MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tore into President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, over a recent report that he is ordering federal employees to essentially cater to his every whim, including doing things that are not in the interest of taxpayers.
One particular story that got her cracking up was Burgum's apparent demand to be served warm, fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
"His office leadership ... once instructed political appointees to act as servers for a multi-course meal," said Maddow. "They also — like waiters, they made them into waiters — they also dispatched a U.S. Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a political appointee was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar, according to three people, The Atlantic has three sources on the Interior Department staff member being told to re-bake the cookies for the secretary."
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With a mix of disbelief and humor, Maddow then questioned just how bad the cookies could’ve been.
"What did they do with the old cookies? What was wrong with them?" Maddow continued. "Is there anything you could do to cookies that would be that bad? Now, there are sources from the Department of Interior that are defending Secretary Burgum here, noting explicitly in their pushback to The Atlantic that staff members are not required to make this cookie dough themselves. It is storebought cookie dough that they only need to bake. So ease up, people."
And cookies were just the beginning. Maddow shed more light on a laundry list of peculiar demands from the secretary.
"Quote, 'Burgum has also used the political appointees in his department for another purpose in recent days, stacking firewood in his office's fireplace,'" Maddow continued. "Burgum also reportedly demands, quote, 'that any labels get removed from water bottles before they are delivered to him, or else.' I mean, the man obviously cannot remove the labels from his own water bottles. That must be done by other government employees, people on the payroll paid by the taxpayers."
She closed the takedown with a tongue-in-cheek remark.
"Because, I mean, think about it, honestly," she added. "If the secretary himself was occupied removing his own water bottle labels, he might not get to the cookies in time. And then who would send them back demanding that they were not warm enough and they must be re-baked. The secretary is in charge of some really specific stuff. Tell me more about your Department of Government Efficiency."
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