Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of the Navy has said some crazy things.

The Pentagon confirmed that failed congressional candidate and current undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao would be replacing John Phelan, who was abruptly fired on Wednesday. It’s an appalling move, given that Cao once made a poor joke about the KKK in an interview with Steve Bannon.

“I know I’ll be attacked by the left, and call me a white supremacist, but I have one ask for them, it’s just than when you give my hood, make sure it’s got the little slits and not the circles so I can see better,” Cao said on Real America’s Voice during his failed 2024 campaign for Senate.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      15 hours ago

      It gets worse:

      “There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lover’s Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point. Now it’s become, they took out the Christ. It’s Lover’s Point. And it’s really, Monterrey is a dark place now, a lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over there,” Cao said.

      His comments came in a 2023 interview with Sean Feucht, a far-right pastor who railed against COVID restrictions and wokeness.

      “We can’t let that happen to Virginia,” Cao warned. “Virginia, I mean, especially down in Roanoke, they’re gun-loving people. Richmond, too, and in Virginia Beach, and we just need to mobilize Christians across the nation.”

      https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-navy-boss-spreads-unhinged-theories-about-witches-and-cannibalism/

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        14 hours ago

        a far-right pastor who railed against COVID restrictions and wokeness.

        Sigh. I’m not sure who irritates me more - the dumbass Karens that were having meltdowns over social distancing and masks (and then later, the vaccine) or people still talking about “woke” unironically.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      Not even, they are selling these appointments, the president is. It’s all for sale. Other qualifications exist, but they are paying I bet you.

        • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          They make a lot of money from those jobs in this new gangster run america unforuntaltey. This is like monarchial europe in a way, or the old popeships where the pope played everyone as the whoremaster of rome.

          They do now make off well from these payments, but you are correct in the future they may not.