If President Trump gets his way, Oklahomans may soon get to elect a new dumb conservative right-wing tough guy to be a U.S. Senator!
Earlier this week, media reports surfaced that Marcuswayne Mullin – our rough-and-tumble silver-spooned plumber who pays his own salary via taxation, allegedly shat himself on January 6th, and once challenged a union boss to a fight and called it “supporting workers” – is under “serious consideration” to be the next cabinet secretary for the Interior or Veterans Affairs.
Well, at least that’s the story according to Reese Gorman – the now-national news reporter who can’t leave his home state behind.
As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team looks at building out a cabinet, there’s one senator whose name keeps coming up for a position: Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
Mullin, a Cherokee citizen who led the Trump campaign’s Native American outreach, is now under consideration to lead the Department of the Interior or the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a source familiar with the transition.
However, sources told NOTUS that Interior would be the more likely landing spot for him, given his background and expertise.
The Secretary of the Interior position is responsible for the conservation of most federal land and oversees a number of agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service.
That’s interesting.
On one hand, I guess it would be cool to have an Oklahoman who is a card-carrying member of the Cherokee Nation oversee the Department of the Interior. Granted, Marcuswayne is a Cherokee citizen who calls the Trail of Tears a “Volunteer Walk”—which would be like a descendant of Japanese Americans calling WWII internment camps a “government-sponsored getaway”—but I guess it’s still cool.