Interior Department staff's unusual demands -- like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies -- have 'alarmed' officials
Source: The Independent
Monday 07 April 2025 19:06 BST
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and his staff have reportedly used his position leading the agency to make a series of bizarre demands from his staff including that they bake fresh chocolate-chip cookies, according to a report.
Burgum and his senior staff have asked his aides to use the agencys industrial ovens to cook him chocolate chip cookies, instructed political appointees to work as servers for a multi-course meal and ordered a U.S. Park Police helicopter for personal transport, according to The Atlantic.
One time, his staff even ordered staff to remake a batch of chocolate chip cookies because they were subpar, the outlet reports, citing three people. One source described the secretary as Doug the Diva, while another said the behavior is alarming White House officials. Political appointees have also been seen crying as a result of the demands placed on them, according to The Atlantic.
Interior Department spokesperson Katie Martin called the claims pathetic smears from unnamed cowards who dont know Doug Burgum and are trying to stop President Trumps Energy Dominance agenda.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/burgum-interior-cookies-helicopter-report-b2728962.html
Link to The Atlantic article - The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
luvallpeeps
(1,282 posts)Scrivener7
(59,332 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,735 posts)Scrivener7
(59,332 posts)Magoo48
(6,716 posts)AllyCat
(18,759 posts)These pricks are complete losers. Lazy, freeloading, idiots.
The Senate is right to block every freaking appointment for anything until this insanity stops.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,055 posts)That's how you get them boasting about an "Energy Dominance agenda", but blaming "unnamed cowards" for being against it.
Maybe Cartman from South Park is the closest compromise.
IronLionZion
(51,116 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,735 posts)Talitha
(7,908 posts)Deminpenn
(17,424 posts)johnnyfins
(3,713 posts)Marthe48
(23,033 posts)These idiots could all use a high colonic
ButchMcMuffin
(81 posts)Do they have to change his diaper after his nap too?
Baitball Blogger
(52,183 posts)And need a sugar rush.
Be prepared for the freshman 15.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,452 posts)Does he have a designated taste tester, because otherwise.....
tanyev
(49,111 posts)Bake your own damn cookies.
Ollie Garkie
(352 posts)If I ever get to be henchman of a dictator, this is what I'm demanding, too. Anyone else? Come on admit it! Am I kidding? I don't know.
louis-t
(24,603 posts)We're in the fucking Twilight Zone.
thought crime
(1,480 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,576 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,712 posts)that was in the first Turnip maladministration.
Prairie Gates
(7,894 posts)Not ten weeks.
They're all deeply disturbed people. They found each other.
And us.
Ford_Prefect
(8,576 posts)They didn't find each other. They were assembled for the task of dismantling our government, and our culture, by those who hide from the light because they cannot stand the complex nature of human existence.
2naSalit
(102,097 posts)Last time they darkened the halls of the WH. Don't forget the last batch of wackjobs and ne'er do wells from teh commerce sec's velvet slippers and long naps and limousine motorcades just to go across town. And then there was that fuckwad, what was his name? Oh yeah, that shithead zinke who had to resign due to all the lawsuits against him, rode into DC on a horse, that horse sure look weird with that ass in the saddle... the most disgusting part is that he came back to Montana and helped turn it into magatana while also becoming my US House Rep.. I will hate him through eternity for that as should all living creatures on this planet.
But I digress...
They're just picking up where they left off last time.
LisaL
(47,390 posts)NT
AverageOldGuy
(3,718 posts)UpInArms
(54,792 posts)eom
AverageOldGuy
(3,718 posts)If I were asked to bake chocolate chip cookies for him, I'd smile and get on with it. Of course, he had better have someone else sample them first . . . you know, like the medieval kings had an official food taster to check for . . . . .
Hassler
(4,884 posts)For the job, at the corner cookie shop
Figarosmom
(11,446 posts)BidenRocks
(3,164 posts)While the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) doesn't explicitly mention "personal servitude," the concept of a service member being forced to perform personal tasks for another, especially a superior officer, is considered a serious issue that can lead to disciplinary action under Article 134 (general article) and Article 133 (conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman)
There has to be a similar rule to remove him.
mdbl
(8,562 posts)Interior Recipes.