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As the rest of the world scratches their heads at Trump's bizarre and unqualified cabinet picks, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said the choices are "sending signals that you better go back if you're here illegally."
As the rest of the world scratches their heads at Trump's bizarre and unqualified cabinet picks, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, said that he is "ecstatic."
Roberts told right-wing extremist hostSteve Gruber that the president-elect's choices are "sending signals that you better go back if you're here illegally."
"Honestly, I’m ecstatic,” Roberts said. “I mean, this is exceeding our expectations and our expectations were high because President-elect Trump, of course, has a proven record."
For those who aren't MAGA loyalists, Trump's appointments have been baffling. He chose anti-vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, who has a long history of embracing conspiracy theories, and has been rebuked by his famous family. Kennedy believes, among many other falsehoods, that the environment turns children transgender (it doesn't), that vaccines cause autism (they don't), and that HIV does not cause AIDS (it does).
Trump has appointed Matt Gaetz to Attorney General, who has been the subject of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee over claims he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, who he allegedly paid to travel with him. Gaetz has also been accused of paying a minor girl for sex.
Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, opposes women and transgender people in combat roles, and admitted to not washing his hands because he doesn't believe in germs.
"I do have to say my favorite, which would surprise no one including the President-elect, [is] Tom Homan, our visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, as border czar, who's already just sending signals that you better go back if you're here illegally," Roberts continued. "But all of the names that you mentioned and then some that are rumored to be named in the next couple of days, this has the making of one of the best cabinets in modern American history and that is fitting because there is a lot of work ahead."
Roberts' organization, the Heritage Foundation, has a long history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights, as well as fighting against marriage equality, protections for LGBTQ+ workers, and healthcare for transgender youth. The conservative think-tank is also the source of Project 2025, the over 900-page policy blueprint for a second Trump administration that includes dismantling LGBTQ+ rights, banning abortion, and implementing loyalty tests for government employees.
Roberts recently said on Bloomberg Podcasts' Balance of Power that "because the work of Project 2025 represents the conservative movement, it would be very difficult for anybody to implement policies on education, on the border, on taxation, without at least consulting those ideas and people."
