ONE OF THE less observed features of the current Trump administration is the proliferation of side hustles amongst Cabinet members.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, a former reality TV star and Fox News contributor, spent seven months making another reality TV show. Much of ‘The Great American Road Trip’, was filmed during the massive government shutdown that wreaked havoc on America’s airline industry.

You’d think with air traffic controllers going sick en masse, TSA workers quitting by the thousands and ICE agents being dispatched to America’s biggest airports to plug the labour shortfalls, the Transport Secretary would have had his hands full. But apparently not. During the crisis, he opted to tool around America’s highways and byways in his oversized gas guzzler, with a full crew capturing him and his wife in a never-ending sing along with their nine children.

Robert F Kennedy spends most of his time on the lucrative anti-vaccine speaking circuit, when he’s not making videos of himself exercising semi-naked in saunas with Kid Rock or engaged in fitness contests with fellow cabinet members. https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2023860472026669400

Pete Hegseth likewise seems obsessed with projecting his own physical prowess, and even the President of the United States has half a dozen side hustles ranging from crypto to branding to flogging all manner of substandard tat online, from Bibles to guitars to his $249 a bottle ‘Fight,Fight,Fight’ cologne, the scent of which he describes as ‘Your rallying cry in a bottle.’

JD Vance likewise seems to regard his Vice Presidency a part-time gig; in between scuttling American support for Ukraine, serving as the fall guy for the US-Iran peace negotiations, procreating at an alarming rate and ‘owning the libtards’ online, he’s assiduously promoting his second memoir, doing the rounds of every talk show as he test drives his Vance v.27 persona ahead of the 2028 Presidential primary season.

The US Vice President has had more reincarnations than Madonna. From the hillbilly underclass to the Ivy League Washington elite, everyman populist to tech bro investment banker, Never Trumper to one of Trump’s most fawning acolytes, avowed isolationist to Iran war defender, free speech champion to Orwellian silencer of dissent, defender of democracy to Putin’s champion and, for the purposes of this book........

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