Line up to kiss the ring! How to join the brownnosers sucking up to Trump | Arwa Mahdawi

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : " More broadly, Zuckerberg, who has been busy drastically revamping his wardrobe and public image, seems to have decided that Trump is a figure to admire and emulate.
52% : The New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who stood by Trump when he faced impeachment and became one of his staunchest cheerleaders, is being rewarded for her sycophancy with a gig as ambassador to the United Nations.
51% : Meanwhile Trump is assembling his cabinet, and it is has become apparent that the most important qualification for office is a history of saying nice things about the president-elect.
49% : but she will support Israel and Trump no matter what they do, which is all that matters.
47% : The Apple CEO, Tim Cook; the Google CEO, Sundar Pichai; the Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella; and the former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos are among the high-profile business figures who have radically changed their tune when it comes to Trump.
46% : Perhaps that he really likes having power and doesn't want anything as silly as having consistent morals to jeopardize it? To be fair, it seems that a lot of people are now finding out a lot of important facts about Trump that they didn't know before because JD Vance has also made good use of Lammy's "older and wiser" defence.
44% : Noem also moderated the famous campaign town hall in Pennsylvania where Trump stopped taking questions and, instead, danced (along with Noem) to his favourite songs.
43% : Elon Musk, for example, who spent over $100m getting Trump elected has been tapped to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
42% : Trump, after all, has proved you can get away with anything; that power puts you above the law.
39% : She doesn't have a huge amount of experience in this area, nor does she represent a border state, but she does have a lot of experience in trying to curry favour with Trump.
36% : In 2020, the New York Times reported that Noem greeted Trump to her corner of the country with a "a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore" that included his face on it.
35% : Lammy has also called Trump "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic" and "no friend of Britain". Seems pretty unambiguous.
32% : This appears to be how the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, is dealing with the fact that, during his days as a backbench MP, he described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".
28% : Trump levelled some very personal attacks against Marco Rubio and the senator responded in kind back in 2016.
27% : And he is in powerful company: you would struggle to find a titan of industry who hasn't criticized Trump in the past and who isn't rapidly backtracking now.
26% : He once accused Trump of inciting violence and undermining the law; now he is lining up with the rest of the tech bros to gush about how excited he is to work with the Trump administration.
23% : "[Trump is] the most destructive president in history," Rudd declared on Twitter, now X, in 2020, for example.
19% : He called Trump a "badass" in July, after the former president survived an assassination attempt.
17% : A more honest explanation might be that Rudd is terrified Trump will come up with a nasty nickname for him (Rudd the dud?) and impose enormous tariffs on Australia as payback.
16% : Technically, you may have made some nasty comments about Trump in the past but you didn't mean them and, anyway, you've seen the light now.
8% : In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Vance called Trump an "idiot" who was "unfit for our nation's highest office".

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