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Celerity

(54,790 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2026, 01:12 PM Thursday

Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general

US president said he was instead nominating radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier for the post

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/trump-withdraws-nomination-casey-means

Donald Trump on Thursday pulled his nominee to become the US surgeon general, Casey Means, and replaced her.

The US president said that Means will continue to fight for the so-called Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement spearheaded by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. He stated this was despite opposition from Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator of Louisiana, to Means’s nomination.

“Despite Senator Cassidy’s intransigence and political games, Casey will continue to fight for MAHA on the many important Health issues facing our Country,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Trump then said he was instead nominating radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier for the post of US surgeon general.

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"Trump praised her as "a STAR physician" and "an incredible communicator", suggesting her decade as a Fox News contribut BlueWaveNeverEnd Thursday #1

Imagine if Obama or Biden had filled his Cabinet with MSNOW on-air talent .... eppur_se_muova Thursday #2

How cool it would be canetoad Thursday #5

Well, she does have an Oxford PhD in Political Science, which puts her way ahead of any Trmp appointee. eppur_se_muova Thursday #6

They're merely props for his marketing campaigns. Passages Thursday #3

Intransigence? jfz9580m Thursday #4

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,788 posts)

1. "Trump praised her as "a STAR physician" and "an incredible communicator", suggesting her decade as a Fox News contribut

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:02 PM

Thursday

Trump praised her as “a STAR physician” and “an incredible communicator”, suggesting her decade as a Fox News contributor was as much a qualification as her clinical record.

eppur_se_muova

(42,317 posts)

2. Imagine if Obama or Biden had filled his Cabinet with MSNOW on-air talent ....

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:16 PM

Thursday

how many would have said "I'm not qualified, I'm just a journalist" ?

And why have NONE at FAUX done so ?

canetoad

(20,920 posts)

5. How cool it would be

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 04:54 PM

Thursday

To have Rachel Maddow as Secretary of State.

eppur_se_muova

(42,317 posts)

6. Well, she does have an Oxford PhD in Political Science, which puts her way ahead of any Trmp appointee.

Reply to canetoad (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:04 PM

Thursday

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She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[12] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[13] She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.[14] This made her the first openly lesbian winner of the Rhodes Scholarship.[a][16] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)[17] in politics {sic*} at the University of Oxford.[18] Her thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons" and was supervised by Lucia Zedner.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Maddow

*https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/rachel-maddow gives "Political Science" (the normal title) as her major.

Neither Wikipedia nor biography.com mentions that she graduated from Stanford magna cum laude, which was partly why she got the Rhodes Scholarship.

Passages

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3. They're merely props for his marketing campaigns.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:17 PM

Thursday

That's how he approaches everything.

jfz9580m

(17,662 posts)

4. Intransigence?

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 04:41 PM

Thursday

I had to look it up. Trump probably does write more of his social media posts than many politicians though.

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