{"id":2391,"date":"2026-04-15T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:25","slug":"when-the-white-house-is-run-on-80s-pop-culture-icons-things-fall-apart-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/when-the-white-house-is-run-on-80s-pop-culture-icons-things-fall-apart-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"When the White House is Run on 80s Pop Culture Icons, Things Fall Apart. Fast."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States is in a precarious position. A greedy corporate class and a obedient middle-class have no idea what their personality defects are bringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because corporate swine don’t know when to quit, they just keep taking and taking. They are psychopaths who are rote binary competitive thinkers: it is 1 or 0, and they always have to be the 1 and everyone else must be the 0 by default. They then have to outdo everyone else, and it doesn’t stop until someone stops them, or the system collapses because these are people with no self-control, morals, or common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The middle class think enduring the abuse means that they seem well-off. No, it just makes you a chump and an exploitable unit to harvest. These are people with no backbone, guts, or common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the middle of this two factions, sits the one expected to make sure neither one of these reality-stunted groups feel the organic consequences of their personality defects: the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People give Donald Trump way too much credit for his policies. He is too childlike and spoiled to do anything but throw temper tantrums and humiliate himself with narcissistic memes when he’s not being fawned over. Trump of 2016 is not the same as Trump 2020, Trump 2024, or even Trump 2026. You don’t go through so many personality shifts unless you are being stage managed by different groups of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is 2016 Trump at least had some people with experience, expertise, and knew how to play the game. But they were all burned out, kicked out, or they marched out. People with equal or superior expertise got the memo: don’t go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the pool got smaller, and the pickings were slim. <\/em>People who were grifters and goobers with no expertise, had to tell Trump what a Great Man he is, and then guess how to run this whole government thing. Except what they know comes from the movies and television shows they consumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is simple: he stacked his cabinet with desperate Gen Xers, whose perceptions of reality were shaped by pop culture more than any other generation, and Trump was a Greed is Good icon of that era. I asked Perplexity to give me a list of Gen X players past and present in Trump 2024’s cabinet, and the list was long:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen X Members (Born 1965\u20131980)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Role<\/th>Born<\/th>Status<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Marco Rubio<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of State<\/td>1971 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Pete Hegseth<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Defense<\/td>1980 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Pam Bondi<\/strong><\/td>Attorney General<\/td>1965 <\/a><\/td>Former (fired Apr 2026)<\/td><\/tr>
Todd Blanche<\/strong><\/td>Acting Attorney General<\/td>1974 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Brooke Rollins<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Agriculture<\/td>1972 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Lori Chavez-DeRemer<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Labor<\/td>1968 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Scott Turner<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of HUD<\/td>1972 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Sean Duffy<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Transportation<\/td>1971 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Chris Wright<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Energy<\/td>1965 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Doug Collins<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of Veterans Affairs<\/td>1966 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Kristi Noem<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of DHS<\/td>1971 <\/a><\/td>Former (departed Mar 2026)<\/td><\/tr>
Markwayne Mullin<\/strong><\/td>Secretary of DHS<\/td>1977 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Lee Zeldin<\/strong><\/td>EPA Administrator<\/td>1980 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Russell Vought<\/strong><\/td>OMB Director<\/td>1976 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
John Ratcliffe<\/strong><\/td>CIA Director<\/td>1965 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Kelly Loeffler<\/strong><\/td>SBA Administrator<\/td>1970 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr>
Jamieson Greer<\/strong><\/td>U.S. Trade Representative<\/td>1979 <\/a><\/td>Current<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for the rest:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n