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Sarah Palin seems to be miffed that President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t picked her to serve in his cupboard.
As Trump rolls out his cupboard picks, the previous vice presidential nominee and governor of Alaska has been busy posting a collection of screenshots from her supporters expressing their frustration that she hadn’t been chosen for a cupboard position — maybe signaling that she shares that frustration.
One Instagram consumer wrote: “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.”
He then quoted Steve Bannon, who on his Friday “War Room” present, credited Palin with awakening the populist motion and referred to as her the “Trump before Trump.”
“I have been saying this for years,” the Instagrammer wrote. “Sarah Palin is the Mother of MAGA. Back then, she was the face of the tea party, what would then become the MAGA movement…So, 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.”
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Sarah Palin attends a marketing campaign occasion forward of mid-term elections in Anchorage, Alaska in October 2022. Palin’s reposts of social media customers’ feedback about why she hasn’t been picked for Donald Trump’s cupboard recommend she is likely to be bitter about being ignored within the chilly (REUTERS)
Together with the screenshotted rant, Palin wrote: “Big tent, big party, but know your history so America can repeat the good parts.”
Another posts additionally trace how she may very well be salty that she hasn’t been picked.
On her Instagram story, she wrote: “Andddd… yet another nominee announced!” and hooked up a crying laughing emoji.
In yet one more story, she posted a photograph of herself sweeping her hair behind her ear with the caption: “Funny how politics work.”
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Palin, left, endorsed Trump throughout a rally on the Iowa State College in January 2016 earlier than his first stint within the White Home (Copyright 2022 The Related Press. All rights reserved.)
The previous governor has lengthy been a vocal supporter of the president-elect. In January 2016, she endorsed Trump — simply six months after Trump claimed that former Arizona Senator John McCain, with whom she shared the 2008 Republican ticket, was “not a war hero.”
Extra just lately, she supported Trump at his Madison Sq. Backyard rally in Manhattan final month.
Among the president-elect’s cupboard picks have been getting some pushback, specifically Matt Gaetz as lawyer common, Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of well being and human providers, and Pete Hegseth as protection secretary.
The Impartial has reached out to Palin by way of a type on her web site.
