. I have been saying this for years. Sarah Palin is the Mother of MAGA. Back then [16 years ago], she was the face of the tea party, what would then become the MAGA movement. It is so shocking to me how in 2017, and now it looks like in 2025, she will not get a seat at the table that she helped set.”

Palin’s name has been notably absent from all short-lists for Trump cabinet picks. In 2016, Trump signaled that he was considering tapping Palin as interior secretary, but that never materialized. Now, Palin’s name isn’t in the conversation at all.

“Big tent, big party, but know your history so America can repeat the good parts,” Palin captioned the follower’s rant.

[From The Daily Beast]

Completely excluding the fact that Sarah Palin is an idiot and a bum, I will acknowledge in a very narrow way that she actually has a point: Palin was the proto-Trump, the elevation of the worst of white grievance, white entitlement and white fragility. Trump largely used the Palin playbook, but of course he added even more hate, including profound sexism and violent misogyny which has seeped into all things MAGA. I even partly believe that Palin is a no-go in Trump’s administration simply because she’s a woman.

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32 Responses to “Sarah Palin is upset that Donald Trump hasn’t nominated her for a Cabinet position”

  1. Blithe says:

    Sadly, tragically, there’s still time. F*ck.

  2. Sue says:

    When Donald J. Trump thinks you’re too dumb to be in his clown car administration, that’s saying a lot, Sarah. (In no way defending Cheeto Nazi, but he has picked two women for his cabinet so far).

  3. Dee says:

    She can always paddle over to Russia.

  4. Jessica says:

    Wow! Could it be even Trump has standards? Or have we not waited long enough? Maybe she could be appointed Ambassador to Russia–I mean, seeing as it would be just a stone’s throw from Alaska. We could save on her travel expenses…

  5. Tessa says:

    One weird thing she did some years ago. She showed up at the Belmont Stakes at the last minute so the cameras could see her. One of the horses was named First Dude (who lost) and she thought this was in honor of her husband. She also used to be on Dancing with the Stars rooting for Bristol.

  6. Gabby says:

    I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but she’s probably more qualified than most of the people he has nominated for cabinet positions already.

    • Brassy Rebel says:

      Ikr? She was the governor of a very large land mass state and could “see Russia from her house”. Justice for Sarah!

    • Becks1 says:

      I mean, I feel like a lot of people would take her over RFK to run HHS or over Oz for CMS.

      And thats without saying she has any type of experience in that type of agency or work, lol.

      It’s just that the bar is that low.

  7. Bunny says:

    Her plastic surgeon did her dirty. Her chin was never do square as it is nice.

    She looks bad.

    • molly says:

      SO dirty. Yikes.

      (Randomly, should I ever get a Janet from the Good Place, “was that last Palin kid actually her daughter’s?” would definitely be on the first page of questions I’d ask.)

    • NotSoSocialB says:

      The phrase that comes to mind is, ” Rode hard, put away wet.”

  8. bisynaptic says:

    Palin has no ties to Putin.

  9. In my crone era says:

    Well she is certainly dumb enough. She is awful enough to fit right in.

  10. olliesmom says:

    Lets see…..she could be the director of the newly created office of brawlin’, snowmobilin’ and lack of sex education.

    Has she kissed leader’s ring sufficiently? The answer is no.

    Go away snowbilly. Go away.

  11. amy says:

    He’s probably saving her for his next Supreme Court pick.

  12. Chaine says:

    I would argue that she perfectly represents his core base, an unsophisticated country person. He wants and needs their votes and is able to grift them, but he doesn’t want to actually have to rub shoulders with them or have them in his daily orbit. That’s why she will never be part of his administration.

  13. Murphy says:

    It’s bc Marjorie Taylor Green doesn’t like her and Trump wants to keep her happy right now bc she’s doing the loud distracting dirty work to rat fuck the house.

  14. TN Democrat says:

    She doesn’t have a penis and though a thorough dumbass with a massively dysfunctional family like the other picks so far, she isn’t a sexually abusive male and she doesn’t have unlimited resources. We may be spared one travesty.

  15. Veronica S. says:

    White women like her love to hand men the glass panels and then act surprised when they bump their head on the ceiling.

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