{"id":44524,"date":"2026-05-13T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44524"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:53","slug":"a-chunk-just-fell-off-the-plane-ctd-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/13\/a-chunk-just-fell-off-the-plane-ctd-6\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chunk Just Fell Off The Plane, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump was known for keeping his employees stirred up during his time in the private sector, with a few exceptions, so I suppose it’s not entirely surprising that another chunk is falling off the airplane<\/del> administration<\/a> in that he’s losing, or getting rid of<\/a>, his Food and Drugs Administration<\/strong><\/em> Commissioner:<\/p>\n

Marty Makary resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, stepping aside amid a swirl of reports that his tenure was coming to an end over internal policy disagreements. …<\/p>\n

CBS News and other outlets had reported in recent days that President Trump\u00a0had signed off on a plan to fire him<\/a><\/span>. Makary didn’t appear Monday in the Oval Office alongside the president and other top public health officials for an event on maternal health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing about firing and reassigning and all that crap is that along with new responsibilities comes training and\/or learning on the job, which takes time and money, both of which can be in short supply, especially given Trump’s tendency to spend on ego-gratification.<\/p>\n

And then there’s this appalling little report from<\/a> MS NOW<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

A little more than an hour later, Trump\u00a0posted what appears to be<\/a>\u00a0Makary\u2019s resignation text to the president on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been the honor of a lifetime to serve as your FDA Commissioner,\u201d the note said. \u201cI am forever grateful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ugh. Either the guy has no balls or it’s all a hoax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump was known for keeping his employees stirred up during his time in the private sector, with a few exceptions, so I suppose it’s not entirely surprising that another chunk is falling off the airplane administration in that he’s losing, or getting rid of, his Food and Drugs Administration \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44526,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524\/revisions\/44526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}